HDR Graduates - School of Languages and Cultures - University of Queensland

2025 Graduates

Name of Graduate	Project Title	Supervisors
Dr Osamah ALI	Exploring written corrective feedback in Saudi L2 English writing: Teachers' provisions and students' responses	A/Prof Peter Crosthwaite A/Prof Md Hamid


Dr Ellena BROWNLOW	Structural and Non-Structural Case Usage in Adolescent Heritage Speakers in Australia	Dr Anna Mikhaylova Dr Min Jung Jee


Dr Brian KALLA-COLLINS	The Productivity of Polish Yers: An Experimental Investigation Informed by the Lexicon	Prof Erich Round A/Prof Robert Pensalfini Em/Prof Roland Sussex




Dr Natalie SEIF	20th century Western discourses in Martin Gusinde and Jose Emperaire's monographs on the Kawesqar world and southern Chile: A decolonial reading	Dr Isolda Rojas-Lizana A/Prof Amy Hubbell


Dr Larissa WEINGLASS	Humour and Laughter at Work: Sustained Humour Episodes in Australian Blue-Collar Workplaces	Prof Michael Haugh Prof Ilana Mushin

2024 Graduates

Name of Graduate	Project Title	Supervisors
Dr Beth KEARNEY	Unfixing Self: Twenty-First Century Women's Phototexts in French	Prof Greg Hainge A/Prof Amy Hubbell
Dr Amanda HAMILTON	Paradigm Shift: A Theoretical and Descriptive Study of Mudburra-Kriol Contact	Prof Felicity Meakins A/Prof Robert Pensalfini
Dr Meron REDA	Settling with Multiple Languages: The Impact of the Refugee Journey on African Youth in Australia	Dr Kayoko Hashimoto Dr Anna Mikhaylova
Dr Aoife WILKINSON	Mixed Japanese youth in Australia and Japan: Negotiating a mixed identity under discourses of multiculturalism	A/Prof David Chapman A/Prof Zane Goebel
Dr Yang XU	A Contrastive Study of Referential Cohesive Devices in Non-translated, Human-translated and Machine-translated English and Chinese Legal and Literary Texts	Dr Leong Ko Dr Wenying Wendy Jiang
Dr Michael ATHERINOS	Perceptions of diversity beyond nationality: An exploratory study on the student experience of intercultural group work at an Australian university	Dr Paul Moore Dr Adriana Diaz
Dr Andrew CANTWELL	An Exploration and Defense of Schopenhauer's Metaphysics of Will; WILL AS DING AN SICH	Dr Stephan Atzert A/Prof Robert Wicks
Dr Agnieszka FARON	Trilingual families in Australia: A study of language beliefs, strategies and practices	Dr Anna Mikhaylova Dr Min Jung Jee Em/Prof Roland Sussex
Dr George GYAMFI	Empirical investigation of the impact of strategies for the development of students evaluative judgement in a learner-sourcing context	Dr Barbara Hanna
Dr NURHEMIDA	Teachers' Perceptions and the Role of Professional Development in Implementing Task-Based Language Teaching in Indonesian Secondary Schools	Dr Noriko Iwashita Dr Xuan Nhat Chi Mai Nguyen
Dr Eunike MUTIARA	The Psychological Perspectives of Civilians and Civilian Perpetrators of the May 1998 Riots in Indonesia	A/Prof Anne Pohlman

2023 Graduates

Name of Graduate	Project Title	Supervisors
Dr Xuan Minh NGO	A sociocultural analysis of teacher language assessment literacy (LAL) development: Stories from novice Vietnamese EFL teachers	Dr Paul Moore Dr Noriko Iwashita
Dr Chung CHENG	The Addition Phenomenon of Audiovisual Translation: A Corpus Research on Translator's Notes in Audiovisual Works	Prof Ping Chen Dr Wendy Jiang
Dr Asma ALSHEHRI	Deconstruction of Cultural Knowledge and Ideologies in Saudi Arabia Secondary School English Language Textbook Series	Dr Dong-Bae Lee Dr Sol Rojas-Lizana
Dr Sayyed Amir SHEIKHAN	Conversational humour in intercultural initial interactions in English	Prof Michael Haugh Dr Valeria Sinkeviciute Dr Melody Chang
Dr Tiare Alejandra GONZALEZ VIDAL	Merging language, culture and technology in the Chilean EFL context	Dr Paul Moore Dr Michael Harrington
Dr David WIJAYA	The acquisition of number marking: The case of Indonesian as a second language	Dr Peter Crosthwaite Dr Karen Sullivan Dr Martin Schweinberger
Dr Rebecca HAUSLER	Narrating History: Literary Depictions of Japanese Prisoners of War in Australia	Dr Amy Hubbell Dr Lucy Fraser Dr Tomoko Aoyama
Dr Carolina ARIAS CONTRERAS	English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in the Field of Agriculture: From Needs Analysis to ESP Task Design and Implementation	Dr Paul Moore Dr Michael John Levy
Dr Thi Thu Hien HOANG	A corpus-based investigation of multiword units across textbook and learner corpora	Dr Peter Crosthwaite Dr Wendy Jiang

2022 Graduates

Name of Graduate	Project Title		Supervisor Name
Dr Sandra WORRALL	Building belonging through everyday otherness and conviviality: A study of people from African backgrounds and long-term residents in the community of Moorooka, Brisbane		Dr Adriana Diaz
Dr Yueying ZENG	Factors impacting technology use among teachers teaching Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) in Queensland secondary schools		Dr Wendy Jiang
Dr Sandra WORRALL	Building belonging through everyday otherness and conviviality: A study of people from African backgrounds and long-term residents in the community of Moorooka, Brisbane		Dr Sol Rojas-Lizana
Dr Yueying ZENG	Factors impacting technology use among teachers teaching Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) in Queensland secondary schools		Prof Ping Chen
Mr Christian ROMUSS	Philipp Mainlander and Arthur Schopenhauer: A comparative study of some conceptual and structural divergences between their philosophies		Dr Stephan Atzert Dr Geoffrey Wilkes
Dr Tieu Thuy CHUNG	Writing with Attitude: A Learner Corpus Study of APPRAISAL Resources of Vietnamese and Khmer's L2 English Writing		Dr Peter Crosthwaite
Dr Ying XU	Challenges to Acquiring Modal Verbs in Learning Chinese as a Second Language		Dr Wendy Jiang Dr Jihong Wang
Dr Tieu Thuy CHUNG	Writing with Attitude: A Learner Corpus Study of APPRAISAL Resources of Vietnamese and Khmer's L2 English Writing		Dr Wendy Jiang
Mr Gustavo POENITZ	ZNeo-caudillismo in Argentine political literature: Cronicas on Carlos Saul Menem and Nestor Carlos Kirchner		Dr Roberto Esposto Dr Sol Rojas-Lizana

2021 Graduates

Name of Graduate	Project Title	Supervisor Name
Mr Oscar CARDENAS NAVARRO	Raul Ruiz's Filmmaking: An Alternative to the Central Conflict Theory	Dr Joseph Hardwick
Miss Ruihua YIN	The Sonority Sequencing Principle: A Large-scale Cross-linguistic Investigation of Phonotactics	Dr Erich Round
Mr Oscar CARDENAS NAVARRO	Raul Ruiz's Filmmaking: An Alternative to the Central Conflict Theory	Dr Roberto Esposto
Miss Ruihua YIN	The Sonority Sequencing Principle: A Large-scale Cross-linguistic Investigation of Phonotactics	Prof Jeroen van de Weijer
Mr Mauro OCANA GARZON	Using profiles to understand learning behaviours of language students in the big data era	Dr Barbara Hanna Dr Aneesha Bakharia Dr Hassan Khosravi
Ms Charlotte CHAMBERS	The French influence on the Middle English expression of possession	Prof Felicity Meakins Dr Barbara Hanna
Ms Ana Carina LOPEZ DE WINTER	Trabajo vs descanso: analisis isotopico de lecturas escolares en Argentina desde una perspectiva en valores	Dr Susana Furphy Dr Barbara Hanna Dr Hugo Hortiguera
Dr Phuc Diem LE	Rating behaviour and rater cognition: The case of an English Speaking test	Dr Noriko Iwashita Dr Barbara Hanna
Mr Dennis-Brook LOTSU	Gender Politics, Violence, and Affect in the films of Leila Djansi: Between Third Cinema and Mainstream Commercial Cinema in Africa	Prof Greg Hainge Dr Amy Hubbell
Mrs Majdah ASEERI	Pragmatic Strategies in Saudi Arabian University Students' Communication with Lecturers: A Comparison of Language and Gender	Prof Ilana Mushin
Mr Jayden MACKLIN-CORDES	Phonotactics in historical linguistics: Quantitative interrogation of a novel data source	Dr Erich Round Dr Simon J. Greenhill
Mrs Majdah ASEERI	Pragmatic Strategies in Saudi Arabian University Students' Communication with Lecturers: A Comparison of Language and Gender	Dr Juliana De Nooy
Mr Mitchell BROWNE	A Grammatical Description of Warlmanpa, a Ngumpin-Yapa Language Spoken around Tennant Creek (Northern Territory)	Prof Felicity Meakins Dr David Nash Dr Mary Laughren
Dr Jinyue WANG	A Study of Howard Goldblatt's English Translation of Mo Yan's Novels: Ballads and Readers' Response	Dr Leong Ko Dr Wendy Jiang Dr William Gatherer
Dr Fiona SAWYER	Use of mobile assisted language learning among adult non-formal learners: A Complex Dynamic Systems Theory approach	Dr Juliana De Nooy Dr Min Jee