MRes Modern Languages and Cultures

Overview

This MRes programme provides a personalised and focused introduction to postgraduate research, allowing you to develop as an independent researcher with the support of our experts in Modern Languages and Cultures. It provides a rigorous overview of the current state of scholarship in your selected field, guides you through a programme of directed and individualised reading to the selection of a feasible research project, and allows you to complete a substantial piece of research.

Why Department of Modern Languages and Cultures?

Introduction to Modern Languages and Cultures

We are a small department that maintains a variety of very distinctive areas of strength in research. We offer programmes tailored to the individual and underpinned by a close student-supervisor contact. All of that unfolds in a friendly and supportive atmosphere.

We maintain a high degree of interdisciplinary activity, with students and staff from all disciplines interacting through institutional research centres, research groups and seminars.

Research Overview

Our research activities are broadly organised around four research groups:

• Image, Sound and Performance
• Conflict, Memory and Heritage
• Place, Space and Belonging
• Media Histories: From Manuscript to Digital

Career prospects

Former postgraduates in French, German and Hispanic Studies have reached senior positions at the universities of: Aberdeen, Sussex, Leeds, Sheffield, Kings College London, Loughborough, Salford and Liverpool, as well as in a variety of careers.

Former postgraduates in Modern Languages and Cultures have also gone on to careers in a wide variety of areas including journalism, law, tourism, charity work, librarianship, translation and teaching.