Translation and Intercultural Studies PhD

Our PhD Translation and Intercultural Studies programme enables you to carry out a piece of significant, original research under the supervision of our academics. <br/>The Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies (CTIS) attracts visiting scholars and postgraduate students from a wide range of countries and backgrounds. <br/><br/>CTIS provides an excellent environment for research and organises regular scholarly events for the benefit of postgraduate students. These include a seminar series, which attracts a large national and international audience of researchers, students and practitioners.<br/><br/>The Centre also provides specialist research training for doctoral students in the form of masterclasses and dedicated career development workshops. <br/><br/>Our students have regularly benefitted from supervisory expertise and events across the humanities to support interdisciplinary dimensions of their work.  <br/><br/>Recent major research projects include: <br/><br/><br/>- Genealogies of Knowledge: The Evolution and Contestation of Concepts across Time and Space (2016-2019), a large AHRC-funded project which explored how translation has impacted the transformation of key concepts in political and scientific thought as these concepts have travelled across centuries, languages and cultures. <br/><br/><br/>- Translating Asylum (2018-2020), an AHRC-funded project which explored the role of translation and interpreting provisions in supporting refugee arrivals in Britain between the 1940s and the 1980s. <br/><br/><br/>- Wiki[Alt]Med project (2021-2023), an AHRC-funded project which explored the mediation and negotiation of (alternative) medical knowledge in the English-language Wikipedia using a corpus-based methodology. <br/>