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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Drama
Soudabeh Ananisarab
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Shaw and the English Midlands
Joseph Anderton
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Beckett
Gillian Brigg
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Theatre for PMLD Audiences
William Cowan
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: The Psychotic Stage
Makenzi Ilse Crouch
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: You Tube Shakespeares
Sam Haddow
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Playing the Past: Historiographic approaches in contemporary British theatre
Lisa Solley
Studying towards a PhD
Language
Fatemah Albalawi
Studying towards a PhD
David Allen
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Processing of Cognates by Japanese-English Bilinguals
Vassilis Argyroulis
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Developing and evaluating an ESP/EAP teaching methodology in a Greek university via the use of an electronic corpus: a comparison and contrast between the existing, traditional teaching method and a suggested corpus-supported one through exploring vocabulary and L2 student motivation
Judith Mary Bennett
Studying towards a PhD
Malgorzata Chalupnik
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Politeness in the Workplace
Letty Chan
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Motivation in second language learners and teachers
Yaxiao Cui
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Shifts in Narrative Viewpoint in the Fiction of Virginia Woolf
Alice Doherty
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Pronoun Processing in L1 and L2
Ping Du
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: The Intercultural Differences in the Rapport Strategies for Problem Talks at the Workplace meetings
David Evans
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: A corpus-based study of intensification and degree modification
Anthony Fisher
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Media Discourse of 2010 General Election
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: Developing a cognitive discourse grammar
Philip Hiver
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: L2 Motivation
Daniel Hunt
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Linguistic Analysis of Depression/Anorexia
Steven Kirk
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Second Language Spoken Fluency in Monologue and Dialogue
Elfrieda Lepp
Studying towards a PhD
Yen-Liang Lin
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Intercultural Communication and Young Learners
Lorenzo Mastropierro
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Corpus Stylistics and Translation Studies: A corpus-based study of Joseph Conrad and his Italian translations
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 in Tourist Attractions in Thailand
Maria-Eirini Panagiotidou
Studying towards a PhD
Research topic: Developing a cognitive poetic approach to intertextuality
Katia Pelides
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: English Curriculum for Medical Students in Cyprus: Language Course Design and Materials
David Peplow
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: The analysis of reading groups
Eric John Rundquist
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Ambiguity in Narrative Viewpoint
Kholood Saigh
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: L1-L2 lexical form differences between Arabic and English
Pawel Szudarski
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: The acquisition of collocations by EFL learners
Hilde Van Zeeland
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Vocabulary Knowledge and L2 Listening
Freerkien Waninge
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Emotion, Motivation and DST
Catherine Worlock Pope
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Corpus Linguistic
Chenjing (Julia) You
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: The instruction and discussion about my research interests and research plan
Wenjuan Yuan
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: An embodied easthetics of William Wordsworth
Literature
Nicola Bowring
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Communication and Monstrosity in the Gothic
Davide Castiglione
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: The Language of 'Difficult' Poetry
Louise Ann Chamberlain
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Nature and Contemporary Poetry
Edmund Downey
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: The Democratization of Media in Radical Print Culture
Margaret Eaton
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Performance in the Life Writings of Frank McCourt
Kavitha Ganesan
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Malaysian Women Writers
Julia Gaze
Studying towards a PhD
Elaine Hudson
Studying towards a PhD
Hiu-Yen Klaudia Lee
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Chinese adaptations of Dickens
Steven Macnamara
Studying towards a PhD
Lilliana Maliglowka
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Ethical Considerations in the Work of Kazuo Ishiguro
Jemima Matthews
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Use and abuse of the Thames, 1550-1650
Alan McCluskey
Studying towards a PhD
Laura Nixon
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Carmen Sylva and the presence of German women writers in British litarary culture in the 19th Century
Nathalie Pheasant
Studying towards a PhD
Ivan Pregnolato
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Byron and History
Jude Roberts
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Iain M Banks
Mark Ryan
Studying towards a PhD
Rachael Anne Stanley
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: J G Ballard and the Naturalist Tradition
Jason Ward
Studying towards a PhD
Paul Whickman
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Shelley and Blasphemy
Emma Lucy Wilde
Studying towards a PhD
Medieval
Harry Buxton
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: The Anglo-Saxon scop in Old English poetry and their role in society
Graham Collis
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Place-Names in Pas-de-Calais and Thuringia
Roderick (Ruarigh) Dale
Studying towards a PhD
Pamela Greig
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Layfolk's Catachism
Natasha Hedderman
Studying towards a MPhil
Research Topic: Translations of Beowulf
Brent Lapadula
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Community and the indvidual in Old English
Elizaveta Matveeva
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: The problem of genre in Hrólfs saga kraka and related texts
John Quanrud
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Textual History of the Chronicle
Eleanor Rye
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain
Marjolein Stern
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Visual Communication on runestones
Melissa Venables
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Storytelling in Beowulf and Old English
Teva Vidal
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Houses and Domestic Life in the Viking Age
Brandie Workun
Studying towards a PhD
Research Topic: Lydgate and Spencer
Elizabeth Adams PhD (2010)
Research Topic: Mary Elizabeth Braddon as a Professional Author: Mary, a case study
Marcus Conley PhD (2011)
Research Topic: Literary theory, genre, epistemology, eighteenth-century novels, contemporary novels
Irina Dahlmann PhD (2010)
Research Topic: Towards a multi-word unit inventory of spoken discourse
Richa Dwor PhD (2011)
Research Topic: Nineteenth-Century Jewish Women's Writing: Grace Aguilar and George Eliot, Amy Levy and Henry James
Martin Findell PhD (2010)
Research Topic: Vocalism in the Continental runic inscriptions
Marcello Giovanlli PhD (2011)
Research Topic: A Text World Theory approach to deictic world shifts in the poetry of John Keats
Sarah Grandage PhD (2010)
Research Topic: Reading Shakespearean allusion in contemporary newspaper discourse
Kevin Harvey PhD (2010)
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
Christian Jones PhD (2011)
Research Topic: Spoken discourse markers and English language teaching: practices and pedagogies
Dawn Knight PhD (2009)
Research Topic: A multi-modal corpus approach to the analysis of backchanneling behaviour
Andrea Macrae Phd (2010)
Research Topic: 'Reading metafiction: Interdiegetic deictic shifting in Fowles, Barth and Brophy'
Ron Martinez PhD (2011)
Research Topic: The development of a corpus-informed list of formulaic expressions and its applications to language assessment and test validity
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
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 PhD (2010)
Research Topic: Culture-Sensitive Taxonomy of Response Tokens: Moving from Listenership to Speakership
Odette Vassallo MPhil (2011)
Research Topic: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Literariness: An Empirical Study of Literary Reading Processes in L2 'learner-readers
Clare Wright MPhil (2011)
Research Topic: Space, Sound and Audience Experience in Late Medieval Drama
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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