Professor Susanne Tietze Awarded AHRC grant
Susanne Tietze (Principal Investigator) and Sarah Maitland (Co-Investigator; Goldsmith College) have been awarded an AHRC grant titled Translation and Interpretation in Multilingual Business Communities: Roles, Perspectives, Agency. The project focuses on the exploration of the language work done by normal employees, who have some language skills, and who are located in such business and entrepreneurial contexts which require them to translate or interpret dependent on the expediencies of the situation. These employees are not professionally trained in these aspects of their work; yet, they fulfil important bridge building and sense-making roles in terms of managing culturally and linguistically diverse interactions in dynamic and complex business/entrepreneurial contexts. The projects consists of four events, which will be hosted at Goldsmith College, UK, Newcastle University, UK, Aalto University, Finland and a final, celebratory event will take the form of a theatre performance, where major insights about international communications are rendered visible. The final event will be developed by the artistic director of the Vic New Borderline theatre under the artistic directorship of Sue Moffat.
