2027 Review Panel

Professor Jemina Napier

Jemina Napier is Professor of Intercultural Communication at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. Since joining the university in 2013, she has held several senior academic leadership roles, including Associate Principal for Research Culture and People, Director of Research for the School of Social Sciences, Director of the Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies in Scotland, and Head of the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies.

Before this, Jemina worked at Macquarie University in Sydney, where she established postgraduate programmes in Auslan-English Interpreting and later led the Centre for Translation and Interpreting Research. She is currently seconded part-time to the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science as Associate Director for Supervisor Engagement.

Jemina has practised as a sign language interpreter since 1989, working between English and BSL, Auslan, and International Sign. She has authored and co-authored numerous books and over 150 publications, with research interests spanning interpreting pedagogy, intercultural mediation, and language access in sensitive contexts, including safeguarding and work with Deaf survivors of domestic abuse.