Current and Recent PhD Topics
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Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory
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Centre for Language and Communication Research
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English Literature
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Philosophy
Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory
Claudio Celis (CeliosC@cf.ac.uk)
Towards a concrete schizoanalysis of cinema: the image and the three passive syntheses.
Adeola Dewis (DewisAP@cf.ac.uk)
Carnival Performance Aesthetics: How are the performance aesthetics present in the Trinidad Carnival relevant to art-making in the Diaspora?
David Griffiths (GriffithsDA1@cf.ac.uk)
An interrogation of the intersections of biology and sociality, using feminist and queer theories and evolutionary science.
Amal Hallak (HallakA@cf.ac.uk)
A Genealogy of Literariness.
Thomas Harman (HarmanTL@cf.ac.uk)
The Transformation of Masculinity in Late Capitalism: Cinema, Legitimacy, Event.
Eiman Kurdi (KurdiE@cf.ac.uk)
Women representation in the Arabic media: an Islamic feminist perspective.
Mohamed Ould Mohamed Lemine
The Loss of the Referent: Fragmentation and Identity in Richard Wright's Fiction.
Mari Lowe
Race, Cultural Diversity and Representation in Press Coverage and Collective Memory of Cardiff Docklands from the 1850s to the 1960s.
Tim Matts (MattsTR@cf.ac.uk)
Violent Signs: Ecocriticism and the Symptom.
Angus McBlane (McBlaneAA@cf.ac.uk)
Embodiment in the 'Flesh': A Critical Posthuman Account of Embodiment.
Christopher Muller (MullerCJ@cf.ac.uk)
Shame: Ethics beyond the Limits of Representation.
Eleni Panayiotou (PanayiotouE@cf.ac.uk)
Traces of the Great Idea.
Dr Aljosa Puzar
Coming of age in South Korea: Ethnographies and Histories of Transgression.
Phillip Roberts (RobertsPL@cf.ac.uk)
Cinemas of Control, Cinemas of Resistance.
Janice Sant (SantJ@cf.ac.uk)
On the Nature of Poetic Address in Blanchot, Celan and Cixous.
Helen Sivey (SiveyHC@cf.ac.uk)
Homonormativities, queer phenomenology and maturity narratives.
Jason A Skeet
Deleuze, Poetry and the Politics of Reading.
David Vella
Two Sacred Nights: A Confrontation of the Mystics' and Postmoderns' Sacred and Sublime.
Emma West (WestE@cf.ac.uk)
The Highs and Lows of Modernism: A Cultural Deconstruction.
Jennifer Whitney (WhitneyJ@cf.ac.uk)
Playing With Dolls: Femininity, Desire and the Posthuman.
Centre for Language and Communication Research
Samantha Austen (AustenSC1@cf.ac.uk)
Learner Error in Second Language Acquisition: The Transfer of Form or Concept.
Katy Brickley (BrickleyKL@cf.ac.uk)
Critical discourse analysis of ‘assisted voluntary return’ (repatriation) in the UK.
Benjamin Clarke (ClarkeBP1@cf.ac.uk)
Does the realisation of Ellipsis in text support Systemic Functional Linguistics’ ‘context-metafunction’ hook-up hypothesis. A corpus-based approach.
Claire Evans (EvansCA3@cf.ac.uk)
The Media Representation of Formula One: Constructing and Framing Sport as a Live Media Event.
Sheila Gewolb (DarvillS@cf.ac.uk)
Working choices: Issues affecting retirement decisions for older people.
Rhiannon Vaughan Griffiths
"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 (JonesKS1@cf.ac.uk)
The use of indefinite expressions for anaphoric reference.
Vasiliki Kanellou (KanellouV1@cf.ac.uk)
The Place and Practice of Pronunciation Teaching in the Context of the English Language Classroom in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Stefanie Kautzmann (KautzmannSR@cf.ac.uk)
Communicating risk and uncertainty: A qualitative discourse analysis of BBC and ITV news reports on climate change.
Somaia El Mostafa Lashkham (LashkamSE@cf.ac.uk)
Phonology.
Jie Liu
Measuring the development of Academic Reading – A longitudinal study on Chinese International Students.
Sally Nelson
The effect of narrativisation on the comprehension of jury instructions.
Elen Robert (RobertER1@cf.ac.uk)
Welsh lexical planning in institutional settings / Cynllunio geirfa'r Gymraeg mewn sefydliadau.
Chan Shan (ShanC2@cf.ac.uk)
Language and Identity in Chinese Gay Communities in the UK.
Benjamin Saunders (SaundersBM@cf.ac.uk)
Young Adults' Discursive Constructions of Chronic Illness Experience: Accounts of Type 1 Diabetes and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).
Charlotte Selleck (SelleckCL@cf.ac.uk)
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.
Anne Storey (amstorey@hku.hk)
The display and negotiation of expertise and uncertainty in problem-based tutorials in medicine: a discourse analytic approach.
Marta Wilczek-Watson (WilczekMM@cf.ac.uk)
Metacultural performances and identity construction during transnational celebratory events.
Michael Willett
Phonaesthesia: Semantic-Phonological relations in English - a corpus-based validation.
English Literature
Lucy Andrew (AndrewLV1@cf.ac.uk)
Nancy Who? The Rise of the Juvenile Detective in Children’s Popular Fiction in Britain from the 1860s to the 1930s.
Sarah Blewitt (BlewittSE@cf.ac.uk)
An Investigation into the Representation of Pregnancy by Women Writers, from Mary Wollstonecraft (b. 1759 –d. 1797) to the Present Day (early 21st century).
Charlotte Boman (BomanCM@cf.ac.uk)
Domestic Iconography: Photographic Representations of Family Life in the Mid-Victorian Period.
Nicole Davall (DavallN@cf.ac.uk)
Shakespeare and Concepts of History.
Michelle Deininger (DeiningerMJ@cf.ac.uk)
Short Fiction by Women from Wales: A Neglected Tradition.
Dewi Evans (EvansDL@cf.ac.uk)
The Idea of the Book in Late-Victorian Fiction.
Marianne Fisher (FisherM@cf.ac.uk)
The Life and Times of a Genre: Insular Romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and The Canterbury Tales.
Elizabeth Ford (FordE1@cf.ac.uk)
‘Enter Will Kemp’: the role of the stage clown in the composition and revision of Shakespeare’s plays, 1593-1599.
Laura Foster (FosterLE2@cf.ac.uk)
The Representation of the Workhouse in Nineteenth-Century Culture.
Katie Garner (GarnerKL@cf.ac.uk)
Romantic Women Writers and King Arthur.
Jessica George GeorgeJL1@cf.ac.uk)
Evolutionary theory and the weird tale.
Johann Gregory (GregoryJ@cf.ac.uk)
Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida: Expectation Whirled Around.
Rachel Jones (JonesRE@cf.ac.uk)
The Middle English Magdalene Legend(s), 1380-1450: Theory, History, Politics.
Nicola Lloyd (LloydN1@cf.ac.uk)
Sentiment, Romanticism and British Fiction, 1800-1820.
Giles Langston
History of Children's Literature in the Cardiff Public Libraries from 1862.
Helen McKenzie (MckenzieH@cf.ac.uk)
The idea of authorship in Victorian fiction.
Lucy Menon
The Jacobean Influence in Modern Drama.
Erica Moore (MooreEB@cf.ac.uk)
Practising the Posthumanities: Evolutionary Animals, Machines and the Posthuman in the Fiction of J.G. Ballard and Kurt Vonnegut.
Peter Morgan (MorganPK1@cf.ac.uk)
Impersonality and the extinction of self:a comparative study of the poetic impulse and journey in the poetry of Keith Douglas and Alun Lewis.
Ruth Murphy (MurphyRC1@cf.ac.uk)
Darwinism in Victorian Children’s Literature.
Catherine Phelps (PhelpsCM1@cf.ac.uk)
[Dis]solving Genres: Arguing the case for Welsh Crime Fiction.
Étienne Poulard (PoulardE1@cf.ac.uk)
Untimely Aesthetics: Presence and Performance in Shakespeare.
Lisa Sheppard (SheppardLC@cf.ac.uk)
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).
Elinor Smith (SmithEJ10@cf.ac.uk)
Old age in Welsh fiction in English after 1900.
Alun Thomas (ThomasAD@cf.ac.uk)
The Making and Remaking of History in Shakespeare’s History Plays.
Nicole Thomas (ThomasN7@cf.ac.uk)
The Daughters of Modron: Evangeline Walton's Feminist Re-Visioning of the Mabinogi.
Rhys Tranter (TranterRE2@cf.ac.uk)
Beginning to End: Traumatic Representations in Samuel Beckett's Post-War Writing.
Theresa Wray (WrayTM@cf.ac.uk)
A re-appraisal of the short stories of Mary Lavin.
Ayman Zaid (ZaidAM@cf.ac.uk)
The Dark Woods: A Study of the Influence of Melancholy on the Works of Edward Thomas.
Philosophy
Mohammad Kamrul Ahsan
Sustainable Development and Environmentalism: Ethical Guidance for Policy Decisions.
Christopher Chatterton
How do the different understandings of Metabolic Syndrome affect the way the condition is approached and treated?.
Ryo Chonabayashi
A Defence of Naturalistic Moral Realism.
Tom Constant (ConstantTW@cf.ac.uk)
Possible worlds, ideology and deconstruction.
Dharmender Dhillon (dhillonds2@cf.ac.uk)
The Dionysian, Kairos and Utopian Ideology.
Fabio Gironi (GironiF@cf.ac.uk)
Speculative Realism as a continental philosophy of science: re-secularizing science.
John Hamilton (HamiltonJ1@cf.ac.uk)
Russell: the development of a neutral monistic metaphysics.
Daisy Seabourne (SeabourneDA@cf.ac.uk)
How communicative theories of punishment deal with dangerous offenders.
Robert Seip
Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the UK: Ethics, Legality and the Use of the Best Available Science.
Eftychia Sofiali
Aesthetics (the modern object - sculpture understood as a work of art).
Ben Taylor
Rorty and Nietzsche: Autonomy and Solidarity.
Merrill Wilson
Could there really be a 'ghost in the machine?' An analysis of cartesian dualism in the light of near death experience research.