Several of our staff co-supervise doctoral students. PhD students may be supervised by faculty in the Schools of English or Education, depending on their area of ELT research, and are part of the wider Doctoral School at Sussex.
Applications for both MA and PhD study (1+3 years) are welcome.
Please contact efl@sussex.ac.uk in the first instance.
Here are details of some of our co-supervised doctoral students:
Faraz Bughio (Pakistan)
Research area: Second language pedagogy.
Working title: 'ELT and Developing Communicative abilities at Bachelor level in large classes at the University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan.'
Started: 2007
Supervisors: Ray de Witt and Paul Yates (Education)
Sally Rabi (Jordan)
Research area: Language teacher education.
Working title: 'Developing a TEFL Teacher Training Program for EFL Teachers in the Middle East.'
Started 2007
Supervisors: Ray de Witt and Paul Yates (Education)
Irfan Ahmed (Pakistan)
Research area: English as a second language in higher education contexts.
Working title: 'Analysing Students' Experiences of the Teaching-Learning Environment in an ESL programme: a Case Study of a University in Pakistan.'
Started 2008
Supervisors: Yusuf Sayed (Education) and Andrew Blair.
Devora Hellerstein (Israel)
Research area: Culture and second language reading skills.
Working title:'The significance of cultural differences on reading comprehension processes of the young adult EFL learner in a college classroom in Israel.'
Started 2009
Supervisors: Andrew Blair and Judy Sebba (Education)
Marianna Kyriakou (Cyprus)
Research area: language attitudes and ethnic identity.
Working title: 'Language attitudes and perception of identity in a diglossic setting: the case of Greek Cypriot school students.'
Started October 2010.
Supervisors: Jules Winchester and Roberta Piazza (English)
Imed Louichi (Tunisia)
Research area: cross-linguistic investigation.
Working title: 'Investigating linguistic and non-linguistic categorisation of motion events in Tunisian Arabic: implications for non-native teachers of English'
Starts January 2011.
Supervisors: Lynne Murphy (English) and Jules Winchester
Farida Yasmin Panhwar (Pakistan)
Research area: Second language acquisition and pedagogy.
Working title: 'Multicompetence and its implications for learning English as a Foreign Language in Pakistan.'
Started November 2010.
Supervisors: Simon Williams and Melanie Green (English)