School’s in for summer Our spring workshop this year brought the first hints of returning to CPD in conventional in-person formats – not that the switch online over the past couple of years hasn’t brought certain benefits of its own. Our features in this newsletter show that, ever since that […]
Yearly archives: 2022
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A big THANK YOU also to those past and present members who managed to dig pictures out of their archives and so kindly provided them so that we could illustrate this special feature: Laure Delpech Corinne Durand Hugh Fraser Kay McBurney Ute Penny Margret Powell-Joss Norma Tait Karen Tkaczyk This […]
As a new member of ScotNet and a new freelancer just starting my career in the UK, I cannot stress enough how important and helpful it has been being a member of such a supportive and friendly professional community. The Committee has been here for the members through these hard […]
I attended my first ScotNet meeting in 1991 at Glasgow University. I have enjoyed being a member all these years. I think the main strength of the group is its people. Members are always willing to share their knowledge and information, and give advice. ScotNet has shown its support to […]
Who would have thought a pandemic could be conducive to building your professional network? I certainly didn’t. Yet Covid moved most parts of our lives, including networking, online. Having joined ScotNet not that long ago, I’ve never known it in its non-virtual form, but I imagine the past year has […]
In summer 2005, at the very end of my master’s year at Heriot-Watt, I attended an event at Edinburgh University where Hugh Keith and Kay McBurney spoke to us would-be translators about getting started in the profession. I recall two clear messages: one from Kay, warning us that gaining clients […]
As the cliché says, you can take the girl out of Scotland … I’m from Ayrshire, and I’ve lived in the US since 1998. I like to combine trips to see family with professional events whenever possible, so as well as the camaraderie of being part of ScotNet and enjoying […]
For me, the hallmark of ScotNet has always been the friendliness of its members. I think the first meeting I ever attended (don’t ask me the year!) was on the Heriot-Watt campus. I knew nobody and it was obvious that everybody else knew each other. That can be a hugely […]
I joined ScotNet not long after launching my freelance career in 1997. I had just left a job as an in-house translator with United Distillers plc (now Diageo) and had my second son. In fact, I had established my business when he was weeks old in the misguided belief I […]
This here “incoming” translator has always taken networking very seriously. Born and raised in German-speaking Switzerland, I graduated in languages (English and Spanish) rather than translation studies. The life-changing decision to move to Oban was taken fairly late in life. I did a good deal of research for several years […]