Who would have thought that the CIVID-19 outbreak we would all be invited to the beautiful building of the British Medical Association for the first CIOL conference? What a location!  The main room filled up quickly for Ellie Kemp’s talk…

Attending CPD events is always professionally rewarding, and this hands-on professional development workshop for police officers and interpreters is particularly pertinent in the current climate for the profession. TACIT (Translation and Communication in Training) is a project of the University of…

We were present at this APCI and NRPSI jointly-organised event on modern slavery and human trafficking awareness to mark the 25th anniversary of the inauguration of the National Register of Public Service Interpreters. The speaker was Robyn Phillips, a modern slavery…

The Language Show is an exhibition that has taken place every year for the past 30 years. It’s a great place where people who teach languages, are learning a language, provide language services and just love languages, come together under…

We were present at the Interpreting Police Interviews Effectively workshop held in London on 29 September. The workshop was organised by Zakon Training who specialise in crime and investigation skills training, and regularly hold professional development events for the legal profession.…

I recently presented about DPSI Online at the Critical Link 8 Conference organised by Heriot-Watt University on June 29-July 1, titled Future-proofing Interpreting and Translating. Attending conferences is always a professionally rewarding time, but this conference in particular was a pleasant surprise, as I saw…

Helena el Masri will present her talk, Online Interpreter Training – U.K. Study and Format, at the European Union of Associations of Translation Companies’ 9th International Conference titled The language business tomorrow – towards a virtual future? The conference will be held on May 8-9…

Helena el Masri will present at the American Translators Association 54th Annual Conference to be held November 6-9 in San Antonio. Her talk, Online Interpreter Training – U.K. Study and Format, is addressing the subject of online interpreter training in the UK and the basic…