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Simultaneous and Consecutive Interpreting: From 1984 – |
Translation:
From 1972 - for publishing houses of Latvia (translation of short stories, poems, novels, literary critical articles etc. from English into Latvian and from Latvian into English; for the Ministries of Economics, Justice, Foreign Affairs, Welfare and Finance; for the Ventspils City Council, the Ventspils Free Port Authority, companies “Ventspils Nafta”, “Ventbunkers”, Noord Natie N.V. (Antwerp) etc.; for the President of Latvia (1997-1998); for the Latvian TV, the RBS TV Channel; for the Latvian Chamber of Commerce; for UN, ILO, UNDP, UNDCP, UNESCO, UNICEF, UNCHR, EU, EC, World Bank, EBRD etc. international institutions.
Research publications:
1 monograph (“Issues of Translation Studies. Theory and Practice”. – 2009, Ventspils Augstskola, 264 p.)55 research publications in total (sociolinguistics, ESP, translation studies), 42 of them have appeared in the last 10 years (2000 – 2010),19 of these 42 have appeared in publications included in the Latvian Council of Science' s list of generally acknowledged and internationally reviewed publications (to have at least 5 publications of this level is an obligatory requirement for an accademic to be elected a full [or University] Professor).
Participation with presentations in conferences: in 36 international conferences, in 13 academic conferences.
Supervision of 50 BA theses and 20 MA theses.
Supervision of 5 PhD Linguistics programme students’ dissertations (3 – since 2009, 2 – since 2010).
Projects:
1. From 1997 – 2004: participation in the Latvian Council of Sciences research project "Latvian Stylistics".
2. From 1999 – 2001: participation in the EU Socrates/Erasmus Intensive Programme project “Contrastive Translation and Interpreting Studies”.
3. From October 2003 – December 2006: Project Coordinator for Ventspils University College and the international research group “Potential of Team Teaching” in a Leanardo da Vinci project “Transferability and Boundary Zones in Content and Language Integrated Learning” (Nr. FIN-03-B-F-LA-160006).
4. From October 2004 – December 2007: Project Coordinator for Latvia and for Ventspils University College in a a Leanardo da Vinci project“Foreign Language Communication on eCommerce websites” (Agreement Nr. 2004 [FIN-04-B-F-LA-160510]).
5. From January 2006 – December 2009: Head of a National Research programme “Letonika” project “Language and Environment” (sub- project “Standardised translation of Latvian culture-specific vocabulary into English, German, French and Russian”).
6. From June 2006 – June 2007: Head of a Leonardo da Vinci mobility project “Enhancement of Professional Skills of Translator Trainers”.
7. From December 2009 – Project coordinator from Latvia in the interlinguistic and intercultural project of Baltic region universities (Sweden, Estonia, Poland, Latvia, Russia, Belorus) “Communicating Entrepreneurship in the Baltic Region”.
8. From May 2010 - subproject leader of the National Research programme "National Identity" subproject "Latvian L-ge as the Native L-ge and Contact L-ge in 21st Century North Courland Cities".
Expert of Higher Education Quality: 1999 – 2009: member of Latvian Higher Education Quality Assessment Centre's international expert commisions of accreditation of higher educational establishemnts and their study programmes, since 2001 – chairman of these commissions. In this period of time 25 BA, MA and PhD study programmes in translation studies, language teaching and philology have been assessed. 2010 - member of an international team assessing 6 HEIs in Lithuania.
Courses read at University of Latvia & Music Academy of Latvia:
Sociolinguistic aspects of translation and interpreting # Comparative and contrastive linguistics # Theory and Practice of Translation (the Univ. of Latvia) # General Linguistics (the Univ. of Latvia) # European Literature (Latvian Acad. of Music) # Simultaneous Interpreting (the Univ. of Latvia) # Sociolinguistics (the Univ. of Latvia) # Psycholinguistics (the Univ. of Latvia) # English for Specific Purposes: for the University of Latvia students at the Departments of Journalism, Accountancy, Finance and Credit, and Philosophy, for the Latvian Academy of Music students at the Departments of Choir Conducting and Musicology,
Courses read at Ventspils University College:
Introduction into Translation Studies: 1997 - 2008 (for BA students) # European Studies: 1998 - 2001 (for BA students) # Academic courses at Ventspils University College and the University of Liepāja for BA, MA and PhD students (current): Introduction Into Linguistics (for BA students) # Research Methods in Translation Studies (for BA students) # Contrastive Linguistics (for BA students) # British Studies (for BA students) # Translation Theory (Ventspils University College) # Translation Theory and Criticism (for MA students) # Research Methods in Translation Studies (for MA students of two study programmes) # EU institutions and Their Functions (for MA students of 2 study programmes) # Design and Method of Master Papers (for MA students) # Semantics and Linguistics in Latvia (for PhD students) # Contemporary British and American Grammar Theories (for PhD students) # Translation Theory and Practice in Latvia from 1945 to 2010 (for PhD students) # Interdisciplinary Studies: Linguistics and Translation Studies, Linguistics and Philosophy, Linguistics and Psychology (for PhD students) # English Academic Writing (Ventspils University College) # Consecutive Interpreting (Ventspils University College) # Simultaneous Interpreting (Ventspils University College).