University of Birmingham
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New Linguistics Suite for Interpreting Studies
About the University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham is a public research university located in Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK. It is a founding member of both the Russell Group of British research universities and the international network of research universities, Universitas 21. With over 23,000 undergraduate and more than 12,000 postgraduate students, the University of Birmingham is the 7th largest in the UK.
Project Details
Major refurbishment of the Old Harding Library Building at the University of Birmingham includes a high-end Interpreter Training Suite & Mock Court Room (which can be coupled and extended with additional audience participation), to support a new MA for Interpreting Studies.
During several years of planning & design work together, the University selected Televic to fit out the Suites, which include professional facilities for 16 interpreters & 16 delegate places with integrated teaching & learning software for training & assessment of students.
The facilities have been developed specifically for interpreter training, including Televic’s award-winning Interpreter Desk, delegate units with headphones & microphones, a table camera to stream and record
delegate/conference speeches, & booth cameras to record interpreting performance.
The Suite provides eight interpreting booths, each of which seats two students, allowing them to work side-by side as interpreters & recreate a real-world interpreting experience.
As well as accommodating 16 delegate positions within the Suite itself, it is connected to the Law Moot Room next door which has been fitted with audience participation equipment, giving students an opportunity
to interpret meetings.
The suite will be used by students on the new English-Chinese Interpreting with Translation MA programme (from September 2018), as well as students on a range of other modules within the undergraduate Modern Languages programmes.
