Postgraduate Prospectus 2013 - Swansea University

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Modern Languages and Translation Research opportunities MA by Research/MPhil, PhD Distance PhD programme in Applied Linguistics RAE2008 French: 35% of research rated world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*) German: 50% of research rated world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*) Hispanic Studies: 45% of research rated world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*) Italian: 40% of research rated internationally excellent (3*) Modern Languages at Swansea encompasses the academic areas of French, German, Hispanic Studies, Italian, and Translation (including Welsh), specialising in literature, cinema, cultural history, and the practice and theory of translation. The Department of Languages, Translation and Communication welcomes proposals for postgraduate research projects that complement staff research interests. Research degrees in Modern Languages and Translation will: • provide you with new and specialised research skills • prepare you for a career in academic research and teaching • equip you with skills relevant for a rewarding career in a range of other diverse fields, including journalism, cultural management and diplomacy, translation, interpreting, teaching, management, and international business • enable you to deepen your knowledge of your area of specialist interest The Department benefits from extensive library holdings and maintains a large collection of audio-visual materials. All research students are provided with a networked PC and workspace in dedicated research student rooms. Linguistics: 60% of research rated world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*) Welsh: 65% of research rated world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*) Professors D F Connon D A G Large J E Preece A Rothwell D G Walters Academic and research staff 15 Postgraduates 50 Translation PhD students have access to a computer-based language laboratory, a satellite TV and video-editing lab, an advanced Translation and Media computing lab and a more specialised Translation Research facility housing the latest digitisation, corpus analysis and computer-assisted translation tools. Research Strengths French Areas of expertise include the following: • Medieval Literature, especially women writers • Eighteenth century drama, fiction and literary ideas (including Théâtre de la foire, the plays of Marivaux, Diderot) • Nineteenth and twentieth century novelists (Balzac, Zola, Proust) • Women’s writing and Gender Theory (de Beauvoir, Duras, Sagan) • Drama of the twentieth century • Politics and literature (eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries) • Politics and religion • Area Studies (history of social and political ideas, propaganda and literary discourse) • Colonialism and postcolonialism, relating in particular to Algeria, Indochina, and Francophone Africa • War and Culture studies Entry requirements: For PhD: normally a good Honours degree (first-class or 2:1) and an MA in a relevant field. For MRes or MPhil: a good Honours degree. English Language requirement: IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each component) or Swansea University recognised equivalent. Scholarships and Bursaries A range of postgraduate scholarships and bursaries is available. For details, please visit www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ Postgraduate German Much of our activity in German is concentrated in the Centre for Contemporary German Culture which has produced more than a dozen PhDs since its foundation in 1993. Current topics are: ‘Intercultural Encounters in the Writings of Michael Roes’ (AHRC funded); and ‘The Trope of the Good German in American and German Film since 1990’. The Centre’s focal points include: • Women’s writing • Turkish-German writing • German-Jewish writing • German writing from Eastern and Central Europe • Baader Meinhof and the Novel • Crime Fiction We have also specialists on Germany’s two recent Nobel Laureates, Günter Grass (1999) and Herta Müller (2009). Other specialisms include: • Ballads and popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present day • Romanticism, particularly Hoffmann • Nineteenth century realism, particularly Stifter and Fontane • Nietzsche How can I find out more? Visit our website: www.swansea.ac.uk/languages Contact the Admissions Tutor: Email: j.e.preece@swansea.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1792 295926 Visit the University: see page 174 for details www.swansea.ac.uk/artsandhumanities /riah • The German-language Modernist novel, particularly Broch, Kafka, Thomas Mann, Musil, and the Canettis Recent PhD topic (2011): ‘The Literary Dream in German Central Europe, 1900-1925: A Selective Study of the Writings of Kafka, Kubin, Meyrink, Musil, and Schnitzler’. Italian Strengths in Italian are mainly in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and include: • Narrative theory and the writings of Umberto Eco • Crime fiction in the 1930s • Contemporary theatre, esp. Luigi Pirandello and Dario Fo Spanish America Research in this area is conducted through the Centre for Comparative Research into the Americas in collaboration with staff and research students in American Studies. Areas of special interest are: • Twentieth century prose and poetry • Women’s writing and feminist theory • Contemporary Spanish American film • Spanish American nation building • Twentieth century Argentine literature and culture Applications can be made online at: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline – see pages 176 – 177 for further information • Twentieth century Chilean literature and culture Translation Staff research interests in Translation cover a range of themes, including: • Literary Translation • Translation Theory (including non- Western) • History of Translation • Comparative Translation Studies • Corpus-based Translation Analysis • Translation and the Lexicon • Computer-based Lexicography and Terminography • Translation Processes: Psycholinguistics of translation, translation workflows • Comparative translation software analysis Applications are encouraged for full-time or part-time research towards a PhD in any of these areas and relating to any of the languages taught (including Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Welsh). Current PhDs include two AHRC-funded projects on comparative morphology (English/French), ‘German Translations of Shakespeare’s Sonnets’, and ‘Translation Memory Systems’, also funded by the AHRC. All research students in Languages, Translation and Communication belong to the Graduate Centre in the College of Arts and Humanities. The Centre provides pastoral as well as administrative support and is also responsible for research skills training and support, and facilitating a lively intellectual environment for the College’s postgraduate research community of 200 students. Research Institute for Arts and Humanities (RIAH) The Research Institute for Arts and Humanities (RIAH) supports two major Research Centres: the Richard Burton Centre for the Study of Wales, an interdisciplinary forum that focuses on the cultural and historical traditions in the Welsh and English languages; and the Callaghan Centre for the Study of Conflict. RIAH supports a wide range of other research groups, which provide a focus for specialist projects, postgraduate research, grant applications, seminar series, and contact with external partners. Those supported by researchers in Modern European Literatures and Cultures, include: • GENCAS, the Centre for Research into Gender in Culture and Society • MEICAM, Modern European Ideologies, Conflict and Memory • TRAM, Translation Research and Multilingualism. As a PhD or MPhil student you will be expected to attend research events (such as colloquia or weekly seminars) with visiting speakers from the UK and abroad. Research Degrees – Modern Languages and Translation 132 133
Physics Research opportunities MPhil, PhD, MSc by Research RAE2008 50% of research rated world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*) Professors G Aarts C R Alton A Armoni M Charlton D C Dunbar S J Hands T J Hollywood B Lucini C Nunez G M Shore H H Telle Academic and research staff 27 Postgraduates 29 Entry requirements: Usually at least a first-class BSc or 2.1 MPhys degree (experiment), or a first-class MPhys degree (theory) in Physics or a related subject is required English Language requirement: IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each component) or Swansea University recognised equivalent. Scholarships and Bursaries A range of postgraduate scholarships and bursaries is available. For details, please visit www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ Postgraduate Support for research students is available through other sources, including the EPSRC and STFC, the European Union, and industry. The Theoretical Particle Physics Group has three STFC-funded PhD studentships available each year. The Experimental Groups have EPSRC and Leverhulme studentships available. How can I find out more? Visit our website: www.swansea.ac.uk/physics Contact the Postgraduate Recruitment Officer: Email: p.a.jarman@swansea.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1792 295142 Experimental Group: Email: p.r.dunstan@swansea.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1792 513052 Theoretical Group: Email: m.piai@swansea.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1792 602315 Visit the University: see page 174 for details Applications can be made online at: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline – see pages 176 – 177 for further information “The funding opportunities that the Physics Department offered, through the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), was a major factor in applying to study here. The research and teaching in the Department provides a good arena for postgraduate work, with seminars from visiting physicists in different fields almost every week. ” Sam Alston, PhD Theoretical Physics Research Degrees – Physics 134 By recreating conditions that existed billionths of a second after time began, or understanding how fundamental constituents of matter such as quarks and leptons interact, physicists seek to answer the big questions. How did the Universe begin? How can we create, trap, and harness antimatter? And can we understand what space and time are made of? Physics at Swansea University enjoys close collaborative research partnerships with a range of organisations, including the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Didcot, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, as well as many universities and institutes in Europe and the United States. The Department welcomes proposals for postgraduate research projects that complement staff research interests. Research degrees in Physics will: • provide you with new and specialised research skills • prepare you for a career in academic research and teaching • equip you with skills relevant for a rewarding career in a range of diverse fields Research Strengths The Department supports a broad range of closely connected research groups in three main research areas: atomic, molecular and laser physics; condensed matter and nanoscale physics; and theoretical particle physics. Atomic, Molecular and Laser Physics Spanning small scale lab research to large scale experiments: • Antihydrogen Physics. Swansea Physics lecturers are founding members of the successful ALPHA collaboration. Last year ALPHA’s trapping of antihydrogen was voted “Physics World 2010 Breakthrough of the Year”. The research is mainly done at CERN, although theoretical studies are carried out locally and in collaboration with Stockholm University • Low-energy positron physics. At Swansea, a unique low energy positron beamline capable of producing bursts of about 100,000 positrons at a rate of 10 Hz has been constructed. This will be used to investigate positronium energy levels and electron-position mixing • Neutrino mass. It has been discovered that neutrinos have nonzero mass. Swansea is part of a large multinational collaboration called KATRIN (Karlsruhe TRItium Neutrino experiment) which aims to make an absolute mass determination by making a precise measurement of the betadecay spectrum of tritium near its endpoint. Postgraduate students involved with this project will spend part of their time in Karlsruhe • Ultra-fast atomic and molecular physics. In collaboration with groups from UCL and QUB, ultra-fast effects in atoms and molecules are studied using femtosecond lasers. Most of this work is done at the Astra Laser Facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Didcot. Postgraduate students will share their time between Didcot and Swansea • Ultracold atoms and degenerate quantum gases. In collaboration with Imperial College, Swansea has worked on confining and manipulating cold atoms and Bose Einstein Condensates in microtraps on atom chips. The group is developing a sensitive atom chip interferometer which can be used to measure weak forces. A new research programme which aims to detect quantum degenerate gases using nanoscale optics has started in Swansea • Research is also underway on the design and implementation of multi-color laser fields for cooling, sensitive detection, and coherent manipulation of neutral atoms Condensed Matter and Nanoscale Physics This group is interested in the fundamental understanding of the electronic, structural, chemical and optical properties of materials on the nanoscale. There is a strong focus on techniques which overcome the diffraction limit and using light on the nanoscale. The group has experience of incorporating nanoparticles into soft matter systems. Recently, a new collaboration has begun with the School of Medicine to research the possibility of early pathogen detection using Raman Spectroscopy. The group is part of the Multidisciplinary Nanotechnology Centre and the University’s new Centre for Nanohealth thus postgraduate students will have the opportunity to perform research of an interdisciplinary nature and apply techniques across different disciplines. Theoretical Particle Physics Swansea University is home to one of the largest theoretical particle physics groups in the UK and Europe. Its work is aimed at understanding the fundamental particles of nature and their interactions. The work focuses on quantum field theories and their manifestation in particle physics and cosmology. This entails not only some of the most sophisticated areas of modern mathematics but also numerical simulations using powerful, specialpurpose computers. Core research interests include: • Gauge theories (supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric), especially in the areas of non-perturbative methods and electromagnetic duality • String Theory methods to gain understanding on topics such as Black Holes dynamics • The Ads/CFT correspondence and large-N gauge theories • The use of string inspired methods to compute processes of fundamental importance in collider physics, and to gain new valuable information on the high energy structure of quantum field theories of gravity • Lattice gauge theories to study Quantum Chromo Dynamics (the theory of quarks and gluons), particularly under extreme conditions of temperature and baryon density • New developments regarding the study of the Quark Gluon-Plasma thought to exist at high temperature • Considerations on well-known symmetries and their possible breaking, obtaining new insights into the structure of physics laws at high energies • The study of the Physics proposed to be found ‘Beyond the Standard Model’, mostly in the area of the Supersymmetric Standard Model and different dynamical scenarios of electroweak symmetry breaking, such as technicolour theories Staff also have research interests in theories of quantum gravity, particle cosmology, and condensed matter systems. The newly discovered relations among these different topics makes Swansea one of the leading Theoretical Physics groups in Europe. The group has close connections with other leading groups in Europe, USA and Asia. Specialist equipment includes: • a low-energy positron beam with a highfield superconducting magnet for the study of positronium • a number of CW and pulsed laser systems • scanning tunnelling and near-field optical microscopes • Raman microscopes including tip-enhanced capabilities for nano-Raman • a 72 CPU parallel cluster • access to the IBM BlueGene/Q Supercomputer which is part of UK’s DiRAC Supercomputer facility and is one of the fastest computer systems in the world 135
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