Professional profile
Activities
Editing
Translating
Translating
Language pairs
Catalan > English
French > English
Portuguese > English
Spanish > English
French > English
Portuguese > English
Spanish > English
Areas of expertise
General science
Medicine and Health
Pharmaceuticals
Medicine and Health
Pharmaceuticals
Qualifications and experience
UK English-native, Barcelona-based translator with eight years' experience.
Extensive editing and proofreading experience gained through four years working as an in-house linguist.
Please feel free to contact me for any further information.
Continuing professional development
METMs
Workshops
- On voice: activating the passivists, passifying the activists
- Singular ‘they’: honourable usage or a sign of grammatical incompetence?
- Grammar pathway: subjunctives in English
- The lost art of parsing: how understanding the parts of speech can be a valuable tool for language professionals
- Two aspects of information ordering that affect flow within sentences and beyond
- Editing theses and dissertations
- Harnessing the power of the Correspondence-Consistency-Correctness (CCC) Model: a systematic new approach to error detection in manuscripts that promotes professional text improvement
- False friends, Client mapping and Specializing in new field
- Corpus guidance: a tool for understanding professional language usage, change, and variety
- The comma, false friends and transcreation (MET medley, Milan 2018)
- Translation revision and beyond
- SDL Trados Studio: beyond the basics
- Perfecting it with PerfectIt: keeping your writing in check
- Tips and tools from the Hive, cutting out source-language interference, is full post-editing a pipe dream? (MET medley, Nantes 2019)
- Corpus building and mining with Sketch Engine
- Advanced Word skills for editors and translators
- Solving terminology problems more quickly with IntelliWebSearch (Almost) Unlimited
- Readability: 10 strategies for improving flow in translated or non-English speakers’ texts
- Getting started in medical translation
- Excel for Wordies
- Blood tests made easy: everything you always wanted to know but never dared ask
- Knowledge update: keyboard shortcuts — expanding your repertoire
- Beyond terms: best practices in concept-oriented terminology management
- Translating contracts
- Righting citing: principles and strategies for editors and translators
- The discussion section in academic research articles: patterns, practices and insights for editors and translators
