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Dr. Sharon Black is a Lecturer in Interpreting and Translation at the University of East Anglia's School of Media, Language and Communication Studies. She holds a PhD in Translation from Queen’s University Belfast (2017) and has taught at institutions including Queen’s University Belfast and UEA since 2018. Her research focuses on audiovisual translation, media accessibility, and cognitive aspects of subtitling and audio description. She has led projects such as the Erasmus+-funded Digital Accessibility for You (2019–2021), which empowered youth with disabilities in digital media participation, and the Accessible Culture and Training project (2017–2018), creating MOOCs for arts accessibility.
Her expertise includes subtitling for children, cognitive translation studies, and eye-tracking methodologies. She is President of the European Association of Studies in Screen Translation and serves on editorial boards for journals like Perspectives and Translation & Interpreting. She currently leads the British Academy-funded project (2023–2026) investigating subtitle use by deaf/hard-of-hearing children using eye-tracking technology. Teaching roles include organizing modules on conference interpreting, translation theory, and digital tools for audiovisual translation. She also serves as an external examiner for Spanish and AV translation programs at Heriot-Watt University and UCL.
Her research outputs span 13 peer-reviewed articles, datasets, and media engagements discussing the impact of subtitles on comprehension and accessibility. Collaborations include multinational studies on subtitle speed effects and incongruity detection in viewers.
