HDR Students
Current HDR students, projects and supervisors
| Name | Brief summary of PhD research | Supervisors | Research Interests |
| Banan ALHAJAJI | My PhD research examines the acquisition of English tense and aspect—particularly the past tense and perfective aspect—by Saudi Arabic-speaking learners of English. It focuses on the development of lexical and grammatical aspect in classroom settings and investigates how priming influences learners’ performance in production tasks. | Dr. Sanako Mitsugi Dr. Anna Mikhaylova | Second language acquisition (SLA), with a particular focus on the acquisition of English tense and aspect by Arabic-speaking learners; the role of first language (L1) transfer in L2 development; lexical and grammatical aspect; instructed SLA; the effects of priming on L2 production; classroom-based language learning; psycholinguistic approaches to L2 tense-aspect acquisition. |
| Sonia BROAD | My research looks at the dynamics of Australian literature translated into Japanese with a focus on agents and their motivations. It incorporates bibliographical data, archival data and oral interviews to map these translations across publishing spaces and cultural diplomacy interactions between Australia and Japan. | Dr Akiko Uchiyama and Em Prof David Carter | Translation studies, Australia-Japan relations, Australian and Japanese literature, Cultural diplomacy, Publishing and print culture, oral history |
| Kelly BROOKER | My PhD focuses on the culturally encoded discourse of fairy tales ansd how this is/not being rearticulated by modern feminist writers, specifically Helen Oyeyemi and Caitlin R Kiernan. | Dr Lucy Fraser Dr Karin Sellberg | Elizabeth Grosz, Deleuze and Guattari, Cixous, Irigaray. |
| Valentin CARTILLIER | I've been writing on the works of the French philosophy Louis Althusser and his concept of aleatory materialism | Prof Greg Hainge, Dr Joe Hughes | Continental philosophy, French translation |
| Chilmeg ELDEN | My PhD focuses on the establishment and management of interpersonal relationships between Australian and Japanese language exchange partners. It analyses video-recordings of interactions during language exchange sessions, focusing on specific pragmatic practices in the first, second, and third interactions. | Professor Michael Haugh and Dr Valeria Sinkeviciute | Pragmatics, L2 pragmatics, social interaction, initial interaction, interpersonal relationship, humour, Japanese disource |
| Naomi FILLMORE | My PhD investigates how linguistically sustaining early education is being (re)imagined in Queensland, Australia. Using a mixed methods approach combining policy analysis, strengths-based quantitative methods, and qualitative case studies in 5 early childhood centres, I examine how language is constructed in educational policy and how educators and communities create spaces that support children's multilingualism despite systemic constraints. | Dr Samantha Disbray Dr Adriana Diaz A/Prof Marnee Shay (School of Ed) | Educational linguistics; language policy and planning; bi/multilingual education; early childhood education; Indigenous education; EAL/D teaching and learning; Indigenous language revitalisation; linguistic justice. |
| Orie GREEN | My research explores secondary school students' perspectives on language learning using a mixed methods approach - questionnaire and Q-methodology. It aims to investigate reasons behind the prolonged low enrolment rate of Languages as an elective subject in Queensland. | Dr Adriana Díaz Dr Barbara Hanna | Education (Secondary), Second language learning and teaching, Motivation, Language policy and ideology |
| Haegyeong HONG | Using the method of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Visual Image Analysis (VIA) to analyse English textbooks used in North Korea (specifically Highschool textbooks) to identify embedded dominant cultural ideologies and values. | A/Prof Isaac Lee and Dr Narah Lee | Critical Discourse Analysis, Visual Image Analysis, Textbook studies, Cultural studies, North Korean studies |
| Huahua HONG | My reseach investigates the validity of the Chinese External Assessment (CEA) for University admissions in Queensland secondary schools. It aims to examine whether the CEA has been designed to assess what it supposed to be assessed and its washback to Chinese learning and teaching. | Dr Wendy Jiang and Dr Obaid Hamid | Second language assessment, L2 student learning motivation and Chinese as a heritage language learning and teaching in the Australian universities context |
| Haeng A KIM | I aim to design and validate a Curriculum-Based Dynamic Assessment (CBDA) framework underpinned by Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory while incorporating cognitive problem-solving scaffolding system to support EAL learners' metacognitive development. | Dr. Noriko Iwashita and Dr. Paul Moore | Dynamic Assessment, Assessment as Learning, Assessment-Curriculum-Pedagogy Alignment, Assessment Validation |
| Zhiyi LIU | My study focuses on the topic of relating in Chinese family discourse. It explores how family members activly engage in the moments of caregiving and socialization to negotiate their ongoing relationships and orders within the family and how guanxi (relationship) in the family setting can be conceptualized from an emic perspective. | Dr Valeria Sinkeviciute, Dr Melody Wei-Lin Chang, and Prof Ping Chen | Pragmatics of social interaction, identity and relationship in interaction, affect, family discourse, Chinese language dicourse |
| Huong Tram Anh NGUYEN | My PhD research investigates the relationship between rater cognition and assessment practice, focusing on how teacher-raters in Vietnam evaluate interactive listening in oral tasks. | A/Prof Noriko Iwashita and Dr. Kayoko Hashimoto | second language assessment, professional developement, classroom Interaction |
| Satria Adi PRADANA | My research seeks for the language policy used in islamic state universities in Indonesia with a focus on teachers' point of view, resistance and their ideology (curriculum, lesson planning and material development). It internalizes the impact of English and Arabic used in ISUs for internationalisation. | Dr. Kayoko Hashimoto and Associate Professor Patrick Jory | Language policy, planning and ideology, Teaching English as Foreign Language and speaker to other languages, English for Specific Purposes. |
| Endang SARTIKA | My research aims to analyze how traumatic memory of political violence in Indonesia is communicated/narrated in Indonesian novels. By focusing on gender-based violence and women authors, my research try to explore the role of literature in advocating injustices. | Ass/Prof. Annie Pohlam and Ass/Prof. Amy Hubbell | Trauma narrative, cultural memory, memory studies |
| Franciele (FRAN) SPINELLI | Grounded on co-regulated learning and co-creation theoretical approaches, the overarching aim of my PhD research is to explore how academics in undergraduate humanities and business programs can support international students’ use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to co-regulate their academic language-related needs. | Dr Peter Crosthwaite and Dr Simone Smala (School of Ed.) | AI in education, classroom-based research, blended learning (focus on second language learning or English for academic purposes) |
| Jérémy TUPPER | I’m the first to enrol in the new "Translation PhD" format (50,000-word translation + 30,000-word exegesis). My research is part of an Industry Partnership, where I’ll be translating EN/FR texts related to international policy, environmental conservation & intergovernmental organisations – with a particular focus on evaluating AI-driven computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools in professional industry settings. | Dr Angela Cook & A/Prof Amy Hubbell | Translation Studies; French Studies; Domain-Specific Language; Industry Collaboration in Translation; Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) Tools; Artificial Intelligence; Environmental Policy; Intergovernmental Communication |
| Jorien VAN BEUKERING | My PhD research investigates personal experiences of illegitimacy and mixed race heritage in individuals with family links to colonial Indonesia who were not formally recognised by their biological fathers. | A/Prof Annie Pohlman & A/Prof Amy Hubbell | Dutch/Indonesian studies, migration & diaspora, trauma research, family studies, identity, Dutch Australian studies |
| Xiaoji WANG | My research investigates L2 Chinese learners' experience of mobile-assisted language learning, focusing on learners' satisfaction level and the influencing factors of satisfaction, as well as a case study on learners' WeChat use. | Dr Wendy Jiang Dr Angela Cook | Chinese linguistics, Technology-assisted language learning, English-Chinese translation, Intercultural business communication |