Where will my English degree take me?

Here is a collection of interviews with graduates from undergraduate English Language and Literature programmes discussing their current roles, how their undergraduate programmes relate to them, and how their work on English programmes helped contribute to their careers.

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CANCELLED: A Level English Language Day 2023

We’re very sorry to have to announce that this event is now cancelled. This is due to a combination of industrial action and staff unavailability. We will be hosting other events next academic year, including an A Level Day in November. We look forward to seeing you there!

CANCELLED:

We are very happy to announce this year’s A Level (Year 12) English Language Day, which will take place at our City Campus on 5 July 2023.

The event is free and has limited spaces (we hope to accommodate all of you but bookings will have to be first come first served).

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Irony in the Public Sphere

The next seminar of the Northumbria Language and Linguistics Research Seminar Series will take place on Wednesday 26th April at 12:00 in Lipman 121.

The speaker is Professor Paul Simpson from the University of Liverpool and his talk will be on ‘Irony and its consequences in the public sphere‘ (there’s an abstract below)

The seminar will be delivered in a hybrid format so join us in person or online (more info on each below).

All welcome! 

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