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INSTITUTE MATTERS ADMISSIONS CONTRIBUTORS Carolyn Batstone Students Peter Barr Jennifer Callaghan Anne-Marie Chaloner Michaela Gallo Rebecca Gutsell Homayoun Habibi Jelena Komare Simon Rollo-Gunn Jessica Roper Joanna Skorzanska Giannina Spanu Cristina Ureche Associates Vera Alves Nunes Jade Boyd Danielle de Andrade Martins Veerle De Rop Maria Doan Jack Goldstein Sarah Jefferies Shi Liu Laetita MacDougall Atalanta Marchessini Hugo Menendez Robert Nieri Gerard Owen Claudio Pirani Saad Al Ramadhani Sophie Reynolds Maida Shafiq Naomi Solleveld Members Percy Balemans Iuliana Bozkurt Ka Yin Jennifer Chu Dominika Clarke Stephen Dinkeldein Elzbieta Dziadosz Daniel Evans Mark Evans Hewad Farahmand Sylwia Giera Richard Green Zoë Hallington Fiona Herron Lianyi Jing Katarzyna Keating Ewelina Knap Anda Lescinska Airu Li 34 The Linguist Fazal Mahmood Agata Maznicka David Morris Anna Parish Benjamin Peters Katarzyna PiotrowskaFletcher Clare Plater Eva Predics Sarah Pybus Yuan Qiu Isabelle Roest Beate Seliti Natalia Teba-Serrano Monika Tomczyk Maria Venosa Biljana Vranjes Tomas Vrubel Ibrahim Wadee Jacqueline Wilson Irena Wypych Natalia Yordanova Upgrades Alison Billington Marc-John Brown Iolanda Casacuberta Cantons Otabek Kahhorov Marcin Notecki William O'Neill Galina Sparks Nina Szymor Lizhi Wang Emil Zacharczuk Readmissions Raymond Dunphy Michele Dunsmuir-Zylla Helen Godfrey Ho Tak On Nagi Idris Iwona Lebiedowicz Nicholas Miller Kirk Rogers Agnieszka Spiessens Rainer Thomm Nicholas Ward For information about membership and upgrades, see the Membership section at www.iol.org.uk. JUNE/JULY Claire Nevill Since 2000, Carolyn Batstone has been a Lecturer in German at the Open University, where she has written distance language learning materials for adults, ranging from beginners' level to advanced. See p.21 Claire Nevill is a freelance journalist, and Communications and Campaigns Officer at the National Literacy Trust. She speaks Spanish. See p.24 Di Russ Kathryn Board Kathryn Board HonFCIL is Head of Languages Strategy at CfBT Education Trust. She spent most of her career working for the British Council and left in 2008 to become CEO of CILT, the National Centre for Languages. See p.14 Sarah Dillon Freelance translator Sarah Dillon MCIL works from German, French and Spanish. Originally from Ireland, she is based in Brisbane, Australia and has been providing language services to businesses all over the world since 2004; www.sarahdillon.com. See p.18 Markus Foti Markus Foti is the Machine Translation Quality Officer for the European Commission's MT@EC project. His 13 years of translation experience and strong interest in IT enable him to bridge the gap between translators' needs and the technical team's work. See p.26 Antjie Krog A professor at the University of the Western Cape, Antjie Krog has published 12 Afrikaans poetry volumes and three non-fiction books. She has been awarded many prestigious awards for non-fiction, translation and poetry in Afrikaans and English. See p.6 Di Russ is a Suffolk primary school teacher, specialising in French and Chinese, and a Leading Practitioner for Modern Foreign Languages in the region. See p.20 Nick Tanner Nick Tanner spent 25 years in market research before taking an MA in Translation at Surrey. He is now a freelance translator working from German and Norwegian; www.nicktannertranslation.co.uk. See p.12 Teresa Tinsley Teresa Tinsley established the Language Trends reports during 18 years at CILT, the National Centre for Languages. Since 2011, she has been working independently as Alcantara Communications LLP. See p.14 Sandy Walsh Actress, broadcaster and trainer Sandy Walsh starred in Emmerdale, co-presented Newstalk, and is Senior Presentation Consultant for the BBC World Service. She also trains for the EU and Council for Europe; www.eloquentia.co.uk. See p.10 Kirsten Winkler Kirsten Winkler is an awardwinning blogger in the emerging field of education technology, mainly covering language learning, lifelong learning and higher education. See p.16 www.iol.org.uk