Triangle

We have particular research strength in the following areas:

  • Audiovisual Translation
  • Cultural Transfer
  • Comparative Literature
  • Language Industry and Translation Business Management
  • Literary Translation
  • Localisation
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • Semiotics
  • Transcultural and Transnational Studies
  • Translation and Technology
  • Translation Theory
Past and current funded research projects 

Staff at the Centre have been awarded external funding for a number of research projects. For details of other research projects currently underway, please see individual staff research pages

ARIS International Collaboration Grant (2024): Gender Disparities, International Literary Translation Publishing and Languages of Limited Diffusion: Who gets to be published in translation? (Dr Olivia Hellewell)  

AHRC IAA (2024): Everybody dance! Inclusive dancing in action (Dr Martyn Gray, Dr Pierre-Alexis Mével) 

2023-24: Agendas and Networks behind promoting of German Literature in Britain 1790-1830, UoN Arts Research Fellowship (Maike Oergel) 

UoN – AHRC Communities of Practice Strategic KE Fund (2023): Building Visibility for the Less Translated Languages Network (Dr Olivia Hellewell)  

UUKi (2023): Dreams and Nights of War (Dr Pierre-Alexis Mével) 

AHRC IAA (2023): An exploration of gender differences in the emotional reception of standard and aesthetically integrated subtitles in a horror-thriller context (Dr Pierre-Alexis Mével, Dr Francesca Leveridge, Dr Myron Tsikandilakis) 

AHRC IAA (2022): The emotional impact of creative subtitling (Dr Pierre-Alexis Mével, Dr Francesca Leveridge, Dr Myron Tsikandilakis) 

2018-19: Zeitgeist, Kulturmuster, Intellectual Elites. Methodologies for investigating the rise of ideas and cultural change. UoN International Collaboration Fund for co-authored volume (Maike Oergel, Daniel Fulda, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Grit Straßenberger, University of Bonn 

AHRC Next Generation of Immersive Experiences (2019): Making accessibility accessible: maximising the impact of the integrated immersive inclusiveness project (Professor Jo Robinson, Dr Pierre-Alexis Mével, Dr Paul Tennent)  

AHRC Next Generation of Immersive Experiences (2018): Integrated Immersive Inclusiveness (Dr Jo Robinson, Dr Paul Tennent, Dr Pierre-Alexis Mével) 

Wellcome Prime Scholarship (2017-2019): Interlingual Translation and Healthcare Communication in West Africa (Dr Kathryn Batchelor) 

British Academy, Small Research Grant (2017-18): Gender and the Fantastic in Hispanic Studies (Dr Patricia Garcia) 

Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2015-16): Zeitgeist around 1800: Understanding intellectual transfers across disciplines and national borders in the wake of the French Revolution (Dr Maike Oergel) 

AHRC Grant (2014-16): Building Images: exploring 21st century Sino-African dynamics through cultural exchange and translation (Dr Kathryn Batchelor) 

British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Grant Project (2014-15): Frantz Fanon in and through Translation (Dr Kathryn Batchelor) 

AHRC Grant (2013-18): Brecht into English: theoretical and applied approaches to cultural transmission (Emeritus Professor Steve Giles) 

 

 

General queries

For any queries about the Doctoral School in Translation Studies and PhD research contact Dr Pierre-Alexis Mével, Associate Professor in Translation Studies.