Deborah Giustini

Deborah Giustini is a postdoctoral research fellow at KU Leuven's Centre for Translation Studies, affiliated with the Interpreting Studies unit at Antwerp Campuses. Holding a PhD in Sociology from The University of Manchester, she bridges academic research with professional practice as a Chartered Institute of Linguists-accredited conference interpreter serving international organizations.

Her educational background includes:

• PhD in Sociology, The University of Manchester

Giustini's research examines job quality, non-standard employment, and digitalization through practice theory lenses, with emphasis on gender equality in the gig economy. She investigates interpreting work within digital labor platforms, analyzing how structural constraints shape professional practices and visibility. Her scholarship reveals interpreters' navigational strategies amid technological disruption and institutional pressures.

Recent publications demonstrate evolving focus from pandemic impacts on remote interpreting toward AI's influence on translation workflows. She consistently applies practice theory to uncover hidden labor dynamics, particularly interpreters' invisible work in platform-mediated environments and their dispersed social justice practices.

Giustini contributes to academic governance as Editorial Board Member of Interpreting and Society and International Advisory Editorial Board Member of the British Journal of Sociology, while serving on the Executive Council of the International Association of Translation and Intercultural Studies.

No information is available regarding student advising or specific research grants.

She actively collaborates through the Practice Theory Consortium at Lancaster University and Hamad Bin Khalifa University's 'Interpreters’ Narratives of the COVID-19 Pandemic' project, maintaining memberships in the European and British Sociological Associations.