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Josélia Neves

Josélia Neves has a degree in Modern Languages and Literatures, an MA in English Studies, a PhD in Translation Studies, with a dissertation on Subtitling for the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing (SDH) by the University of Surrey Roehampton, London. In her career as a university teacher and researcher, she has led a number of collaborative projects in various fields – television, the cinema and DVD, tourism, museums and cultural venues, publishing, the performing arts and education – in an effort to provide access to people with a disability. Her expertise is in Subtitling, Captioning, Audio Description, Audio-tactile Transcreation and in Multisensory Communication. She is presently a Professor at Hamad bin Khalifa University, in Qatar, where she teaches on the MA in Audiovisual Translation.