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1、TheInterpreterandTranslatorTrainer3(1),2009,1-12ISBN978-1-905763-12-2ResearchTraininginTranslationStudiesIANMASONHeriotWattUniversity,UKAbstract.Doctoralworkintranslationstudieshasgrowninvolumeoverrecentyears,notonlyinEuropeandAmericabutalsoworldwide.Aconcomi
2、tanttrendhasbeentherequirementforresearchtraining,eitherwithinoraspreparationfordoctoralprogrammes,andmanygenericanddiscipline-specifictrainingpackagesarenowofferedinawidevarietyofinstitutions.Butwhatarethecharacteristicsofdoctoralworkinthebroadfieldoftransla
3、tionstudiesandwhatkindsofarea-specifictrainingareappropriate?Inadomaincharacterizedbymethodologicalheterogeneityandbesetbyproblemsofachievingconsensusonwhatconstitutesitsobjectofstudy,isthereacommoncorethatcouldinformthedesignofatrainingcoursefordoctoralresea
4、rchintranslationstudies?InpresentingthecontributionstothisspecialissueofITT,thisintroductoryarticlearguesthat,providedresearchdesignsareclear,consistentandinternallycoherent,therewillbenoneedtoforceindividualstudiesintoacommonmould.Correspondingly,thegoalofmu
5、tualunderstandingandrespectwillbestbeservedbyintroducingdoctoralstudentstoafullrangeoftheoreticalperspectives,empiricaltoolsandmethods,amongwhichtheywillbeenabledtoperceivetherelativescopeandeffectivenessofthosetheyhaveselected.Keywords.Doctoraltraining,Docto
6、ralprogramme,PhD,Translationstudies,Discipline,Objectofstudy,Empirical,Postmodernist,Researchmethods.Thegrowthoftranslationstudies(TS)asanareaofacademicenquiryinthewesternworldoverthelasttwentyyearshasbeenaccompaniedbyasimilarincreaseinthenumberofdoctoralthes
7、esontranslationandtranslation-relatedissues,presentedatawiderangeofuniversitiesinmanydifferentcountries.Whereasinearliertimes,theseswereclusteredaroundafewinternationally-recognizedcentreswhichhadlauncheddoctoralprogrammes(theEcoleSupérieured’InterprètesetdeT
8、raducteursinParis,forexample,whosedoctoralprogrammecommencedinthe1970s),anysurveyofthecurrentsituationwouldrevealconsiderableheterogeneity–intheprofileofcandi-dates,oftopicsandofinstituti
