The Centre is one of the foremost international departments for research, research training and teaching in social, applied and interactional areas of human communication, mass media, language and linguistics. A funded research base for health communication has also been established within the Centre.

The Centre carries the highest ratings for its research (RAE5*) and teaching (TQA "Excellent") and has Mode A Recognition from the Economic and Social Research Council, reflecting the high quality of research training provision and its research environment.

In pursuing postgraduate research, you become an important part of this research environment. Most of our research postgraduates work towards a PhD degree, although initially registered for an MPhil. All full-time doctoral candidates start by taking the Postgraduate Diploma in Language & Communication Research Methods.

Applications for MPhil/PhD research are especially welcome in any of our key areas of research:

• sociolinguistics (language variation, language attitudes. multilingualism, minority languages, English and Welsh in Wales, dialect stylistics, dialectology);

• discourse analysis (critical linguistics, social interaction, literary pragmatics, language and social theory);

• media communication (media discourse, theory of media institutions);

• professional and workplace communication (health and medical discourse, bureaucratic, legal, commercial and service encounter communication);

• interpersonal and intergroup communication (lifespan communication, gender studies, cross-cultural and interethnic communication, communication in disability, human relationships);

• systemic functional linguistics (lexicogrammar, semantics, language modelling) phonetics and phonology (instrumental phonetics, contrastive phonetics, intonation);

• computational linguistics (the COMMUNAL project and the Cardiff Grammar);

• language education (language awareness, applied linguistics, literacy studies, language testing);

• non-verbal communication (visual pragmatics, silence).

The Centre also regularly hosts scholars from other institutions for short periods of collaboration or independent research. Through the Cardiff Language and Communication Seminar, the work of visiting speakers and members of the Centre, staff and students, is presented and discussed in a supportive and informal setting.

• Current Doctoral Candidates

• Recent Doctoral Research Projects

• The CLC's primary research interests

• Support and facilities for our postgraduates

• Contact details/further information

• General information about postgraduate study at Cardiff University

http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/clcr/postgrad/research-schemes.html