A selection of postgraduate theses from Anglia Ruskin students working within the scope of our research unit:
Current PhD projects
- Muhja Al-Hadi: Incivility and the taking of offence in the Omani society
- Khouloud Boukhris: Conflictual Interactions in Computer Mediated Communication
- Erhan Guneysu: Language Policy and status of endangered languages in the Middle East: The case of the Zazaki language in Turkey
- Stephan George: The Impact of Culture on Behavioural Mimicry
- Maksi Kozinska: Heritage Polish at A-level in England – pupil attainment and the role of supplementary schools
- Erizal Lugman: Intercultural Competence, (Im)Politeness and the Use of Social Media During the Intercultural Adjustment Period of Indonesian Postgraduate Students in the UK
- Trang Thu Nguyen: Intelligibility in Vietnamese L2 accents of English and the influence of intelligibility on social evaluations of the speaker
Completed PhD projects
- Andrew Jarvis: Student attitudes towards English and social mobility at an internationalising English-medium university in Asia
- Kate Lightfoot: Heritage French in the south-east of England: Grammar, attitudes and uptake
- Carla Gierich: Los Angeles as an Arrival City in Contemporary Chicano Literature
- Carlos Podadera: Constructions of the Body Through Medical Discourse in the Spanish Radical Naturalist Novels of Alejandro Sawa
- Stephen Trinder: Neoliberalism with a Human Face? Contemporary Perspectives in Hollywood Science Fiction
- Pauline Dodgson: Gender and Trauma in Zimbabwean Literature and Culture, PhD by published work 2015
- Marie-France Faulkner: Belonging-in-Difference: Negotiating Identity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature, PhD thesis 2013 – see open access section below
- Douglas Eugene Forster: About Decentered Individuals on Screen: An Analysis of American Fantasy Films, PhD – published as Deconstructing Reaganism, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2014
- Christina Langhans: Where is Home? The Quest for Belonging in German Migrant Cinema, unpublished PhD thesis 2017
- Martina Barbara Moeller: From Romanticism to Rubble Films: Visual Style and Narration in German Rubble Films from 1946 to 1951, PhD – published as Rubble, Ruins and Romanticism, Transcript 2013
- Velat Zeydanlioglu: Kemalism’s Others: The Reproduction of Kemalism in Turkey, unpublished PhD thesis 2007
Open access to selected postgraduate projects (First class MA dissertations and PhD)
- Jessica Bellingham: Vampires
- Thora Blondal: Questions of Uncertainty
- Suzanne Burlage: An evaluation of the impact of cultural differences on the quality of healthcare provided by German clinicians to Turkish Muslim patients
- Charline Collard: How far do we assimilate to the business culture and how work impacts on individual identities: a critical analysis
- Céline D’Imperio: The role of ethnic nationalism in South Korean attitudes towards immigrants: Immigration policies and public opinion
- Marie-France Faulkner: Belonging-in-Difference: Negotiating Identity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (PhD)
- Bozena Kulczycka: City Portal as a portrait of cultural peculiarities
- Christina Langhans: Where Are We Going? Always Home
- Delphine Larrousse: Monologue or Dialogue. Challenges of Communication in Latin American Development Work
- Fabian Lotze: Practical Implications of Post-Heroic Leadership Theories
- Owen Minns: The teacher as a learner: how English teachers learn Japanese in Japan
- Lisa Sumaski: Monolingual Britain in Multilingual Europe?
- Stephen Trinder: Going native: Colonial Continuities and Discontinuities in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
- Anastasia Twigg: Citizenship Education in England: Chimera or Chameleon?
- Maja Warnstam: Leadership in an Intercultural Organisational Context