Dr Martin Ward
- Position: Lecturer in East Asian Studies
- Areas of expertise: Japanese to English & Chinese to English translation
- Email: M.S.Ward@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 2661
- Location: 2.06 14 Cromer Terrace
- Website: ORCID
Profile
After graduating from the University of Leeds in 1999 with a B.A. in Chinese and Japanese Studies I went to Hiroshima University in Japan as a Monbusho Scholar, where I gained my M.Ed (2003) and PhD (2006) in Asian Culture in Japanese .
I later spent a number of years in Taiwan working in a non-profit organisation, followed by teaching at a university in mainland China.
Returning to the UK, I joined East Asian Studies at Leeds in the summer of 2017.
I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and also a member of the British Association for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language and the European Society for Translation Studies.
Responsibilities
- Lecturer in East Asian Studies
Research interests
I am engaged in on-going research into the teaching of Japanese/Chinese to English translation at British universities.
<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Any research projects I'm currently working on will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>Qualifications
- PhD (Asian Culture)
- M.Ed (Asian Culture)
- B.A. Chinese and Japanese Studies
Professional memberships
- BATJ
- EST
Student education
I mainly teach Chinese to English and Japanese to English translation at undergraduate and post-graduate levels and am also one of the Japan Year Abroad tutors, supporting our students in their preparation for their year abroad.
Research groups and institutes
- Japanese
- Chinese
- Translation
- East Asian Studies