Translating and Interpreting
Entry requirements
A 2:1 honours degree and usually a good master's degree in a subject related to one of the discipline areas covered by the School of Modern Languages.
You are required to attend an interview, which may be conducted via Skype if necessary.
Months of entry
January, September
Course content
In today's globalised world, translation and interpreting has an ever-growing role. Our main research purpose is to find out more about how it works - from professional, language and cultural perspectives.
We offer expert supervision in the areas of:
- Interpreting (Dr Chen, Dr Jin, Dr Wu, Dr Du)
- Psycholinguistics of interpreting and translating (Dr Jin, Dr Lin)
- Sociolinguistics, discourse analysis in translation and interpreting (Dr Du, Dr Hall)
- Linguistic diversity and social justice (Dr Du)
- Translating literature (Prof Jones, Dr Henry-Tierney, Dr Lin)
- Translation and culture (Dr Chen, Prof Jones, Dr Lin)
- Translation and ethics, ideology, and power (Prof Jones, Dr Lin)
- Translation products, processes and strategies (Dr Chen, Dr Jin, Prof Jones, Dr Lin)
- Translator and interpreter training and assessment (Dr Chen, Dr Wu)
- Reflective/autonomous learning and educational psychology (Dr Chen, Dr Wu)
- Audiovisual translation studies (Dr Chen, Dr Henry-Tierney)
- Legal translation and legal and medical interpreting (Dr Du)
- Migration and multilingualism (Dr Du).
We can offer support for projects involving English plus the following languages:
- Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian
- Catalan
- Chinese
- Dutch
- French
- German
- Hungarian
- Quechua
- Spanish.
Information for international students
English Language requirements: Direct Entry: IELTS 7.0 overall (with a minimum of 6.5 in all sub-skills). If you have lower English Language scores, you may be accepted onto a Pre-sessional English Language course.
Fees and funding
See our programme fees and funding web page.
Qualification, course duration and attendance options
- MPhil
- part time24 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- full time12 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- PhD
- part time72 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- full time36 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
Course contact details
- Name
- School of Modern Languages
- modlang.pgadmin@ncl.ac.uk
- Phone
- +44 (0) 191 208 5867