DOCTORAL STUDIES IN TS: BACKGROUND

1. DOCTORAL STUDIES IN TS:BACKGROUND • ACTIVITIES OVER A DECADE (Round tables in 2003 and 2005, working group (2007), survey in 2008, one day EST symposium in 2006 and 2008, e-forum in 2008, conference in 2008, panels in EST Congress in 2004 and 2010. • DOCTORAL SUMMER SCHOOLS (e.g. CETRA, TRSS, EMUNI, etc.) • POST-GRADUATE CONFERENCES

2. European ITN project TIME 2011-2014 • An example of industry-relevant doctoral training • General and specific objectives • Four research areas • Secondments • Transferable skills; workshops

3. European ITN project TIME 2011-2014 URL: eu-researchprojects.eu/time

4. European ITN project TIME 2011-2014 • TIME = “Translation Research Training: an Integrated and Intersectoral Model for Europe” • ITN or Initial Training Network funded in the FP7 Marie Curie Framework • 48 months: 1/1/2011 to 31/12/2014: • P1-P6, T1-T36 , F1-F6 • T14

5. General Objectives • Train the ESR and ER to become experts in translation and multilingual/multimedia communication; • Create a network for a new generation of doctoral graduates; • Increase cooperation between private/public institutions; • Establish the foundations for academic/private sector joint PhD training and a joint doctoral degree.

6. TIME: Academic partners

7. TIME AssociatedPartners TIME: AssociatedPartners

8. TIME: Training in broadercomplementary skills • E.g.: IT skills, writing web content, conflict management… • How? • workshops: one day of training in complementary skills; • courses supplied by the doctoral schools (or other initiatives) of the individual host institutions; • secondments to the associated partners in the private and public sectors.

9. Panel in Leuven, 20.8.2013 • Name of the degree, of the program • One label TS or a more flexible format? • How to get students from other disciplines? • How to open up the training (components; partners)? • Are we too much defensive/subservient to the status quo/university authorities? • How to be more pro-active, e.g. from a Summer school to a full program, starting a network, going beyond PhD?

10. Panel in Leuven, 20.8.2013 • Full doctoral programme in TS ORpluridisciplinary doctoral programme in Humanities and Social sciences (with only a part in TS)? • Specific part in TS: *How to specialize (e.g in conference interpreting, AVT, localisation)? • European and/or national network of TS Doc programmes? (critical mass, synergy, co-operation / fragmentation, EU funding programmes, etc.)

11. Whydoweneed to improveourdoctoraltraining? • To get highly qualified teachers in translation and researchers in TS • To face up to the non-recognition or even the regression of TS in certain universities • To allow the reproduction and the development of our own field • To give more visibility to translation and TS • To improve our tools and methods in order to better understand international, multilingual and multimodal communications • To have a coherent and fruitful dialogue with other disciplines.

12. An International Doctorate in TS (IDTS)? • The IDTS would be a support structure for an active network of cooperation between existing programs. • The IDTS would be inclusive(independently of the name of the program), with a membership of x (5?) years and a certain fee.

13. Aims of the IDTS Network • A support structure for cooperation • An online bank of online course materials • A list of supervisors or co-supervisors • Location of training partners in industry • Training for research supervisors • Reference framework for joint doctorates • Contacts for the mobility of students • Attract external funding • Minimal objectives and skills.

14. A label of quality? • Since most quality metrics are country-specific or onerous to process, the EST cannot measure quality itself. • The qualityof programs could be measured in terms of indexed publications by successful doctoral students. • For example, over a x (five?)-year period, an average of two thesis-related indexed-journal publications accepted per successful doctoral student. Acceptance may be prior to the defense of the thesis or within three years of the defense of the thesis. • This could be calculated as an average for the entire program.

15. Board of management? • A five-member board, comprising Director, Treasurer, and three further members. • The Board would report annually to the Executive Board of the EST. • The funds generated by the IDTS should be used for the running and further development of the network.

16. Implementationstrategy? • Initial funding for the IDTS network would be provided by the EST • December 2014 (or August 2014?):Constitutive meeting of interested stakeholders. • The aim of the meeting would be to determine foundational members and to elect a proposed Board for the IDTS.

17. Corecomponents in a plurisdisciplinarydoctoralprogramme Common components/modules at the Fac. Level • Philosophy, theory and history of sciences, and epistemology (hypothesis, causes, explanations) • Concept of interdisciplinarity • Concepts of validity, reliability, accuracy, objectivity, etc. • Types of research (e.g. large-scale, longitudinal, applied research, etc.)

18. Coreprogramme • Methodology (survey, questionnaire, e-corpus, Discourse analysis, statistics, etc.) • Writing (in English?): abstract, application form, dissertation, articles, etc. • Transferable skills (communication, career management, leadership and efficiency, project management, etc.)

19. Specifictraining in TS Components/modules at the discipline level • Resources in TS (bibliographies, literature, journals, etc.) • Trends, approaches in TS (including Interpreting Studies); metalanguage of translation • Methodological issues specific to translation research (e.g. corpus-based studies)

20. Specifictraining in TS • Case-studies and beyond • Translation history; historiography of TS • Specialized translations (Audiovisual translation, localisation, interpreting, literary translation, translation and the media, institutional translation, etc.)