Rhona AMOS

Dr Rhona Amos is a Teaching and Research Fellow. She holds an MA in Interpreting and Translating from the University of Heriot Watt, Edinburgh and an MA and a PhD in Conference Interpreting from the University of Geneva. She is masterclass coordinator for the MA course Theory and Research in Interpreting and a teacher and co-developer of the ICRC-FTI Basic Interpreting Course. She is also Associate Editor at Target. She is a practicing AIIC conference interpreter and is accredited to the EU institutions and the European Patent Office.

Rhona's research focuses on the nexus between Interpreting Studies and Psycholinguistics and her publications appear in journals in both Psycholinguistics (e.g., Bilingualism: Language and Cognition; Cognition) and Interpreting Studies (e.g., Target; Interpreting). Most notably she developed a psycholinguistic theory of prediction in simultaneous interpreting with Professor Martin Pickering (University of Edinburgh). She has explored this theory empirically in simultaneous and consecutive interpreting by using eye-tracking methods in the visual-world paradigm. She is a member of international collaborations that consider prediction during comprehension in general, as well as methodological considerations when using eye-tracking methods to study prediction. Her most recent work revisits the fundamental question of how simultaneous interpreters process language, exploring, in particular, the synergy between comprehension and production during simultaneous interpreting.