Guest Editors' Introduction

Abstract

This issue of New Voices presents a selection of papers from the 9th IPCITI conference, a successful postgraduate conference held at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. This special issue marks the completion of a time-consuming process, which started by organizing and running a successful conference and continued with selecting papers, liaising with authors, corresponding with external referees, and testing critical and analytical skills when reading and editing the actual submissions. Involvement throughout the publication process provides vital experience for a future academic career, especially working towards tight deadlines and responding quickly and effectively to constructive criticism. As editors, we join the guest editors and authors in gaining from the experience and from the many opportunities New Voices has given us to learn from each other. In addition, as usual, this issue includes a number of abstracts of recently defended PhD theses, whose great diversity we hint at with the following collection of keywords: consecutive interpreting, gender violence, Jonathan Swift, public service interpreting, social semiotics, training models in financial translation, visual communication.