Research Students
The School of English has an active and vibrant research environment for our Postgraduate Research Students. Further information about office and other facilities for our research students is available on the Facilities for Research Students page.
Postgraduate research covers a wide variety of topics within English. All staff and PG students are supported in their research through research training, one-to-one supervision, student-led weekly PG seminars and opportunities to engage with research in our centres, institutes and regular research seminar series. For further information about postgraduate research, please view the student profiles below or contact english-postgrad@nottingham.ac.uk
Current Students
Areas of research: Drama , Language , Literature and Medieval
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Gillian Brigg
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Performance for audiences with profound and multiple learning difficulties: performances & reception
William Cowan
Studying towards a PhD
Makenzi Crouch
Studying towards a PhD
Sam Haddow
Studying towards a PhD
Clare Wright
Studying towards an MPhil
Research Topic: Space, Sound and Audience Experience in Late Medieval Drama
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David Allen
Studying towards a PhD
Vassilis Argyroulis
Studying towards a PhD
Judith Mary Bennett
Studying towards a PhD
Malgorzata Chalupnik
Studying towards a PhD
Letty Hing Yee Chan
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Second language motivation of students in Hong Kong
Yaxiao Cui
Studying towards a PhD
Alice Doherty
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Pronoun processing in first and second languages
Ping Du
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: The Intercultural Differences in the Rapport Strategies for Problem Talks at the Workplace meetings
David Ceri Evans
Studying towards an MPhil
Research Topic: A corpus-based study of intensification and degree modification
Anthony Fisher
Studying towards a PhD
Hugh Colin Gallagher
Studying towards an MPhil
Research Topic: Social Networks and Second Language Learning
Tianshuang Ge
Studying towards a PhD
Hamish Gillies
Studying towards a PhD
Marcello Giovanelli
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: A Text World Theory approach to deictic world shifts in the poetry of John Keats
Katherine Gupta
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: A corpus linguistic investigation into the media representation of the suffrage movement
Chloe Harrison
Studying towards a PhD
Research topic: Research into the extension of Cognitive Grammar towards a discourse framework
Daniel Hunt
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Contemporary Discourses of Mental Health
Nazia Husain
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: L2 Motivation
Duttawan Insorn
Studying towards a PhD
Steve Kirk
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Second Language Spoken Fluency in Monologue and Dialogue
Elfrieda Lepp
Studying towards a PhD
Eric Yen-Liang Lin
Studying towards a PhD
Intercultural Communication and Young Learners: An analysis of Online and Face-to-face Interaction
Anne Li-E Liu
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Interlanguage pragmatics: the case of multi-word discourse markers and registers
Michael Magid
Studying towards an MPhil
Research Topic: The Motivation of Chinese People Toward Learning English
Ron Martinez
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: The development of a corpus-informed list of formulaic expressions and its applications to language assessment and test validity
Lorenzo Mastropierro
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Corpus Stylistics and Translation Studies: A corpus-based study of Joseph Conrad and his Italian translations
Kayoko Mayumi
Studying towards an MPhil
Research Topic: Temporal changes of language learner motivation
Neil (David) McClelland
Studying towards a PhD
Robert Murphy
Studying towards a PhD
Wipapan Ngampramuan
Studying towards a PhD
Research topic: Linguistic landscape: a case study of English used on signs in tourist attractions in Thailand
Maria-Eirini Panagiotidou
Studying towards a PhD
Research topic: Developing a cognitive poetic approach to intertextuality
Ana Pellicer Sánchez
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Incidental vocabulary acquisition from written input
David Peplow
Studying towards an PhD
Research Topic: Assessing the cognitive stance of readers of modernist short fiction
Kholood Saigh
Studying towards a PhD
Nicola Snarey
Studying towards an MPhil
Research Topic: To challenge the Bakhtinian approach to poetry
Suhad Sonbul
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: The Interface of Explicit and Implicit Vocabulary Knowledge
Paweł Szudarski
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Acquisition of formulaic sequences by learners of English as a foreign language
Hilde van Zeeland
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Second language vocabulary knowledge and listening
Freerkien Waninge
Studying towards a PhD
Catherine Worlock Pope
Studying towards a PhD
Chenjing (Julia) You
Studying towards a PhD
Wenjuan Yuan
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Toward a Cognitive Poetics of William Wordsworth
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Soudabeh Ananisarab
Studying towards a PhD
Joseph Anderton
Studying towards a PhD
Nicola Bowring
Studying towards an MPhil
Research Topic: Images of evil within Gothic fiction - from early fiction to present day
Davide Castiglione
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Difficulty in 20th century poetry: a stylistic and semantic investigation
Louise Chamberlain
Studying towards a PhD
Edmund Downey
Studying towards a PhD
Margaret Eaton
Studying towards an MPhil
Research Topic: Performativity in the life writings of Frank McCourt
Kavitha Ganesan
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Malaysian Literature in English: Contemporary works of fiction and non-fiction by female writers of Malay, Chinese and Indian ethnic backgrounds (2001-2010)
Julia Gaze
Studying towards a PhD
Elaine Claire Hudson
Studying towards an MPhil
Annette Jones
Studying towards an MPhil
Madhu Krishnan
Studying towards a PHD
Research Topic: The Textual Mechanics of Identification in the Third Generation Nigerian Civil War Novel
Klaudia Lee
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: The Other Dickens: Imperialist versus Anti-Capitalist
Steven Macnamara
Studying towards a PhD
Liliana Maliglowka
Studying towards an MPhil
Jemima Matthews
Studying towards a PhD
Alan McCluskey
Studying towards an MPhil
Research Topic: The sublimated metaphor as device in Metafiction
Laura Elizabeth Nixon
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: The influence of German women writers on British women's writing during the Victorian period
Nathalie Pheasant
Studying towards a PhD
Ivan Pregnolato
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Byron and the Discourse(s) of History in Early Nineteenth Century Britain
Jude Roberts
Studying towards an MPhil
Research Topic: The ambiguity of self and state in the work of Iain (M.) Banks
Mark Ryan
Studying towards a PhD
Rachael Stanley
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: J.G. Ballard’s reinvention of the ‘roman fleuve’ and his place as a Naturalist writer
Jason Ward
Studying towards an MPhil
Daniel Weston
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Articulating place: Representation and experience in contemporary literary landscapes
Tim Wheelhouse
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: The works of Rider Haggard
Paul Whickman
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Romantic Blasphemies: Sacrilege and Creativity in the Literature of Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley
Emma Wilde
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Our understanding of gender, and how it has been debated, depicted and defined through Frankenstein, its adaptations and appropriations
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Jill Bourne
Studying towards an MPhil
Research Topic: The place name Kingston and its context
Harry Buxton
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: The Anglo-Saxon 'scop' and their role in society
CM Carnes
Studying towards an MPhil
Research Topic: Place names
Graham Collis
Studying towards a PhD
Roderick Dale
Studying towards an MPhil
Research Topic: The Berserk Warrior – a re-examination of the phenomenon in literature and life
Pamela Greig
Studying towards a PhD
Natasha Hedderman
Studying towards a PhD
Annette Jones
Studying towards an MPhil
Research Topic: Runology
Brent Lapadula
Studying towards a PhD
Elizaveta Matveeva
Studying towards a PhD
John Quanrud
Studying towards a PhD
Malte Ringer
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Imagining the pagan past in early Medieval Europe
Eleanor Rye
Studying towards a PhD
Marjolein Stern
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Visual Communication on Viking Age Runestones
Melissa Venables
Studying towards a PhD
Teva Vidal
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Houses and Domestic Life in the Viking Age
Brandie Workun
Studying towards a PhD
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Elizabeth Adams PhD (2011)
Research Topic: Critical edition of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's final novel Mary
Sarah Atkins MPhil (2011)
Research Topic: Internet communication and the 'virtual community' as a resource for ongoing healthcare; how relationships are maintained through the discourse of Internet Support Groups
Anne Althea Christopher PhD (2009)
Research Topic: A study of the use of rhetorical Figures & strategies in Advertising Slogans
Marcus Conley PhD (2011)
Research Topic: Literary theory, eighteenth-century novels, contemporary novels
Irina Dahlmann PhD (2009)
Research Topic: Multi-word units and mental processes in native speakers and learners - a corpus-based approach
Richa Dwor PhD (2011)
Research Topic: Form and Feeling: Locating Jewish meaning in the works of Grace Aguilar and Amy Levy
Claudia Monica Ferradas MPhil (2011)
Research Topic: Re-Defining Anglo-Argentine Literature: From Travel Writing to Travelling Identities
Martin Philip Findell PhD (2010)
Research Topic: Vocalism in the Continental runic inscriptions
Zoe Formby MPhil (2011)
Research Topic: The Myth of 9/11
Sarah Grandage PhD (2010)
Research Topic: Shakespearean allusion in contemporary newspaper discourse
Kevin Harvey PhD (2008)
Research Topic: Adolescent Health Communication
Kate Haworth PhD (2009)
Research Topic: An Analysis of Police Interview Discourse and its role(s) in the Judicial Process
Emily Suzanne Horton PhD (2009)
Research Topic: Unreliability & the Contemporary Subject
Kelly Sarah Hughes MRes (2011)
Research Topic: The Ideological Didacticism of Mary A. Ward
Shu-Chiu Hung PhD (2009)
Research Topic: A Study of Awareness-raising Grammer Teaching on Chinese Learners
Christian Jones MPhil (2011)
Research Topic: Spoken discourse markers and English language teaching: practices and pedagogies
Dawn Knight PhD (2009)
Research Topic: HeadTalk: The development and exploration of multimodal linguistic corpora
Sung-Il Lee PhD (2008)
Research Topic: Source of word understanding
Heather Louise Lilley PhD (2009)
Research Topic: Intercultural Theatre
Jie Li PhD (2009)
Research Topic: Chinese students vocabulary acquisition through second language reading
Phoebe Ming Sum Lin PhD (2010)
Research Topic: The Prosody of formulaic sequences in spoken corpora
Mathias Mbuh PhD (2009)
Research Topic: DH Lawrence and the Literature of Enclaved cultures
Andrea Macrae PhD (2010)
Research Topic: 'Reading metafiction: Interdiegetic deictic shifting in Fowles, Barth and Brophy'
Maria Mifsud MPhil (2011)
Research Topic: The Relationship of Teachers' and Students' Motivation in ELT in Malta: A Mixed Methods Study
Shaida Mohammadi MPhil (2009)
Research Topic: Interaction in oral assessment
Joanna Elaine Pready PhD (2009)
Research Topic: Identity of the modern individual in the hotel space
Nikoleta Rapti PhD (2010)
Research Topic: Second language acquisition based on on-line corpora
Rita Elia Sakr PhD (2009)
Research Topic: Monumentality in the works of Joyce, Al Daif & Pamuk
Fumiko Sato PhD (2010)
Research Topic: Japonisme in late Nineteenth-Century British culture
Nicholas Paul Seager PhD (2009)
Research Topic: Raising the Novel: Daniel Defoe and the History of Fictional Form
Anna Siyanova MhD (2010)
Research Topic: Processing of formulaic sequences by native speakers and proficient bilinguals
Lisa Mooney Smith PhD (2009)
Research Topic: The Humanities Value Chain
Tatsuya Taguchi PhD (2010)
Research Topic: An investigation of EFL learning activities as motivated strategies in Japan
Supong Tangkiengsirisin PhD (2010)
Research Topic: Pedagogical approaches to enhancing cohesion
Florentina Taylor PhD (2011)
Research Topic: A Quadripolar Self System
Sarah Townley PhD (2011)
Research Topic: Redefining British aestheticism: Elitism, readerships and the social utility of art 1865-1932
Keiko Tsuchiya MPhil (2010)
Research Topic: Differences in functions and places of discourse between NS-NS and NS-NNS conversation
Odette Vassallo MPhil (2011)
Research Topic: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Literariness: An Empirical Study of Literary Reading Processes in L2 'learner-readers
Christine Suk-yi Yu PhD (2009)
Research Topic: Pictures in the Mind - A Comparative Study of Image Visualization in Chinese and English Creative Writing Corpora with Pedagogical Implications
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