The growing complexity of international communication requires professionals with skills in both translation and interpreting. This course is one of the few in the UK to give you the expertise needed to perform both tasks professionally.
Our programme has a strong practical component to suit the needs of the translation and interpreting market today, enabling you to develop a professional CV as you study. We’re one of the UK’s top translation and interpreting research centres, with more than three decades of experience in postgraduate education and research training.
We focus on exciting and newly developing areas of the discipline, such as translation and interpreting technologies, distance/remote interpreting, hybrid modalities of interpreting, machine translation, translation process research, translation as intercultural mediation, corpus-based translation, audiovisual translation and multi-modality studies.
If you are a native English speaker, we require a minimum of a 2:2 UK honours degree in one of the languages listed below or in a related subject taught in one of these languages.
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91 per cent of our School of Literature and Languages postgraduate students go on to employment or further study (Graduate Outcomes 2023, HESA).
Our emphasis on professional development means that you will be well-equipped to begin work as a freelance or in-house translator or interpreter in a variety of settings (private marker, governmental bodies, public services), as a project manager for business, international organisations and public bodies, multilingual content writers, language-service managers, localisation, terminology, transcreation specialists, language and translation tutors.
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