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College of Arts and Humanities

Postgraduate Research Activity

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Postgraduate research activity in our college covers a wide range of topics. If you're interested in studying for an MPhil or PhD in any of the subjects covered by our schools then please contact us.

Below is a selection of our current MPhil and PhD students' research areas:

School of Creative Studies and Media

  • Film Studies, e.g. Planet of the Apes as history; the washing line in film history
  • Videogames and Virtual World Studies, e.g. character construction in computer role-playing games; corpus-based methodologies for videogames analysis; intelligent agents in virtual worlds; gender-inclusive game designs
  • Digital and interactive media, e.g. augmented reality and mobile technologies in the tourism industry; visualising geology through digital media design
  • Creative and Professional Writing, e.g. multimodality in new media writing and digital fiction; African children's fiction; disability and character; the immigrant novel
  • Comics and graphic novels, e.g. Captain America
  • Film and media production, e.g. The evolution of the zombie genre
  • Performance, e.g. site-specific performance; exploratory theatre; performance and education
  • Adaptation Studies, e.g. adaptation processes of popular fantasy works

Ysgol y Gymraeg

  • Shakespeare a’r Cymry
  • Y Rhaglen Ddogfen Gymraeg
  • Theori Ffeministaidd a Ffuglen Gyfoes
  • Cynllunio Ieithyddol
  • Canu Brud yr Oesau Canol
  • Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg a’r Arwisgiad

School of English

  • Charles Williams and the Inklings
  • Film and New Media
  • Queering Diaspora in Postcolonial Writing
  • Richard Brautigan — American Writer
  • RS Thomas
  • Dylan Thomas
  • Chick Lit., Media and Marketing
  • Creative and Critical Writing
  • The Long Journey Back
  • The Verse Novel
  • Poetry, Identity and Ecopoetics
  • Orality, Poetry and Song in South Western Bulgaria
  • Race and Early Modern Drama

School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology

  • Representations of women’s work in museums; a British-German comparison
  • The political role of Archbishop Morton under Henry VII
  • Golygiad o Lawysgrif Peniarth 164 (H) o Gyfraith Hywel Dda
  • Ysbyty Ifan: the origins of a sporting estate
  • Ailddehongli'r cysylltiad Celtaidd: effaith y goresgyniad Eingl-Normanaidd ar y berthynas rhwng Iwerddon a Chymru
  • Questions of ideology and patronage: the Romanesque in North Wales
  • The media and devolution, 1975 – 2003
  • Dychmygu Cymru – ymatebion gwleidyddol a sifil i foderneiddiad y gymdeithas gymreig, 1950 – 1970
  • Hugh Hughes: Anglesey lawyer and landowner
  • State expenditure: Creation and oppression of rural minorities in mid Wales, 1945 – 2000
  • The dynamics of urban reconstruction in Swansea 1945 – 1964
  • Anti-Americanism and the British left 1931 – 1955
  • Real and imagined towns in Wales 1450 – 1640
  • The English in Wales: political constructions, identity and belonging since 1945
  • Music and Society in north Wales 1856-1956 and the growth of the Tonic Sol-fa movement

School of Linguistics and English Language

  • The use of intonation in Welsh conversation
  • Language variation in text and e-mail messaging: Stylistic parameters that make a ‘linguistic fingerprint’ problematic.
  • Codeswitched Determiner Phrases in Swiss German-English bilingual speech
  • A study of conventional metaphor with reference to Jordanian Arabic
  • Measuring accommodation in bilingual speech using corpus linguistic methods
  • Investigation of speech-language abilities in bilingual French-German children with or without SLI.
  • The interaction of prosodic features in Welsh and Welsh English
  • Proffilio gwallau: Astudiaeth o'r gwallau a wneir gan gyfieithwyr Saesneg-Cymraeg
    Profiling errors: A study of errors made by English-Welsh translators
  • The acquisition of tense by Arabic Learners of English
  • Polska in Cymru: language and identity of Polish incomers to North Wales (1945 to date)

School of Modern Languages

  • The Representation of New York city in Spanish Contemporary Literature
  • Websites and Minority Languages: The Welsh Experience
  • The reception of the 'conte de fées' in Wales and Welsh Culture
  • A Study of Friedrich Ch. Zauner's Cycle of Novels 'Das Ende der Ewigkeit'
  • The reception of the Mabinogion in German print culture
  • Voicing Collective Identity through Song and Autobiography: the case of Beur-Raï music and Beur writing
  • Back and forth between spoken and written: studies of transposed and reproduced voices in French literature and cinema since 1900
  • Translation and language policies: the case of Breton
  • Young Turkish identities in Germany

School of Music

  • Bliss
  • Minimalism
  • Cerdd yng Nghymru
  • Grace Williams edition
  • Composition
  • Cyfansoddi
  • Christian church
  • Performance
  • Welsh music
  • William Mathias

School of Theology and Religious Studies

  • The concept of seeing God in the Fourth Gospel
  • Personality, religion and paranormal belief: a study among teenagers
  • Early Pentecostalism:William Durham and the finished work controversy
  • Isaac Williams (1802-1865): Tractarian or High Churchman?
  • Welsh military chaplains, 1914 -1945
  • Dadansoddiad R. Tudur Jones
  • The Baptist Movement in North East Wales
  • The Church and the Aids-suffering of street children in Zimbabwe
  • Healing and Atonement
  • Galatians and Ethics
  • Pentecostalism: doctrines of initial evidence
  • The status and function of women in ministry
  • The Book of Numbers
  • Leadership in a postmodern context
  • Pentecostal Eschatology
  • The role of John Owen, Bishop of St David (1897-1926)

We also welcome research students working in other areas of theology and religious studies such as biblical studies, feminist theology, reformation, Christian doctrine, ethics, study of religions and gender studies.