Last autumn we launched an initiative to consider the potential to create an ethical framework for ITI members. Our first event was an open discussion meeting hosted by Dr Joseph Lambert which helped us to identify the range of topic areas that we want to explore in more detail.
We have now fashioned these ideas into a programme and invited a range of experts and other stakeholders to help us to host this series of open discussions. We now invite members and others with an interest in ethics to join the debates, with the aim of generating the core principles that will form our ethical framework.
We have called this space for conversations about ethics the ITI Coffee House following the spirit of the coffee houses of the eighteenth century where the Enlightenment was born. The aim is for conversations to be informal and free-flowing and for participants to contribute rather than just to listen.
This session will be focused on Ethical practice within and outside of interpreting assignments.
If you are interested in shaping the debate about translation and interpreting ethics then come along and contribute to our work. We really want to hear from the professionals who are making ethical decisions in their daily working lives to ensure that we create an ethical framework that meets your needs.
Please note that the Coffee House sessions take the format of a short scene-setting presentation followed by discussion, and may include small group discussions in breakout rooms depending on the numbers attending. We expect attendees to participate in the discussions and we ask that you only book a place if you are committed to attending.



After qualifying as a psychotherapist, Dr Beverley Costa set up Mothertongue multi-ethnic counselling service (2000-2018) for multilingual clients. In 2009 she created a pool of mental health interpreters, in 2010 she established the national Bilingual Therapist and Mental Health Interpreter Forum and founded The Pásalo Project in 2017 www.pasaloproject.org to disseminate learning from Mothertongue.
Beverley has trained over 5,000 psychological and speech and language therapists and social workers, for NHS and statutory services and NGOs, in working therapeutically across languages and with spoken language interpreters since 2013.
She is a Senior Practitioner Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London and a Senior Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Arts and Communication Design at the University of Reading.
She runs Reflective Practice Support groups for interpreters, psychological therapists and counsellors, nurses, teachers, lawyers, and psychosocial workers. She has developed an introductory course to train interpreters in facilitation skills for Reflective Practice Groups. This course has been delivered online and in-person to interpreters in organisations in England, Scotland, Wales and for the Federal Public Health Service in Belgium.
Beverley is the author of Other Tongues -psychological therapies in a multilingual world https://tinyurl.com/Other-Tongues.

Dr Rebecca Tipton is Senior Lecturer in Interpreting and Translation Studies at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on spoken language interpreting in statutory and voluntary sector services from contemporary and historical perspectives. She is the author of The Routledge Guide to Teaching Ethics in Translation and Interpreting Education (2024).