prof. ucz. dr hab. Łucja Biel

Highlights

Degrees

MA in English Studies/Translation, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, MA dissertation supervised by Professor E. Tabakowska, 1998
Ph.D. in Linguistics (cum laude), Philological Doctoral Studies, University of Gdańsk, Poland, Ph.D. dissertation “Distance in English and Polish” supervised by Professor R. Kalisz, 2004
Habilitacja postdoctoral degree in Linguistics, University of Warsaw, 2015

Postgraduate studies

Diploma in an Introduction to English Law and the Law of the European Union, University of Cambridge, 2005–2007
School of American Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law and University of Gdańsk, 2004-2005
Management and Business PG Course, Jagiellonian University, 1997-1998

Training courses

Translation Research Summer School, University College London, 2007
CETRA – 20th Doctoral Summer School, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 2008
Editing for Translators, Monterey Institute of International Studies, USA, 2008
Certificate in Collaborative Translation Teaching, University Ramon Llull and University of Vic, Barcelona, Spain, 2008
Certificate in Teaching Translation: Language and Technology, Consortium for the Training of Translation Teachers, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal, 2008
Foundation for Polish Science (FNP), OP HC, Skills Project: Social media and Web 2.0 training for scientists (2014), Research Project Management(2014), Public Engagement (2014), Research Team Management (2015), Mentoring (2015)

Research interests

Employment

Associate Professor, Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw (2013-…), Acting Head of the Institute of Applied Linguistics (2016), Deputy Director for International Cooperation and Organisation (2014-2016), member of Linguistics Research Council
Assistant Professor, Department of Translation Studies, Institute of English and American Studies (2004-2013), co-founder and co-author of Translation Programmes, Vice Director for Student Affairs (2005–2008)
Visiting Lecturer on MA in Legal Translation, City University London (2009-2014, 2018)
External lecturer at Postgraduate Translation Studies, Chair for Translation Studies, Jagiellonian University (2018-…)

Research projects

Corbridge Trust scholarship, Robinson College, University of Cambridge, 2024
MHEALTH ALL: Development and implementation of a digital platform for the promotion of access to mental healthcare for low language proficient third-country nationals in Europe, AMIF Fund, European Commission, 2022-2024
Termness of terms: Anatomy of legal terms, New Ideas idub grant, 2022-2023
MUST – Multilingual Student Translation, Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, Université catholique de Louvain, 2017-…
The Eurolect: an EU variant of Polish and its impact on administrative Polish, NCN grant, 2015-2020, eurolekt.ils.uw.edu.pl
Eurolect Observatory, UNINT, 2013-2018, http://www.unint.eu/it/ricerca/gruppi-di-ricerca.html
Training action for legal practitioners: Linguistic skills and translation in EU, European Commission (DG Competition) action grant 2016-2018
Understanding Justice, European Commission (DG Justice) action grant 2014-2016
Language of the multilingual European Union law: (de)culturisation and (de)hybridisation, NCN grant 2014-2018, investigator
Corpus-based study of legal collocations, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, habilitacja-degree research grant, 2010-2012, https://eurolekt.ils.uw.edu.pl/publications-and-materials/eurofog-project/
Optimale – Optimising Professional Translator Training in a Multilingual Europe, Erasmus Academic Networks, European Commission, 2010-2013

Other academic activity

Member of Editorial/Advisory Boards: Terminology, Across Languages and Cultures, Comparative Law and Language, Comparative Legilinguistics, Lingua Legis
Member of international consortia and networks: International Advisory Board w Transius (Centre for Legal and Institutional Translation Studies), University of Geneva, Switzerland; CAL²(Computer-Assisted Legal Linguistics), Heidelberg Academy of Science, Germany, https://cal2.eu/index.php/team; RELINE – Legal Linguistics Network, University of Copenhagen; The Consortium for Translation Education Research (CTER)

Teaching experience

Supervisor of 80 MA and BA dissertations at City University London, University of Warsaw, University of Gdańsk
Courses taught: practical and theoretical courses on specialised translation (legal, business) and terminology, corpus linguistics
Supervised Ph.D. dissertations: Dr Dariusz Koźbiał (Translation of Judgments: A Corpus Study of the Textual Fit of EU to Polish Judgments, 2021), Dr Katarzyna Wasilewska (Administrative Reports: A Corpus Study of the Genre in the EU and Polish national settings, 2022); Natalia Zawadzka-Paluektau (The “European refugee crisis” Through a Media Lens. A Cross-National Study into Press Representations of Displaced People Combining Corpus Linguistics and Argumentation Analysis, co-tutelle with University of Seville, 2024)

Doctoral students

Awards

Bronze Cross of Merit for contribution to translator training, 2017.
The Warsaw University Rector’s Award for Academic Achievements, 2017, 2019, 2022.
Łódź University Rector’s Team Award for the academic textbook Ways to Translation, 2015, Łódź University Press.
Rector’s Team Award for preparing and implementing innovative Translation Programmes at the University of Gdańsk, 2011.
Scholarship of the University of Gdańsk Development Foundation for exemplary doctoral students.
Habilitacja scholarship, University of Gdańsk, 2008-2010.

Other

English-Polish legal and business translator and language consultant since 1997, sworn translator of English and Polish
Expert in the Polish Normalisation Committee, TC 37 – Terminology and other language and content resources (2013-2017)

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