Not lost in translation
Volunteers are wanted to help chemists write papers in English
Like many other scientists, James Bleach has moved abroad to work. In the early 2000s he headed to Kyoto, Japan where he worked as an astrophysicist at the Yukawa Institute. ‘It was a very international community. My colleagues were from all over the world,’ he says. While working in Japan he discovered he had a distinct advantage being from the UK – his native language was English. He was often called on to help his colleagues when it came to writing up their research. ‘Because I was the only native English speaker, I became a sort of go-to guy.’