Tanya Elena Fernandez Escudero

Tanya holds a PhD in Translation. Her research focuses on intercultural communication, multilingual access to information and the inclusion of migrants and linguistic minorities.

She has led and participated in more than ten international and national projects funded by Horizon Europe, Kone Foundation and Estonian Researcg Council, among others. These include her postdoctoral project “Ideology in Translation. Political Discourse on Migration in the Media” (Estonian Research Council), “Improving communication with migrants for crisis preparedness: lessons learned from COVID-19” (Council of the Baltic Sea States) and “Translation, migration, and democracy” (Kone Foundation), which led to the co-edited volume Exploring Translation (Un)Awareness (Routledge, 2026).

Her work combines research with institutional development in higher education. She supports researchers in grant proposal development, postdoctoral funding and research careers, and is Co-Editor-in-Chief of inTRAlinea.