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Professional Field: Academic
Expertise required: The Centre for Translation Studies is offering a bursary to a suitably qualified student who presents a convincing proposal for research into some aspect of multimedia translation. The bursary covers registration fees at the UK/EU rate and a stipend of £8,000 per annum. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the EU-funded eCoLoMedia project, which is creating training materials for multimedia translation. Initial funding is for a two-year period (leading to a research Masters), but an appointee who progresses well will be considered for three-year funding leading to a PhD.
Qualifications sought:
You are expected to have: a strong academic or professional background in translation, preferably multimedia translation, and native or near-native competence in English. You will have good passive skills in two of French, German and Spanish. You will have some experience of using software for subtitling and/or localization and/or translation memory. Preference will be given to candidates with teaching experience and good editing skills in English.

Employer:
Centre for Translation Studies, The University of Leeds (UK), http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cts
Employer profile: The new forms of multimodal communication emerging in this age of globalisation have an increasing impact on the translation industry. Language service providers are looking to recruit professionals who have not only linguistic expertise and the technical know-how for working with dedicated software, but who can also easily adapt their knowledge to respond to a variety of translation scenarios. These include localising websites and Flash animations, localising games, and adapting DVD content for audiences with other languages and for the Deaf and hard-ofhearing.
eCoLoMedia aims to prepare professional translators and translation students to respond effectively to this demand by providing training materials, delivered in the form of translation kits, which cover a variety of multimedia source files including videos, games and websites incorporating Flash animations. The translation kits will also include translations of the sources in a variety of formats – subtitling, voice-over and dubbing files as well as localised versions of website and games– together with pedagogical and methodological guidelines to help users adapt these resources to their own learning and/or teaching scenarios. All material will be freely available from the project website.
eCoLoMedia builds on the achievements of the successful eCoLoRe and eCoLoTrain projects, which offer training materials in translation memory, software localisation, project management, terminology and ICT for translators.

Application deadline: 2008-06-12

Job description/salary:
The Centre for Translation Studies is offering a bursary to a suitably qualified student who presents a convincing proposal for research into some aspect of multimedia translation. The bursary covers registration fees at the UK/EU rate and a stipend of £8,000 per annum.

Contact details:
Mrs Karen F Priestley
Postgraduate Research Secretary
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
G35, Michael Sadler Building
University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
k.f.priestley@leeds.ac.uk

For informal advice, please contact Alina Secarǎ: lnp3as@leeds.ac.uk

Application submission details:
You must apply for MA R/PhD study within the School. To apply online, see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/students/apply_research.htm . Please note that copies of your research proposal, transcripts,
English language qualification (where appropriate) should be sent by post or email to contact person above.

Relevant links:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/students/apply_research.htm
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cts