ACT - A few thoughts on assertiveness – for translators and interpreters

This training event will be presented
face-to-face as an in-person event only for participants.

Please register by 12pm Wednesday 6 September 2023.

Working as an interpreter or a translator means that we cannot avoid being exposed all the time to people who have unrealistic expectations about our role. Have you worked with a lawyer who insists everything has to be 'translated word for word'? Or a doctor who asks for a complicated medical report to be sight-translated on the spot? How about a speaker who thinks it helpful to read out a highly technical research paper at a hundred miles an hour? Or a client who is offering peanuts for a complicated translation project?

If you ever wondered what can be done to diplomatically manage clients’ expectations, how to decide whether we should give in to clients’ requests, and more importantly, how to ensure our working standards and ethics are not compromised, come and join our highly esteemed panel members for a discussion on how to be assertive with clients and ensure that we help create a world without barriers.

This event will consist of a screening of a webinar that was first presented in October 2022.  It will follow a light lunch, which attendees are welcome to partake of, and which itself follows the Branch Annual General Meeting (11:00–12:00).

This webinar will be conducted in English.

Face-to-Face participation

This event provides a face-to-face participation for translators located in ACT.

ACT Venue
YWCA House - Education and Training Centre
Level 3, 71 Northbourne Ave
Canberra ACT 2601

Biography of presenters

Despina Amanatidou has been a Certified Interpreter and Translator (English > Greek) since 2011, working full time as a medical interpreter/translator from 2011 to 2022 in public healthcare settings. Despina has been a member of AUSIT’s VIC branch committee since 2016. During this time, she has served in various roles such as Communications, Promotions and PR Officer and as PD Coordinator. From 2019 until 2022, Despina served on AUSIT’s National Council as Vice-president for Events and PD. She has helped organise many events and conferences for T&Is, among them the first fully online conference in Australia in 2020. Despina received AUSIT’s Paul Sinclair Award in 2019, as well as the Eye and Ear Hospital’s Allied Health Excellence Award, also in 2019, for leading projects that delivered significant improvements for CALD patients.  Despina has been the Interpreting Manager for 2M Language Services since January 2023, as well as being a published author, and an interpreter tutor and research assistant for RMIT University (since 2018).

Nicola Thayil is a NAATI-certified French>English translator and French–English interpreter based in Melbourne. She holds a Master of Interpreting and Translation Studies from Monash University and currently specialises in culinary and sustainability-related texts and. Nicola is an active AUSIT member and is a member of the InTouch editorial committee and mentor as part of the AUSIT mentoring program. She was an active VIC Branch Committee member from 2013 to 2016, has presented at various professional development sessions and was an integral part of the VIC mini-Conference Organising Committee in 2016. A tutor in the T&I Masters program at Monash University since 2015, Nicola is a NAATI examiner as well as being mum to five-year-old Joseph.

PD Logbook:
Level: Intermediate

Please  consult the NAATI Recertification Catalogue to allocate the relevant PD Points - downloadable from www.naati.com.au.  Some activities can be included under different categories, so please choose the most appropriate category for your recertification purposes.

Certificates

Certificates for PD purposes may take approximately two (2) weeks to be released following the event.

Public Transport Information

Light rail: Alinga Street is the closest stop
Buses: the City bus interchange is across Northbourne Avenue

Parking Information

Nearby parking stations are in Marcus Clarke Street or in the Canberra Centre; street parking may be very limited.

This event will be not be recorded.

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