Federico M. Federici is a Professor of Intercultural Crisis Communication, at the Centre for Translation Studies,  University College London. His research to date has focused on translators and interpreters as intercultural mediators, on translators working in crises, and on reception of translated text.  

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0057-0340 

Andrea Ciribuco is a Lecturer in Italian at the University of Galway, Ireland. He completed his PhD at the National University of Ireland in Galway in 2016, with a thesis on the works of Italian American author and translator Emanuel Carnevali (which later became the monograph The Autobiography of a Language, published in 2019 by SUNY Press). Between 2017 and 2021, he conducted a project, co-funded by the Irish Research Council and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, on the experience of language learning and translation in the lives of asylum seekers in Italy.  

As Co-Investigator in STRIVE, Andrea will contribute to the creation and dissemination of a questionnaire on migrants’ attitude towards vaccination; and he will conduct and coordinate a study on the practice of non-professional translation by activists and NGOs, and how it can reduce vaccination inequalities among migrants.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5709-6061 

Rachele Antonini is an associate professor at Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, Italy. Her research interests span from sociolinguistics to humour studies, audiovisual translation, and non-professional interpreting and translation (child language brokering). She is involved in national and international research projects focusing on language brokers and access to information among migrant communities in Emilia Romagna.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7138-4003  

Chiara Bucaria is an associate professor of English language and translation at the Department of Interpretation and Translation of  Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, Italy.  Her main research interests include the translation of audiovisual products, censorship and textual manipulation, dark and taboo humour, and language brokering. She has been involved in research projects focusing on language brokers in Emilia Romagna.  

Valeria Reggi is an adjunct professor and tutor at the University of Bologna. She is a discourse analyst and a translator: she holds a PhD from the Centre for Translation (CenTraS) of University College London and a specialization in literary translation from the University of Venice, Italy. She is also a member of the editorial board of the Media Ecology journal New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication (University of Toronto). Valeria Reggi specialises in qualitative discourse analysis, with a focus on multimodality. Her research interests include populism, nationalism, stereotyping, and misinformation.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5593-480X