Elisabet Tiselius

Elisabet Tiselius is Professor of Translation Studies with a specialisation in Interpreting at the Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism, Stockholm University, and the leader of the SPRINT research group (Stockholm Process Research in Interpreting and Translation). She holds an 80 % leave arrangement that still permits her to supervise doctoral students and to teach on the MA programmes in conference and public-service interpreting.

Education

• 2013 – PhD, University of Bergen (Norway): Professional experience and expertise among conference interpreters

Research interests

Her research revolves around the cognitive processes underlying interpreting and translation, with particular focus on working memory, executive functions, monitoring, deliberate practice and the development of expertise. A second strand of research investigates children acting as language brokers for families with limited Swedish proficiency. Methodologically she combines experimental designs, psychometric instruments, eye-tracking, retrospection and discourse analysis.

Research projects & teams

• Ongoing: DEPICT (2021-2025) – Norwegian Research Council flagship on sign-language depiction; EU project on children and interpreters in healthcare (with KI).
• Completed (2023): The invisible process – Cognition and working memory of dialogue interpreting (Swedish Research Council, VR 2016-01118).
• Research groups: SPRINT (leader), Childhood Cancer Health Care Research (KI), Sign Language, Interpreting and Communication (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences).
• International roles: President, European Society for Translation Studies (EST, 2022-); vice-president, European Masters in Conference Interpreting (EMCI); board member, TREC network (Translation, Research, Empiricism, Cognition).

Scientific awards & distinctions

• Member of AcademiaNet – Excellent women academics
• Authorised conference interpreter, Kammarkollegiet (Sweden) & AIIC
• Accredited conference interpreter to the European institutions

Doctoral supervision & teaching

She supervises PhD projects on distance dialogue interpreting, language competence of public-service interpreters, and sign-language interpreting for newly arrived deaf women. She has designed the MA programmes in conference interpreting and public-service interpreting at Stockholm University, as well as the continuing-education course for interpreter educators.