DrSandrine Peraldi

Dr Sandrine Peraldi is an Assistant Professor at University College Dublin, in the School of Languages, Cultures & Linguistics (SLCL). She is currently Head of Linguistics and Deputy Head of School. She also coordinates SLCL Graduate Diploma in Localisation.

Her areas of expertise include Corpus Linguistics, Terminology, Discourse Analysis (with a specific focus on Professional Discourse Communities), Intercultural Communication and finally Translation Studies (MT, Post-editing, etc.)

She holds a Master’s degree in Language Industry and Specialised Translation as well as a MLitt and a PhD in Theoretical, Descriptive and Automatic Linguistics from Paris Diderot University, with a specialisation in terminology, corpus linguistics and language for specific purposes. Her PhD thesis was aimed at making a large-scale analysis of specialised discourse in organic chemistry with a view to highlighting both the indeterminate nature and the multidimensionality of certain key concepts in the area.

Prior to joining UCD in 2017, Dr Peraldi was ISIT’s (a French Grande Ecole) Research Director over a decade. She was in charge of developing ISIT’s research strategy and orientations, while fostering international partnerships with renowned research centres (CNRS, LIMSI, INSA de Rouen, etc.) and leading a team of more than 30 researchers. She also was Editor-in-chief of the Bulletin du CRATIL, ISIT’s quarterly scientific journal.

Dr Peraldi joined UCD School of Languages, Cultures & Linguistics in 2017 with a view to fostering interdisciplinary and innovative corpus-based research projects across the university.

Throughout her career, Sandrine Peraldi has been involved in many EU-funded projects (QUALETRA, TransCert, PICT, AGORA, etc.) and she has an extensive expertise in developing successful action research projects, enabling Master students to engage with researchers and industry on research-led projects.

Her two latest funded projects consist in:

1. Developing scenario-based interactive videos and blended educational resources in Intercultural communication (Project funded by the National Forum for the Enhancement of of teaching and learning in Higher education (SATLE initiative) https://www.teachingandlearning.ie/project/enhancing-intercultural-communication-with-scenario-based-online-resources/

2. Examining virtual workplace communication (through Zoom, Teams, etc.) to understand communicative differences between face-to-face and online interactions and gain depth of insight into the potential barriers to effective communication. The project particularly focuses on non-verbal communication through the analysis of a multimodal corpus. https://ivohub.com/ (funded by UKRI-AHRC under the ‘UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities Research Grants Call’).

Dr Peraldi recently joined the European Network On Lexical Innovation (ENEOLI) Cost Action project aimed at highlighting the importance and visibility of neology in academic and professional settings (https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA22126/)