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About us

Welcome to Translation Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

Providing excellent teaching and supervision, our postgraduate programmes are among the UK's most comprehensive and flexible.

Our research expertise include audiovisual and literary translation, and translation's relationship to music, the internet, performance, religion, trauma, gender, health, and social movements.

We are an official Higher Education (HE) Language Partner of the Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL) and a member of the RWS Campus - Trados Academic Partner Program.

We are also partners in the International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting (IPCITI), and support and collaborate with the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI) as a Corporate Education member.

Research

Find out more about our research, including current projects on capacity building in India, translating Gender-Based Violence, and reshaping informed consent in multilingual and multicultural maternity settings.

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Postgraduate study

Giving you the opportunity to focus on two languages, in addition to English, Edinburgh is the ideal place to study translation. 

You can take:

  • a one-year taught master programme (MSc)
  • a PhD - one of the most flexible doctoral programmes of its kind in the UK

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QS World Rankings by Subject 2026

The University of Edinburgh is ranked 3rd in the UK and 9th in the world for Arts and Humanities.

The Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings are based on research citations and the results of major global surveys of employers and academics.

They are International Ranking Expert Group (IREG) approved.

Links to the translation industry

Through our course in Technology and Translation in the Workplace, and wider activities, we maintain excellent links with the translation industry, including the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI), the foremost professional body in the UK for practising translators and interpreters, and its regional group, the ITI Scottish Network. We are also a member of the RWS Campus - Trados Academic Partner Program.

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