Research courses

As a postgraduate research student, you’ll receive a structured training programme covering the practical aspects of being a researcher, including grant writing, publishing in journals, and applying for academic jobs.

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What we are researching

Our research reflects the evolving nature of the discipline, encompassing new technologies, audio description, sociological perspectives on translation and innovative practices in interpreting.

Translation technologies including machine-assisted and corpus-based translation
Interpreting technologies including video-mediated interpreting and distance and remote interpreting
Translation process research

Bilingual lexicography
Audiovisual translation including subtitling, audio description, re-speaking and other modalities
Translation and interpreting as multimodal activities

Translation and interpreting in the context of migration
Dialogue interpreting
Legal and healthcare interpreting
Sociological approaches to translation
Humour in translation

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Translation and Interpreting PhD

Studentships

PhD in Collaborative Translation and Digital Platform Economy

Funding information:

A stipend of £ is £15,285 for 21/22, which will increase each year in line with the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) rate, plus Home/EU-rate fee allowance of £4,407 (with automatic increase to UKRI rate each year) and £500 for conference travel.

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Expert support

Our Doctoral College supports the academic and professional development of postgraduate researchers to ensure our world-leading research continues to grow. There is also an extensive Researcher Development Programme run at university level.

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Doctoral College

The Doctoral College is developing a research environment with a cohesive community that connects supervisors, research support staff, postgraduate researchers and early career researchers across all three of the University faculties and provides outstanding support and services to all.

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Researcher Development Programme

Our development offer includes a comprehensive programme of face to face training workshops, virtual training, online resources, mentoring, one to one coaching and supporting information.

What our students say

Read our student profiles to discover first-hand what it's like to study with us.

"I have been working with my supervisor since my MA dissertation. She has provided me with regular supervisor meetings, up-to-date suggestions on research and training resources to help me navigate through my study."

Yi Gu, PhD Translation and Interpreting

Facilities and software

You’ll benefit from excellent facilities, including specialist software to support corpus-based analysis, subtitling, computer-assisted translation and terminography and audio-description. We’re also home to state-of-the-art interpreting facilities with integrated videoconferencing.