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PhD alumni
Graduating Year: 2021
Elvis Coimbra-Gomes
Teaching Fellow (University of Lausanne) & Graduate Student (Haute École Pédagogique Vaudoise)
Email: elvis.coimbragomes [at] unil.ch
Dissertation Title:
Language & Normativity in Sexuality & Gender-Related Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: a Netnographic-Informed Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study
Stamatina Katsiveli
Email: s.katsiveli-siachou [at] qmul.ac.uk
Dissertation Title: Intersections of Sexuality and Greek National Belonging: A Conversation Analytic Approach
Elisa Passoni
Associate Lecturer in Phonetics and Phonology, University of York
Email: e.passoni [at] qmul.ac.uk
Dissertation Title: Gendered L1 Attrition and L2 Acquisition of Pitch Range in Japanese-English Sequential Bilinguals
Karen V. Beaman
Postdoctoral researcher, Karls Eberhard Universität Tübingen
Email: karenbeamanvslx [at] gmail.com
Dissertation title: Coherence in Real–and Apparent–Time: A Sociolinguistic Variationist Investigation of Language Change in Swabia
Graduating Year: 2020
Nate Young
Adjunct Lecturer in Linguistics at Stockholm University
Email: nathan.young [at] biling.su.se
Dissertation Title:
Voices from socially-stratified urban Scandinavia: Rhythmic and vocalic variation of male
Stockholmers by class, ethnicity, and style
Christian Ilbury
Lecturer in Sociolinguistics at the University of Edinburgh
Email: cilbury
[at]
exseed.ed.ac.uk
Dissertation Title: Beyond the Offline: Social Media and the Social Meaning of Variation
Aleksandr Kalinin
Email: a.kalinin [at] qmul.ac.uk
Dissertation Title: Gapping and its Mechanisms
Mame Nikabs
Email: m.nikabs [at] qmul.ac.uk
Dissertation Title: Gifts or Bribes: Discourses of Informal Payments in the Ghanian Media
Tom Rausch
Communication Expert at the Ministry of Health in Luxemburg
Email: t.rausch [at] qmul.ac.uk
Dissertation title: Discursive Construction of Identity and Risk in a Pan-African Health Organization: A Linguistic Ethnography
Graduating Year: 2019
Zoe Adams
Postdoctoral Researcher at QMUL
Email: z.k.adams [at] qmul.ac.uk
Dissertation Title: The Persuasiveness of British accents: Enhancing Parental Self-Efficacy to Manage Children's Oral Health Behaviour
Mohammad Alhailawani
Assistant Professor at University of Petra
Email: m.alhailawani [at] qmul.ac.uk
Dissertation Title: Nominal Structure and Ellipsis in Jordanian Arabic
Shivonne Gates
Senior Researcher at NatCen Social Research
Email: shivonne.gates [at] natcen.ac.uk
Dissertation Title: Language variation and ethnicity in a multicultural East London secondary school
Melisa Rinaldi
Academic Developer at University of East London
Email: m.g.rinaldi [at] qmul.ac.uk
Dissertation Title: Bare Singulars and So-Called Bare Singulars
Danniella Samos
Linguist at Semantic Search
Email: d.samos [at] qmul.ac.uk
Dissertation Title: The 'War on the Obesity Epidemic' : Metaphorical framings of obesity in different text types
Graduating Year: 2018
Panpan Yao
Postdocotoral fellow at the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Science
Email: p.yao [at] qmul.ac.uk
Dissertation Title:
The on-line processing and anticipation building on Natives Mandarin
speakers and late Dutch-Mandarin learners
Hui
Zhao
Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Nottingham
Email: hui.zhao1 [at] nottingham.ac.uk
Dissertation Title: Language variation and social identity in Beijing
Chen Wang
Email: chen.wang [at] qmul.ac.uk
Dissertation Title: The Syntax of Le in Mandarin Chinese
Graduating Year: 2017
Reem Alkhammash
Assistant professor at Taif University
Email: r.alkamash [at] tu.edu.sa
Dissertation Title:
Metaphors of National Reform: the Press Discourse of Female Journalists on
Women's Work in Saudi Arabia
Anne Beshears
Email: a.beshears [at] qmul.ac.uk
Dissertation Title: The demonstrative nature of the Hindi/Marwari correlative.
Tom Stanton
Pension Administrator at XPS Pensions Group
Dissertation Title: One, Noun Structure, and Modification.
Graduating Year: 2016
David Hall
Lecturer in Linguistics at QMUL
Email: d.t.hall [at] qmul.ac.uk
Dissertation Title: Spelling Out the Noun Phrase: Interpretation, Word Order, and the Problem of 'Meaningless Movement'.
Hong Liu
Email: h.liu [at] qmul.ac.uk
Dissertation Title: English in the Chinese discourse of Chinese professionals in London: Register and social factors.
Pavadee Saisuwan
Lecturer in Linguistics at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Email: pavadee.sai [at] gmail.com
Dissertation Title: Male femininity in Thai among men who identify with non-normative male roles.
Graduating Year: 2015
Fangfang Niu
Data Scientist at Credit Suisse
Email: f.niu [at] qmul.ac.uk
Dissertation Title: Nominal possession in Mandarin Chinese.
John Weston
University teacher of Academic English at Aalto University
Email: j.weston [at] qmul.ac.uk
Dissertation Title: The Linguistic Construction of Epistemological Difference
Graduating Year: 2014
Fryni Panayidou
Researcher Development Adviser at QMUL
Email: f.panayidou [at] qmul.ac.uk
Dissertation Title: (In)flexibility in Adjective Ordering
Agnieszka Lyons
Lecturer in Applied Linguistics
at Queen Mary University of London
Email: a.lyons [at] qmul.ac.uk
Dissertation Title: Self-presentation and self-positioning in text-messages: Embedded multimodality, deixis, and reference frame
Graduating Year: 2013
Barbara Clark
Founder and linguistics consultant at
you-say-tomato.com
Email: info [at] you-say-tomato.com
Dissertation Title: Safety Talk and Service Culture: Flight Attendant Discourse in Commercial Aviation.
Phillipa Law
Social Media & UGC Editor at the Associated Press
Email: mail [at] philonski.co.uk
Dissertation Title: Audiences' willingness to participate in Welsh-language media.
Rachelle Vessey
Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck University of London
Email: r.vessey [at] bbk.ac.uk
Dissertation Title: Language ideologies and discourses of national identity in Canadian newspapers: a cross-linguistic corpus-assisted discourse study.
Graduating Year: 2012
Rusudan Amirejibi-Mullen
Dissertation Title: Language policy and national identity in Georgia.
Simone Curzio Bacchini
Dissertation Title: Telling pain: a study of the linguistic encoding of the experiences of chronic pain and illness through the lexicogrammar of Italian.
Oliver Brownlow
Software Engineer at Makers Academy
Dissertation Title: Towards a unified analysis of the syntax and semantics of get constructions.
Enrico Chessa
Dissertation Title:
Another case of language death? The intergenerational transmission of Catalan in Alghero.
Issa M. M. Abdel Razaq
Dissertation Title:
Who is What and What is Who: The Morpho-syntax of Arabic WH.
Maneenun Rhurakvit
Dissertation Title: Complaints in Thai and English: an interlanguage pragmatic study.
Graduating Year: 2011
Ahmad El-Sharif
Associate Professor at Al al-Bayt
University
Dissertation Title:
A linguistic study of Islamic religious discourse: conceptual metaphors in the prophetic tradition.
Chrystie Layne Myketiak
Senior Lecturer at University of Brighton
Dissertation Title:
Discourses of desire: the normative in online sex talk.
Maria Secova
Lecturer in French at the Open University
Email:
maria.secova [at] open.ac.uk
Dissertation Title:
Discourse-pragmatic features of spoken French: analysis and pedagogical implications
Graduating Year: 2010
Nada Al-Gharabally
Associate Professor of English at The Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, Kuwait
Dissertation Title: Two cultures, one room: investigating language and gender in Kuwait
C
hiara Ciarlo
Teaching Fellow in Italian Language at University of Reading
Email: c.ciarlo [at] reading.ac.uk
Dissertation Title: Subject clitic variation in a northern Italian dialect.
Ruth Kircher
Researcher at Mercator / Fryske Akademy
Email:
rkircher [at] fryske-akademy.nl
Dissertation Title:
Language attitudes in Quebec: A contemporary perspective
Graduating Year: 2007
Jon Orman
Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Hong Kong University
Email: jorman [at] hku.hk
Dissertation Title: Language policy and nation-building in post-apartheid South Africa.
Stephen Levey
Associate Professor, University of Ottawa
Email: slevey [at] uOttawa.ca
Dissertation Title: The Next Generation: Aspects of Grammatical Variation in the Speech of some London Preadolescents
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