Our current PhD students include:
- Leila Abid - How is guilt recognised verbally and non-verbally?
- Taoues Aimeur - Media Coverage of International Women's Day in Algeria: A Feminist Multimodal Analysis of Contemporary Francophone and Arabophone Press.
- Stephanie Aldred - What are the key characteristics and components of a principled, reliable observation protocol for use in 'high-stakes' observation situations?
- Amal Alhamazany - Saudi English: A New Variety of English.
- Latifah Alharbi - Effect of Social Media in Teaching English: Investigation in Instagram Adoption in Teaching English as a Second Language.
- Ghazi Alhejely - Online Identities and Linguistic Practices: A case of Arab Study Abroad Students in the UK on Twitter.
- Fatima Ali - The realization of the speech act of refusals in an intercultural setting: Genuine or ostensible?
- Maye Alotaibi - English Cultural Metaphors’ Comprehension by Kuwaiti EFL: Investigating some Teaching and learning challenges.
- Hind Alraddadi - Language Choice of Bilingual Arab Children in UK Supplementary Schools: Description and Factors.
- Hanan Altarah - The Motivation and Investment of Female Bedouin Kuwaiti College-Level Students in Learning English.
- Maria Atmania - Music of Interaction: A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Approach towards Lyrical Potests and YouTube Comments of the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt.
- Sumayah Bayounis - Making Sense of the Contextual Information Seeking during Life Transition: An Exploratory Study of International Students (Saudis’ experience in the United Kingdom).
- Roumeissa Belbordj - Strategies for Language Maintenance through Family Language Planning: a comparative study in three multilingual families in Manchester.
- Khadidja Benouadah Senouci - Assessing the relationship between Emotional Intelligence and effective PhD supervision practices.
- Naima Benyahlou - Unpacking Listening comprehension: The role of Three Aural Vocabulary Dimensions and Strategies Among Algerian Postgraduates in the UK.
- Besma Benyetto - Investigating the Attitudes of Students and Lecturers towards Introducing English as a Medium of Instruction at the Tertiary Level in Algeria.
- Halima Benzdira - An Interactional Approach to Investigate the Realization of the Speech Act of Requests: Case Study of Algerian Ph.D. Students.
- Sarra Berhail - Interpretation and comprehension of British stand-up comedy by Algerian EFL learners: overcoming obstacles of communication.
- Zoe Bibbon - The Language of Menstruation.
- Narimane Boudali - The Popularization of Health Discourse on Social Media A Bidirectional Vision of Algerian Females’ Health Behaviour and Engagement on Instagram Rhetoric Vs Reality.
- Kawther Bouridane - Exploring the dynamics of domestic students’ and Algerian students’ contacts and their impacts on Identity Construction and Intercultural Competence in the context of HE Internationalization in the UK.
- Georgios Bouronikos - Identifying the shame emotion through verbal and nonverbal behavioural responses.
- Ffion Brown - The language of mental illness: How do men approach mental illness in public and workplace discourse?
- Amira Cherifi - Language Policies, Practices and Ideologies in Algerian Primary Education.
- Abdelkader Chetouane - Understanding and Characterising a Context-Based EFL Learner Autonomy in Algerian Higher Education.
- Andrew Coates - A Corpus Analysis of Academic Writing and how it Informs Writing Instruction on a University Pre-Sessional Course.
- Oliver Delgaram Nejad - Linguistic Creativity in Schizophrenia.
- Jessica Frye - The Terminology, Lexicography and Phraseology of Tibetan Buddhist English: a corpus approach to Tibetan Buddhist English and its pedagogical implications in the lexical syllabus of EFL in monastic and secular education in Nepal.
- Kevin Garnett - Catch Me Before I Kill Again! A Forensic Linguistic Analysis of the Strategic Writings of Violent Psychopaths.
- Dounya Graini - A Linguistic Exploration of the Way(s) Women Living with Breast Cancer Communicate their pain.
- Yassine Guermoudi - From first language education to a foreign language education:The case of the transition from secondary to tertiary education in Algeria.
- Nasrine Labani - "How sensitive am I?": An exploratory investigation of intercultural trajectories among Algerian PhD students in study abroad context.
- Chahla Lamri - Algerian Academic sojourners' identity construction in the UK: A Sociocultural approach.
- Cliff Lansley - Emotionintell: a generic Emotional Intelligence model.
- Anthony Picot - A Framework for Lexical Error Analysis; Unpicking a Knotty Problem.
- Samia Sikadir - Algerian Francophone Women Writers: Agency and the Art of Resistance.
- Hadjer Taibi - The effects of Mobility on Algerian students’ language ideologies and practices.
- Antonio Tilli - Pragmatics in Dementia Discourse. Linguistics, paralinguistic and extra linguistic cues in the communicative strategies in Vascular Dementia (VaD). A case study.
- Matthew Todd - An evaluation of police negotiator tactics and their ability to influence marauding terrorist firearms attacks and terrorist barricade siege incidents.
- Kathryn Westwood - An interdisciplinary exploration of the language of school exclusion.
Information about research degrees and how to apply
Students may register full-time (3 years for PhD and 2 years for MPhil), or part-time study.
Details of taught MA courses are available on our Postgraduate courses page.
