Biography

Dr Ximo Granell is a lecturer and researcher in Information Science and Audiovisual Translation at Universitat Jaume I of Castellón, in Spain. Holding a PhD in Information Systems from Loughborough University, United Kingdom, and being a Translation and Interpreting graduate and a Business Management postgraduate, his academic background has been connected with the fields of information management, translation and information systems. Dr Granell has taught undergraduate and master’s courses at several universities on information management, business information systems, translation technology and video game localisation, topics on which he has researched and published in international journals, books and conferences. He has also worked as a translator specialising in software, website and video game localisation, as well as in ICT, marketing and business communication translation. His research interests include developing information literacy in specialised translation contexts, applying information systems to the translators’ community of practice, assessing information competences and evaluating the quality of scientific research. Dr Granell has participated as a researcher in a number of R&D funded projects about these issues, such as recent projects on assessing information competences of Social Science students in Higher Education or implementing information systems to improve translation and localisation processes in audiovisual translation.