Dr Stephen Crabbe
Biography
I started teaching at the University of Portsmouth in September 2007. I have an AHRC-funded PhD in Applied Linguistics and am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
I teach both classroom based and distance learning students.
Undergraduate:
- Business Communication
Postgraduate:
- Technical Communication
- Communication in Professional Contexts
- Improving your Academic English for Dissertation and Final Report Writing
- Language for Scientific Report Writing
- Developing Effective Paragraphs for Communicating Your Ideas Clearly
- Translation Technologies (corpus/glossary building and pre- and post-editing of machine translation)
- Dissertation supervision
Research interests
My main research interests are in:
- Technical communication (both modern and historical)
- Tattoos (particularly tattooing in Japan and Japanese style tattoos outside of Japan)
I am interested in supervising PhD students in any of these areas.
I have written a book Controlling Language in Industry: Controlled Languages for Technical Documents (Palgrave Macmillan) and edited a book Current Practices and Trends in Technical and Professional Communication (ISTC Books).
I collaborate regularly with researchers in Japan, particularly from Kanto Gakuin University (関東学院大学).
Research outputs
2024
Japanese to English translation target language standardization: a contrastive study of a corpus-based approach and the approach in Japan's global English news production
Crabbe, S., Heath, D., Misawa, M.
10 Jan 2024, In: Bulletin Of The Society Of Humanities Kanto Gakuin University. 149, 18p.