Muhammad Shafiq Azid

Muhammad Shafiq Azid holds an undergraduate degree in English Language and Literature from the International Islamic University Malaysia as well as an M.Sc. in Language Sciences from UCL. Shafiq’s PhD is funded by the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia for his position as a Language Instructor at the National Defence University Malaysia where he taught English to pre-university students. Prior to the teaching position, he worked for a data company providing services in linguistic annotations and transcriptions. He also earned substantial professional translation and editing experience from the Malaysian Institute of Translation and Books for the Malay-English language pair. His PhD project seeks to explore the interplay of simplification, terminology and the Malay language in translating crisis-specific information.