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Dr. Josélia Neves

Professor, College of Humanities & Social Sciences at Hamad Bin Khalifa University

About me

Dr. Josélia Neves is Full Professor at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at HBKU where she teaches on the MA in Audiovisual Translation. In her career as a university teacher and researcher, she has led a number of collaborative projects in various fields – television, the cinema and DVD, tourism, museums and cultural venues, the performing arts and education – in an effort to provide access to people of all abilities. She is considered a world-class expert in multimodal and multisensory communication strategies and has published and presented training all over the world on topics such as Subtitling, Audio description, Audio-tactile transcreation, Accessible websites, Access in specific venues (e.g. schools, hospitals, museums, hotels, restaurants) and in planning for change.

In Qatar, Dr. Neves has worked closely with the Doha Film Institute, Qatar Museums, the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy, among others. She is a member of TransMedia Research Group and the European Network for Accessible Tourism (ENAT).