Careers in Language and Intercultural Communication

Our graduates are employed worldwide in all areas of intercultural language education.

Example roles include:

  • Teaching language and intercultural communication in all school levels
  • Training other language teachers
  • Designing curricula, policies and materials
  • Undertaking research into the development of language and intercultural communication.

One of our core compulsory courses, Language and Intercultural Communication Pedagogy, contains micro-teaching activities. These allow students to hone their teaching skills by creating content for and delivering sessions.

Every year, representatives from large teacher recruitment agencies visit to discuss the benefits of becoming an intercultural language teacher. They also interview students short-listed for teaching posts.

Our programme tutorials are also great chances to network, discuss potential PhD research opportunities and learn from leading experts.

We are keen to show our students what it is like to work in a high-quality research environment, and we provide a good introduction for anyone interested in pursuing research at PhD level.

Careers Service

The University of Edinburgh's Careers Service supports all current students (and graduates for up to 2 years) to develop their potential and achieve satisfying and rewarding futures.

Join in and make use of:

  • individual appointments
  • group sessions
  • wider campus-based activity
  • online services and resources

We also deliver a diverse programme of face-to-face and online events throughout the academic year.

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