Our research students

Elnaz Afsharmehr

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Fernando Bustos Lopez

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Affect in foreign language learning and teaching; Individual differences in second language learning; Foreign language teachers and learners' emotions

Giacomo Iazzetta Iazzetta

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Ask me about: Sociolinguistics; Language Policy; Language in Education; Language and Inequalities; Arabic Sociolinguistics ; Multilingualism

Stephanie Martin Vega

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Ask me about: Bilingualism; Lexical Processing ; Language disorders ; EEG

Fate O'Gara

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Ask me about: Situation Models, Mental Representations, Prediction Research interests: Mental Representations; Prediction

Renato Pavlekovic

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Ask me about: Explicit and implicit knowledge ; Language learning aptitude; Reaction time experiments; Statistical analysis in linguistics Research interests: Explicit and implicit knowledge and learning; Language aptitude and working memory in SLA; Reaction time measures in applied linguistics; Measures of explicit and implicit language aptitude; Statistical models in linguistics

Mercedes Sanchez

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Concepción Soto García-Meléndez

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Ask me about: Language Attrition; Eye-tracking technology Research interests: Bilingual lexical processing; Language Attrition and Heritage languages; Eye-tracking technology in Applied Linguistics; Cross-linguistic interactions and Code-Switching

Willem Van Boxtel

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Ask me about: Effects of aging and dementia on language; Bilingual cognition; Language disorders; Experimental linguistics Research interests: Normal/clinical aging and linguistics; Bilingualism and cognition; Experimental linguistics

Ioanna Vasilopoulou

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Dyslexia & Reading Competence; Second Language Learning & Learning Difficulties ; Achievement Emotions & Language Anxiety

Elnaz Afsharmehr

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Mohammad Alenezi

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Bayan Almghamis

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Alaa Alqarni

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Bader Alshammari

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Katie Barratt

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Fiona Brewer

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Fernando Bustos Lopez

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Affect in foreign language learning and teaching; Individual differences in second language learning; Foreign language teachers and learners' emotions

Helga Donnerer

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Fiona Elsted

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Teacher Training; Teacher Development; The Transition from Teaching General English to EAP; Teacher Reflection; The relationship between academic locus of control and long-term perceived self-efficacy for academic writing in undergraduates

Xiaoduan Fan

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Gertrude Grumah

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Caroline Hawthorne

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Tomohisa Hirano

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Shiguang Hu

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Giacomo Iazzetta Iazzetta

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Ask me about: Sociolinguistics; Language Policy; Language in Education; Language and Inequalities; Arabic Sociolinguistics ; Multilingualism

Ahram Kang

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Stephanie King

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Stephanie Martin Vega

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Ask me about: Bilingualism; Lexical Processing ; Language disorders ; EEG

Michel Mason

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Embedding the SDGs into TEFL and TESOL: A pilot study; The Multiplier Effect: Embedding the SDGs for transformative sustainable education; Lecturers’ perceptions of student writers: Implications for academic literacy and EAP; Perspectives on academic writing: L1 and L2 students’ experience within Healthcare and Hospitality Foundation degree programmes ; Reflections on Welcome Week: The challenges mature students face when learning and making sense of academic conventions

Nur Mohd Yasin

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Fate O'Gara

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Ask me about: Situation Models, Mental Representations, Prediction Research interests: Mental Representations; Prediction

Shannan O'Neill

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Renato Pavlekovic

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Ask me about: Explicit and implicit knowledge ; Language learning aptitude; Reaction time experiments; Statistical analysis in linguistics Research interests: Explicit and implicit knowledge and learning; Language aptitude and working memory in SLA; Reaction time measures in applied linguistics; Measures of explicit and implicit language aptitude; Statistical models in linguistics

Girindra Reswari

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Pori Saikia

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Carmen Silvestri

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Ask me about: heritage languages, complementary schools, multilingual education, language and identity, linguistic ethnography

Nicole Smith

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Concepción Soto García-Meléndez

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Ask me about: Language Attrition; Eye-tracking technology Research interests: Bilingual lexical processing; Language Attrition and Heritage languages; Eye-tracking technology in Applied Linguistics; Cross-linguistic interactions and Code-Switching

James Spencer

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Anugraha Thorat

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics