Online Seminar
Monday 12 January 2026 16.30–18.00
Juho Suokas & Erja Vottonen, University of Eastern Finland, ReTra Research group
RSVP form coming soon
Language professionals are often an invisible yet essential part of academic publishing. Research work and academic publishing involve much multilingualism and translation – carried out by both professional language service providers and the researchers themselves. However, researchers are often not aware of what kinds of language services are available, what to expect from them, and how collaboration with language service providers can work.
Our research group at the University of Eastern Finland examines translation and multilingualism as part of research work. We have interviewed 60 researchers working in Finnish and other European universities and 14 language service providers working with researchers in Finland.
The aim of this online seminar is to present our research and our observations of the assumptions and views that researchers have of language services and how they use them, and to promote discussion on what the interaction between language service providers and the field of academic research could be. Recent technological developments have brought changes to the work of both language professionals and academics, so we also wish to promote discussion on what professional human language services can offer researchers today and how these services can be communicated within academia.
Programme:
The workshop/seminar will comprise three sections, each of which will begin with an introduction by Juho and Erja, followed by participant discussion.
16.30–17.00 Researchers’ translation awareness, discussion
17.00–17.30 Interaction between language services and researchers, discussion
17.30–18.00 Language technology in research work, discussion