Pursue your interests in languages and culture in an exciting, interdisciplinary environment with an international reputation for excellence in research and teaching.
Gain crucial experience
Become a student mentor with our Modern Foreign Language Student Mentoring Scheme or a language ambassador via Routes into Languages Cymru.
Research excellence
Placed 9th for research impact and 11th for research environment (Modern Languages and Linguistics, REF 2021).
Diverse community
We attract a wide range of international and UK students each year who thrive in our diverse postgraduate environment.
Explore the power of heritage in a global context and consider its relationship to major debates around sustainability, decolonisation, conflict, and human rights.
We have a strong, intellectually stimulating and vibrant research culture into which postgraduates are inducted and embedded.
Insights into our MA courses
MA in Global Heritage
Our MA in Global Heritage provides you with a thorough and critical understanding of the role of heritage in the contemporary world.
MA in Translation Studies
Our MA in Translation Studies combines theory with practice, equipping you with the skills and confidence for a career in the language sector (and beyond) or for PhD research.
From health to the justice system, from the voluntary sector to sport and the arts, we all increasingly live and work in contexts where people speak more than one language. We offer the free online course, Working with Translation, in conjunction with Future Learn. The course, which was set up in 2016, stresses the importance of translation and has to date, taught over 50,000 people.
Many of our graduates are living exciting multilingual lives in countries around the world. They work in diplomacy, IT, international sport, manufacturing, the armed services, accountancy, law, financial analysis, management consultancy and international business. The list is endless!
Our multidisciplinary research environment attracts a variety of research grants and investments and has a renowned reputation for quality. We offer full and part-time PhD and MPhil opportunities under the banner of Languages and Translation Studies. Our research is organised around the themes: Transnational Cultural and Visual Studies; History and Heritage; and Global Language-Based Area Studies.
Study in Cardiff's vibrant city centre
You will be based at the School of Modern Languages on Park Place, which is at the centre of our campus and in the heart of Wales’ capital city. We are situated next to Cathays train station, the Students' Union and five minutes' walk from the city centre.
International postgraduates are guaranteed a single occupancy room in accommodation for the standard academic year, providing certain deadlines are met.
