Applied Linguistics Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

Our staff are specialists across many areas of applied linguistics, including psycholinguistics, language development, second language acquisition and motivation theories of language learning.

We also offer research expertise in discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, with particular specialisms in health communication, media communication, professional communication, and language and identity studies.

We are unique in offering opportunities to do research in literary linguistics, narratology and cognitive poetics.

You will have the opportunity to:


- gain access to placement and knowledge transfer opportunities


- join a reading group, or one of the active research groups


- assist with live research projects


- attend guest talks by linguistics scholars


Follow your intercultural research interests to a deeper level, in a department ranked 6th nationally in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021.