Anna Matamala
Anna Matamala, BA in Translation (UAB) and PhD in Applied Linguistics (UPF, Barcelona), is Full Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Leader of Transmedia Catalonia research group from 2017 until 2025, Anna Matamala has participated (DTV4ALL, ADLAB, HBB4ALL, ACT, ADLAB PRO, IMAC, TRACTION) and led (AVT-LP, ALST, VIW, NEA, EASIT, RAD) funded projects on audiovisual translation and media accessibility.
She is currently involved in the WEL project and is leading the AccessCat network. She has taken an active role in the organisation of scientific events such as the Media for All conference or the Advanced Research Audio Description Seminar ARSAD and has published extensively in international journals such as Meta, The Translator, Perspectives, Babel, Translation Studies, among others. She is the author of a book on interjections and lexicography (IEC, 2005), co-author (with Eliana Franco and Pilar Orero) of a book on voice-over (Peter Lang, 2010), author of a book on audiovisual accessibility and translation (Eumo, 2019), and co-editor of various volumes on audiovisual translation and media accessibility. Joan Coromines Prize in 2005, APOSTA Award to Young Researchers in 2011, Dr. Margaret R. Pfanstiehl Memorial Achievement Award in Audio Description Research and Development 2021.
Her research interests are audiovisual translation and accessibility. She is also actively involved in standardisation work.
anna.matamala@uab.cat
http://webs.uab.cat/amatamala
Carme Mangiron
Carme Mangiron, PhD, is an associate professor, a member of the research group TransMedia Catalonia at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and a member of the knowledge transfer network AccessCat.
She was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award at UAB in 2022. She has extensive experience as a translator, specializing in software and game localisation.
Her main research areas are game localisation, game accessibility, audiovisual translation and accessibility to the media.
She has published extensively in international journals and participated in several national and international research projects. She is co-author of Game Localization: Translating for the Global Digital Entertainment Industry (O’Hagan and Mangiron, 2013), and the main organiser of the Fun for All Conference, about game translation and accessibility, which is held at UAB every two years.
carme.mangiron@uab.cat
http://webs.uab.cat/carmemangiron
Estel·la Oncins
Dr. Estella Oncins holds a PhD in Accessibility and Ambient Intelligence from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). She is IP of the TransMedia Catalonia research group and coordinates the MA in Audiovisual Translation at UAB. Her work focuses on audiovisual translation and media and digital accessibility, including immersive environments.
She contributes to standardisation bodies, and has extensive experience in European research, innovation, and Erasmus+ projects. In 2024, she received the WSIS award for the project YoungArcHers. She currently researches VR/AR accessibility and examines how AI can enhance accessibility within several European initiatives.
Her publications can be retrieved from: Portal Recerca UAB (Estella Oncins)
María Machuca
María J. Machuca received a PhD in Spanish Philology from the Universitat Autònomade Barcelona (UAB), and she was appointed full-time lecturer in Spanish Language at the same university.
Her research, publications and participation in national and international projects deal with the application of experimental phonetics to different
research areas, such as forensic phonetics, speech technology, speaking styles, and foreign language acquisition.
Her publications can be retrieved from: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-288X
Miquel Edo
Miquel Edo (Barcelona, 1966) has been lecturing at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, since 1992. His research interests are mainly focused on the reception of 19th and 20th-century Italian literature in Spanish speaking countries, about which he has published
numerous essays and articles, the majority concerning the genre of poetry, several of which focus on the translation of opera librettos. In addition, he has published translations of Italian and French poetry into Spanish and Catalan.
miquel.edo@uab.cat
http://pagines.uab.cat/miqueledo/
Pilar Orero
PhD (UMIST, UK) works at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) in the TransMedia Catalonia Lab. She has written and edited many books, near 100 academic papers and almost the same number of book chapters –all on Media Accessibility.
Leader and participant on numerous EU funded research projects focusing on media accessibility. She works in standardisation and participates in the UN ITU IRG-AVA – Intersector Rapporteur Group Audiovisual Media Accessibility. She has been working on Immersive Accessibility for the past 4 years first in a project called ImAc, which results are now further developed in TRACTION, MEDIAVERSE, MILE, and has just started to work on green accessibility in GREENSCENT.
She led until December 2022 the EU network LEADME on Media Accessibility.
She is the Co-Chair of Study Group on Accessibility and Inclusion in the ITU Metaverse Focus Group.
