The School of English is one of the largest of its kind in the UK. The School has recently celebrated 125 years of English at Nottingham and has a rich and vibrant research culture.
All postgraduate students in the School join a lively and thriving postgraduate community. Research students have their own dedicated shared office space with access to networked PCs, printers and some social space in the School. MA students have wireless and PC access in the Masters Gallery (shared working space for MA students in the Arts Faculty). In addition to dedicated taught courses and research training, students are offered opportunities in library and IT training, participation in the weekly School postgraduate research seminars, lectures by visiting academics, and insessional support for international students.
Our postgraduates benefit from the School’s specialist research centres including the Centre for Regional Cultures (including the D.H. Lawrence Research Centre and the Centre for the Study of Byron and Romanticism), the Centre for the Study of the Viking Age, the Centre for Research in AppliedLinguistics, and the Institute for Name Studies.
All academic staff are active researchers and internationally renowned authorities in their field,
and seminars, workshops and conferences are organised regularly by the School. The School is also involved in the promotion of IT in research, produces online journals, and uses electronic media to disseminate research projects in electronic editions and digital databases.
The Hallward Library has excellent provision of books, periodicals and online resources in
all aspects of English Studies, with some notable special collections relating to the School’s research, and manuscripts and special collections in custom-built premises. The School also has new laboratory space to support areas of research in applied linguistics.
We have been awarded major research grants from research councils, the British Academy, and the Leverhulme Trust to pursue research projects, some collaboratively, with Biology, Computer Science, Geography, History, Humanities, the Medical School, Pharmacy, and Psychology.