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Associate Dean for Research: Professor Sharon O'Brien

Sharon O'Brien is  Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; a role that entails supporting, promoting, and coordinating research culture across the faculty's seven constituent schools.  

In addition to this role in the Faculty, Sharon O'Brien is Professor of Translation Studies at the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies. She obtained a PhD in 2006 on the topic of Controlled Language and Post-Editing Effort (funded by an Irish Research Council Scholarship). She was co-ordinator of a H2020 EU-funded RISE project called INTERACT - The International Network in Crisis Translation (2017-2020). She was a funded investigator (Science Foundation Ireland) in the ADAPT research centre for over 10 years, where her focus was on human factors and translation technology. Prof. O'Brien holds an MA by research on Language for Special Purposes, Text Linguistics and Machine Translation (1993 - EU-funded) and a BA (hons) in Applied Languages (Translation, French and German). Between 1995 - 1999 she worked as a Language Technology Consultant in the Localisation Industry. Her teaching focuses on crisis communication and translation, language technologies and HCI, localisation, and research methods.

Prof. Sharon O'Brien
Associate Dean for Research,
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Dublin City University.
Tel: 353-1-700 5381 
E-Mail: sharon.obrien@dcu.ie