Research activities focus on translation and interpreting studies, terminology, translation technology and localisation, cognitive linguistics, journalism studies, cultural studies, courseware development and language training.

The majority of the Department’s projects are funded by the EU or private companies. The Department’s current projects include the Translation Studies Bibliography, AGIS and EULITA (EU Directorate General Justice, Freedom & Security), Lingua (EU Socrates), the Centre of Expertise on Literary Translation and the development of a number of translation and corpus analysis tools, among others the Correction Memory Manager for Translation Reviewers and Proofreaders.

Moreover, the Department boasts an American Studies Center, which was created with the support from the Public Affairs Office of the U.S. Embassy. In 2008 the Russian Ambassador to Belgium inaugurated the Department’s Centre for Russian Language and Culture.

The Department has also hosted numerous international conferences including the ‘TAMA 2001 conference’, the ‘4th International Tyndale Conference’ (2002), ‘Access to Justice across Language and Culture in the EU’ (2002), ‘The Impact of Terminology on Everyday Life’ (2006), ‘Teaching Localisation for Global Business Readiness’ (2007).