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Interpreting Studies

Interpreting Studies

The Interpreting Studies Research Group aims to cultivate cross-disciplinary research on:

  • Bilingual processing in consecutive and simultaneous interpreting
  • Complex cognitive processing in consecutive and simultaneous interpreting
  • Multimodal information processing in interpreting
  • Interpreting-mediated communication
  • Interpreting training and advanced-level language teaching
  • Technologies in interpreting and in interpreter training

Convenor:
Prof. Binhua Wang

Staff researchers:
Binhua Wang; Carlo Eugeni; Terry Bradford; Cyril Joyce; Lihong Pan

PhD researchers:
Xiaoman Wang; Lu Yuan; Meng Du; Liangfang Cao

Visiting research fellows:
Dr Xingcheng Ma, Associate Professor, Southeast University
Dr Min Huang, Associate Professor, Wuhan University

Dr Taoyun Qi, Associate Professor, Beijing International Studies University

External collaborators:
Dr Fei Gao, Associate Professor, Chongqing University of Posts and Communications
Dr Chonglong Gu, Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

You are welcome to join us!

We welcome researchers in different disciplines from across the university and beyond, who are interested in interdisciplinary and collaborative research on interpreting, particularly those from:

  • School of Languages, Cultures and Societies
  • School of Education
  • School of Psychology
  • School of English
  • School of Computing

If you are interested in joining and being added to our email list, please send an email with a summary about your research interests and how you plan to collaborate.

Contact: Prof. Binhua Wang b.h.w.wang@leeds.ac.uk.

News

Language@Leeds Triennial Showcase: Call for Posters

All researchers and scholars working on language-related projects at the University of Leeds are invited to submit a poster (or several posters) about their research and scholarship projects. The showcase, entitled: "Language research to address regional and global challenges", will be an in-person public event held at Nexus on 1 April 2025, 4-6:30pm. Guidance Please...

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Events

The 3rd UK-China Symposium on Translation Studies

Conference theme: The Human Touch in Translation and Interpreting in the Age of AI Organisers: School of International Studies, Sun...

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[Leeds TIS Seminar Series] The translation teaching platform based on multilingual corpora of The Governance of China: Design, resources and applications

Speaker: Prof. HU Kaibao, Institute of Corpus Studies and Applications, Shanghai International Studies University Abstract: Over the last two decades,...

[Leeds Interpreting Studies Seminar] Formulaicity in Simultaneous Interpreting: A Comparative Study of Lexical Bundles in UN Security Council Speeches

Speaker: Prof. Dechao Li (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Organiser: Prof. Binhua Wang Abstract: Generating data from a comparable corpus that...

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