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Postgraduate Study

Why Study With Us?

  • Our School is one of the highest-ranked departments in the UK according to the latest International Student Barometer (Autumn 2011), scoring 91% for 'learning', 95% for 'support' and 100% in the overall category of 'living experience'.
  • 92% of our postgraduate students said that they felt the course had exceeded their expectations (2010 Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey).
  • In the 2012 Postgraduate Research Experience Survey, 94% of our students stated their supervision expectations were either met or exceeded.
  • Housed within a single building, we have a recently refurbished postgraduate computing suite, with attached common room, kitchen and shower facilities, and 40 networked desktop computers and a wireless network for laptops, for the exclusive use of postgraduates. Free printing, scanning and tea/coffee making facilities are also available.
  • Specialist facilities including a digital media lab, audio-visual collections, and unique archives of dialectal English and children's literature.
  • The Postgraduate Speaker Series provides regular opportunities to present working papers, while the Postgraduate Forum addresses key areas of professional development such as how to write a CV. We also host an annual postgraduate conference in Applied and Theoretical Linguistics as well as a Sociolinguistics Summer School.
  • Home to 200 postgraduates, the School has a strong sense of community, and a vibrant, international social culture which is fostered by the PG Social Events Committee. Recent events have included pot luck dinners, pub quizzes, and a murder mystery evening all hosted by the students and promoted on the PG Blog.
  • The School's postgraduate students have generous access to a range of School-specific funding opportunities. These include the research support fund (to support conference trips and archival visits), writing-up fund (for those in financial hardship during their final year) and a conference fund (to support students wanting to organize their own conference). Free interlibrary loans are also available.
  • The School has also sponsored many successful conferences, colloquia, and workshops in which postgraduate students have played a significant role.