Joanna Drugan

University of East Anglia

Joanna Drugan is Senior Lecturer in Applied Translation Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. Her main research interests include translation quality, translation ethics and translation technologies. Her most recent book is Quality in Professional Translation (Bloomsbury, 2013). She is currently researching real-world ethical challenges when professional translators and interpreters are not available, particularly in healthcare and social work, and ways in which training and technology might support professionals and service users faced with such challenges.

Jo holds an MA (Hons) and PhD in French from the University of Glasgow, Scotland. She previously worked at Reading University and Leeds University, where she was a founder member of the Centre for Translation Studies and ran the MA Applied Translation Studies for over a decade. She was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship and became a member of the Higher Education Academy in 2008.

She has served as a member of the Peer Review Council for the Arts and Humanities Research Council since 2012 and was selected as a founding member of the Publication Integrity and Ethics Council in 2013.

Since joining UEA in 2012, Jo has led specialist Masters modules in translation technologies, translation as a profession, and research methods, and an undergraduate module on translation and globalisation. She is Director of Graduate Studies for the School.