Our research students

Elnaz Afsharmehr

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Kaspian Barratt

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Renato Pavlekovic

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Language and 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

Anugraha Thorat

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Elnaz Afsharmehr

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Faisal Al Fadhil

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Ahlam Al Nahawi

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Nora Alajmi

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Abdullah Aldhali

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Mohammad Alenezi

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Ali Alhartomy

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Seyyed Allahveysi

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Bayan Almghamis

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Leena Almohaimeed

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Essa Alnashib

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Areej Alnefaie

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Roaa Alothman

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

Abdulaziz Alsudays

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Denise Amankwah

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Adeyemi Awomodu

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Kaspian 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

Yilin Gao

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

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

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

Martha Johnson

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Stephanie King

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Ching Julia Li

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

Alaa Moafa

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Nur Mohd Yasin

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Mzati Nkolokosa

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Ask me about: Cognitive linguistics; Conceptualisation of distress; Metaphor and metonymy; Relationship between language, mind and culture

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

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

Arnab Podder

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Khalid Qasemi

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Girindra Reswari

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

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

Anugraha Thorat

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Jwana Tofiq

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Yu Zhai

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics