Projects

In recent years  has organised and run training sessions for professionals, held tutorials, made presentations and been involved in research projects:

• “Interpreting in mental health care” - a specialist course for interpreters in the Netherlands and Belgium.
• “Interpreting in the health care - basic theory” - tutorial for psychology students at the University of Utrecht.
• “Psychotherapy and multilingualism - theoretical explorations” (ambulatory mental health care).
• “Working with interpreters in health care”, a training/workshop for health providers in both clinical and ambulatory health care, in the Netherlands, Belgium and England.
• Professional exchange with sign language interpreters working in mental health care.
• Presentations to academic conferences in Vienna, Montreal, Almunecar/Granada, Stockholm, Edinburgh, Utrecht, Sydney, Haarlem, Reggio Emilia.
• Scientific research on dialogue interpreting in mental health care.
• Policy research and reporting on ‘should interpreting in mental health care be a  specialist profession’ (reported to WODC, research institute of the Dutch Ministry of Justice in 2003).
• Policy research for the Dutch Interpreter and Translater Centre TVcN into interpreting via the telephone (2007)