CTTR University of Wolverhampton

The Centre for Transnational and Transcultural Research (CTTR) is home to research in English Literature, Creative Writing, Religious Studies, Linguistics, Media Studies, Philosophy and Politics.  CTTR's members produce internationally recognised and world-leading research for the Research Assessment Framework (REF) subjects English Language & Literature (UoA27) and for Area Studies (UoA25). CTTR inspires, supports, and promotes a wide range of cutting edge research and public engagement activities that transcend traditional disciplinary and institutional boundaries. The research benefits from interdisciplinary cross-fertilisation, with shared initiatives, research supervisions, and impact. The blog can be found here.

CTTR hosts the AHRC-funded Novel Perceptions project, which uses a mixed methodology including Computational Literary Studies to understand the opinions of readers in the UK today. Starting in May 2026, Bas Groes will lead the project Computational Literary Studies UK (CLSUK) funded by an AHRC Curiosity Award. The project involves forming a UK network of scholars working on various computational approaches to literary study, connected with the pan-European CLS Infra network, and will run a series of workshops. 

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The University of Wolverhampton was previously represented in the CLARIN consortium by the Research Group in Computational Linguistics (RGCL), which was a founding member of the CLARIN-UK consortium in 2015. The Research Group in Computational Linguistics (RGCL) at the University of Wolverhampton was founded by Prof. Ruslan Mitkov in 1998 and was one of the leading research institutes in the UK. The group was well known for its high level research with strong international and inter-sector collaboration, and was renowned for its innovative NLP research and development of various NLP tools and resources.