The Department of Languages, Translation and Communication boasts a dynamic research and teaching environment which has already won attention and funding from outside bodies such as the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Wellcome Trust and the EU. We are home to The Language Research Centre (LRC). Our research students are supervised by leading specialist researchers and international scholars and they are required to take skills and training courses at College and University levels. Research proposals are invited on a wide range of topics, in particular involving the following languages: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Welsh. The choice of topic is up to you but must be worked out in consultation with your supervisors. We place an emphasis on IT, however, and translation projects in the broad area of Digital Humanities. It is a good idea to enter discussions before applying and to draw up an initial proposal together. However, all good topics develop over the course of your reading and supervisions and it is likely that you will only slowly gain a clear idea of where you are heading. At the end of your first nine months you present a 10000 word chapter, synopsis, bibliography and table of contents, plus a list of training courses attended to a progression panel which makes recommendations for your future direction. Thereafter you should expect to work on individual chapters (four or five is a typical number), including introduction and literature review. A thesis of not more than 60,000 words for an MPhil which contributes significantly to the subject area and in the case of PhD is based on original research. This is followed by an oral examination of the thesis (viva) by two examiners who are not your supervisors, one of whom is external to the University.