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.
What we are researching
Languages, communication, translation and interpreting
Applied linguistics
- Intercultural communication in commercial and educational settings
- Interlanguage/intercultural pragmatics
- Face management and (im)politeness
- Ethnolinguistic minorities
- Language ideologies and practices in transnational areas
- Corpora and language learning
- Corpus-based lexicography
- TESOL/SLA (topics focusing on classroom interaction, spoken language use and development, teacher training)
- Oracy skills in higher education
- Linguistic issues emerging from internationalisation
Theoretical linguistics
- Theoretical morphology (including Network Morphology and Paradigm Function Morphology)
- Morphological interfaces
- Linguistic typology (including Canonical Typology)
- Language documentation and description (including Austronesian, Nakh-Daghestanian, Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, Oto-Manguean, Papuan, Slavonic, Tibeto-Burman languages)
Translation and interpreting
- Translation technologies, i.e. machine-assisted and corpus-based translation
- Interpreting technologies, esp. video-mediated interpreting, distance/remote interpreting
- Translation process research
- Bilingual lexicography
- Audiovisual translation incl. 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.
English literature and creative writing
Creative writing
- Experimental poetry
- Historical prose fiction
- Literary prose fiction
- Contemporary commercial and genre prose fiction
English literature
- Women's writing
- Medieval romance and romanticism
- Victorian studies
- Modernism and modernity
- Travel and mobility
- Western and global esotericisms
- Sexuality and queer theory
- Postmodern writing
- Literature and the environment
- Medical humanities
Film studies
- Environmental humanities
- Animation
- Documentary
- The film industry and popular film and culture
Literary and cultural studies
- Latin American literary and cultural studies
- Transnational history and its methodologies
- Franco-British political and cultural exchanges, nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Studentships
South East Doctoral Training Arc (SEDarc) studentship
Funding information:
Awards cover UK tuition fees and provide a stipend at the UKRI home rate on a full-time and part-time basis.The UKRI has not yet announced the fees and stipend for 2025/26, but for the academic year of 2024/25 the UK fees are £4,786 and the stipend is £19,237 (£21,237 if London weighting applies).This competition-funded studentship is available to UK and International students and includes full UK or International fee waiver and stipend at UKRI rates.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.
Facilities and software
We have a range of first-class facilities available for practise and study, with access to industry-standard equipment and software.
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