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Dr. Maria Jimenez-Andres
Assistant Professor
Dr. Maria Jimenez-Andres
Assistant Professor
Educational Qualifications
PhD in Translation and Intercultural Studies
MA in Higher Education
Entity
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Divison
Translation and Interpreting Studies Department
Biography
Dr. Maria Jimenez-Andres has extensive teaching experience in the fields of translation, interpreting and languages in the UK, Spain and the UAE. As a translator and interpreter, Dr. Maria has engaged in various roles at institutions such as the Bolivarian Embassy of Venezuela and Ipsos Mori in the United Kingdom.
Dr. Maria has a degree in Translation and Interpreting, an MA in Higher Education, and a PhD in Translation and Intercultural Studies. Her dissertation was on communication and language management in organizations supporting refugees. Her commitment to this work goes beyond academia. She is active in outreach and has carried out a number of research and non-research projects with NGOs working with refugee and migrant communities in Europe and the Middle East. More recently, she has produced a documentary, Tempo, on the lives of refugee musicians.
PhD in Translation and Intercultural Studies
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2022
MA in Higher Education
Middlesex University, London, UK
2017
BA in Translation and Interpreting (EN/FR-ES)
University of Alicante, Spain
2012
Senior Lecturer in Spanish
Translation and Interpreting; Middlesex University.
2013 - 2023
Language Consultant
Open University of Catalunya.
January 2017 - June 2017
Predoctoral researcher
The Autonomous University of Barcelona.
2019 - 2021
Translation coordinator
MedTrans at Ipsos Mori.
2015 - 2016
Translator and researcher
Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in London, UK
2013 - 2014
Spanish teacher
Eton Institute
September 2012 - December 2012
- Jiménez-Andrés, María (2021). Multilingualism and Multimodality in Communication with Refugees: Experiences of Local Service Providers and Language Teachers in European Countries. Multilingualism, Translation and Language Teaching. The PluriTAV Project. Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch. 333-358.
- September 2021, Utopic futures of the Mediterranean, Executive Producer Audiovisual project grant, University of the Balearic Islands.
- 2014, Nominated Most Innovative Teacher in the Student-Led MDXSU Teaching Awards, Middlesex University, UK.
- December 2017, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK.