Study Engineering at Cardiff University

1. English, Communication, and Philosophy

The school offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in subjects across the disciplines of, communication, literature, language critical theory, and philosophy.

Research Centers 

• Centre for Language and Communication Research
• Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research

Faculty Size 

• 60+ Faculty Members

Departmental Projects

• Cardiff Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century Seminar (CRECS)
• Assuming Gender

Research Accomplishments 

• Influencing Debate in Genetics Research
• Improving HIV/AIDS Education and Support Through Comics Writing

Areas of Expertise 

• English literature
• Critical and cultural theory
• Language and communication
• Philosophy

Masters Courses Offered By the Department

2. School of Geography and Planning

The school focuses on spatial innovation with various state of the art laboratories and innovative software. 

Research Centers

• Animal Geographies Research Cluster
• Sustainable Places Research Institute
• Cities Research Centre
• Energy Research Cluster

Research Accomplishments

• Development of frameworks and models for measuring waterways’ public benefits, land use, car, and public transport, pedestrian and cycle behavior and the ecological impacts of sports events and festivals.
• Research on food and farming policies informed various institutes about animal disease and biosecurity. 

Areas of Expertise 

• Social and Cultural Geography
• Economic and Political Geographies
• Environment
• Spatial Planning and Analysis in City Environments
• Economic and Political Geographies

Masters Courses Offered By the Department

3. School of History, Archaeology, and Religion

The school imparts disciplines that focus from prehistory to contemporary times, religions of the world, and societies of the past. 

Research Centers

• Cardiff Centre for the Crusades
• Cardiff Centre for Welsh American Studies
• Centre for the History of Religion in Asia
• Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK
• Centre for the Study of Medieval Society and Culture
• Centre for Late Antique Religion & Culture

Departmental Projects

• CAER Heritage Project
• SHARE with Schools 
• Research accomplishments - 
• The changing identity of Welsh emigrants
• Caerau hillfort excavations
• Saving heritage ironwork from the ravages of rust

Areas of Expertise 

• Archaeology and Conservation
• History
• Religious Studies and Theology

Masters Courses Offered By the Department

4. School of Journalism, Media, and Culture

A top-notch institute for media teaching and research. 

Research Centers 

• Centre for Community Journalism
• Tom Hopkinson Centre for Media History

Research Accomplishments

• Improving End of Life Decision Making
• Reflecting Post-Devolution Politics in Broadcasting

Areas of Expertise 

• Journalism, Democracy, Politics, and Elections
• Media History, Policy, and Ethics
• Reporting Science and Health Issues
• Mediations of war, Conflict, and Crisis
• Big Data and Surveillance
• Exploring Media Futures
• Innovations in Research Methodologies
• Community and Citizen Journalism
• Social Media and Protest

Masters Courses Offered By the Department

5. School of Psychology

It is supported by a dynamic and stimulating teaching environment with a special focus on research. 

Facilities

• Laboratory space for behavioral, psychophysical and eye-tracking experiments
• Sound and visual perception labs

Industry Collaborations 

• Member of Russell Group, GW4
• Close links with the Welsh Government 

Research Accomplishments 

• Firefighter’s helmet camera study won the Innovation Award
• Revelation of a ‘governance trap’ in hindering actions to prevent climate change

Areas of Expertise 

• Neuroscience
• Cognitive science
• Development and Health
• Social and Environmental Health

Masters Courses Offered By the Department

6. School of Modern Languages

The school is one of the largest and most dynamic schools for Modern Languages.

Industry Collaborations

• BRAND (Berlin)
• Générale d’imaginaire (Lille)

Research Accomplishments

• Began a triple literacy scheme in Wales- ‘Mother Tongue, Other Tongue’ for schools- in partnership with CILT Cymru and Literature Wales.
• improved accessibility to the works of Dylan Thomas’ through multilingual translational activity

Areas of Expertise

• Translation, Adaption, and Multimodality
• Representing mobility and Migration including cultures of travel and transportation (in literature and photographs)
• Translation in/and performance
• Post-colonial and Transnational Literatures, Cultures and Identities
• Peripheral and Minority Cultures and identities

Masters Courses Offered By the Department

7. School of Music

It offers undergraduate and postgraduate programs with a stimulating and supportive environment for music. 

Research Centers

• Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Opera and Drama (CIRO)

Industry Collaborations

• BBC
• Welsh National Opera

Research Accomplishments 

• Revitalizing the techniques and performance style of music from the 'long 18th century'.
• Showing post-devolution politics in broadcasting

Areas of Expertise 

• Musicology, Ethnomusicology and Popular Music
• Composition
• Performance

Masters Courses Offered By the Department

8. School of Social Sciences

The school is internationally recognized as a center for quality academics and research.

Research Centers

• Cardiff Unit for Research and Evaluation in Medical and Dental Education (CUREMeDE)
• Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Wellbeing (CISHew)

Faculty Size and Accomplishments 

• The faculty members are experts in their fields and also recipients of Fellow of the British Academy, Academicians of the Academy of Social Sciences and a winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the British Sociological Association.

Industry Collaborations

• ESRC What Works Centre for Crime Reduction
• Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement (DECIPHER)

Research Accomplishments 

• Researchers at Cardiff University worked in several countries with United Nations agencies and national statistical offices to develop indicators to monitor progress towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goals for poverty and nutrition.
• Began the Lace Project for Improving educational experiences and attainment of looked after children.

Areas of Expertise 

• Science, Technology, and Risk
• Crime, Security, and Justice
• Education and Education Policy
• Health and Social Care
• Inequality, Labour, and the Future of Work
• People, Place, and Policy

Masters Courses Offered By the Department

9. School of Welsh

The school focuses on the development of language, society and identity in contemporary Wales with reading and research. 

Research Centers

• Cardiff Centre for Welsh American Studies
• Language, Policy and Planning Research Unit

Faculty Accomplishments

• The staff has impacted the world beyond academia. It influenced legislative processes and broke new ground in many literary and cultural areas, through using the latest technologies.

Research Accomplishments 

• Transforming the Mabinogion-to  Improve the understanding of Welsh myths and legends from the Mabinogion.
• Reframing language law in Wales

Areas of Expertise

• Welsh Literature Through the Centuries
• Folk Studies
• Identity, Ethnicity, and Multiculturalism
• Creative and Critical Writing
• Welsh/American Studies
• Children’s Literature

Masters Courses Offered By the Department