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Interpreting for Situations Involving Sexual Violence and Other Trauma

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Interpreting for Situations Involving Sexual Violence and Other Trauma

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Good Practice for working with Vulnerable Witnesses

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Good Practice for working with Vulnerable Witnesses

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Good Practice Guidelines 2003 | vulnerablewitness.co

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Prior to the commencement of s.16(1)(b), the Minister for Justice set up a Committee to draft the Good Practice Guidelines for An Garda Síochána which mirror closely the guidance available to practitioners in England and Wales i.e.Achieving Best Evidence in Criminal Proceedings: Guidance on Interviewing Victims and witnesses, and using Special Measures. (Ministry of Justice) (March 2011).

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Many Peaces, Arts in Peacebuilding Training Course - Leargas

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This hands-on training course will combine the power of art with the energy of young visionaries from diverse backgrounds to explore how transnational cooperation can lead to a more peaceful and sustainable future.

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International Week of Deaf People 2024 - WFD

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UNHCR Education & Guidelines for Refugee Children Interpreters (RCI)

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UNHCR Education & Guidelines for Refugee Children Interpreters (RCI)

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A morning in Cloverhill District Court. Part II

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A morning in Cloverhill District Court. Part II

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A morning in Cloverhill District Court. Shared on ATII Bulletin

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A morning in Cloverhill District Court. Shared on ATII Bulletin

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New book makes recommendations for Garda custody reform

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A new book examines the reality of police custody in Ireland for minorities, children, those using an interpreter and those with intellectual disabilities and includes recommendations for reform.

Police Custody in Ireland, edited by Professor Yvonne Daly of Dublin City University's School of Law and Government, brings together experts from policing studies, law, criminology, and psychology to critically examine contemporary police custody in Ireland.

This first-of-its-kind collection focuses exclusively on detention in Garda Síochána stations, critically examining it from human rights and best practice perspectives.

It examines the physical environment of custody, police interview techniques, existing protections, rights, and entitlements, and experiences of specific communities in custody, such as children, ethnic minorities, non-English speakers, the Mincéir/Traveller community, and those with intellectual disabilities or autism spectrum disorder.

Police Custody in Ireland gives a snapshot of Garda custody as it is now and makes recommendations for necessary future improvements.

Commenting on the book, Professor Daly said: "2024 marks the 40th anniversary of the Criminal Justice Act 1984, which was the first general piece of legislation to allow for arrest for the purposes of detention and questioning in Ireland.

"In the intervening 40 years, the impact of the investigative stage of the criminal process has increased significantly, but Garda custody has remained quite a hidden space.

"The expert contributors to this book have shone a light on the contemporary operation of Garda custody and made important recommendations for future improvements to ensure that the highest standards of police practice are operational in Garda custody, the rights of detainees are appropriately safeguarded, and the system works well for all."

Professor Daire Keogh, president of Dublin City University, said: "This is an important new publication that shines a light on an area that, while critical to policing practice in Ireland, has been relatively unexamined.

"As well as bringing the police custody experience of specific communities into focus, Prof Daly and colleagues put forward practical solutions with the potential to improve outcomes for all stakeholders. In doing so, the collection reflects DCU values and its mission to 'transform lives and societies'."

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A new book examines the reality of police custody in Ireland for minorities, children, those using an interpreter and those with intellectual disabilities and includes recommendations for reform. Police Custody in Ireland, edited by Professor Yvonne Daly of Dublin City University's School of Law and

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RISLI Guidelines for working with Irish Sign Language/English Interpreters (Draft document)

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RISLI Guidelines for working with Irish Sign Language/English Interpreters (Draft document)

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Includes: i) translation and interpreting services

ii) multilingual resources and translated material

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National Social Inclusion Office - HSE.ie

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Welcome to the National Office for Social Inclusion

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Love a bit of feminist activist translation!

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Love a bit of feminist activist translation!

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Ivorian literary activist, translator lends her skills to beloved graphic novel, ‘Aya de Yopougon’

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Council of Irish Sign Language Interpreters

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Council of Irish Sign Language Interpreters

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The national representative association for sign language interpreters in Ireland

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Council of Irish Sign Language Interpreters

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Council of Irish Sign Language Interpreters

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The national representative association for sign language interpreters in Ireland

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Department of Health has partially-funded this course in its previous iterations, so check out if this is the case when you inquire about this.

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Healthcare Interpreting Practice | Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences

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Are you currently working as a healthcare interpreter? Are you interested in working in this area? Are you looking for accredited training to help you develop the skills you need for this specialised work?ippet]

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Department of Health has partially-funded this course in its previous iterations, so check out if this is the case when you inquire about this.

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The Ethics of Interpreting | Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences

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The Ethics of Interpreting covers ethics in all settings including healthcare, legal interpreting in garda stations and courts, social protection and international protection. Students will have the opportunity to share their experiences of how they have dealt with real life ethical dilemmas and to learn about best practice approaches and codes of ethics.

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The Wheel. Stronger Charities. Stronger Communities.

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The Wheel. Stronger Charities. Stronger Communities.

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The Wheel is Ireland’s national association of charities, community groups and social enterprises.

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Are you looking for new partners for the upcoming EU's Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV) funding deadlines? Here is your chance to meet potential partners for your CERV project!

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Are you looking for new partners for the upcoming EU's Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV) funding deadlines? Here is your chance to meet potential partners for your CERV project!

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6-week course on Communication and Interpreting the Irish Healthcare System

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6-week course on Communication and Interpreting the Irish Healthcare System

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Communication and Interpreting the Irish Healthcare System

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This course provides specialist knowledge for interpreting in healthcare settings. The purpose of this micro-credential course is to upskill people who interpret, advocate or mediate for refugees and migrants, as

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INTERPRETATION AND TRANSLATION IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS –IRELAND

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INTERPRETATION AND TRANSLATION IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS –IRELAND

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INTERPRETATION AND TRANSLATION IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS –IRELAND

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We work to ensure that Deaf people have easy access to public and social services
and can exercise their rights and entitlements under the Equal Status & Disability Acts

Sign Language Interpreting Service (SLIS) is the national Sign Language Interpreting Service for Ireland. Established in 2007, SLIS is supported and funded through the Citizens Information Board.

The mission of SLIS is to ensure Deaf people can live as full and equal citizens. We achieve this by promoting, and advocating for the availability of quality interpretation services to Deaf people and service providers in Ireland.

SLIS provide a range of services to support quality interpreting in Ireland for Deaf people and public and other services.

Out of hours access to interpreters Text 087 672 5179

For interpreters for Deaf people in medical or legal crises situations

SLIS can arrange interpreters for funerals and some hardship cases.

With the cooperation of interpreters, SLIS usually cover the costs from our social fund.

EMERGENCY OUT OF HOURS SERVICE 087 672 5179

For Medical / Legal emergencies only (e.g. Hospital, Garda Station etc.) and Funerals
24 hours, every day. (click the number to send a text message)

CONTACT FORM

Contact the Sign Language Interpreting Service by filling in the form below:

Board Vacancies

Board Vacancies Sign Language Interpreting Service (SLIS) is seeking expressions of interest from individuals who would like to contribute their skills, knowledge, and experience to support [...]

Agreed Joint Statement on the Irish Sign Language Voucher Scheme February 2024

Content of the Joint Statement The scheme can continue to be delivered past 20 February The Department of Social Protection, the Citizens Information Board (CIB), and [...]

SLIS is Hiring - Irish Remote Interpreting Service Administrator

The Sign Language Interpreting Service (SLIS) is an independent body, funded and supported by the Citizens Information Board (CIB), to develop, promote and deliver quality sign [...]

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We work to ensure that Deaf people have easy access to public and social services and can exercise their rights and entitlements under the Equal Status & Disability Acts Sign Language Interpreting Service (SLIS) is the national Sign Language Interpreting Service for Ireland. Established in 2007, SLIS is supported and funded through the Citizens Information Board.

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Asylum-seeker support workers expected to act as interpreters without specialist training

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Asylum-seeker support workers expected to act as interpreters without specialist training

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Asylum-seeker support workers expected to act as interpreters without specialist training

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Experts concerned that 'cultural mediators' being asked to provide "interpretation services" beyond their required skill set.

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INTERACT: The International Network in Crisis Translation

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INTERACT: The International Network in Crisis Translation

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Institution

Department

DCU School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies. Partners included: University College London; Arizona State University; University of Auckland; Unbabel; Translators without Borders; Cochrane; Microsoft

Summary Impact Type

Academic, educational, policy, community

Multilingual Crisis Communication and the role of translation and interpreting in enabling this; This research project included contributions from Translation Studies, Natural Language Processing, Health Communication, Disaster Risk Reduction and Response, Cognitive Psychology, Refugee Studies and Disaster and Humanitarian Ethics

Summary -

The EU-funded INTERACT project was led by Prof. Sharon O'Brien from the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies at DCU. This research brought together parties from academic, industry and the not-for-profit sectors to build cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral knowledge on the role and importance of translation in crisis and disaster settings and included contributions from Translation Studies, Natural Language Processing, Health Communication, Disaster Risk Reduction and Response, Cognitive Psychology, Refugee Studies and Disaster and Humanitarian Ethics. In addition to these academic disciplines, collaboration with commercial and not-for-profit organisations was a hallmark of the project and included the SME Unbabel, which is a language service provider and tech company, Microsoft's Machine Translation research group, and the not-for profits Cochrane (health communication) and Translators without Borders.

Research Description -

We are all only too well aware now that clear, accurate and timely information is crucial in an emergency, crisis or disaster. However, the need for multilingual information, enabled through translation and interpreting, had been seriously neglected up to the commencement of the INTERACT project in 2017. This cross-disciplinary, cross-sectoral research project was funded by the EU through its Horizon 2020 MSCA-RISE funding mechanism, which aims for researcher collaboration, mobility and career development. The research network brought researchers and practitioners together from many fields to focus on the main topics of policy for crisis translation, plain language communication, training for crisis translation, machine translation and ethics. For the latter topic, the research team focused on language and translation as a human right in disaster response, on the ethical dilemma of not translating essential and life-saving information, on the ethics of using, or not using, technological supports such as machine translation, and on the topic of professional ethics and volunteerism.

Details of the Impact -
Academic Impact
From an academic perspective, we built transdisciplinary collaborations and carried out research on emergency response policies, on simplification of text and comprehension, on the use of machine translation for crisis settings and on the ethical dilemmas associated with all of these. This has led to the establishment of 'crisis translation' as a sub-field in Translation Studies and has raised awareness of the importance of language among disaster studies colleagues. The research has also led to the joint development of a Master's module on Crisis Translation that is delivered to translation students and refugee integration students in DCU, as well as to translation students at UCL and University of Auckland. This module prepares linguists for collaboration in emergency response
Policy Impact
Our research into the lack of policy on multilingual crisis communication in official government policies led to a set of policy guidelines for the provision of translation in crises. The recognition of multilingualism as a risk in Ireland's National Risk Assessment Strategy for 2018 arose from INTERACT's direct contribution to that exercise. This was a small, but important, contribution that we hope to build on. Some members of the network have already started to build on this by researching Ireland's multilingual response to the COVID-19 pandemic and creating further recommendation s. The UNDRR makes reference to INTERACT's recommendations and the UK's ODI (Office for Overseas Development Institute also cites the team's work in a report on Inclusion and Exclusion of minorities in humanitarian crises.
Societal Impact
During the project we built relationships and collaborated with not-for profits such as Cochrane, who work in health communication, Translators without Borders and New Zealand Red Cross. The latter, in particular, has led to ongoing collaborations whereby members of the INTERACT team have delivered training to NZ Red Cross for community translators who volunteer to translate disaster readiness information, for example, to migrants in New Zealand. The training on translation and machine translation for volunteer translators is available to anyone on our YouTube channel

Towards the end of the project, INTERACT team members provided recommendations to the Office of Foreigner Affairs, Municipal Government of Wuhan, China, regarding dissemination of crucial information on the spread of SARS-CoV-2 virus that has caused the Covid-19 pandemic. Their translation response was subsequently published in the Journal of Internationalization and Localization.

Publications/References-

Some sample publications (a full list of publications / outputs is available here.

Sharon O'Brien, Federico Federici, Patrick Cadwell, Jay Marlowe, Brian Gerber (2018) 'Language translation during disaster: A comparative analysis of five national approaches'. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 31: pp. 627-636.

Federici, F. M., Gerber, B. J., O'Brien, S., & Cadwell, P. (2019). The International Humanitarian Sector and Language Translation in Crisis Situations. Assessment of Current Practices and Future Needs. London; Dublin; Phoenix, AZ: INTERACT - The International Network on Crisis Translation. Available here.

Rossetti, Alessandra and Sharon O'Brien (2019). 'Helping the Helpers: Evaluating the Impact of a Controlled Language Checker on the Intralingual and Interlingual Translation Tasks Involving Volunteer Health Professionals', Translation Studies 12, 2.

Catarina Cruz Silva, Chao-Hong Liu, Alberto Poncelas and Andy Way, "Extracting In-domain Training Corpora for Neural Machine Translation Using Data Selection Methods," pp. 224-231, The Third Conference on Machine Translation (WMT18). http://aclweb.org/anthology/W18-6323

Patrick Cadwell, Sharon O'Brien and Eric DeLuca (2019) 'More than tweets: A critical reflection on developing and testing crisis machine translation technology'. Translation Spaces, 8 (2): 300-333

F.M. Federici and S. O'Brien (eds), Translation in Cascading Crises, London: Routledge

Hunt, M., O'Brien, S., Cadwell, P. and O'Mathúna, D. (2020). Ethics at the intersection of crisis translation and humanitarian innovation. Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 1(3)

Grants

This was an EU-funded MSCA RISE project (Research and Innovation Staff Exchange), running from 2017-2020, with grant number 734211

* As a follow on to INTERACT, we carried out research on Ireland's initial response to provision of multilingual information in the COVID-19 pandemic and we produced the short video above to explain the issues. Project url is here: https://sites.google.com/view/crisistranslation/home and the YouTube channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRbg0k_1W8KU1xDFqZjDZtg/videos

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The Ethical Demands of Translating Gender-Based Violence

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The Ethical Demands of Translating Gender-Based Violence

A Practice-Based Research Project

Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is a global pandemic with United Nations figures indicating that 1 in 3 women will suffer GBV in her life. This statistic sheds light on a disturbing escalation worldwide created by the social effects of COVID 19 and the refugee crisis in Europe.
Beyond those statistics are human beings, survivors, whose stories Dr Charlotte Bosseaux has explored in a multilingual documentary.
Dr Charlotte Bosseaux is interested in the ethical role played by translation when transmitting the experience of trauma and GBV survivors and in the way translators cope with the translation of challenging sensitive material. The project's primary goals were to establish which translation methods or strategies are the most ethical when translating audiovisual personal narratives and to provide good practice guidelines for translators, translation companies, filmmakers and charities.
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROJECT

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A practice based research project led by Charlotte Bosseaux on the ethical demands of translating gender-based violence.

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Did you know it is the third official language of Ireland? After English and Irish. It is also the first and/or preferred language of 5,000 Deaf people in Ireland. Approximately 40,000 people in general will communicate in ISL.

Use either the pictures below or the slideshow above to help master the ISL alphabet. You might notice that some of the letters are static and others are moving, letters such as, "J" "X" and "Z".

Make sure you follow the arrow to get these letters right! Also, can you mouth each letter as you sign them, without using your voice, give it a try and become a pro at ISL.

Laura would love to see you sign your name in Irish Sign Language!

You can also download a poster from our friends at Irish Deaf Society showing you all of the ISL letters here:
Credits: Laura O'Grady works for herself under the name "The Life of a CODA". She is the only yoga teacher in Ireland to provide classes fully through ISL. You can find her on all social platforms

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Learn your name in Irish Sign Language (ISL)

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Did you know it is the third official language of Ireland? After English and Irish. It is also the first and/or preferred language of 5,000 Deaf people in Ireland. Approximately 40,000 people in general will communicate in ISL. Use either the pictures below or the slideshow above to help master the ISL alphabet.

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UCC Future Humanities Institute Research Showcase

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UCC Future Humanities Institute Research Showcase

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ReTrans - Working with Interpreters in Refugee Transit Zones

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ReTrans - Working with Interpreters in Refugee Transit Zones

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ReTrans - Working with Interpreters in Refugee Transit Zones: Capacity building and awareness-raising for higher education contexts

ReTrans develops digital training materials to raise awareness for interpreting in humanitarian and transborder migration contexts. By equipping students and teachers of higher education interpreter institutions with easy-to-use didactic materials, the project contributes to the diversification of educational tools in interpreter education and addresses needs and challenges experienced by individuals, interpreters, and institutions in refugee transit zones.

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ReTrans | Working with Interpreters in Refugee Transit Zones

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ReTrans develops digital training materials to raise awareness for interpreting in humanitarian and transborder migration contexts. By equipping students and teachers of higher education interpreter institutions with easy-to-use didactic materials, the project contributes to the diversification of educational tools in interpreter education and addresses needs and challenges experienced by individuals, interpreters, and institutions in refugee transit zones.

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Séverine Hubscher-Davidson's Resources on Emotion and Translation

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Séverine Hubscher-Davidson's Resources on Emotion and Translation

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Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies

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Academic (a selection):

Books:

Hubscher-Davidson, Séverine and Caroline Lehr. (eds.) 2023. The Psychology of Translation. London: Routledge.

Petrilli, S. and Ji, M. (eds.) 2022. Intersemiotic Perspectives on Emotions: Translating Across Signs, Bodies and Values. London: Routledge.

Hubscher-Davidson, Séverine and Caroline Lehr. 2021. Improving the Emotional Intelligence of Translators: A Roadmap for an Experimental Training Intervention (Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Hubscher-Davidson, Séverine. 2017. Translation and Emotion-A Psychological Perspective. London: Routledge.

Koskinen, Kaisa. 2020. Translation and Affect: Essays on Sticky Affects and Translational Affective Labour. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Shields, Kathleen M., and Michael J. Clarke. (eds.) 2011. Translating Emotion: Studies in Transformation and Renewal Between Languages. Oxford: Peter Lang.

Open Access articles:

' Let other people matter: An ethical and sustainable translation industry values its people' by Lydia Marquardt

' Emotional skills training - it matters to all language professional s' by Severine Hubscher-Davidson

' My Disability Forced Me To Become More Visible in My Work as a Translator' by Amanda Sarasien

' Why We Should Translate Literature About Trauma' by Jenna Tang

' Translating in Darkness' by Lara Vergnaud

' The Tactility of Translation; The Translation of Tactility' by Marta Dziurosz

' Protecting children through words' by Nicole Fenwick

' Translation, in Sickness and in Health' by Lara Vergnaud

' The impact of COVID-19 on linguists and their mental health' by Severine Hubscher-Davidson

' The psychological benefits of multilingualism' by Severine Hubscher-Davidson

' What Translating a Firsthand Account of Life in Auschwitz Taught Me About the Language of Suffering' by David Colmer

' How emotions trick your brain' by Lisa Feldman-Barrett

' True meanings of words of emotion get lost in translation' by Nicola Davis

Useful links:
https://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/translating-illness https://www.pasaloproject.org/about.html CIoL Health and Wellbeing Guide ITI position statement on translators' mental health and wellbeing https://betweenheadandheart.co.uk/ http://ethicaltranslation.llc.ed.ac.uk/
More will be added in due course.

Courses:
- If you would like to learn more about the role of emotions in translators' life and work, the following asynchronous courses may be of interest:
Emotional intelligence for translators (2 hour introductory short course. Can be purchased by individuals. Available now)

Emotion management for translators (substantial 18 hour training package. Can be licensed to organisations. Available now)

If you are an interpreter, this Open University course may also be of interest: Multilingualism, Mental Health and Psychological Therapy

NB: as these courses are asynchronous, they can be undertaken whenever is convenient.

- For live (synchronous) coaching webinars on the topic of emotion management, please check forthcoming events here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/severine-hubscher-davidson-coaching/

Podcast episode and documentary:

Meet the Translator - Mental Health with Dr. Séverine Hubscher-Davidson
Translating the Trauma of War | In Flow of Words | The New Yorker Documentary

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National Social Inclusion Office - Translation Hub

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National Social Inclusion Office - Translation Hub

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The Translation Hub contains information for translation and interpretation.

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Irish Translators' and Interpreters' Association

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Irish Translators' and Interpreters' Association

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Irish Translators' and Interpreters' Association

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Professional association for translators and interpreters based in Ireland

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PROVIDING ACCESS FOR DEAF IRISH SIGN LANGUAGE USERS GUIDANCE FOR PUBLIC BODIES

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PROVIDING ACCESS FOR DEAF IRISH SIGN LANGUAGE USERS GUIDANCE FOR PUBLIC BODIES

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Towards Ensuring Access Provision to Public Health Services for the Irish Deaf Community

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Towards Ensuring Access Provision to Public Health Services for the Irish Deaf Community

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Towards Ensuring Access Provision to Public Health Services for the Irish Deaf Community

Context

International evidence indicates that sign language users experience inequalities and disparities when accessing public health systems, as compared against their hearing peers. Among the most persistent barriers are poor communication and low deaf awareness levels among healthcare professionals. In order to eradicate this disadvantage from our public health system, it is important to first fully understand the audist systems and practices which privilege hearing ways of being, so that we are better-placed to dismantle them.

Aims and Objectives

The project sets out to understand the persistent gap between best practice standards and inconsistent access provision for Irish Sign Language users in public health services, towards identifying strategies to eliminate the discrimination experienced by members of the Deaf community.

The project objectives are to:

ascertain the levels of awareness among HSE Access Officers of the standards enshrined in the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 and the associated public sector duty

examine the perceived challenges associated with implementing the legislation

explore the potential for procedural innovation to support the HSE towards fulfilment of its public sector duty in accordance with the Act.

Outputs

ISL HEALTH Research Report (Sept. 2023): Key findings and recommendations from a project aiming to support the effective implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 in public healthcare settings.

Project Funding and Dates

Funded by the Irish Research Council New Foundations Programme 2021, this project runs from 2022 - 2023.

Project Team

Dr Gill Harold (PI) and Dr Noel O' Connell (Post-doctoral Researcher) from the School of Applied Social Studies & ISS21, working in partnership with Cork Deaf Association and Kerry Deaf Resource Centre (endorsed civil society partners); and the HSE's National Office for Human Rights and Equality Policy (Advisory/consultative partner).

To contact the project team, please email Gill Harold at g.harold@ucc.ie

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