38th AUSIT National Conference:
Speakers

… is Professor of Interpreting at UNSW Sydney, and founded UNSW’s Master of Interpreting and Translation course, for which she received Vice-Chancellor’s and Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching. An interpreter and translator, she was a NAATI Board Director (2010–16); chaired the NAATI Advisory Committee (2017–20); and is a member of the Standing Committee for Legal Translation of the International Federation of Translators (FIT). 

Prof. Stern’s research into international and domestic court interpreting includes being leading Chief Investigator in the above project, and ‘From the Nuremberg Trials to the International Criminal Court: Interpreting in War Crimes Prosecutions.’ She is the author of publications on court interpreting and the monograph Western Intellectuals and the Soviet Union, 1920–1940 (2007). 

Presentations include: Judicial Commission of NSW / Bar Association of NSW / National Judicial College of Australia / Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration / NSW DPP / WA Supreme Court judges / WA tribunals / AAT/ART / ICTY / ICC plus academic and AUSIT conferences.

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… is Convenor of the Interpreting & Translation programs at UNSW Sydney, where she teaches interpreting in community, legal and conference settings. She holds a BA in T&I, a Diploma of Education, a master’s in applied linguistics and a PhD in court interpreting / forensic linguistics. She was awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa by the University of Antwerp for her research into community interpreting; is the sole author of two books: The Discourse of Court Interpreting (2004/2010) and Community Interpreting (2007); has co-authored four other books; and has written numerous journal articles and book chapters. 

Prof. Hale was one of the main contributing authors of the Recommended National Standards for Working with Interpreters in Courts and Tribunals, has many years’ experience as a NAATI-credentialled Spanish interpreter and translator, and continues to practice as a conference interpreter in international settings. She is regularly invited to international conferences as a plenary/keynote speaker, and has delivered numerous presentations to the judiciary, tribunal members and other legal professionals on how to work with interpreters.

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… is a professor in the UNSW Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, where he is also Deputy Dean (Education) and leads the Language Processing Research Lab. His research investigates human language processing and technology, particularly in machine and audiovisual translation. His work has been supported by the Australian Research Council, Department of Defence, DFAT, Science Foundation Ireland, the European Commission, NAATI, NSW Health, Enterprise Ireland, and a diverse range of other government and industry collaborators, including Facebook, Microsoft and the Australian Federal Police.

Presentations include: International Media for All Conference / International Cognitive Load Theory Conference / Machine Translation Summit / International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies / Association for Machine Translation in the Americas / Association for Computational Linguistics / Languages & The Media / Language Resources and Evaluation Conference / International Conference on Community Translation / International Association of Applied Linguistics / Localization World / Globalisation and Localization Association Annual Conference

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… is Deputy Dean (Education), Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW Sydney. She teaches and convenes courses in criminal and advanced criminal law, teaches into the faculty’s Indigenous programs, and convenes the criminal justice stream (Humanities Pathway Program).

Prof. Schwartz is currently a Chief Investigator on three ARC Discovery grants: the ‘Rethinking Community Sanctions’ Project (exploring alternatives to imprisonment); research into access to justice for Indigenous people in civil and family law; and an ARC Linkage grant exploring the role of the judge in facilitating access to justice when interpreters are used in criminal courts. She has recently completed three further ARC grants: a Linkage grant exploring the civil and family law needs of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; the Australian Justice Reinvestment Project; and the Youth Punishment Project.

She has been awarded the UNSW Vice Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence (2009) and President’s Award for Embraces Diversity 2010); was runner up in the Respect category (2017); and was highly commended in the LexisNexis–ALTA Awards for Innovation in the Teaching of Law (2010).

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… is a lecturer in the School of International Studies and Education, University of Technology Sydney, where she teaches subjects related to multilingualism and English as a second language in the TESOL and Applied Linguistics program. Her research focuses on qualitative inquiry to examine linguistico-cultural challenges of people whose community, education or professional experiences are undermined by limited proficiency in or access to language. She was previously the research associate for the Australia Research Council Linkage Project. 

Recent presentations include co-presentations with Prof. Ludmila Stern: ‘Corridors, docks and legal chambers: Accessing interpreters and accessing justice in First Nations languages in the Northern Territory’ (37th AUSIT National Conference, RMIT, Melbourne, 2024); and with G Eckert (2024): ‘NESTS and NNESTS: Debunking the myths to rethink, reshape and redefine excellence in ELT’ (NEAS 2024 Management Conference, UTS Sydney). 

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