D27: ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

English's distinctive strengths are grouped into several informal research clusters: Creative Writing; Critical-creative Writing; Welsh Writing in English; Women’s Writing; Textuality and Cultural Spaces; and TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages).

While our English research ranges from the medieval period to the present day, it also has a particularly strong commitment to the south Wales valleys in which the University is situated.

Highlights

• 66% of our English research is world leading or internationally excellent (4* / 3*) 
• 79% of our outputs are world leading or internationally excellent (4* / 3*) 
• Joint second in Wales for impact out of five universities - based on 4* 
• Joint eighth for impact out of 43 post-92 universities - based on 4*

Unit of Assessment Results

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