Current research projects at the Centre for Translation Studies
The cutting-edge research projects at the Centre for Translation Studies address a plethora of topics including language resources, language technologies, accessibility, translation and research platforms.
DiÖ
German in Austria. Variation – Contact – Perception
Project duration: 2016-2020 (phase 1), 2020-2024 (phase 2)
Topic: German language use in Austria
Funding: FWF
Information: Forschungsplattform
ReTrans
Working with Interpreters in Refugee Transit Zones: Capacity building and awareness-raising for higher education contexts
Project duration:1.5.2022-30.4.2024
Topic: The aim of this project is to raise awareness for the issue of interpreting in a humanitarian and transborder migration context among students and teachers of higher education interpreter training facilities and contribute to the diversification of didactic materials by developing a range of educational tools. These tools will be made available in a sustainable digital format; they will complement existing resources and can be disseminated and utilised in a higher education context but may also be used in other training environments. By incorporating a game-based element to the development of the training materials the project also will provide an innovative asset to any training format. By giving stakeholders in the field (refugees, lay interpreters with a migration background, institutional representatives) a voice and by including and integrating their individual perspectives the project seeks to promote access and inclusion and aims to provide a forum for exchange between higher education interpreters facilities and actors in the field. All materials will also be available to these secondary target groups.
Funded by the Erasmus+
Information: ReTrans
PROSIMS
Teaching and Learning Multilingual Professional Writing
Project duration: 2014 - 2019
Topic: Writing in multilingual contexts
Funding: FWF (Elise Richter professorship)
Information: PROfessionelles Schreiben In Mehreren Sprachen
Exil:Trans
Exil:Trans – Life and work of persecuted translators
Project duration: September 2019 – August 2022
Topic: Life and work of persecuted translators
Funding body: FWF, Joint Project
Information: Exil:Trans
Retrex
Rethinking Translation Expertise: A Workplace Study
Project duration: September 2021 - September 2024
Topic:`lived’ translation expertise
Funding: FWF
Information:RETREX
KoeF
Terminology planning strategy and terminology infrastructure for Mongolia to support scientific and educational development and innovation
Project duration: 1.11.2020 - 31.10.2023
Topic: Development of a sustainable terminology planning strategy and terminology infrastructure in order to contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Funding: BMBWF (OeAD)
The impact of Speech Synthesis on cognitive load and productivity during machine translation post-editing
Project duration: 01.03.2022 – 28.02.2023
Funding: Imminent Translated's Research Center