EUTOPIA Young Leaders Academy Fellows 2023-2025

David Orrego-Carmona

David Orrego-Carmona is an associate professor in translation studies at the University of Warwick (UK) and an associate research fellow at the University of the Free State (South Africa). Ranging from the reception of subtitles to the implementation of machine translation and AI, his work explores the role of translation and intercultural communication in globalised/transnational societies.

David's research deals primarily with translation, technologies and users; it analyses how translation technologies empower professional and non-professional translators and how the democratisation of technology allows users to become translators. Using mixed-research methods, David studies the societal consequences of the interaction of translation and technology. His findings offer informative perspectives on the transformative effects of AI on professional landscapes and societal dynamics.

David was a Lecturer in Translation Studies (2017-2022) at Aston University, post-doctoral researcher (2016) at the University of the Free and a visiting lecturer at the University of Warsaw (April-July 2022). David is the treasurer of the European Association for Studies in Screen Translation, associate editor of Translation Spaces and deputy editor of JoSTrans, the Journal of Specialised Translation.

Georgiana Mihut

Georgiana Mihut is an Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick in the Department of Education Studies, and a higher education researcher. Her research interests span tertiary education policy, international and comparative higher education, as well as higher education stratification, prestige, and rankings.

Georgiana's publications cover higher education developments in over 20 national contexts. Georgiana has published on a wide range of topics, including the role of university prestige in the labour market, university rankings, the experiences of international students, internationalisation policies, further and vocational education, and outcomes of students with disabilities.

Before joining the University of Warwick, Georgiana worked for Ireland's Economic and Social Research Institute, the American Council on Education, and the Boston College Centre for International Higher Education. She has also consulted for the World Bank and Romania's Executive Unit for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development, and Innovation.

Georgiana received her PhD in Higher Education from Boston College in 2019.