 My name is Nana Sato-Rossberg. I came to source about four years ago to teach translation studies. Translation is negotiation with the original, whatever that form it takes. Translation is also to find a way to convey the words, the spirit of the original. But how to interpret the original is in the hands of the translator. The past few years at SOAS, I've learnt there's a lot of ways to think about translation, more in fact than I could have ever imagined. And I've learnt that we all think about translation in very different ways. What translation community industry, whatever you want to call it, in this country really needs is exactly what SOAS has. And that this kind of project and all of Nana's ideas to kind of bridge those communities that weren't me talking to each other previously will be absolutely beneficial to both sides. So I think it's great that the centre of translation studies is providing a platform and sort of creating a space where people can engage with translation and where people from outside of SOAS can get in touch. I think it can be quite hard as a beginner to get into translation and having a few translations professionally under your belt is a good thing. Honestly, I would accept any opportunity right now, but I'm particularly interested in work that will make an impact because that's the spirit of SOAS, making an impact, changing the world. That can sound really naive, but I think that's the most inspiring thing here. I think especially after coming here today and meeting a Nana and meeting so many people from the team, it's great to see the enthusiasm of young people who really want to apply their skills to meaningful projects that they also feel strongly about. So I think in that sense it's potentially different than working with a regular translation agency where you ship this off to someone anonymous and you don't necessarily know if they have a particular interest in it. I think ultimately people who work as translators or interpreters, if they care about the job that they're doing, the issues that they're dealing with, then by definition they'll go that little bit further to make sure that they really translate this thing appropriately, any specific questions that they're going to ask because they care. I'm Annam SOAS alumni. I studied here for MA in PhD and it was kind of the making of me to know what I was doing with myself and certainly not career-wise before I came here. It was because I graduated at the time of the financial crisis there weren't really that many graduate jobs around anymore and I needed a skill and a language is a skill and particularly the languages that SOAS specialises in, it's a very niche skill that really sets you apart and everything that I've done subsequently with translation and publishing is about filling in those gaps, paying attention to what's not currently being paid attention to and I've seen in the last couple of years, finally I think in this country people are waking up to the need for translation.