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Current PhD Students

Please also see our PhD alumni pages.

The dedicated PhD common room (1.24) has a direct telephone line +44(0)29 208 75688.

Gill Abousnnouga

Research: Monuments and the visual language of nation building Email: AbousnnougaG@cf.ac.uk

Racheal Agbonkhese

Research: Maternal Mortality and Agenda Setting Email: AgbonkheseR@cf.ac.uk

Saeed Alghamdy

Research: Public Communications Campaigns in Saudi Arabia 2005 Municipal Election CampaignEmail: AlghamdyS1@cf.ac.uk

Kholood Alqahtani

Research: Letters to the Editor’s role in bridging the gap between the Western reader and the Arab world, Case study: Arab News Newspaper. Email: AlqahtaniK@cf.ac.uk

Melissa Beattie

Research: Televisual Epic, National Identity and Torchwood's Fan Audience

Mohamed Nacer Bedri

Research: Aljazeera TV Coverage of Middle East Events after 9 11 and British Foreign Policy Email: BedriMN@cf.ac.uk

Susan Bisson

Research: The Representation of Psychosis in Film Email: BissonS@cf.ac.uk

Peter Brown

Research: A cross-cultural analysis of how the social problem of internet-facilitated ‘paedophilia’ has been constructed and understood in the UK, US, Australia and Canada Email: BrownP5@cf.ac.uk

Jonathan Cable

Research: Protest in Action: An Examination of the Production, Media Representation and Reflexivity of Protest Group Communications Strategies and Protest Tactics Email: CableJ1@cf.ac.uk

Philippa Carvell

Research: Online Football Fandom – A study of Swansea City fans on Not606.com Email: CarvellPJ1@cf.ac.uk

Wei-Ju Chen

Research: The global and the local in negotiations of media power, culture and identity: A case study of international brand magazines in China Email: ChenW14@cf.ac.uk

Rachel Cohen

Research: Cinematic Constructions of the Female Serial Killer: A Psychosocial Audience Study Email: JonesR54@cf.ac.uk

Victoria Dando

Location: Rm. 1.24 Bute Email: DandoVW@cf.ac.uk

Bo Delp

Research: Obama and Britain: Rhetoric, Identification, Doxology Email: DelpRK@cf.ac.uk

Susana Sampaio Dias

Research: Journalism, Human Rights and the Global Public Sphere Email: DiasSM@cf.ac.uk

Judith Fathallah

Research: Discursive formations in Supernatural Fanfiction Email: FathallahJM@cf.ac.uk

Patrick Fitzgerald

Research: Legitimising Dissent? U.K. and U.S. news media coverage of the 2011 Egyptian Uprising Email: FitzgeraldPM@cf.ac.uk

Andy Fox

Research: Convergence and Interactive Television; the continuing evolution of television as a mass communications medium Email: FoxAJ1@cf.ac.uk

Ross Garner

Research: Nostalgia, Time Travel and 21st Century British TelevisionEmail: GarnerRP1@cf.ac.uk

Sean Geoghegan

Research: An analysis of the relationship between members of the ‘Looked After’ community and the UK TV and film media Email: GeogheganS2@cf.ac.uk

Dugi Gorani

Research: The Imagined State of Kosovo Email: GoraniD@cf.ac.uk

Bernhard Gross

Research: Discourse and European Identity Email: GrossB@cf.ac.uk

Hugh Griffiths

Research: Digital platforms: Learning, change & nation branding Email: GriffithsHN@cf.ac.uk

Janet Harris

Research: To explore the dominant discourses in selected TV news and documentaries of the coverage of the military in Iraq 2003-2006 Email: HarrisJ14@cf.ac.uk

Rachel Howells

Research: Developing a new business model for local news provision and addressing the democratic deficit in the digital economy Email: PoucherRJ@cf.ac.uk

Emma Hughes

Research: A Nation's Nature: The public discourse of the UK's GM crop debate Email: HughesE@cf.ac.uk

Bethan Jones

Research: The G Woman and the Fowl One: Fandom's rewriting of gender in the X-Files Email: JonesBV3@cf.ac.uk

Darren Kelsey

Research: 7/7 Media Discourse and the "Blitz Spirit": An analysis of British newspaper responses to the July 7th bombings Email: KelseyDL@cf.ac.uk

Allaina Kilby

Research: Fake news or the Fifth Estate? A study of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Political Citizenship Email: KilbyA1@cf.ac.uk

Phansasiri Kularb

Research: Thai Journalism and the Reporting of Thailand’s Southern Conflict Email: KularbP@cf.ac.uk

Hyunju Lee

Research: News and power: An analysis of ‘media reform’ discourse in newspaper reports and presidential speeches in South Korea 2003-7 Email: LeeH9@cf.ac.uk

Liezel Longboan

Research: Mediating Indigeneity in Virtual Communities Email: LongboanL@cf.ac.uk

Bertha Lu Phin Chin

Research: The X-Files and online fandom Email: ChinB2@cf.ac.uk

Rachel Matthews

Research: Local newspapers: production and consumption Email: MatthewsR5@cf.ac.uk

Linda Mitchell

Research: The role of the media in peacebuilding in post-conflict societies with special reference to Africa Email: MitchellL4@cf.ac.uk

Corbett Miteff

Research: The Future States of Religion in Children’s Science Fiction Animation Email: MiteffMC@cf.ac.uk

Emma Mohamad

Research: Working Title: Engaging with the cultural constructions of breastfeeding: A study of media production, representation and audience response in Malaysia Email: MohamadEM@cf.ac.uk

Marina Morani

Research: New media and new Italians: an analysis of online intercultural projects Email: MoraniM@cf.ac.uk

Idil Abdi Osman

Research: Somali Media and their role in Somalia's Civil War Email: AbdiOsmanI@cf.ac.uk

Dafina Paca

Research: Neither Here Nor There: Exploring ‘identity’ amongst Kosovo Albanians in the UK Email: PacaD@cf.ac.uk

Maria Papadopoulou

Research: Music rituals and social division: constructing, presenting and legitimizing the social self Email: PapadopoulouM1@cf.ac.uk

Katerina Penna

Research: Audiences, drama and gender Email: PennaAK@cf.ac.uk

Max Pettigrew

Research: The Northern Ireland Conflict and the Fourth Estate of the (dis)United Kingdom: British Newspaper representations of war, censorship and peace; 1986-2001 Email: PettigrewM@cf.ac.uk

Allyson Purcell-Davis

Research: How the Today programme represented the hybrid embryo debate in 2008 Email: Purcell-DavisA@cf.ac.uk

Sally Reardon

Research: Live television news: Why is it done and does anybody care? Email: ReardonSA@cf.ac.uk

James Rendell

Research: Reading 21st century horror television Email: RendellJ1@cf.ac.uk

Merisa Skulsuthavong

Research: Tradition and Modernity: A Semiotic Analysis of Weddings in Thai Magazines Email: SkulsuthavongM@cf.ac.uk

Sara Sylvester

Research: The Lives of Fictional Artists: Constructed Identities, Imagined Narratives and Transmedia Landscapes Email: SylvesterSM@cf.ac.uk

Gwilym Thear

Research: Apocalyptic narrative in British culture Email: ThearGT@cf.ac.uk

Dimitrios Tsagalas

Research: The European Press and European Integration: How the Eurpean Press helps European Integration? A comparative analysis of the Greek and Cypriot Press Email: TsagalasD1@cf.ac.uk

Michal Tuchowski

Research: Reaching out to diaspora in the global city. The Socio-Cultural, Public Relations and Ethnic Marketing Role of the Polish Diasporic Media in London after May 2004 Email: TuchowskiM@cf.ac.uk

Daniel Wheelock

Research: Tilting At Wind Farms: Selling Climate Change In Civic Discourse. The Impact Of Meaning In Advertising On Behaviour Change Email: WheelockD@cf.ac.uk

Matthew Winston

Research: The Gonzo Text – The Literary Journalism of Hunter Thompson Email: WinstonMS@cf.ac.uk

Weihua Ye

Research: Women in the Assembly: Representations of Female Assembly Members (AMs) in the Welsh Press Email: Yew3@cf.ac.uk

Xin Zhang

Research: The conflicting identity of ethnic minorities within Chinese in the context of UK’s Multiculturalism, in particular to their political needs Email: ZhangX41@cf.ac.uk