Possible start dates are January 2023, September 2023, January 2024. Please see the programme page on our website for more information. <br/><br/>Staff and postgraduate students in the Department of German pursue research across a broad spectrum of German studies, covering many aspects of language and linguistics, literature, history, and culture from the early modern period to the present day. We have particular expertise in historical and modern sociolinguistics, modern literature (the novel, poetry and drama, especially in the classical age, the long 19th century, the 20th century and the post-Wende and contemporary periods), the history and politics of Germany and Austria since 1800 (particularly the political East), German childrens literature, exile writing, transnational German-language studies and memory studies. We benefit from strong links with partner universities and research centres in Germany and Austria.<br/><br/>We welcome applications from graduates wishing to pursue custom-designed research programmes. Interdisciplinary and cross-language research is particularly encouraged and supported across the School of Modern Languages and the wider faculty. Our postgraduates are fully integrated into a professionally and personally supportive departmental and school community.<br/><br/>You will be part of a departmental reading/study group, and you will have the opportunity to present your work at departmental, school-level research events and colloquia elsewhere within the faculty. We will help develop your full range of academic skills, including publication, and we may be able to offer opportunities for undergraduate teaching after your first year.<br/><br/>Dedicated research facilities foster interdisciplinary collaboration through a series of research seminars and other events. In addition, the Multimedia Centre is a specialist language centre comprising a language laboratory, media suite, a library of foreign films, newspapers and magazines, and a screening room.<br/><br/>MPhil: a standalone, one-year (full-time) research degree. Students will undertake their own research project, concluding in the submission of a 25,000-word dissertation. Students may have the option to audit units from our taught masters programmes if they are relevant to their research.<br/><br/>PhD: a research project undertaken across three to four years (full-time), culminating in an 80,000-word thesis. As well as having the option to audit taught units, there may be the potential for PhD students to teach units themselves from their second year of study onwards.<br/><br/>The MPhil and PhD can be studied via distance learning.