Dr Lindsay Bywood is a Translation Studies academic, trainer and practitioner. She holds a PhD in subtitling from University College London, an MA in German and Philosophy from the University of Oxford, and an MA in Translation Studies from the University of Salford. Before becoming an academic she worked for many years in the audiovisual translation industry, including spells at several of the major international AVT companies. She has worked as a project manager in subtitling and dubbing, and trained many students in all aspects of AVT.

She is Director of the European Association for Studies in Screen Translation (ESIST), a Member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, and a member of the advisory committee for the Languages & The Media conference series. Her research has spanned the diachronic variation of subtitles in the German to English language pair, machine translation, subtitling and post-editing, inclusive design and audio description.