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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
University of Birmingham
Full Time
Dec 2026
3 Year
Course overview In this course you put your passion for translation into practice and produce your own original work of translation alongside a research thesis. You'll be supported by a lead supervisor with expertise in your chosen language-pair. Our Modern Languages department includes a variety of languages, offering you flexibility for your choice of translation. Course highlights At Birmingham, translation studies sits in the Department of Modern Languages, which is a world top 100 Modern Languages department (QS World University Rankings 2025). Our staff are members of the European Society for Translation Studies and the International Association of Translation and Interpreting. You'll be supervised by leading academics who are also active translators, so you'll be fully supported in both elements of the PhD. Access translation software, including translation memory tools, corpus and text analysis tools and post-editing tools, plus SDL Studio Freelance licences. Benefit from our dedicated facilities including software and library resources, including e-resources. Conduct your PhD research from anywhere in the world through our online distance learning option.
