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PhD SUPERVISION

Applying/future students

For general information about the different types of PhD we offer, scholarships, fees, and accommodation, start here. Note that I am currently at capacity, so I am not presently taking on any more PhD students except in truly exceptional circumstances. I have a waiting list for future supervisees which it is possible to join. If you successfully complete the formal application process and I am happy to supervise you, when I have capacity to take you on (usually when one of my current PhD students is about to graduate), I will get back in touch with you.

I generally only supervise projects that use corpus approaches to forensic linguistics, particularly in the areas of deception and/or manipulation. Feel free to send me a short email for an informal discussion in the first instance. I do not respond to generic or clearly off-topic enquiries, and I will never make a personal offer of supervision.

Present students

From most recently enrolled onwards:

• GRETA (primary supervisor): A pragmatic and discursive approach to the analysis of interpreter-mediated police interviews
• JODY (primary supervisor): Corpus analysis of the testimony of victims of genocide
• WILLIAM (primary supervisor): Disinformation on social media

Past students

From most recently graduated onwards:

• EKATERINA (co-supervisor): The representation of people in Tripadvisor travel reviews about Moscow, London and Bangkok: a comparative corpus-assisted multimodal discourse study
• External examiner: Prof Sylvia Jaworska, Professor of Language and Professional Communication at the University of Reading, UK
• Outcome: passed with minor corrections
• Graduated: July 2023
• FAIZAH (co-supervisor): The representation of Saudis on Twitter
• External examiner: Prof Mustapha Lahlali, Professor of Linguistics and Media at Leeds University, UK
• Outcome: passed with minor corrections
• Graduated: December 2020
• MARTON (primary supervisor): Trolling in the comments on political blogs
• External examiner: Dr Erika Darics, Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Aston University, UK
• Outcome: passed with minor corrections
• Graduated: December 2019
• MELISSA (primary supervisor): The language of recidivists and non-recidivists in parole board hearings
• External examiner: Prof James Pennebaker, the Regents Centennial Chair of Psychology and the Executive Director of Project 2021 at the University of Texas at Austin, US
• Outcome: passed with no corrections
• Graduated: July 2019

TEACHING

Current academic year

• Michaelmas
• LING103 Linguistics (guest lecturing)
• LING315 Forensic linguistics (co-convening, lecturing)
• LING429 Forensic linguistics (convening, lecturing)
• LING434 Pragmatics (convening, lecturing)
• Lent
• LING103 Linguistics (guest lecturing)

Next academic year

• Michaelmas
• LING103 Linguistics (lecturing)
• LING315 Forensic linguistics (co-convening, lecturing)
• LING429 Forensic linguistics (convening, lecturing)
• Lent
• LING103 Linguistics (guest lecturing)