Current PhD Students

ANTLE, Joshua
PhD Topic: Speaking of collocations: A comparison of productive and receptive tasks for fluency and collocation use
E-Mail: antlej@aston.ac.uk

BENOIT, Céline
PhD Topic: Discourse on Faith and Religious Education in English Schools
E-Mail: benoicfy@aston.ac.uk

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

BUENO HUDSON, Richard
PhD Topic: Imbalance of Language Skills in the Speech of Foreign Characters Portrayed in Films 
E-Mail: buenohur@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

D'ALMEIDA, Essi

PhD Topic: Modern foreign languages classroom: is inclusion of all exclusion in disguise?
E-Mail: dalmeide@aston.ac.uk

DIRIE, Said
PhD Topic: Market Languages in the Horn of Africa
E-Mail: diriesd@aston.ac.uk

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

EASAT, Amina
PhD Topic: The Islamic Headscarf and Political Participation in Francophone Europe: A Study of France and Belgium
Email: easata@aston.ac.uk

EDENE, Cody
PhD Topic: Representations of Gender Identity in Saudi Women
E-Mail: edenec@aston.ac.uk

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

FAGAN, Joe
PhD Topic: Modality and Learner Writing
E-Mail: faganj@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

GRANDON, Marcus
PhD Topic: The effect of video based lessons on the oral proficiency of Japanese EFL students 
E-Mail: grandomw@aston.ac.uk

GRAVELLS, Jane
PhD Topic: Accounts of a crisis: how the BP Deepwater Horizon crisis has been constructed through discourses
E-Mail: graveljs@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

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

LOCKE, Philippa

PhD Topic: Understanding Older People’s Experiences of Decision-Making in Social Care 
E-Mail: lockep@aston.ac.uk

MORITOSHI, Paul

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

NINI, Andrea

PhD Topic: Authorship profiling for Forensic Purposes 
E-Mail: ninia@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

SARRI, Urania
PhD Topic: The impact of L1 in bilingual immigrant Albanian students in the Greek primary school system
E-Mail: sarriu@aston.ac.uk

SEFERAJ, Kristjan
PhD Topic: A study on the relationship between styles of classroom delivery and Western teaching resources
E-Mail: seferajk@aston.ac.uk

SIEGEL, Joseph
PhD Topic: Problematising L2 listening pedagogy: The potential of process-based listening strategy instruction in the L2 classroom
E-Mail: siegeljp@aston.ac.uk

SILVER, Richard
PhD Topic: Teacher beliefs and learner autonomy
E-Mail: silverra@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

TESSEUR, Wine
PhD Topic: Transformation through Translation: Translation practices in political institutions
E-Mail: tesseurw@aston.ac.uk

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

WILKINS, Simon 
PhD Topic: Programming and assessment of speaking using the text-based approach in EFL
E-Mail: wilkisg1@aston.ac.uk

YAN, Gao
PhD Topic: Register and modality in different genres of medical texts
E-Mail: gaoy5@aston.ac.uk