My researcher focuses on Media Accessibility. I have specifically developed expertise in audio description for the blind and visually impaired, for film, television, theater and opera.
My research interests include audio description (AD) and subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH), linguistic aspects of AD, audio subtitling, multimodality, corpus studies and machine translation in Audiovisual Translation, the role of sound in media accessibility services, teaching and guideline development for audio description, accessibility of live events and accessibility management.
As coordinator of OPEN, the Expertise Centre for Accessible Media and Culture of the University of Antwerp, I am particularly interested in projects that bridge the gap between academia and the professional field.
Below is an overview of my research projects.
- ADLAB PRO: Audio Description: A Laboratory for the Development of a New Professional Profile. EU-funded project lead by the University of Trieste (2016-2019)
- PhD project on Audio Description of Dutch films and series (2012-2018)
- ACT: Accessible Culture and training. EU-funded project lead by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2015-2018)
- ADLAB: Audio Description – Lifelong Access for the Blind. EU-funded project lead by the University of Trieste (2011-2014)
