Research degrees
General areas of supervision
Sociolinguistics
and interaction
Applied
linguistics
Communication and
new technologies
Language learning
and teaching
Supervisors
Dr Christopher J Hall (Areas of expertise:
English as a Lingua Franca; the multilingual mental lexicon; L2
vocabulary development; second language acquisition; applied
linguistics)
Dr Beverly
Geesin (Areas of expertise: surveillance, cultural studies,
semiotics, computer-mediated communication, new media art,
language and power)
Dr Andrew John Merrison (Areas of expertise:
socio-pragmatics; talk-in-inter-action; im/politeness in
(cross-cultural) inter-action; communicative aspects of language
disorder; repair of miscommunication)
Dr Helen Sauntson (Areas of expertise:
language, gender and sexuality; classroom discourse analysis;
gender, sexuality and education)
Dr Rachel Wicaksono (Areas of expertise:
teaching English to speakers of other languages; applied
linguistics; English as a Lingua Franca, especially in educational
settings; language classroom discourse)
Degrees offered
Masters by
Research
MPhil
PhD
Current research students
Vicky Crawley
(PhD Topic: Achieving understanding in interpreted
interaction.)
Helen Gilroy (PhD
Topic: Linguistic strategies for establishing and developing
student identity in an assessed international virtual learning
environment.)
Lyndsay Lindley
(PhD Topic: Discourse of dementia. Constructing identity
through conversations with people with dementia.)
Indu Meddegama
(PhD Topic: Melting the iceberg. A sociolinguistic study of the
unseen status/power relations originating from the linguistics
practices of a three-generational Indian Immigrant
community.)
Nathan Page (PhD
Topic: English as a Lingua Franca in Aid Work. A study of
verbal communication between Japanese volunteers for international
development and their interlocutors in East Africa.)
Further information
More
information on fees, requirements, application process and more can
be found here.