Find out more about our current postgraduate research students working within the School of Modern Languages.
Museums making peace: the role and impact of museums on peacebuilding and community cohesion following conflict
Translating Gender from Postmodern Feminist Perspective: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando into Chinese
Interpreting Culture-specific Items in a Museum: An Exploratory, Multimodal Study
Decoding Dialect Humour: A Reception Study of Subtitled British Sketch Comedy for Mandarin-Speaking Audiences
Investigating the Influence of AI-generated Captions on Interpreters’ Cognitive Load and Performance in Onsite Simultaneous Interpreting: A Case Study on English–Chinese Culture-Specific Items
Schema-Mediated Player Reception in Chinese-to-English Video Game Localisation: How English-Speaking Players Receive and Reconstruct Cultural Meaning from Translated RPG Narratives
Habitus, culture and gender: a case study of Wilt L. Idema and his English translations of China’s four great folktales
A critical discourse analysis of gender expression in the translation of Hong Lou Meng
Influencing governance in Xinjiang, northwest China: how to utilise advocacy expertise to identify strategies and opportunities of change-making
Chinese modernity and gender re-constructed in Lin Yutang’s transcreation work: a case study on moments in Peking
An exploration of metapoetry in contemporary Chinese Poetry in the 1980s and 1990s
Fan subtitling of lesbian representation from English to Chinese in anglophone film and TV
The Ludic Artificiality and the Distancing Effect of Louis Jouvet's Body in Cinema
Affective polarisation through one-party states: the Cuban case study
Memory, intangible heritage and storytelling in the second and third generation of the southern cone dictatorships’ diaspora
The role of the negative morpheme no/non in old Spanish
Art, community, and identity-making: redefining ‘Latin American-ness’ abroad and exploring cultural networks for Latinxs living in the UK
Shifting Political Horizons: Aníbal Quijano, Socialism and the Coloniality of Power
The Institutionalisation of Court Interpreting in China (1901-1949)
Reloading herstories: a multimodal case study on shifted female representation in video game localisation
Examining Creative Translation in the Classroom as a tool for Engagement with Language
A study on interpreters’ stress coping strategies in remote simultaneous interpreting (RSI)
Expert performers’ multisensory integration during speech-in-speech recognition and adaptation to ‘noise’ in adverse conditions
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