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Kyra Pollitt

Address University of Central Lancashire Livesey 202 Preston, PR1 2HE Telephone +44 (0)1772-893092 Position Tutor (PGDip English/BSL Interpreting) Email Kpollitt1@uclan.ac.uk

Kyra qualified as an interpreter in 1990 and has since worked in many domains. Over the last decade she has applied her experience to the teaching of novice interpreters on a number of courses and in a number of institutions across the UK, notably the MA in BSL/English interpreting at Durham University where she held the position of Interpreting Fellow. Kyra brings her interpreting, training and assessing experience to her post as senior lecturer on the post-graduate Diploma in BSL/English Interpreting. She is also Senior Interpreter based within the Specialised Learning Resources Unit at this university. In this capacity she has responsibility for monitoring, training and mentoring.

Kyra has presented at a number of national and international conferences, and her writings on interpreting have been published in a number of arenas. Kyra is currently focussing on persuading new interpreters into print, and her most recent effort, co-authored with Claire Haddon, appears in the forthcoming Advances in Teaching Sign Language Interpreters (Roy, C.[ed.] Gallaudet University Press).

Kyra maintains her own interpreting/ translating practice by working in educational, legal and theatrical domains.