Current PhD Students

AL-ALAMI, Suhair

PhD Topic: Utilising fiction to promote language learning
E-Mail: alalamis@aston.ac.uk

ALKHAWAJA, Linda

PhD Topic: The role of agents in the translation into English of the novels of Naguib Mahfouz
E-Mail: alkhawgl@aston.ac.uk

AL-OBAIDANI, Khalfan
PhD Topic: Ideological Aspects of the Translation of English-Arabic Annual Reports in Oman
E-Mail: alobakss@aston.ac.uk

AL-MAAINI, Ahmed

PhD Topic: Translator Training Programs in the Gulf: current situation with regards to market and student needs, in a total quality training approach
E-Mail: almaaahs@aston.ac.uk

ALSADI, Randa
PhD Topic: An Investigation Into The Role Of Instruction On Marked Forms In Acquiring Second Language Syntax: A Case Study Of The Acquisition Of Relative Clauses
E-Mail: alsadir@aston.ac.uk

BOON, Andrew
PhD Topic: Learner support and discovery in virtual non-judgmental environments 
E-Mail: boonap@aston.ac.uk

BOSSUYT, Fabienne
PhD Topic: The EU’s involvement in the International trading system: Developing and applying the concept of 'transnational power over' (TNPO)
E-Mail: bossuyfj@aston.ac.uk

BURDUMY, Alexander

PhD Topic: Welfare state and repression in dictatorships: the case of the GDR 1971-1989
E-Mail: burdumab@aston.ac.uk

CENCICH, Andrea

PhD Topic: Las Novelas Negras: The relation between military dictatorships and the depiction of contemporary criminological theories in Chilean literature
E-Mail: cencicav@aston.ac.uk

DOAN, Xuan Loc
PhD Topic: Interregionalism and EU-ASEAN relations
E-Mail: doanx@aston.ac.uk

EBRAHIM, Haleema
PhD Topic: An exploration of female leadership language: Case studies of female managers in Bahrain
E-Mail: ebrahimh@aston.ac.uk

ERSOY, Ferdiye
PhD Topic: Identity issues in Northern Cyprus
E-Mail: ersoyf@aston.ac.uk

GRAHAM, Linda
PhD Topic: An investigation into the use of phonics instruction to increase phonics awareness in Arab adult students 
E-Mail: grahaml@aston.ac.uk

HARRIS, Simon

PhD Topic: Structure of Input in Teacher Training Classrooms
E-Mail: harrisa2@aston.ac.uk

HAYES, Sarah

PhD Topic: The Political Discourse and Material Practice of Technology Enhanced Learning: A Critical Discourse Analysis
E-Mail: hayessl1@aston.ac.uk

IGNATOWICZ, Agnieszka
PhD Topic: Migration and mobility of post-2004 Polish migrants: narrations of gender
E-Mail: ignatowa@aston.ac.uk

ISSERLIS, Simon
PhD Topic: The language of the Sea: A Study of the Linguistic Influence Of Maritime Tradition on Standard English
E-Mail: isserlsj@aston.ac.uk

KASSEM, Abeer

PhD Topic: The testing and trading of Intelligible Pronunciation
E-Mail: kassema@aston.ac.uk

LAHEL, Amarjit

PhD Topic: Political Leadership and Institutionalism
E-Mail: lahela@aston.ac.uk

MORITOSHI, Paul

PhD Topic: Integrating project-based learning in Japanese universities and colleges 
E-Mail: moritotp@aston.ac.uk

PICORNELL, Isabel
PhD Topic: Identifying Markers of Deception in Written Text and Establishing a Methodology for Statement Analysis
E-Mail: picornic@aston.ac.uk

PYMM, Sarah

PhD Topic: Interwar/Post war women's writing
E-Mail: s.e.pymm@aston.ac.uk 

RAMOS-CABALLERO, Aurelio

PhD Topic: Fictionalising the Spanish civil war: representing fascism in contemporary Spanish narrative 
E-Mail: ramoscaa@aston.ac.uk

RITONGA, Mara Untung
PhD Topic: The exploration of metaphor in the Indonesian socio-political domain
E-Mail: ritongam@aston.ac.uk

TANGUAY, Elizabeth
PhD Topic: A systemic functional analysis of interpersonal language (specifically stance) in spoken EAP (seminars) with implications for teaching/materials design
E-Mail: tanguaye@aston.ac.uk

TCACIUC, Luciana Sabina
PhD Topic: Translation practices at the European Central Bank with reference to metaphors
E-Mail: tcacilsm@aston.ac.uk 

THIELE, Klaus
PhD Topic: IT Metaphors in Spoken Academic Discourse in German and English.
E-Mail: k.p.thiele@aston.ac.uk

TOMBLIN, Sam 
PhD Topic: Quantifying the occurence of formulaic language in short written texts with a view to differentiating between authors in the forensic context
E-Mail: tomblisd@aston.ac.uk 

WIELANDER, Elisabeth 
PhD Topic: CLIL in UK Higher Education - Content and Language Integrated Learning in Modern Language Teaching, based on a case study in German at Aston University
E-Mail: wielane1@aston.ac.uk

WOCHNIK, Alexander
PhD Topic: Governance in foreign policy making in German-Polish relations
E-Mail: wochniat@aston.ac.uk

XENI, Elena
PhD Topic: Investigating humour translation strategies and norms in literature for children and young adults
E-Mail: xenie@aston.ac.uk