We help produce around 80 different events each year, ranging from public lectures to specialised academic seminars and conferences. You can also get involved in the activities of the University's research centres and institutes.

Find out more about the various regular lecture and seminar series, such as Inventions of the Text which is convened by postgraduates. Postgraduates and staff also run a number of specialised reading groups to support your research or widen your interests.

Training in core research skills, and personal and career development, is available through a central postgraduate programme.

Taught MA students receive training in preparation for a research career through their dissertation programme. Our ongoing induction for PhD researchers offers training in skills such as information management, digital, and conference presentation.

We host possibly the world's longest-running online journal for early-career English, which is edited by two PhD students each year.

PhD researchers and MA students are able to publish articles, reviews, interviews, podcasts and more on our popular blog, and to build skills in research dissemination and impact.

Offer research students the chance to contribute to active research projects. Students are paid £500 to support staff.

The Department may offer research students the chance of some paid teaching experience, usually in their second or third year of research, subject to the approval of supervisors.