Pedro Jesús Castillo Ortiz

Pedro Jesús Castillo Ortiz completed an MA in Translation and Interpreting in 2003 at the University of Granada (UGR) (Spain), specialising in Conference and Liaison Interpreting. He also has an MA in Communication and Media from the same university, which he completed in 2005. In 2002 he was awarded a research scholarship by the Department of Translation and Interpreting at UGR as part of a project entitled Language assistance needs for immigrants in Andalucía, and in 2003 he was a researcher on the Teaching Innovation and New Technologies in Interpreting Classes project under the supervision of Jesús de Manuel Jerez. He is currently completing his PhD on Interpreting in the Media and Liaison Interpreting in Radio settings at UGR. He is also a member of the GRETI Research Group ‘Interpreting and the challenges of globalisation: Training and profession” at the School of Translation and Interpreting, UGR. He works as a freelance translator and interpreter, with Media Interpreting. Castillo is currently working at Heriot-Watt University as Spanish Language Assistant, as well as Interpreting Instructor at the Heriot-Watt Summer Course in Advanced Conference Interpreting. He has also been awarded an Internal Research Grant at Heriot-Watt University, under the title, Interpreting in the Media: Liaison Interpreting in Radio settings, part of which is the research which he proposes to present at Languages & The Media 2010.