Translation and Interpreting MA

The growing complexity of international communication, involving written, spoken and technology-mediated communication, increasingly requires professionals with skills in both translation and interpreting. Recognising this need, this course is one of the few in the UK to combine translation and interpreting and give you the skills you need to perform both tasks professionally.

We’re a member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, the Institute of Translation and Interpreting, the Translation Automation User Society and the European Language Industry Association, so you’ll benefit from excellent connections with future employers, translators and interpreters, and be taught to industry standards.

You’ll also gain further insights into the industry from the external guest speakers we invite to our Centre for Translation Studies seminars series. Speakers include:

Professional translators and interpreters
Subtitlers and audio describers
Professionals working in public services, companies and international organisations
Representatives of professional translator and interpreter associations
Translation and interpreting researchers.
We offer a professionally relevant course and have forged close links with the main professional bodies. For example, we have been invited to take part in prestigious schemes such as the Chartered Institute of Linguists’ Higher Education Language Partnership. You can join these bodies as a student member during the course and then become a full member after you graduate.

If you are a native English speaker, we require a minimum of a 2:2 UK honours degree in either Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, or Turkish, or a related subject taught in one of these languages. If you are a native speaker of another language, we require a minimum of a 2:2 UK honours degree taught in English or a related subject. We can also consider relevant work experience if you don’t meet these requirements.