Working languages:
German to English
English to German
French to English

Shivaun Conroy
focus on history, psychology, biology.

Germany
Local time: 15:54 CEST (GMT+2)

Native in: English 
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Services Translation, Editing/proofreading, MT post-editing
Expertise
Specializes in:
Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.History
PhilosophyGovernment / Politics
JournalismCinema, Film, TV, Drama
Art, Arts & Crafts, PaintingBiology (-tech,-chem,micro-)
PsychologyEnvironment & Ecology

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KudoZ activity (PRO) PRO-level points: 24, Questions answered: 17, Questions asked: 1
Payment methods accepted PayPal
Portfolio Sample translations submitted: 3
Translation education Bachelor's degree - Middlesex University
Experience Years of experience: 29. Registered at ProZ.com: Aug 2013.
ProZ.com Certified PRO certificate(s) N/A
Credentials German to English (University of Middlesex)
French to English (University of Middlesex)
Memberships N/A
Software Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Trados Studio
Professional practices Shivaun Conroy endorses ProZ.com's Professional Guidelines.
Bio
About me


Hello potential employers and fellow freelancers. An English-Irish translator and teacher, I've been living and working in Berlin since September 1995. The original plan was to test out living here for 2 years but now, for better or worse, Berlin is the place I call home.

Mostly I translate academic and journalistic texts in the fields of politics, philosophy, philosophy of science, sociology and history, and case studies and lectures in the field of psychoanalysis and psychology.  But I would also be interested in taking on translations from the realms of biology and environmental sciences. Before taking my language degree I spent 2 years studying natural sciences at Trinity College Dublin. The lab work with animals put me off, thus the change in career direction, but the theoretical interest remains.

Generally I translate from German into English, but my favourite translation in the last few years was in the other direction working with a native German speaker translating a collection of essays by John Stuart Mill into German: John Stuart Mill, Liberale Gleichheit, Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2013.  The google books' browsing function for this book has not been enabled, but if you want to take a look at my work, here is another google-book link to a cultural studies project which I partially translated: Collection Laboratory Theatre (See articles by Helmar Schramm, Ludger Schwarte, Hans Christian van Hermann, and Jan Lazardig) and another one on the sociology of work (specifically Gabriel Wagner article, pp 301-326): New Philosopohies of Labour. You can find further details of my professional experience and publications in the attached CV and a chronological publication list here.

As far as pay and quoting goes, I prefer to see the text in advance to get an idea of the text complexity and the time required to complete the job. This clearly varies. My actual prices in the last 2 years have ranged from 85 cents per line (a line being defined as 55 strokes including spaces) to 1.40€.

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Profile last updated
Sep 27, 2021



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