| Name | Research Topic |
| Adel Asker | The impact of globalization of English on motivation to learn EFL in Libya |
| Amanda Simon | Citizenship in complementary schools |
| Artemis Kouti | Native and non-native speakers of English in the English language classroom |
| Bader Kurdali | The grammar of successful student writing across two disciplines: a systemic functional investigation of Theme in Syrian student writing in English |
| Cathie Lacey | Construction of professional/personal identity for ESOL teachers; CPD and ITT |
| Colin Isham | Attitudes to bilingualism |
| Colin Meech | The language of government and the development of training and education for local authority emergency services |
| Dave Evans | Identity, gender and modern language learning |
| David Jones | Bilingual teaching of mathematics at secondary level in Wales: from policy to classroom practice |
| Elaine Rocha Schmid | Policy and practice of language in education: ESOL with refugees |
| Feliciano Chimbutane | Bilingual education in Mozambique: discourses and classroom practices |
| Gaye Houghton | |
| Giovanni Fanton | Language and culture in the teaching of Italian at university level in the UK |
| Gopinder Kaur Sagoo | Contrasting texts, textual practices & discourses in a mainstream British school and in a Sikh learning environment |
| Helen Lees | The discovery of alternative modes of education: ‘school exit’, Foucault and democratic education |
| Katumi Mahama | Muslim women's education in Ghana |
| Kay Walker | |
| Liz Chilton | The discursive construction of Family Literacy, Language and Numeracy programmes |
| Maria Rontou | Dyslexia in education in Greece through activity theory |
| Mark Hill | Social learning through language for learners with ASD |
| Miranda Normand | Bilingual students in a monolingual culture context |
| Naddia Siddiqui | Exploring identities in the narratives of women digest readers: a critical discourse analysis approach |
| Nicola Plaister | Foreign language learning by distance education for CPD |
| Nighat Raja | |
| Rita Marriott | Learning Portuguese using a virtual environment (Second Life) |
| Sebastian Deckner | Motivation in language lessons of Year 7 pupils |
| Shin Chieh Hsieh | Negotiating face in intercultural email exchanges |
| Sonia Gallucci | A year abroad in Italy: an ethnographically-informed case study |
| Sotiroula Stavrou | Reading and Writing Difficulties in Greek- Cypriot children in Cyprus |
| Tzu Chi Liao | Father-daughter relationships amongst Chinese migrants in the UK |
| Wei Lu | Teaching Chinese in primary schools and complementary schools: A comparative study |
Past students
| Name | Research Topic |
| Amanda Howett | Access to speech and language therapy for adults from Asian and Caribbean backgrounds who have had a stroke |
| Aydan Suphi | Developing collaborative working between speech and language therapists and teaching staff in a special school. |
| Barbara Majer | The shaping of the learner identity of bilingual adults during curriculum study at an English Further Education college |
| Catherine Nelson | Listening comprehension in the primary school: a meta-cognitive approach to transactional listening |
| Chin-Pin Chen | Classroom Language, Interaction and Cultures of Learning: An investigation into current English language education in Taiwan during the transition year from elementary to junior high school. |
| Eleni Mariou | Symbolic bilingualism and identity in Pontian Greek adolescent girls |
| Fiona Copland | Feedback in pre-service English language teacher training: discourses of process and power |
| Loreto Sousa de las Heras | Discursive practices and the construction of identity of Spanish/English adolescents in a Spanish/English school in the UK: an ethnographic approach |
| Mahani binti Stapa | Writing in English as a second language in a Malaysian university context |
| Salem Y. Al-Etani | Investigating students’ motivation to learn English as a foreign language in a vocational college in Saudi Arabia |
| Sarimah Shaik Abdullah | Constructing understanding around text: investigating reading as a social practice |
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