Doctoral researchers in English Language and Linguistics

PhD title: The role of English in Saudi Vision 2030: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Supervisors: Dr Petra Schoofs and Dr Gareth Carrol
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: The Vocabulary Growth of EFL Learners in Saudi Arabia
Supervisors: Dr Gareth Carrol and Dr Petra Schoofs
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: The Production Effect on the Acquisition of Arabic Language as an Additional Language
Supervisors: Dr Gareth Carrol and Dr Bene Bassetti
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: A corpus-based investigation of Saudi women’s linguistic identity on Twitter.
Supervisors: Dr Paul Thompson and Professor Michaela Mahlberg
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Metaphors in the English and French newspapers at critical junctures in the relationship between the UK and the European Union
Supervisors: Dr Ruth Page and Dr Bodo Winter
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Handling the pragmatics of speech acts with construction grammar and cognitive semantics
Supervisors: Dr Florent Perek and Dr Amanda Patten
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: A Longitudinal Study of the Disciplinary Writing Development of Chinese Students in a UK University: Writing Development from a Dynamic System Theory Perspective
Supervisors: Dr Paul Thompson and Dr Amanda Patten
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Cognitive Predictors of Individual Differences in Language Acquisition
Supervisors: Professor Ewa Dąbrowska, Professor Dagmar Divjak  and Dr Nick Riches (University of Newcastle)  
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Incitement to Islamophobia? An interdisciplinary study of counter-radicalisation discourse in the UK
Supervisor: Professor Michael Toolan (ELAL); Dr Chris Allen and Dr Simon Pemberton (Social Policy)
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: A corpus-based investigation into the lexical features of real-world ironic utterances within political discourse
Supervisors: Dr Crayton Walker and Dr Paul Thompson
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: The Academics of Creativity: Studies on a Multimodal PG Design Corpus.
Supervisors: Dr Nicholas Groom and Professor Susan Hunston
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: A corpus linguistics and conversation analysis approach to online conversations
Supervisors: Professor Jack Grieve and Professor Elizabeth Stokoe
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: The creativity of figurative messaging in advertising: A collaborative investigation into its application and measurement of success in real-world advertising campaigns
Supervisors: Professor Jeannette Littlemore ,  Dr Bodo Winter and Anthony Tattum (CEO Big Cat Marketing and Creative Advertising Agency)
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Appraisal analysis of #blacklivesmatter on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr
Supervisor: Dr Ruth Page
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: A Corpus Assisted Study of Political and Media Discourse in the Lead Up to Britain's EU Membership Referendum
Supervisors: Professor Susan Hunston
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: The Acquisition of Polish as a Heritage Language in Children Attending British Monolingual Schools.
Supervisors: Professor Ewa Dąbrowska and Professor Dagmar Divjak
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Do Language Attitudes Matter? A study of home language environments, language attitudes, and academic achievement among D/deaf adolescents in the US, UK and Netherlands
Supervisor: Dr Robin Thompson and Professor Adam Schembri
Phd Psychology (working with English Language and Linguistics)

PhD title: Impact of African American Vernacular English on the work of American Sign Language interpreters
Supervisors: Dr Adam Schembri
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Academic Writing Development at the University Level: The Treatment of Shell Nouns Across Discipline, Level of Study, and Genre. 
Supervisors: Dr Paul Thompson and Dr Garry Plappert
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Emergence and Development of Verb Agreement in Kufr Qassem Sign Language
Supervisors: Professor Adam Schembri and Dr Marcus Perlman
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Count/Noncount distinction of Abstract Nouns in English
Supervisors: Dr Florent Perek and Dr Paul Thompson
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title:  Exploring verb tense and aspect in successful student writing to inform EAP instruction
Supervisors: Dr Garry Plappert and Dr Paul Thompson
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Cognitive processes of listen-to-summarize task: A mixed-methods study
Supervisors: Professor Dagmar Divjak  and Dr Petar Milin
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Tracking Moral Shifts in American Culture, from Dignity to Victimhood; A Corpus Linguistic Investigation
Supervisors: Dr Nicholas Groom, Dr Joe Spencer-Bennett and Dr Bodo Winter
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: The impact of technology-enhanced language learning on learners' attention, motivation and language skills: Insights from an individual-differences experimental approach
Supervisors: Professor Dagmar Divjak  and Professor Petar Milin
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Technology tools adaptation in second language writing in Vietnam
Supervisors: Dr Amanda Patten and Dr Paul Thompson
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: A Corpus-based Analysis of the keywords of the IPCC Summaries for Policymakers Comparison with Business Media Coverage
Supervisors: Dr Paul Thompson and Professor Michaela Mahlberg
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Processing and learning nonadjacent collocations in L1 and L2 French
Supervisors: Dr Gareth Carrol and Professor Dagmar Divjak
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Validity of German regional dialect markers for authorship profiling
Supervisors: Professor Jack Grieve and Dr Bodo Winter
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Constructionalizing Conversation: Collaborative Insubordination in English Language Podcasts
Supervisors: Dr Florent Perek and Dr Amanda Patten
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: A Corpus-based Study on the use of modals by Chinese learners of English
Supervisors: Dr Paul Thompson and Dr Florent Perek

PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Evaluative language in undergraduate writing
Supervisors: Dr Paul Thompson and Dr Matteo Fuoli
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Investigating Impoliteness and Impoliteness Reciprocity in Political Language
Supervisors: Dr Joe Spencer-Bennett and Dr Matteo Fuoli
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: How does sensory experience affect the way people use and understand synaesthetic metaphor?
Supervisors: Professor Jeannette Littlemore , Dr Marcus Perlman and Dr Bodo Winter
MA Social Research / to be followed by PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Research into the distinctiveness of modern Quaker discourse
Supervisors: Nicholas Groom, Jeannette Littlemore, and Ben Pink Dandelion
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: A linguistic approach to analysing and identifying language features of fake news.
Supervisors: Jack Grieve and Matteo Fuoli
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Implementing learner corpora in EAP materials design:Chinese L1 students' understanding of the use of epistemic lexical verbs in academic written English
Supervisors: Dr Amanda Patten and Dr Akira Murakami
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Evaluating the effects of semantic transparency and the timing of explicit instruction on learning verb-noun collocations in the Japanese EFL context
Supervisors: Dr Gareth Carrol (Lead Supervisor) and Dr Crayton Walker (Co-Supervisor)
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics (Distance Learning)

PhD title: Exploring interlocutors’ impact on Chinese EFL learners’ communication strategy use in study abroad immersion learning settings: a comparison of learners’ dyads on a TESOL studies course
Supervisors: Dr Petra Schoofs and Dr Garry Plappert 
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics