Dr Edward Clay PhD

• BA/Hons French and Linguistics – University of Sheffield
• MA Interpreting and Translation (French and Italian) – University of Bath
• PhD in Translation Studies – University of Birmingham

I studied my undergraduate degree in French and Linguistics at the University of Sheffield. I then spent several years teaching English as a Foreign Language in various institutions and countries around the world, including France, Italy and Chile. I then returned to education to study for an MA in Interpreting and Translation (French and Italian) at the University of Bath. Upon successful completion of this course, I began working as a freelance translator and interpreter. I still work as a translator to this day in a wide variety of different fields and have had a number of fiction and non-fiction translations published. My most recent published translation is the play ‘The Land Beneath My Feet’ – translated from the original ‘Les Pieds Tanqués’ by Philippe Chuyen. I also specialise in legal and environmental texts. I returned to university once again to study for a PhD in Translation Studies at the University of Birmingham, where I completed my thesis entitled ‘Translation-induced language change in the field of migration: a multilingual corpus analysis of EU legal texts and press articles.’

I teach on a number of modules on the MA in Translation (campus and distance), including:

• Translating for Business
• Translation Technology
• Specialised Translation
• Multimodal Translation
• Professional development

My research interests focus on empirical and interdisciplinary approaches to translation studies, examining the intersection between translation, law and linguistics. My PhD thesis examines the effect of translation-induced language change on terminology in the field of migration, with a multilingual corpus-based investigation of key term in EU legal texts and press articles. I have also published articles in international journals on law and language and corpus methods for examining translated legal texts.