ITI East Anglia’s 2025 Christmas Event
The ITI East Anglia Network we rounded the year 2025 off in the best possible way: by getting together in Ely for our Christmas Crafts and Potluck celebration! As always, there was plenty of laughter, interesting conversations and a lovely chance to reconnect before the festive break. This year we mixed creativity with good food.…
Meet the Professionals Event
On a mild November day, after refuelling with delicious food, drinks and catch-up chats, the ITI East Anglia Network contingent arrived at the University of Essex to meet a group of students for the now bi-annual Meet the Professionals event. Starting with a brief introduction of the ITI, the East Anglia Network and our individual…
ITI East Anglia Network 2025 AGM
On 15th October, the ITI East Anglia Network met in Norwich for our AGM. We met in the private dining room of the incredible YALM food hall in Norwich’s Royal Arcade, which meant that we also got to enjoy lunch together once the formal proceedings were over. The first ITI East Anglia event I attended…
September’s Monthly Chat
Whoever came up with this month’s topic, “Self-defence for translators”, deserves credit for choosing a subject that was bound to stimulate wide-ranging discussion on several fronts. The best topics are always those on which everyone present is likely to have an opinion, and we had lots of opinions to share, as well as some useful…
July’s Monthly Chat
Enjoying the summer? Our July monthly online chat was an insightful discussion about taking time off. Some members said how, early in their careers, they were more hesitant to take time off for fear of losing clients – especially when working with some larger agencies who just assign the work to someone else in their…
Summer Social 2025
“2nd July? We’re bound to have some nice weather!” we naively thought, back when we were planning our summer social, a walk and picnic from Manningtree train station to Flatford Mill. And it was nice weather – for the ducks, at least. For the humans, it was probably slightly more on the damp side than ideal,…
May’s Monthly Chat
The ITI East Anglia Network’s most recent online monthly chat (on 21 May) was a brainstorming on how our work as language professionals is changing, how the group members got to where they are and how they are adapting to the industry’s new normal. This was a follow-up to our last session “How (not) to…
(Love)crafting some royally good stories with the East Anglia Network
On a gloomy late-October afternoon a couple of years ago, seven brave East Anglia Networkers clad in Halloween costumes gathered in front of their screens for a wicked online workshop, Don’t Be Afraid of Writing. They might have expected some kind of trickery but they were actually in for a fun treat. They were about…
Meet our member Crystelle Mills-Smith!
“I speak, read and write French on a daily basis and spend as much time as I can in France. Being immersed in the language helps me to really understand the idiomatic expressions and cultural references that crop up in the texts I work on.”
Meet our member Laura Elvin!
“I love being able to work with both law and languages. The combination of the two ticks all the intellectual boxes in my brain and I find it immensely satisfying.”
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