Rate My Professor Sabine Braun

Professor Sabine Braun is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Surrey, where she directs the Centre for Translation Studies and co-directs the Surrey Institute for People-Centred Artificial Intelligence. She earned an MA in Translation from the University of Heidelberg and a Dr Phil in Applied English Linguistics from the University of Tübingen. From 2017 to 2021, she served as Associate Dean for Research and Innovation in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Her research explores human-machine interaction and integration in translation and interpreting, technologies in interpreting, video-mediated and distance interpreting, AI-assisted interpreting, artificial intelligence, audio description, intersemiotic and audiovisual translation, virtual reality, and language technologies. With an overarching interest in fairness, trust, transparency, and quality in technology applications for linguistic-minority populations, her work addresses access to critical information, media content, and public services like healthcare and justice. She has led extensive research, including the AVIDICUS projects on video links in legal proceedings involving linguistic-minority participants and interpreters, and the H2020 MeMAD project (2018-2021) on semi-automating audio description for media such as social media. Her insights shape teaching on MA programmes in interpreting and audiovisual translation, as well as professional training for entities like the Metropolitan Police Service.