Rocío Baños-Piñero

Qualifications

BA Translation and Interpreting - Universidad de Granada (Spain)
PG Certificate in Audiovisual Translation - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)
SDL Trados Certification

Role

Lecturer in Translation Technology

Rocío’s areas of teaching expertise are Translation Technology, Scientific and Technical Translation and Localisation (English-Spanish). Her main research interests lie in the field of Audiovisual translation, especially in dubbing. She is currently working on her PhD dissertation, focused on spoken Spanish in situation comedies.

Rocío has also taught Spanish as a foreign language and has worked as an in-house translator in one of the leading translation and localisation companies in the world. Due to this background, she is interested in CAT tools in general, and in any technology that could be incorporated into the translation process, both from a professional and an academic point of view.

Teaching

Modules currently and recently taught:

Undergraduate:

Information and Terminology Management
Electronic Translation Tools

Postgraduate:

Characteristics of Non-literary Translation (Scientific and Technical Translation)
Translation Tools and the Translator
Localisation (module coordinator and supervisor of English-Spanish projects)
Supervision of MA dissertations