What cognitive biases could be screwing up your decision making?

What values inform your practice and how do they differ from domain to domain?

How developed are interpreters’ moral judgment and ethical reasoning abilities?

What impact could that have on the assumptions they make in their day-to-day interpreting?

Robyn Dean has informed interpreter training worldwide for many years and joins Linguistpd to discuss the above. She will also share findings from her PhD data which investigates the ethical reasoning abilities of sign language interpreters studied in the US and makes recommendations for future training.

Whether you’re mid training or been qualified for a number of years, dilemmas are a regular occurrence. How can we take the guess work out of the decisions we make? Wendy Ledeux will offer some frameworks to enable you to examine the decisions you make and the approach you take to your professional practice.

Structured CPD Points: 2