UCL’s Translation and Technology MSc equips language specialists to operate in high-stakes contexts where precision and nuance of communication are paramount. Through interdisciplinary study blending practical techniques, technological expertise, and critical understanding of tools and intercultural competences, you will master audience-specific modes of translation, cross-cultural interpreting, intercultural mediation, and AI-driven translation technologies. Our MSc graduates emerge as translators, interpreters, subtitlers, and writers, competitively positioned for careers in science, technology, and communications industries.
The Translation and Technology (Audiovisual) MSc is driven by a commitment to making gaming, streaming, audio description, and accessible information a reality for every audience, transcending language barriers and accommodating specific needs. The MSc offers intensive, research-led, professional training designed to equip you with the skills to craft efficient, creative, and accurate translations for diverse producers, products, and platforms.
The MSc modules cover the localisation of videogames, the support of multilingual interactive web platforms, and the creation of audiovisual content for training tutorials, films, and commercial advertising. Learning from CenTraS staff, who design training for major streaming platforms and produce adaptations for leading broadcasters, you gain the expertise to create industry-ready subtitles, dubbing scripts, audio descriptions, captions, and mobile localisation assets.
This MSc is designed to enable language specialists to develop the skills essential to mediating high-stakes messages across cultures and languages. The MSc will equip graduates with the potential to become future translators, interpreters, editors, journalists, policymakers, researchers, and marketing specialists in the fields of translation, publishing, journalism, advertising, and communication industries.
CenTraS runs the ‘Inside the Translation Industry’ networking event connecting students with employers and alumni.
MSc graduates develop transferable skills in high demand as they can both exploit and adapt to technologies and ever-changing workflows, demonstrating intellectual flexibility in engaging successfully with diverse disciplinary approaches. They are highly valued for their linguistic knowledge, intercultural understanding, analytical rigour, and ability to produce coherent research and analysis.
76.5% of CenTraS master’s degree graduates secure highly skilled positions or pursue graduate study.
The transferrable skills acquired at CenTraS enable our master’s degree graduates to pursue varied careers in publishing, journalism, or translation (33.3%), IT, technology and telecomms (8%), teaching or other educational activities (7.4%), media (6.2%) , academic research and higher education (4.3%) and charities, NGOs and international development (2.5%).