Current and Recent PhD Topics
Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory
Adeola Dewis
Research:
Carnival Performance Aesthetics: How are the performance aesthetics present in the Trinidad Carnival relevant to art-making in the Diaspora?
Email:
DewisAP@cf.ac.uk
Kat Deerfield
Research:
Working Title: The Astronaut’s Body: Gender and Sexuality in (Outer) Space and Time
Email:
DeerfieldKJ@cf.ac.uk
David Griffiths
Research:
Perverts and Husbands. Queer in the cruising ground, Queer at the altar
Email:
GriffithsDA1@cf.ac.uk
Amal Hallak
Thomas Harman
Research:
The Transformation of Masculinity in Late Capitalism: Cinema, Legitimacy, Event.
Email:
HarmanTL@cf.ac.uk
Eiman Kurdi
Research:
Women representation in the Arabic media: an Islamic feminist perspective.
Email:
KurdiE@cf.ac.uk
Mohamed Ould Mohamed Lemine
Research:
The Loss of the Referent: Fragmentation and Identity in Richard Wright's Fiction.
Mari Lowe
Research:
Media, Memory and Representation: Remembering Cardiff Docklands, 1900-1950
Email:
lowem1@cf.ac.uk
Tim Matts
Angus McBlane
Research:
Embodiment in the 'Flesh': A Critical Posthuman Account of Embodiment.
Email:
McBlaneAA@cf.ac.uk
Christopher Muller
Research:
Shame and Technicity: Ethics in the Wake of Heidegger’s Notion of Singularisation
Email:
MullerCJ@cf.ac.uk
Eleni Panayiotou
Dr Aljosa Puzar
Research:
Coming of age in South Korea: Ethnographies and Histories of Transgression.
Janice Sant
Jason A Skeet
Research:
Writing the real: Deleuze and contemporary poetry
David Vella
Research:
Two Sacred Nights: A Confrontation of the Mystics' and Postmoderns' Sacred and Sublime.
Jennifer Whitney
Centre for Language and Communication Research
Ana Ameal-Guerra
Research:
The Thread of Business Conversations: Socio-Relational Talk and Transactional Goals at the Seamstress
Email:
Ameal-GuerraA@cardiff.ac.uk
Samantha Austen
Research:
Learner Error in Second Language Acquisition: The Transfer of Form or Concept.
Email:
AustenSC1@cf.ac.uk
Katy Brickley
Research:
Critical discourse analysis of ‘assisted voluntary return’ (repatriation) in the UK.
Email:
BrickleyKL@cf.ac.uk
Benjamin Clarke
Research:
Does the realisation of Ellipsis in text support Systemic Functional Linguistics’ ‘context-metafunction’ hook-up hypothesis. A corpus-based approach.
Email:
ClarkeBP1@cf.ac.uk
Dorottya Csenge Cserző
Research:
Affordances and constraints of the medium in digital video-mediated conversations
Email:
CserzoDC@cf.ac.uk
Claire Evans
Research:
The Media Representation of Formula One: Constructing and Framing Sport as a Live Media Event.
Email:
EvansCA3@cf.ac.uk
Sheila Gewolb
Research:
Working choices: Issues affecting retirement decisions for older people.
Email:
DarvillS@cf.ac.uk
Rhiannon Vaughan Griffiths
Research:
"Haf I got it rait?" 'Effects of the Second Language on the First'. Bilingual and monolingual writing patterns - a comparative study of linguistic idiosyncrasies in the written work of pupils in South East Wales.
Katy Jones
Vasiliki Kanellou
Research:
The Place and Practice of Pronunciation Teaching in the Context of the English Language Classroom in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Email:
KanellouV1@cf.ac.uk
Kimberly Klassen
Research:
Vocabulary Load of Proper Nouns and Marginal Words in L2 Reading Texts.
Email:
kklassen@kansaigaidai.ac.jp
Somaia El Mostafa Lashkham
Jie Liu
Research:
The development of reading strategies: a longitudinal study on Chinese international Master's students
Sally Nelson
Research:
The effect of narrativisation on the comprehension of jury instructions.
Elen Robert
Research:
Lexical Planning and the Use of Lexis in Institutional Settings (Cynllunio Geirfa'r Gymraeg a'r Defnydd o Eirfa mewn Sefydliadau).
Email: RobertER1@cf.ac.uk
Chan Shan
Benjamin Saunders
Research:
Young Adults' Discursive Constructions of Chronic Illness Experience: Accounts of Type 1 Diabetes and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).
Email:
SaundersBM@cf.ac.uk
Charlotte Selleck
Research:
An Investigation into the sociolinguistic and relational processes between Welsh students and ‘new arrivals’ in Welsh Secondary Schools as a result of demographic mobility and in-migration.
Email:
SelleckCL@cf.ac.uk
Anne Storey
Research:
The display and negotiation of expertise and uncertainty in problem-based tutorials in medicine: a discourse analytic approach.
Email:
amstorey@hku.hk
Marta Wilczek-Watson
Research:
Metacultural performances and identity construction during transnational celebratory events.
Email:
WilczekMM@cf.ac.uk
Michael Willett
Research:
Phonaesthesia: Semantic-Phonological relations in English - a corpus-based validation.
English Literature
Lucy Andrew
Research:
The British Boy Detective: Origins, Forms, Functions, 1860-1930.
Email:
AndrewLV1@cf.ac.uk
Sarah Blewitt
Research:
'Hidden Mothers and Poetic Pregnancy in Women's Writing (1792 - present day).
Email:
BlewittSE@cf.ac.uk
Charlotte Boman
Research:
Domestic Iconography: Photographic Representations of Family Life in the Mid-Victorian Period.
Email:
BomanCM@cf.ac.uk
Nicole Davall
Michelle Deininger
Dewi Evans
Marianne Fisher
Elizabeth Ford
Research:
‘Enter Will Kemp’: the role of the stage clown in the composition and revision of Shakespeare’s plays, 1592-99.
Email:
FordE1@cf.ac.uk
Laura Foster
Research:
The Representation of the Workhouse in Nineteenth-Century Culture.
Email:
FosterLE2@cf.ac.uk
Darren Freebury-Jones
Research: Apocryphal Literature from the Elizabethan and Jacobean Eras. Email: Freebury-JonesD@cf.ac.uk
Katie Garner
Research:
Avalon Recovered: The Arthurian Legend in British Women's Writing, 1775-1845.
Email:
GarnerKL@cf.ac.uk
Siriol McAvoy
Research:
Medieval encounters in the work of Virginia Woolf and Lynette Roberts
Email:
McAvoyS@cf.ac.uk
Erica Moore
Research:
Practising the Posthumanities: Evolutionary Animals, Machines and the Posthuman in the Fiction of J.G. Ballard and Kurt Vonnegut.
Email:
MooreEB@cf.ac.uk
Peter Morgan
Research:
Impersonality and the extinction of self:a comparative study of the poetic impulse and journey in the poetry of Keith Douglas and Alun Lewis.
Email:
MorganPK1@cf.ac.uk
Ruth Murphy
Catherine Phelps
Alice Rowe
Research:
The portrayal of medicine as pharmakon in the Victorian periodical press
Email:
RoweAH1@cf.ac.uk
Lisa Sheppard
Research:
They were like aliens’: Multiculturalism, Bilingualism and the ‘Other’ Welsh Identity in the fiction of South Wales, 1990-2010 (Jointly with the School of Welsh).
Email:
SheppardLC@cf.ac.uk
Elinor Shepley
Alun Thomas
Research:
The Making and Remaking of History in Shakespeare’s History Plays.
Email:
ThomasAD@cf.ac.uk
Nicole Thomas
Research:
The Daughters of Modron: Evangeline Walton's Feminist Re-Visioning of the Mabinogi.
Email:
ThomasN7@cf.ac.uk
Rhys Tranter
Research:
Beginning to End: Traumatic Representations in Samuel Beckett's Post-War Writing.
Email:
TranterRE2@cf.ac.uk
Theresa Wray
Ayman Zaid
Research:
The Dark Woods: A Study of the Influence of Melancholy on the Works of Edward Thomas.
Email:
ZaidAM@cf.ac.uk
Philosophy
Mohammad Kamrul Ahsan
Research:
Sustainable Development and Environmentalism: An Ethical Framework for Policy and Decision Making in Developing Countries, with Special Reference to Bangladesh.
Christopher Chatterton
Research:
How do the different understandings of Metabolic Syndrome affect the way the condition is approached and treated?
Ryo Chonabayashi
Research:
A Defence of Naturalistic Moral Realism.
Tom Constant
Fabio Gironi
Research:
Theology-free Science: creative metaphysics and speculative ontology for an improved scientific realism
Email:
GironiF@cf.ac.uk
John Hamilton
Daisy Seabourne
Research:
How communicative theories of punishment deal with dangerous offenders.
Email:
SeabourneDA@cf.ac.uk
Robert Seip
Research:
Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the UK: Ethics, Legality and the Use of the Best Available Science.
Eftychia Sofiali
Research:
Aesthetics (the modern object - sculpture understood as a work of art).
Ben Taylor
Research:
Rorty and Nietzsche: Autonomy and Solidarity.
Merrill Wilson
Research:
Could there really be a 'ghost in the machine?' An analysis of cartesian dualism in the light of near death experience research.
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