Postgraduate
Postgraduate study in Modern Languages & Cultures at Leeds offers you the opportunity to develop applied professional skills and pursue your academic interests to a deeper level. The breadth and size of our departments allows us to offer an exceptionally wide range of taught and research options:
- AHRC Studentships:
Up to eight awards for postgraduates will be offered to UK/EU applicants commencing their degree in SMLC in September/October 2010. - New MA Courses:
- MA Modern Languages & Cultures (webpage - pdf also available)
- MA Professional Language & Intercultural Studies (webpage - pdf also available)
Links
- SMLC Postgraduate Handbook
- SMLC Postgraduate Induction FAQs
- Leeds University postgraduate information - including:
- The essentials
- Scholarships
- Fun - Graduate School - Offering computing facilities, social space and seminar rooms allowing you to mix, exchange ideas and create interdisciplinary networks.
Academic staff in the School pursue an extensive and varied range of individual and collaborative research.
Key research themes include European literatures, cultures and societies from the medieval age via the Renaissance to the 21 st Century; the Arab world; contemporary China, Japan and the cultures and societies of South East Asia; gender; the media, especially film; translation and interpreting; language branding, demography, immigration and race; postcolonialism; diasporic cultures; language, linguistics and computing. Full details of staff interests and current projects can be found on the individual academic unit web pages (accessible from the drop down menu to the left).
Formal research groupings located in the School include:
- Centre for Translation Studies
- Centre for French and Francophone Cultural Studies
- Institute for Research on Contemporary China
- Centre for World Cinemas
School researchers are also members of the:
- Centre for Canadian Studies,
- Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History,
- Centre for Gender Studies
- Centre for Medieval Studies
Research links extend worldwide to include institutions from Hong Kong to Sweden, from Paris to Canada and from the USA to Japan.
Research at postgraduate level can be
- an MA by Research: a 1-year (full time) or 2-year (part time) programme of supervised research into a subject of your choice, supported by research training; or
- a PhD: a 3-year (full time) or longer (part time) programme of supervised and supported research leading to a doctorate
The School registers approximately 70 research postgraduates each year, typically about half are international students.
Videos of seminars and lectures can be seen at the SMLC Research Training Seminars page.
Taught Postgraduate Study
Please see the Taught Postgraduate pages for more detailed information.
Research Postgraduate Study
For PhD study, a good Master’s degree is usually required. You will find specific information about research study and other more practical matters on the relevant Centre/Departmental web pages.
Before a formal application can be made, we normally require a CV and a research proposal. In some cases, however (e.g. where you have already identified a specific member of staff whom you wish to supervise your research), you may first make an informal enquiry to the member of staff concerned. But, in all cases, a formal research proposal must be submitted before a decision about the application can be made.
Following the submission and acceptance by the School of your research proposal, you are required to supply the following
- A completed application form for research postgraduate study
- Transcripts of your academic record and evidence of your degree(s)
- Contact details for 3 academic referees
- International students, evidence of an English language qualification.
For further information, contact the SMLC Research Postgraduate Administrator. (Or call +44 (0)113 3437844, or write to the SMLC Research Postgraduate Administrator, SMLC Office, Michael Sadler Building, Leeds LS2 9JT)