Informal interpreters and cultural mediators: Improving the construction safety of multi-national workforces.

非正式口译员和文化调解员：提高跨国劳动力的施工安全。

• 批准号: 2108186
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Reading
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2108186
• 关键词: Informal; interpreters; cultural; mediators; Improving

Migrant workers fill the construction skills gap as part of the diverse workforce who build (and will continue to build) our cities. As national debates on immigration, skills-shortages and construction sector performance rage concurrently in the UK and Denmark, it is remarkable that the employment routes and practices of working interpreters in construction are unformalised and so little understood. This doctoral project will develop a research agenda to better understand the changing (and sometimes controversial) practices of these front-line workers, which are falling under the radar. It will develop a multidisciplinary approach to the study of communication practices in the transient and dynamic environment of construction sites.Particular site roles, such as foreman, gangers, and supervisors, have taken on functions as informal interpreters and translators to bridge the gap between English-speaking staff and low/non-English speaking workers (Tutt et al., 2013). Yet their role can present risks in terms of the communication of critical health and safety onsite.An adaptable, innovative ethnographic methodology will be designed to account for both the specificities of the contexts to which these informal mediatory practices relate, and the collaborative environments and interactions through which they unfold. It will include periods of fieldwork in South East England and/or Copenhagen, with support by colleagues at Aarhus University. The methodological flexibility of the ethnographic process (through which theory is developed on the basis of empirical data collected), will be closely supported by the supervisory team.

作为建设（并将继续建设）我们城市的多样化劳动力的一部分，农民工填补了建筑技能的空白。随着英国和丹麦关于移民、技能短缺和建筑业绩效的全国性辩论同时激烈进行，值得注意的是，建筑业口译员的就业途径和做法是非正式的，而且人们对之知之甚少。这个博士项目将制定一个研究议程，以更好地了解这些一线工人不断变化的（有时是有争议的）做法，这些做法正在受到关注。它将开发一种多学科方法来研究建筑工地短暂和动态环境中的沟通实践。特定的工地角色，例如工头、工头和主管，已承担起非正式口译员和笔译员的职能，以弥合英语工作人员和低/非英语工作人员之间的差距（Tutt等人，2013年）。然而，他们的角色可以在关键的健康和安全的沟通situation.A适应性强，创新的人种学方法的设计，以占双方的具体情况下，这些非正式的调解做法，并通过它们展开的协作环境和互动方面的风险。它将包括在英格兰东南部和/或哥本哈根的实地考察期间，并得到奥胡斯大学同事的支持。人种学过程的方法灵活性（通过该过程，在收集的经验数据的基础上发展理论）将得到监督小组的密切支持。