CLaC members welcome PhD students who wish to use corpus linguistics techniques in their research. Current and previous PhD students are listed below.
Current PhD / MRes students
- Nurfitriah Identifying key terms in mining engineering
- Cisya Nugraha Analysing sustainability communication: Bioplastics websites
- Syuzanna Sahakyan The role of universities in creating a democratic Europe
- Yessy Hidajat Feedback, attainment and underperformance
- Kaiyu Huang Feedback, attainment and underperformance
- Catalina Sirbu Creating the Romanian Academic Written English (RoAWE) corpus
Recent completions (since 2016)
- David Beauchamp (2024) Communicating Covid: Messages from the Downing Street Briefings
- Yan Yan Yeung (2024) An Exploration of Online Bilingual Dictionary Use by Chinese University Students Studying in the United Kingdom
- Cipto Wardoyo (2024) Realization of Advice Speech Acts in Islamic lectures on YouTube
- Sara Lahlouhi (2023) An Investigation of UK Architecture Students’ and Practitioners’ Writing: A Corpus Linguistics Case Study
- Chris Turner (2022) Towards a New Pedagogical Approach to Some and Any Based on Large-Scale Corpus Analysis
- Imane Bouchakour (2020) Rethinking Normalcy and Deviance: On Socially Constructed Identities in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury (1929)
- Fares Rezoug (2020) A Study of the Organisational Structure and Phraseology of Algerian Engineering MSc Dissertations with Reference to their American Counterparts
- Priya Matthew (2020) An investigation of student writing in Civil Engineering: A corpus linguistics case study in the Middle East
- Chao Han (2018) The Use of English Transition Markers in Chinese and British University Student Writing
- Xiaoyu Xu (2017) An Analysis of Stance and Voice in Research Articles across Chinese and British Cultures, Using the Appraisal Framework
- Sharon Creese (2017) Lexicographical Explorations of Neologisms in the Digital Age. Tracking New Words Online and Comparing Wiktionary Entries with ‘Traditional’ Dictionary Representations
- Ralph Morton (2016) The BT Correspondence Corpus 1853-1982: The development and analysis of archival language resources
- Siân Alsop (2016) The pragmatic annotation of academic lectures: an exploratory study applied to engineering disciplines