School of Languages and Cultures

2023 Winter Research Program

Engage in a formal research project over the summer semester with the UQ Summer Research Program.

The UQ Winter Research Scholarship Program offers scholarships to students wishing to gain experience working alongside a researcher in a formal research environment in their area of interest at UQ.

Applications have closed

Each project will be offered for a period of four (4) weeks between Monday 26 June – Friday 21 July 2023.

Participation is open to undergraduate (including honours) and master by coursework students who are currently enrolled and will remain at UQ for the entirety of the research program.

Discover more about the Winter Research Program

  1. Memory discourses in letters to women who were executed and disappeared in Chile.
  2. How accurate is professional Mandarin/English interpreters' real-life telephone interpretations?
  3. Translating Testimony from Survivors of Enforced Disappearances in the Algerian War
  4. Multimodal public health communication
  5. Eye tracking in bilingualism research with less-commonly researched languages.
  6. Potential impact of learner background factors on their communication in a second language - Part 2
  1. Language use and story structure: Analysis of stories told by Russian-English bilingual children
  2. Socio-pragmatic understanding of (im)politeness in Korean discourse
  3. ChatGPT for schools – Curating a prompt taxonomy for AI in F-10 Education.
  4. Border-Crossing Australian and Japanese Literature: Literary Exchange as Cultural Diplomacy
  5. Empowering Asian language speakers to become language teachers in Australian schools

3. Translating Testimony from Survivors of Enforced Disappearances in the Algerian War

Project title: 

Translating Testimony from Survivors of Enforced Disappearances in the Algerian War

Hours of engagement & delivery mode

4 Weeks between 19 June and 15 July (negotiable) for 20-30 hours per week.

The project can be completed on-site or remotely or hybrid (negotiable).

Scholars will be supervised in person or via zoom approximately 2 hours per week.

Description:

From 1954 to 1962, Algerians fought for Independence from the French colonial powers that had been in place since 1830. During the war, the French military used enforced disappearances, imprisonment and torture to extract information from pro-independence individuals in the Parti Communiste, the Front de Libération Nationale, the Armée de Libération Nationale and other similar groups. This project focuses specifically on how memory has endured in the face of enforced disappearance and how survivors have resisted erasure through testimony and narrative. Scholars will consult published narratives (books, online interviews, testimony in films, and websites such as 1000autres.org) and translate from French or Arabic to English. Time permitting, they will also begin analysing the corpus.

This project is part of a larger study that examines memory and postmemory discourses after historical traumatic events. The project focuses on intergenerational trauma and resistant memory. Scholars should be advised that the texts will contain accounts of violence and trauma which may be upsetting to read and translate.

Expected outcomes and deliverables:

Scholars will gain experience not only in translation from French or Arabic to English but also in research and analysis. Students will be asked to organise findings and identify common themes in the narratives, to identify and acknowledge stylistic choices in the translations, and to identify translation problems that arise as well as potential solutions. The final product may be published online.

Suitable for:

This project is open to students with a B2-level or higher of French and/or Arabic and English. Priority will be given to students who have studied translation or who have translation experience. Scholars with an interest in history, memory, autobiography and testimony are encouraged to apply.

Primary Supervisor:

Dr Amy L. Hubbell

Further info:

If you require any additional details, please contact Dr Hubbell at a.hubbell@uq.edu.au