Dr María Fernández-Parra is a senior lecturer and researcher in translation at Swansea University, where she is the Director of the MA Professional Translation and MA Translation and Interpreting. She has co-authored Translation Tools and Technologies, also in this series, with Andrew Rothwell, Joss Moorkens, Joanna Drugan and Frank Austermuehl. She is also a Chartered Linguist at the Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL), an Academic Member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI), and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). She is a past Secretary of Swansea University’s Language Research Centre (LRC), a past Treasurer of APTIS (Association of Programmes in Translation and Interpreting in the UK and Ireland) and is currently the Director of STING, the Swansea Translation and INterpreting Research Group at Swansea University.