Completed PhDs

2013

Yvonne Fowler
Non-English-speaking defendants in the Magistrates Court: a comparative study of face-to-face and prison video link interpreter-mediated hearings in England
Supervisor: Dr Krzysztof Kredens

Isabel Picornell
Cues to Deception in a Textual Narrative Context
Supervisor: Dr Tim Grant

Samuel Tomblin
'To cut a long story short': an analysis of formulaic sequences in short written narratives and their potential as markers of authorship
Supervisor: Prof Malcolm Coulthard

2012

Agnieszka Ignatowicz
Migration and mobility of new Polish migrants in England: narratives of lived experience
Supervisor: Prof Gargi Bhattacharyya

Suhair Al-Alami
Utilising fiction to promote English language acquisition
Supervisor: Dr Urszula Clark

Randa Alsadi
An investigation into the effects of processing instruction on the acquisition of English relative clauses by Syrian learners
Supervisor: Dr Urszula Clark

Fabienne Bossuyt 
The EU'S 'Transnational Power Over' Central Asia: Developing and Applying a Structurally Integrative Approach to the Study of the EU's Power over Central Asia
Supervisor: Dr Uwe Wunderlich

Alexander Burdumy 
Welfare State and Repression in the GDR: East Berlin 1971-1989
Supervisor: Dr Stefan Manz

Simon Harris 
Structures of Interaction in Teacher Training Classrooms
Supervisor: Dr Urszula Clark

Amarjit Lahel
Political leadership: character and performance. A comparative analysis of British political leadership, 1997- 2010
Supervisor: Prof John Gaffney

2011

Ahmad Ayyad 
Translation and Peace: Arabic, English and Hebrew Versions of Israeli-Palestinian Peace Initiatives
Supervisor: Prof Christina Schaeffner

2010

Benjamin Bacle 
Le prix de l’individualité : Maine de Biran, Samuel Taylor et la volonté, deux postérités distinctes
Supervisor: Dr Hélène Stafford

Inès Saddour
Relating two simultaneous events in discourse: The role of on-goingness devices in L1 Tunisian Arabic, L1 French and L2 French by Tunisian learners
Supervisor: Dr Emmanuelle Labeau

Sarah Haas
By Writers For Writers: Developing a writer-centred model of the writing process
Supervisor: Dr Sue Garton

Nur Kurtoglu-Hooton
Post-observation feedback as an instigator of learning and change
Supervisor: Dr Sue Garton

Nicci MacLeod
Police Interviews with Women Reporting Rape: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Supervisor: Dr Carol Marley

Iztok Kosem
Designing a model for a corpus-driven dictionary of academic English
Supervisor: Ramesh Krishnamurthy

2009

Ivaylo Gatev
The New Neighbouhood Policy of the EU
Supervisor: Prof Anne Stevens

Anna Gruszczynska
Queer Enough? Contested Terrains of Identity Deployment in the Context of Gay and Lesbian Public Activism in Poland
Supervisor: Dr Pam Lowe

Chantal Gagnon
La traduction des discours politiques au Canada
Supervisor: Prof Christina Schaeffner

Ting Guo
Surviving in violent conflicts : Chinese interpreters in the second Sino-Japanese War (1931-1945)
Supervisor: Dr Kate Sturge

Yvonne Henze
Challenges and Limitations of Intercultural Training for Inpatriates in German Multinationals: A Case Study
Supervisor: Dr Claudia Gremler

Teresa Zuhl (MPhil)
Ethnic identity in a globalised world : the German community in Richmond and Kingston since 1970
Supervisor: Dr Stefan Manz

2008

Christophe Alix
Une étude générique du metteur en scène au théâtre : son émergence et son rôle moderne et contemporain
Supervisor: Prof John Gaffney

Muna Morris-Adams
Coherence and understanding in informal conversations between native and non-native speakers of English
Supervisor: Dr Sue Garton

2007

Stefan Baumgarten
Translation as an ideological interface : English translations of Hitler's Mein Kampf
Supervisor: Prof Christina Schaeffner

Vincent Villardon
La Transformation du Front National par les Mégrétistes entre 1986 et 1999
Supervisor: Prof Michael Sutton

2006

Sylvia Jaworska
Teaching and Learning German Language in Higher Education in Britain
Supervisor: Prof Gertrud Reershemius

Philip Quirke
Using the Web to Support Teachers of English as a Second/Foreign Language Doing Further Studies at a Distance
Supervisor: Dr Sue Garton

2005

Christopher Nicol
Reacting and responding in "TESOL Quarterly" : a generic analysis of procedure and purpose in intertextual critical exchanges
Supervisor: Dr Sue Garton

Maria Magdalena Hernandez Alarcon
La politique linguistique et l'avenir du Francais au Mexique : etude du cas de l'universite de Veracruz
Supervisor: Dr Sue Wright

Jeremy Whistle
Using computer concordancing for the learning of French as a second language
Supervisor: Dr Pierre Larrivee

2004

Elisabeth Ertl
Die behandlung Englischen kulturgutes im wiener fin de siècle: am Beispiel von Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Hermann Bahr und Peter Altenberg
Supervisor: Dr Rudiger Gorner

2001

Abdulla Nasser Khalifa Al-Harrasi
Metaphor in (Arabic-into-English)translation with specific reference to metaphorical concepts and expressions in political discourse 
Supervisor: Prof Christina Schaeffner