PhD alumnus Javier Moreno-Rivero awarded prestigious international prize for thesis in Translation Studies
Dr Javier Moreno-Rivero, who completed his PhD in Linguistics at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics in 2023 under the supervision of Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett, has been awarded the prestigious Young Scholar Prize 2025 by the European Society for Translation Studies (EST).
Awarded every three years, the EST Young Scholar Prize recognises exemplary doctoral theses in the field of translation and interpreting studies defended worldwide. Dr Moreno-Rivero’s thesis was selected from a highly competitive international pool of submissions defended between 2022 and 2025. The award is one of the most prestigious distinctions for early career scholars in the discipline.
Dr Moreno-Rivero’s thesis is entitled “Translation policies of minoritised languages through organised activism: A comparative study of Catalan and Welsh.” Combining approaches from sociolinguistics, legal studies and language and translation policy, his thesis provides a comparative analysis of how public administrations in Spain and the UK use translation as a tool for inclusion, participation, and language rights.
Upon graduation from Cambridge, Dr Moreno-Rivero took up an Assistant Professorship in Linguistic and Intercultural Studies at the City University of New York (CUNY), where he has continued to develop his research on language policy, translation rights, and access to justice. More recently, he has been appointed Beatriz Galindo Junior Distinguished Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, holding one in only five professorships in the humanities and social sciences. He also serves as Expert Consultant in Multilingualism for UNESCO.
The European Society for Translation Studies announced the recipients of the 2025 Young Scholar Prize on its website: https://est-translationstudies.org/2025/young-scholar-prize-2025-recipients/