Jennifer Vela Valido

Jennifer Vela Valido holds a BA in Translation by Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Spain, and a MA in Audiovisual Translation by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain).

She lectures at ULPGC where she imparts courses on Audiovisual Translation and Software and Videogames localisation. She has given workshops on Videogames Localisation at Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and at the MA on Audiovisual Translation at this same University. She has attended several international conferences in countries such as Portugal, Germany and France. She is the author of "La localización de videojuegos" in “Traducción y Localización. Mercado, gestión y Tecnologías” (2005) an article focused on the actual situation of the videogames localisation in Spain. Her research interests include Software and Videogames localization and she is a member of the research group TELL, for which she is working on a research project related to CAT software development. She is now taking her PhD in Translation on the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.