Workshop Title:
“From Roots to Radiance in Student Research”
Workshop Description:
How do you carry out research in a transdisciplinary field such as Interpreting Studies? That is the focus of our presentation. As we taught research, we discovered that applying research designs used in other disciplines was not as easy as it looked, that terminology was not consistent, that methods were often confused with methodologies, and that epistemologies went unexamined.
In our presentation, we focus on how to help students design small but elegant research studies, how to understand epistemology, how to formulate questions that are specific, narrow, and doable, how methodology is distinguished from methods, and walk participants through the design strengths and flaws of both student work and published studies.
Educational Objectives:
1) To critically evaluate approaches to teaching research methods within BA and MA interpreting programmes.
2) To demonstrate a context-sensitive use of research terminology and designs.
3) To demonstrate how centering epistemology helps shape good research designs.
Bio:
Jeremy L. Brunson, PhD, CI/CT, SC:L, is the Executive Director of Belonging & Engagement at Gallaudet University. He oversees antiracism, inclusion, and multicultural programming, disability services, equal opportunity programs and Title IX, and interpreting services at the university. He holds graduate degrees in sociology, justice studies, and disability studies. He also holds a PhD in sociology. He has presented and published on sign language interpreting, video relay service, invisible work deaf people perform, and institutional ethnography.
Christopher Stone, Ph.D., NIC, RSLI, FHEA, FASLI, is the Director of the Institute for Community Research and Development (ICRD) and a Professor in Interpreting and Translation Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, in the UK. He teaches on the BA and MA Interpreting programs at Wolverhampton, and both established and coordinated the MA until this year. He currently supervises 7 PhD students, both in the UK and Europe.
Most recently, he has been awarded an ESRC grant – Deaf access by Deaf people – Deaf mediators, interpreters and translators (DMIT), with Prof Jérémie Segouat, Universitê de Toulouse Jean Jaurès (funded by the ANR), and Prof Christian Rathmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (funded by the DFG). He is also supporting an early career researcher (Karlie Stonard) as CoI on her AHRC catalyst grant – SmartSafeSigning: Deaf Inclusion in Domestic Violence and Abuse Support and the Criminal Justice System. He maintains his interpreting practice and is a member of ASLI UK, RID and AIIC (serving on the Research Committee). He is the current President of the World Association of Sign Language Interpreters.
Cynthia B. Roy, Ph.D., CSC, retired from the Department of Interpretation and Translation at Gallaudet University, Washington, DC. She currently lives and works as a community interpreter in Madisonville, LA. Cynthia’s area of expertise is linguistics, particularly discourse analysis. She has authored journal articles, and her book, Interpreting as a Discourse Process, is widely known. Cynthia was the series editor of the Interpreter Education Series at Gallaudet University Press, which publishes innovative and evidence-based teaching practices. Her most recent publication is The Academic Foundations of Interpreting Studies. An Introduction to Its Theories, co-authored with Jeremy Brunson and Christopher Stone.
RID CEUs Offered: .15