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SUMMARY:CTIS Research Seminar - How Interpreting Gets Used: Decision-Maki
 ng\, Modality Choices\, and Systemic Constraints in Maternity Care
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DESCRIPTION:Persistent inequalities and poorer maternal outcomes among wo
 men who speak languages other than English (LOTE) in the UK have been id
 entified as being shaped\, in part\, by inadequate interpreting provisio
 n. While video-mediated interpreting (VMI) is often presented as a solut
 ion to access barriers\, far less attention has been paid to a more fund
 amental question: how are decisions actually made about when\, how\, and
  by whom interpreting is used in practice?\n\nDrawing on a transformativ
 e mixed-methods doctoral study conducted between 2019 and 2022\, this se
 minar examines interpreting as an outcome of organisational decision-mak
 ing rather than as a neutral communicative add-on. The research engaged 
 eight stakeholder groups across maternity services\, including LOTE-spea
 king women and families\, support workers\, maternity professionals\, bi
 lingual health advocates\, interpreters\, language service providers\, t
 rainers\, and a commissioner\, through interviews (n=47)\, surveys (n=18
 9)\, focus groups\, an ethnographic case study of VMI implementation in 
 an NHS Trust\, service provision records\, and documentary analysis.\n\n
 The findings demonstrate that modality choices (in-person\, audio\, vide
 o) are rarely determined by care or clinical needs alone. Instead\, inte
 rpreting use emerges from intersecting organisational logics: procuremen
 t arrangements\, infrastructural constraints\, risk management practices
 \, professional hierarchies\, and assumptions about efficiency. These dy
 namics shape what I conceptualise as interpreting configuration engageme
 nt\, the patterned ways in which interpreting modalities and providers a
 re selected\, combined\, or bypassed in maternity care.\n\nBy shifting a
 nalytical attention from feasibility to decision-making\, the seminar ar
 gues that persistent inadequacies in maternity language services cannot 
 be understood solely as resource deficits or technological limitations. 
 Rather\, they reflect systemic constraints embedded in how interpreting 
 is organised\, commissioned\, and operationalised within the NHS.\n\nThe
  presentation concludes by reflecting on the implications of this system
 ic perspective for interpreting studies and healthcare communication res
 earch\, and considers how we might more fully theorise interpreting as o
 rganised work within institutional systems. It also outlines how this fr
 amework is being extended in ongoing research to examine interpreting go
 vernance and modality decision-making beyond maternity care.
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LOCATION:Online
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