Blanca Arias Badia

Blanca Arias-Badia is a senior lecturer at the Department of Translation and Language Sciences of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where she teaches courses in translation for general purposes and audiovisual translation. She is a member of the TraDiLex research group, an external collaborator of TransMedia Catalonia at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and the training coordinator of the AccessCat transfer network. She holds a PhD in Translation and Language Sciences from UPF (2017) and did a postdoc in Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility at UAB (2018-2020), awarded by the Spanish Research Agency under the Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral scheme. She was a visiting researcher at University College London (2014) and the University of the Basque Country (2016). She is co-PI of the project Accessible Digital Language Resources (ADLAR), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Universities and Innovation. She was PI of UnivAc, a state-funded project on accessibility at Spanish universities, and PlanAccess, a funded research transfer project aimed at offering accessibility plans for the educational and cultural sectors. She is the author of Subtitling Television Series: A Corpus-Driven Study of Police Procedurals (Peter Lang, 2020) and is active in research dissemination: she is the research coordinator of the Catalan Association for the Promotion of Accessibility (ACPA) in the third sector, as well as co-founder and host of En sincronía, a podcast devoted to audiovisual translation and accessibility. Since 2012, she has also worked as a translator, proofreader and accessibility consultant. She was awarded the Open Science Award of Catalonia (Joan Modolell category) ex aequo in its first edition.

Education: BA in Translation and Interpreting | BA in Language Mediation | MA in Comparative Literature and Literary Translation | PhD in Translation and Language Sciences

Languages: Catalan | Spanish | English | German

Research lines: Audiovisual translation | Media accessibility | Lexicography

Accreditations: Tenure-eligible lecturer report (AQU, 2017) | Accreditation of research (AQU, 2020) | R3 certificate (AEI, 2023)