John Bates is the coordinator of the Language Service at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, which provides language courses for members of the university and a translation and editing service in Catalan, Spanish and English for staff and researchers. He regularly teaches a course on oral presentation skills and writing research papers in English. After graduating in Hispanic Studies from Sheffield University (England) in 1984 he came to Tarragona where he worked as a freelance teacher and translator for the theme park Port Aventura, the Tarragona Provincial Council and TV3 before joining the URV in 1994. In recent years he has travelled not only within Catalonia and Spain but also to Estonia, Poland, France, Italy and Croatia to give workshops on scientific writing.

Marina Vives

Marina Vives Cabré coordinates the Internationalisation at Home strategy at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona (Spain), where she is in charge of the transversal implementation of the internationalisation programs of the curriculum, BIP (Blended Intensive Programs) and COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning). She is also in charge of the capacity development training of teaching staff and students on COIL and intercultural skills. She has been increasingly involved in several European projects on Internationalisation at home and inclusive internationalisation of higher education. She studied Political Sciences at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, and at Humboldt Universität in Berlin and has a Master’s in Euro-Mediterranean International Relations and in Contemporary Art, a field that she also explores as art critic when she has the time.