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.
Current Students
Drama
Soudabeh AnanisarabPhD topic: Shaw and the English Midlands
Joseph Anderton
PhD Topic: Beckett
Mathilda Branson
PhD Topic: Re-imagining the rural tour: new forms for new audiences
Makenzi Ilse Crouch
PhDTopic: You Tube Shakespeares
Sam Haddow
PhD Topic: Playing the Past: Historiographic approaches in contemporary British theatre
Language
Fatemah Albalawi
Studying towards a PhD
Michael Albritton
PhD Topic: What's the Point?: The Semiotics of Punctuation in the Digital Age
Ali Ali-Hoorie
PhD Topic: The effects of L2 self, ought-to-L" self and L2 learning experience on learning behaviour
David Allen
PhD Topic: Processing of Cognates by Japanese-English Bilinguals
Vassilis ArgyroulisPhD 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
Gareth Carrol
PhD Topic: Acquisition and processing of idioms in native and non-native speakers
Malgorzata Chalupnik
PhD Topic: Politeness in the Workplace
Letty Chan
PhD Topic: Motivation in second language learners and teachers
Yaxiao Cui
PhD Topic: Shifts in Narrative Viewpoint in the Fiction of Virginia Woolf
Zenah Dajem
PhD Topic: The Use of Prepositional Combinations by Arabic-English Bilinguals
Alice Doherty
PhD Topic: Pronoun Processing in L1 and L2
Anthony Fisher
PhD Topic: Media Discourse of 2010 General Election
Mélodie Garnier
PhD Topic: The acquisition of formulaic language in naturalistic vs. formal settings
Katherine GuptaPhD Topic: A corpus linguistic investigation into the media representation of the suffrage movement
Chloe Harrison
PhD Topic: Developing a cognitive discourse grammar
Philip Hiver
PhD Topic: L2 Motivation
Daniel Hunt
PhD Topic: Linguistic Analysis of Depression/Anorexia
Zana Ibrahim
PhD Topic: The effect of Politics on Motivation
Steven Kirk
PhD Topic: Second Language Spoken Fluency in Monologue and Dialogue
Elfrieda Lepp
Studying towards a PhD
Yen-Liang LinPhD Topic: Intercultural Communication and Young Learners
Anne Li-E Liu
PhD Topic: Interlanguage pragmatics: the case of multi-word discourse markers and registers
Marijana Macis
PhD Topic: A corpus-based study on the production of verb-noun collocations by Chilean university students of English
Lorenzo Mastropierro
PhD Topic: Corpus Stylistics and Translation Studies: A corpus-assisted study of Heart of Darkness and its Italian translations
Christine Muir
Studying towards a PhD
Robert Murphy
Studying towards a PhD
Wipapan Ngampramuan
PhD Topic: Linguistic Landscape: A Case Study of English used in Tourist Attractions in Thailand
Louise Nuttall
PhD Topic: A cognitive stylistic approach to mind style and the creation of character
Katia Pelides
PhD Topic: English Curriculum for Medical Students in Cyprus: Language Course Design and Materials
Shatha Qaiwer
PhD Topic: Critical Discourse Analysis of the language of Political Articles by Iraqi and English
Niloofar Rahimi
PhD Topic: Phonological working memory
Eric John Rundquist
PhD Topic: Ambiguity in Narrative Viewpoint
Kholood Saigh
PhD Topic: L1-L2 lexical form differences between Arabic and English
Pawel Szudarski
PhD Topic: The acquisition of collocations by EFL learners
Hilde Van Zeeland
PhD Topic: Vocabulary Knowledge and L2 Listening
Freerkien Waninge
PhD Topic: Emotion, Motivation and DST
Catherine Worlock Pope
PhD Topic: Corpus Linguistic
Melissa Yoong
PhD Topic: Sexism against women by women in Malaysian media for women
Chenjing (Julia) You
PhD Topic: The instruction and discussion about my research interests and research plan
Literature
Davide Castiglione
PhD Topic: The Language of 'Difficult' Poetry
Louise Ann Chamberlain
PhD Topic: Nature and Contemporary Poetry
Mathieu Donner
PhD Topic: Pandemic Narratives and the Renegotiation of Traditional Taxonomies and Dichotomies in Literature, Comics and Film
Edmund Downey
PhD Topic: The Democratization of Media in Radical Print Culture
Margaret EatonPhD Topic: Performance in the Life Writings of Frank McCourt
Kavitha Ganesan
PhD Topic: Malaysian Women Writers
Julia Gaze
Studying towards a PhD
Elaine Hudson
Studying towards a PhD
Steven Macnamara
Studying towards a PhD
Jemima Matthews
PhD Topic: Use and abuse of the Thames, 1550-1650
Charlotte May
PhD Topic: The influence of Lord Byron on Samuel Rogers
Alan McCluskey
Studying towards a PhD
Laura Nixon
PhD 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
PhD Topic: Byron and History
Steph Prentis
PhD Topic: Nexus, narration, and social protest 1972 - present
Mark Ryan
Studying towards a PhD
Rachael Anne Stanley
PhD Topic: J G Ballard and the Naturalist Tradition
Shuo Sun
PhD Research Topic: The Reception History of Victorian Literature in China
Jason Ward
Studying towards a PhD
Paul Whickman
PhD Topic: Shelley and Blasphemy
Emma Lucy Wilde
Studying towards a PhD
Julie Yandell
PhD Topic: Juxtaposition of Mary W. Shelley and the Bronte sisters
Emma Zimmerman
PhD Topic: Architecture and Architexture: Urban Space and Literary Form
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Medieval
Graham Collis
PhD Topic: Place-Names in Pas-de-Calais and Thuringia
Erin Connelly
PhD Topic: The Lily of Medicine: an edition of the Middle English translation of Bernard Gordons 'Lilium medicinae'
Roderick (Ruarigh) Dale
Studying towards a PhD
Pamela Greig
PhD Topic: Layfolk's Catachism
Brent Lapadula
PhD Topic: Community and the indvidual in Old English
Elizaveta Matveeva
PhD Topic: The problem of genre in Hrólfs saga kraka and related texts
Eleni Ponirakis
PhD Topic: The Anglo Saxon concept of the soul
John Quanrud
PhD Topic: Textual History of the Chronicle
Eleanor Rye
PhD Topic: Dialect in the Viking-Age Scandinavian Diaspora: the evidence of medieval minor names
Melissa Venables
PhD Topic: Storytelling in Beowulf and Old English
Teva Vidal
PhD Topic: Houses and Domestic Life in the Viking Age
Brandie Workun
PhD Topic: Lydgate and Spencer
Recently completed research students from the School of English
Jill Bourne (PhD - Graduated 2012)
The Place-Name Kingston and its Context
Ping Du (PhD - Graduated 2012)
Intercultural differences in Relational strategies at workplace meetings: A case study for two frameworks
Colin Gallagher (PhD - Graduated 2012)
In the loop: A social network approach to the willingness to communicate in the L2 (L2 WTC)
Madhu Khrishnan (PhD - Graduated 2012)
Constructions of Self and Community in the Contemporary Nigerian-Biafran War Novel
Maria-Eirini Panagiotidou (PhD - Graduated 2012)
Developing a cognitive poetic approach to intertextuality
Ana Pellicer-Sanchez (PhD - Graduated 2012)
Automaticity and speed of lexical access: Acquisition and assessment
David Peplow (PhD - Graduated 2012)
The analysis of Reading Groups
Suhad Sonbul (PhD - Graduated 2012)
The Interface of Explicit and Implicit Vocabulary Knowledge
Sarah Townley (PhD - Graduated 2012)
Redefining British Aestheticism: Elitism, Readerships and the Social Utility of Art
Daniel Weston (PhD - Graduated 2012)
Representation and experience in contemporary literary landscapes
Wenjuan Yuan (PhD - Graduated 2013)
A Cognitive Poetics of Kinaesthesia in Wordsworth