2009
As part of my continuing professional development I have attended the following courses:
Translation workshop, Institute of Linguists, February 2009
Technology seminar, Institute of Linguists, October 2008
Translation Memory training course (MemoQ) February 2009
Portsmouth University Conference on "The Translator as Writer" November 2009
... and I moderate the very lively TransNet translators' forum on behalf of the Institute of Linguists.
I am also currently organising a series of "webinars" to help new entrants to the profession to be held on behalf of the Chartered Institute of Linguists.

November 2009:  Lucy Brooks presented to HRH Prince Michael of Kent

 

At an auspicious prize-giving ceremony held at the Oxford and Cambridge Club in Pall Mall, London, a Worthing translator had the honour of meeting HRH Prince Michael of Kent.

 

Prince Michael is the royal patron of the Chartered Institute of Linguists and during the ceremony awarded a number of prizes to linguists who had achieved top marks in the recent round of Diploma examinations.

 

The Institute took advantage of the occasion to hold a roll call of the newly created Chartered Linguists.  Currently twenty professional linguists have been awarded chartered status, which reflects the highest professional standards that can be attained by a practising translator or interpreter.

 

Lucy Brooks, of

Furze Road

, Worthing, was the first person in this country to achieve Chartered Linguist status, in February 2008, and was delighted to be invited to meet the Prince.

 

After the formal part of the evening, the Prince circulated among all the guests and spoke to everyone.  Lucy said: “I was able to bring him up to date on the importance to our profession of this new Chartered Linguist status.  He was very interested in the significance of the status to our profession.”

 

Lucy was accompanied at the function by her husband, Bob, an editor and journalist.

Pictures: Top: Lucy Brooks with HRH Prince Michael of Kent.

Bottom: Group photo of the eleven Chartered Linguists who met HRH Prince Michael of Kent on 9 November 2009.