Connecting Multilingual Communities: Exploring Translation in the Charity Sector from the South West (UK)

背景：该项目将重点研究翻译研究和慈善部门的交叉点。它建立在这一领域不断增长的研究基础上，通过与区域层面的慈善组织合作，探索他们对笔译和口译的看法和实践。西南部是研究的地理重点，因为志愿者团体慈善翻译在这一地区开展了可观察到的活动。位于西南部的非营利协会Charity Translators将成为非HEI社区的主要合作伙伴。这个项目是由谁与60多个慈善机构和近500名语言志愿者在英国和超越互动的学生获得的经验驱动。这些见解表明，慈善组织在地方一级遇到了语言问题，初步数据表明，在获得语言服务方面存在重大成本障碍，而且在笔译和口译方面存在重大知识差距。这项研究回答了基于地方的研究的需要，以共同创造知识和资源，旨在提高西南地区慈善部门内的翻译和口译的可及性和意识。 宗旨和目标：该研究旨在回答以下关键研究问题：规模较小的慈善机构如何体验多种语言，以及他们如何应对地方一级的笔译和口译需求？他们在多语言交流中采用了哪些做法？慈善机构的捐助者如何看待笔译和口译？在慈善部门的笔译和口译工作中，可以发现哪些知识差距，以及如何弥合这些差距？ 这一项目是在人权委员会资助的大型项目的工作基础上开展的，如“非政府组织的倾听区”，该项目与国际发展慈善机构一起开展研究（Footitt等人，2018年）。该项目通过与在英国有明确地理足迹的小型慈善组织合作，为现有的知识库做出了贡献。 潜在的应用程序和好处：论文将采用合作的方法，从参与行动研究（PAR）文献（例如，活动，如问题树，苏格拉底轮和破坏），并将收集数据的看法和实践中的翻译慈善组织在西南和威尔士。它将邀请在西南部扶贫、社区发展和社会福利等领域工作的慈善机构的捐助者参加重点小组，利用参与性方法创造知识交流的空间，探讨障碍或问题，并确定解决方案或机会。该研究旨在共同创建资源内容，使慈善机构受益。该项目为后续活动创造了机会。除了论文，项目产出将包括公开提供任何合适的资源和作为项目一部分开发的案例研究。

Context: This project will focus research activity on the intersection of Translation Studies and the Charity Sector. It builds on growing research in this field by engaging with charitable organisations at a regional level to explore their perceptions and practices of translation and interpreting. The South West is the geographic focus for research because of observable activity carried out in this area by the volunteer group Charity Translators. The South West-based non-profit association Charity Translators will be a key non-HEI community partner. This project is driven by experiences gained by the student who has interacted with 60+ charities and nearly 500 language volunteers across the UK and beyond. These insights suggest that charitable organisations are experiencing a language problems at a local level, with preliminary data indicating a significant cost barrier in accessing language services, as well as a significant knowledge-gap around working with translation and interpreting. This research answers the need for place-based research to co-create knowledge and resources aimed at improving accessibility and awareness of translation and interpreting within the charity sector in the South West region. Aims and objectives: The research aims to answer the following key research questions: How are smaller charities experiencing multilingualism and how are they responding to the need for translation and interpreting at local level? Which practices are they adopting for multilingual communication? How do contributors from charitable organisations perceive translation and interpreting? What knowledge gaps can be identified around working with translation and interpreting in the charity sector and how can they be bridged? This project builds on the work of large AHRC-funded projects such as 'The Listening Zones of NGOs', which carried out research with international development charities (Footitt et al., 2018). This project contributes to the existing knowledge base by working with smaller charitable organisations with a clear geographical footprint in the UK. Potential applications and benefits: The thesis will adopt collaborative methods from Participatory Action Research (PAR) literature (e.g. activities such as the Problem Tree, Socratic Wheel and Sabotage) and will gather data on the perceptions and practices of translation among charitable organisations in the South West and Wales. It will invite contributors from charities working in areas such as poverty relief, community development and social welfare in the South West to take part in focus groups, using participatory methods to create a space for knowledge-exchange, exploring barriers or problems and identifying solutions or opportunities. The research will aim to co-create content for resources that will benefit organisations in the charity sector. The project has built in opportunities for follow-up activities. In addition to the thesis, project outputs will include making publicly available any suitable resources and case studies developed as part of the project.