Below is a list of the more “formal” CPD I have undertaken in recent years with links where appropriate. Dates refer to when I did the CPD, and not, for example, when the webinar was first broadcast if I didn’t attend it live.

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2011

• Translation Theory for Practitioners by Janet Fraser (eCPD Webinars) – June 2011
• Revising Translations – How to offer a Professional Service (eCPD Webinars) – September 2011

2012

• Revision and Editing for Translators by Sarah Bawa-Mason (eCPD Webinars) – April 2012

2013

• LinkedIn® profile optimization for freelance translators (The Alexandria Library) – January 2013
• Technical Writing for into English Translators by Karen Tkacyzk (eCPD Webinars) – March 2013
• ES-EN Translation Workshop (eCPD Webinars) – March 2013
• Writing for the Web by Marian Dougan (eCPD Webinars) – March 2013
• LinkedIn® Winning Strategies for Freelance Translators (The Alexandria Library) – March 2013
• IAPTI International Conference (London) – October 2013

2014

• The Difference between Proofreading and Editing by E.C. Montana (Proz.com) – February 2014
• BP14 Conference (Budapest) – May 2014
• Lenguando Conference – (London) – September 2014
• Corpus-guided decision-making for editors and translators workshop by Mary Ellen Kerans (El Escorial) – October 2014
• Readability: 10 strategies for improving flow in translated or non-English speakers’ texts workshop by John Bates (El Escorial) – October 2014
• METM14 Conference (El Escorial) – October 2014

2015

• Translation in Travel & Tourism: Is It Really That Simple? by Irene Koukia (Proz.com) – February 2015
• Editing Non-native English: an Introduction by Joy Burrough-Boenisch (eCPD Webinars) – February 2015
• Editing Non-native English: Academic & Scientific Texts by Joy Burrough-Boenisch (eCPD Webinars) – February 2015
• Best Practices in Tourism Workshop (ITI MAT, London) – March 2015
• Spanish to English Translation Quality Assurance 1: Terminology by Gwenydd Jones (Proz.com) – April 2015
• Spanish to English Translation Quality Assurance 2: Style by Gwenydd Jones (Proz.com) – April 2015
• Proofreading 1: Introduction (SfEP) – April 2015
• Translation Quality (The Alexandria Library) – May 2015
• How to Write a Killer LinkedIn Profile (FreeAgent) – May 2015
• Translation Technology: The Next Big Thing (eCPD Webinars) – May 2015
• Workshop on Social Media – Shameless Self-Promotion! (ITI Wessex) – May 2015 (I was also a speaker)
• Secret Sauce of Great Writing by Shani Raja (Udemy) – October 2015

2016

• Lilt: machine assistance, not machine translation, to optimize your productivity (Proz.com) – February 2016
• Translating Business Film Material Workshop by Jean-Pierre Mailhac (ITI MAT, London) – March 2016

2017

• Advanced Subtitling Workshop by Adriana Tortoriello (CenTraS, UCL, London) – February 2017
• The ABC of Copywriting by Tom Albrighton – May 2017
• Misused English Words and Expressions in EU Publications by Jeremy Gardner (European Court of Auditors) – June 2017
• Writing with Impact: Writing that Persuades by Clare Lynch (Udemy) – August 2017
• memoQ Workshop (ITI Wessex) – October 2017
• Hello memoQ! – an introduction for individual translators ¦ August 2016 (Webinar by memoQ) – October 2017
• Don’t Trust Your Spell Check by Dean Evans – November 2017

2018

• Want to know how to get started with memoQ (ITI Webinar) – January 2018
• German-English Translation Slam (Bristol University & ITI Western Regional Group) – February 2018
• Talking GDPR with Paula Arturo (Marketing for Translators and Interpreters, Facebook) – April 2018
• Mind your Ts and Cs! Watch your back! Terms and Conditions for language professionals (ITI Webinar) – April 2018
• Are you GDPR compliant? (ITI Webinar) – May 2018
• GDPR – what freelance linguists need to know (eCPD Webinars) – May 2018
• One Day in… Gray’s Inn (ITI Networking Event, London) – June 2018
• Teaching with Style: Using Joseph Williams’s Classic Guide with Students by Joseph Bizup (Pearson English) – August 2018
• ISO 17100:2015 – raising the profile of the translation industry (ITI Webinar) – August 2018
• Why translators and interpreters need professional liability insurance (ITI Webinar) – August 2018
• Copy Edit This! Quizzes 1-14 (The New York Times) – August 2018
• BP16 Translation Conference Videos – September 2018
• The 5 writing mistakes that are killing your sales and how to fix them by Marie Forleo (webinar) – October 2018
• Group Translation Practice Workshop DE>EN (ITI Wessex) – November 2018
• Introductory session and LinkedIn profiles hosted by myself (Group Translation Chats) – November 2018
• Lessons learned in 2018 and how to improve in 2019 hosted by myself (Group Translation Chats) – December 2018

2019

• LiveDocs in memoQ (Webinar by memoQ)- January 2019
• What we need in our translation careers right now (Group Translation Chats) – January 2019
• Bon appétit! Translating gastronomy – some case studies by Miranda Stewart (eCPD Webinars) – January 2019
• Quality assurance; Dragon Naturally Speaking; memoQ hosted by myself (Group Translation Chats) – February 2019
• Who’s afraid of transcreation by Bill Maslen (ITI SpanNet webinar) – March 2019
• BP17 Translation Conference Videos – March 2019
• Spring Workshop (ITI SpanNet, London) – March 2019
• Machine translation hosted by Jenny Zonneveld (Group Translation Chats) – April 2019
• Reports on recent conferences hosted by Jenny Zonneveld (Group Translation Chats) – May 2019
• Continuous professional development hosted by Lucy Evans Brooks (Group Translation Chats) – June 2019
• Websites hosted by Allison Wright (Group Translation Chats) – August 2019
• Better Together, so Let’s Connect (PEM Webinar) hosted by the Panhellenic Association of Translators, I was the speaker – September 2019
• Ethical and sustainable marketing hosted by Nicole König (Group Translation Chats) – September 2019
• Copywriting hosted by Andrea Bernard (Group Translation Chats) – October 2019
• VAT and UK’s relationship with other countries in the EU hosted by Lucy Evans Brooks (Group Translation Chats) – November 2019
• Mental health, wellbeing and life/work balance hosted by Sarah Bowyer (Group Translation Chats) – December 2019

2020

• Memsource introduction for translators by Cochrane (YouTube video) – January 2020
• How to keep fit and healthy hosted by Rea Gutzwiller (Group Translation Chats) – February 2020
• Déjà Vu X3 – Training for beginners by Atril Déjà Vu (Proz Webinar on YouTube) – March 2020
• Déjà Vu X3 – Training for advanced users by Atril Déjà Vu (Proz Webinar on YouTube) – March 2020
• Déjà Vu X2 – Aligning files by Atril Déjà Vu (YouTube) – March 2020
• Educating Clients hosted by Ellen Singer (Group Translation Chats) – March 2020
• The Pros and Cons of Doing an MA in Translation hosted by Sue Fortescue (Group Translation Chats) – April 2020
• The Copy Clinic with Katherine Wildman and Leif Kendall (ProCopywriters) – April 2020
• Should we adhere to the source text or write a better version? hosted by Jenny Zonneveld (Group Translation Chats) – May 2020
• 2019 ITI Conference videos – June 2020
• The Write Stuff Workshop by Ros Schwartz (ITI Cymru Wales) – June 2020
• Translating Without a Source Text – A Hybrid Approach Between Localization and Copywriting (Vistatec webinar) – June 2020
• CAT tools for translators who work with translation agencies hosted by Gwenydd Jones (Group Translation Chats) – July 2020
• ProBlogger Content Sprints by Darren Rowse – July, August and September 2020
• Changes to the profession driven by MT hosted by Ellen Singer (Group Translation Chats) – August 2020
• Client Portals hosted by Rea Gutzwiller (Group Translation Chats) – September 2020
• #CopyCon20 ProCopywriters Conference – October 2020
• METM Revisited – October 2020
• What we learned from the copywriting conference held by ProCopywriters (#CopyCon20) hosted by Andrea Bernard (Group Translation Chats) – October 2020
• What should and what shouldn’t we change when revising a colleague’s translation? hosted by myself (Group Translation Chats) – November 2020
• ITI’s Christmas Hamper including translation slam between Ros Schwartz and Martin Hemmings – December 2020
• Do translations only have to be good enough? hosted by Jane Davis (Group Translation Chats) – December 2020

2021

• Teamwork: the pros and cons of being a lone wolf or a pack animal hosted by Ellen Singer (Group Translation Chats) – January 2021
• Revision and Self-revision Workshop by Brian Mossop (ITI) – February 2021
• CPD Plans for 2021/22 hosted by Jenny Zonneveld (Group Translation Chats) – February 2021
• Editing humanities and social science texts by Maria Sherwood-Smith and Theresa Truax-Gischler (MET workshop) – March 2021
• GDPR for Translators and Interpreters by Viviana Mucharraz (ITI WRG webinar) – March 2021
• Seeing bright light at the end of the tunnel: successful, efficient proofreading by Karen Tkaczyk (MET workshop) – March 2021
• Online Writing skills for Translators by Simon Newsam (ITI Cymru Wales workshop) – March 2021
• Introduction to Keyword research for SEO by Sarah Tamsin (ProCopywriters) – April 2021
• Ask the Client! by Ana Grilo from First Edition Translations (ITI East Anglia webinar) – April 2021
• Why CPD is essential for success (ITI webinar) – April 2021
• Social media for translators hosted by Martina Abagnale (Group Translation Chats) – April 2021
• Fees or Rates? A Discussion on Translation Prices hosted by Robin Humphrey (Group Translation Chats) – May 2021
• Copywriting: What we can (and can’t!) learn from fiction (SENSE SIG Meeting) – May 2021
• ITI Online Conference – May 2021
• ITI Spanish Network Online Spring Event (ITI SpanNet recording) – May 2021
• Should a translator ‘inject’ anything into a translation? hosted by Andrea Garfield-Barkworth (Group Translation Chats) – June 2021
• CAT Tools: a look at the current landscape + Advanced Training in memoQ (MET panel + training) – June 2021
• An Introduction to PerfectIt by Timothy Barton (ITI webinar) – June 2021
• Chopping: In search of better texts – Using Hemingway and Grammarly to improve style hosted by Allison Wright (Group Translation Chats) – July 2021
• Identifying and dealing with source language interference by Joy Burrough-Boenisch (ITI workshop) – July 2021
• On traduit en ligne – August 2021
• “Game On” 26th Proz.com Translation Contest – July-August 2021
• Non-language-related CPD hosted by Sue Fortescue (Group Translation Chats) – August 2021
• Talking abut editing for academics (SENSE UniSIG) – September 2021
• PDD (Professional Development Day) 2021 (SENSE) – September 2021
• Our Translation Processes hosted by myself (Group Translation Chats) – September 2021
• Gap Year – KTLC Online Conference – September 2021
• The ethics of proofreading student writing at UK universities by Professor Nigel Harwood (SENSE UniSIG) – October 2021
• Transcreation Essentials by Nina Sattler-Hovdar (Proz.com course) – June-October 2021
• The Style Issue – METM 21 Online (Mediterranean Editors and Translators Conference) – October 2021
• Tone of Voice? Should I Care? hosted by Andrea Garfield-Barkworth (Group Translation Chats) – October 2021
• “Stories about Nature” 27th Proz.com Translation Contest – October-November 2021
• Tone of Voice: What is it and do we care? by Andrea Garfield-Barkworth (SENSE Utrecht SIG Meeting) – November 2021
• Using MS Word Shortcuts to Boost Productivity (SENSE Southern SIG Meeting) – November 2021
• Using corpora to enhance translation practice by Ana Frankenberg-García (ITI French Network) – December 2021
• “Ilustraciones” Mini Proz.com Translation Contest winner of the German-to-English section – December 2021

2022

• Using PerfectIt and tailoring it to your clients’ needs by Timothy Barton (ITI workshop) – January 2022
• What makes English… English? by Joachim Lépine (ITI short course) – February 2022
• Guidelines for the business of academic translation in the social sciences and humanities hosted by Andrew Hodges (Group Translation Chats) – February 2022
• Sentence structure (MET Conversation) – February 2022
• Editing academic texts for researchers in Germany and the Czech Republic by Linda Turner (SENSE UniSIG) – February 2022
• Mental Health hosted by Sue Fortescue (Group Translation Chats) – February 2022
• Scientific Writing Course by Dr Claire Bacon (ITI short course) – March 2022
• Providing added value (irrelevant source text, mistakes, providing options, etc.) hosted by Birgit Braun (Group Translation Chats) – March 2022
• Accountability hosted by Kerry Gilchrist (Group Translation Chats) – April 2022
• BP22 Conference in Lisbon hosted by Rea Gutzwiller (Group Translation Chats) – May 2022
• Complete English Syntax by Joachim Lépine (ITI short course) – June 2022
• ITI Conference in Brighton with multiple hosts (Group Translation Chats) – June 2022
• Let’s talk about simplified English by Jenny Zonneveld (SENSE Utrecht SIG Meeting) – September 2022
• One-a-Day Punctuation Pro Course (The Translator’s Studio) – November 2022

2023

• Understanding AI Chatbots by Wendy Baldwin (MET Conversations) – March 2023

• ELIS 2023 Results & Analysis (European Language Industry Survey) – March 2023

• WG Sebald Lecture in Literary Translation 2023: Alberto Manguel (British Library) – March 2023