Juliette Michaud

Phd researcher

Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication

Faculty of Arts and Philosophy

Juliette is currently enrolled in a joint PhD at Ghent University and ULB in Brussels. She obtained her Master's Degree in Multidisciplinary Translation from the Institut supérieur de traducteurs-interprètes (formely ISTI, now attached to ULB), with the language combination English-Arabic-French, as well as a second Bachelor adding Spanish. During her Master's degree and onwards, she started working as a public service interpreter in different structures in Brussels. After several years on the field of interpretation and teenagers literacy, she started a PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dr. K. Maryns and Prof. Dr. J. Jaspers in 2025. Her project focuses on linguistic accommodation strategies amongst Arabic interpreters and their interlocutors, and builds on a participatory methodology involving interpreters as well as providers and users of interpreting services.

Email: juliette.michaud@ugent.be

Research themes:

Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality