About
The University of Turku is a highly international research university with a diverse student community. The University was established in 1920 and today we are an active community of 20,000 students, out of which 1500 are international students. Annually, we welcome around 500 incoming exchange students to study at our seven faculties and collaborate with over 400 universities worldwide.
Research at the School of Languages and Translation Studies
The School of Languages and Translation Studies is an expert organisation whose members specialise in multidisciplinary research on language systems, the present and past phenomena of individual languages and the general features of human language. Our researchers participate in the various thematic collaborations of the University of Turku: digital futures; cultural memory and social change; children, young people and learning; health, diagnostics and drug development; sea and maritime studies.
Our key research areas include
- digital linguistics
- philology, the history of learning, book history
- linguistic interaction and discourse
- changes in language and writing during periods of cultural transition
- language learning and education
- syntax and lexis
- variation in written and spoken language
- translation studies
- multilingualism and language contacts
- modern literature, especially postcolonial literary studies
The School of Languages and Translation Studies hosts the UTU-Digilang infrastructure, which is a collection of digital corpora and digital tools developed within the School and the Department of Computing.