Rose Laynbalaynba

Merlyn Bandaynga

Francis Jones

Jeff McWhinney

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Martha Cheung

Martha P.Y. Cheung is Chair Professor and Head of the Translation Programme (B.A. Hons.), Director of the Centre for Translation, and Course Director of the M.A. Programme in Translation and Bilingual Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University. She has translated many works of Chinese Literature into English, including the work of Han Shaogong, Liu Sola, and Hong Kong poets such as Leung Ping Kwan.

She co-edited (with Jane C.C. Lai) An Oxford Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama (1997) and co-translated (with Jane C.C. Lai) 100 Excerpts from Zen Buddhist Texts (1997). She is Editor-in-Chief (Chinese translation) of the Oxford Children’s Encyclopedia (9 volumes, 2082 entries, 1998), and Editor-in-Chief (English translation) of An Illustrated Chinese Materia Medica in Hong Kong (506 entries, 2004). She also edited Hong Kong Collage: Contemporary Stories and Writing (1998) and An Anthology of Chinese Discourse on Translation, Volume One: From Earliest Times to the Buddhist Project (2006). Her research interests include translation history, translation theory, translation criticism, and the teaching of translation. She is now working on volume two of An Anthology of Chinese Discourse on Translation.

For his doctorate he analysed Anglo/Yolngu intercultural communication in the criminal justice system and has published extensively in the area of language and the law. As Principal of Intercultural Communications he provides interpreter training services for agencies employing Indigenous interpreters and consultancy services in intercultural communication.

Rose Laynbalaynba

My name is Rose Laynbalaynba, and I am an indigenous Yolngu woman from the Milingimbi community. My clan group is Gupapuyngu. I have obtained NAATI accreditation in translating as a paraprofessional interpreter between English and Burarra and English and Djambarrpuyngu languages,

Merlyn Bandaynga

My name is Merlyn Bandaynga, and I am an indigenous Yolngu woman from Milingimbi Community (East Arnhem Land). My clan group is Gupapuyngu. I have obtained NAATI accreditation in translating as a paraprofessional interpreter between English and Djambarrpuyngu (pronounced jum-un-punyu) languages,

Francis Jones

Francis Jones studied Serbo-Croat and German at Cambridge University, followed by a postgraduate year (1977-1978) studying modern Serbo-Croat poetry at Sarajevo University. He has an MA in Applied Linguistics from Reading University (1988) and a PhD in foreign-language self-instruction from Newcastle University (1996).

Francis Jones is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University, where he teaches and researches translation studies. Among his recent concerns are: how poetry translation mediates images of the former/post-Yugoslav region during and after the wars of the 1990s; the role of working teams, networks and conflicting interest groups in this process; and the personal choices faced by literary translators from a region riven by civil and ideological strife.

Since the late 1970s he has also worked as a freelance translator and translation editor, mainly from Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian and Dutch (but also French, German, Hungarian, Russian, and Dutch-based creoles) into standard and regional Englishes. In recent years his translating and editing work have focused on poetry and Islamic philosophy respectively. His poetry translations have won nine prizes to date in the UK, Bosnia, Netherlands and USA.

Jeff McWhinney

Jeff McWhinney is the Managing Director of Significan’t, and was formerly the CEO of the British Deaf Association, which he led for almost a decade, realising that organisation’s 30-year campaign to have BSL officially recognised as a language used in the UK. He is former Governor of Frank Barnes Primary School, which uses Sign Bilingualism – there are a few schools in the UK which use this method.

He is Chair of the European Union of the Deaf’s Information and Communication Technology Experts Working Group, which works to disseminate information on the latest advances in technology and share the experiences and benefits gained for the sign language communities throughout the EU. He is currently the MD of Significan’t, a social enterprise dedicated to exploiting the latest technology advances for the purposes of improving life quality and access for the BSL communities. Its latest development is the SignVideo Contact Centre, the UK’s first BSL video interpreting service that operates over many different video platforms (ISDN, IP, 3g and SIP). It was recognised and was selected as an exemplary example of public services delivery at the 2007 Public Services Reform Conference. Jeff was the runner up at The Guardian Public Servant of the Year Awards (2006) in recognition of his work in bringing BSL access to the public sector. Finally, a Deaf father of four deaf children, he comes from a Deaf family and uses sign language as a first language.

Her research interests are translation history, translation and ideology, literary translation, translations of popular literature and reception studies. She is the author of Kapilar (2005 – a book exploring different approaches to translation history, published in Turkish) and The Politics and Poetics of Translation in Turkey, 1923-1960 (2008). She has published articles on Turkish translation history and method in descriptive translation studies. She is a professional conference interpreter and translator of poetry, social sciences and environmental subjects.