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INTERACT in 2021: Crisis Translation in Sierra Leone
17 February 2022 - Federico M. Federici (UCL)
After 3 years of collaborative activities within the network, INTERACT researchers continue working together on a project in Sierra Leone. A remote yet intense collaboration, the project created new resources for Kono, Krio, Limba, Mende, and Themne speakers in Sierra Leone… Read more...
Delivering community translation training in Sierra Leone
1 October 2021 - Chloe Franklin, freelance translator
On our first day of sessions, excited nerves kicked in as I waited to see the faces of the participants who would be joining us throughout the course. It felt a touch bittersweet to be delivering this training through a computer screen as opposed to face-to-face, but these rising technologies have opened my eyes to the endless possibilities and opportunities becoming available to us, in spite of incessant lockdowns and travel bans. As the Zoom call connected, the smiling faces came into view, ready to get the day started… Read more...
Notes from a secondee
27 March 2019 - Dr Federico Federici (UCL)
With cicadas singing as a background to my first week of secondment in Auckland, New Zealand, I had returned to this country finding it as inspiring as when I left from my previous secondment in 2017. With plans to ensure that the INTERACT activities and ideas would outlast the EU-funded network and continue our research projects with the friends and colleagues that are making the project happen, it was a time of excitement. Rich in hope and opportunities, the 2-month secondment were going to present challenges, what should I do first, how can we build a sustainable citizen training in collaboration with translation and interpreting professionals, how can we ensure that crisis translation considers authentic situations and create proper crisis scenarios for training, and then there was also this idea to chase, that grant proposal to write, that article to finish, and… Read more...
A blog post on my New Zealand secondment
25 April 2018 - Khetam Al Sharou (Early Stage Researcher, UCL)
As an early-stage researcher, I have relished any opportunity to participate in research and academic activities to build upon the valuable communicative and research skills I have developed so far. Becoming a member of the UCL INTERACT team working in cooperation with other partners on Crisis translation adds to this endeavour to widen my knowledge and experience in language-related research. My participation in this project was a personal research milestone which started when I got the opportunity to be hosted as an academic visitor by the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Read more...