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
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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.
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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