Roundtable on Reverse Mentoring

Authors

Mazal Oaknín, University College London; Marga, University College London; Alejandro Bolaños Garcia-Escribano, University College London; Isabel Pérez Lamigueiro, University College London; Victoria Solomonidis-Hunter, University College London

Synopsis

In the roundtable, participants will discuss their own experiences (either as mentors or mentees) in the reverse mentoring project. This is a student-teacher collaboration based on a reverse mentoring programme, which aims to foster equality, diversity and inclusion values in Higher Education practices with a particular focus on teacher training.

Author Biography

Marga, University College London

Marga Navarrete is an Associate Professor (Teaching) of Translation Studies and a Language Coordinator at University College London. She teaches language and translation at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her publications focus on two main areas (1) the impact of audiovisual translation (AVT) and accessibility practice on language learners’ competence; and (2) teacher training, focusing on the integration of equality, diversity and inclusion in the language curriculum whilst fostering students' wellbeing. She works on editorial boards for Hikma and Current Trends in Translation Teaching and Learning E. journals. She has taken part in many AVT research studies on language learning, where she has designed AVT resources and disseminated lessons learnt.  

Cubierta de la publicación electrónica Diversifying Modern Foreign Language and Translation Education

Volume

Diversifying Modern Foreign Language and Translation Education

Pages

15-16

Forthcoming

26 February 2026

Series

e-Expert seminar series
Copyright (c) 2026 Mazal Oaknín; Marga Navarrete; Victoria Showunmi, Ramona Gonczol, Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, Jeff Bowersox, Alejandro Bolaños Garcia-Escribano, Isabel Pérez Lamigueiro, Victoria Solomonidis-Hunter, Madeline Young-Touré, Corine Tachtiris, Tasha Austin, Haydn Kirnon; Soledad Díaz Alarcón

License

Creative Commons License

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How to Cite

Oaknín, Mazal, Alejandro Bolaños Garcia-Escribano, Isabel Pérez Lamigueiro, and Victoria Solomonidis-Hunter. 2026. “Roundtable on Reverse Mentoring”. In Diversifying Modern Foreign Language and Translation Education, edited byMarga Navarrete and Soledad Díaz Alarcón, e-Expert seminar series, 8:15-16. E-Expert Seminar Series. Córdoba, ES: UCOPress . https://ucopress.uco.es/omp/index.php/ucopress/catalog/book/103/chapter/89.