CRITT is CBS' centre for research and innovation in translation and translation technology. It was launched in 2005 as a research centre within the Department of English.

Its primary obligation is to research translation processes with a view to further develop technologies for monitoring such processes (based on Translog) and to developing technologies to support translation.

Research is also aimed at investigating new forms of collaboration that develop, as translation becomes a global 24/7 industry driven by information technology and the forces of globalisation and localisation.

On the one hand, the centre's research looks outward at the transformational processes in organisations and societies that are significant features of globalisation, and, on the other hand, it looks inward at the mental and language processes which constitute translational expertise.