Back to NewsCalling for help from researchers
March 31, 2016The Managing Director of our company, Dr Kevin Lin (OBE) will be giving a keynote speech on 13th April at the Post-Graduate Research Conference 2016 at the University of Surrey. Attended by about 200 researchers, the conference aims at encouraging cross-discipline research.
‘I consider this conference an opportunity to call for help’, Kevin says, ‘As a discipline, interpreting is seriously under researched and very often misunderstood’.
In his speech, Kevin will talk about the disconnect between the reality of interpreting and prevalent understanding of it. He’ll highlight potentials for cross-disciplinary research. It spans linguistics, psychology, sociology, engineering, product design, translation studies and artificial intelligence. He’ll also comment on the prospect of computers replacing interpreters and translators.
KL Communications is the collaborator of MA Business Interpreting in Chinese at the University of Surrey – a success in its fifth year. We’re responsible for assessing applicants and the teaching of interpreting modules.
