Department of English
Organisational unit: Academic Departments
Student Theses
- 2020
Understanding the Development of Out-of-class Learning: A Case Study of a Mobile-assisted Community of Inquiry
Author: WU, J., 3 Jul 2020Supervisor: MILLER, L. (Supervisor) & KING, B. W. (Co-supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
A Critical Public Relations Approach to Crisis Communication and Management: A Case Study of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Disappearance 2014-2018
Author: WANG, H., 24 Feb 2020Supervisor: NG, C. J. W. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
- 2019
Mapping of Cognitive Emotional Universals and Particulars in the Coming of Age Novel
Author: KORDIS, A., 17 Sep 2019Supervisor: LINDER, B. (Supervisor) & LEE, H. Y. K. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
Brave ‘Neo’ World: The Discourses of the Post-90s Generation of Lesbians in Contemporary China
Author: WANG, K., 4 Sep 2019Supervisor: KING, B. W. (Supervisor) & PECORARI, D. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
Intercultural Communicative Competence in China-based Corporations: An Analysis of Chinese Professionals’ Perceived Communicative Needs, Challenges, and Strategies
Author: YAO, Y., 29 Jul 2019Supervisor: DU-BABCOCK, B. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
The End of Privilege: Postmodern Paradigms in Transhuman Worlds
Author: BERRY, S. H., 28 Jun 2019Supervisor: MATHER, J. L. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
Haunting, Female Agency and Women’s Imagination: A Comparative Study on Florence Marryat, Vernon Lee, Enchi Fumiko and Ōba Minako’s Fiction
Author: LAM, K. Y., 14 Jun 2019Supervisor: LEE, H. Y. K. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
“The Body Is Not Flesh, But the Same Stuff as the Soul”: A Phenomenological Study of Subjectivity and Self in Penelope Fitzgerald’s Novels
Author: QIN, G., 28 May 2019Supervisor: SANDBERG, E. P. (Supervisor) & SIMANOWSKI, R. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
- 2018
Second Language Socialization in Construction Engineering in Hong Kong: The Transition from Academic to Professional Contexts
Author: YU, T. Y. C., 12 Sep 2018Supervisor: HAFNER, C. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
- 2017
Representation of Occupational Incidents in the Corporate Social Responsibility Reports of Chinese State-owned Enterprises: A Discourse Analysis
Author: LIN, Y., 9 Aug 2017Supervisor: FLOWERDEW, J. (Supervisor) & BREMNER, S. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
The Perturbed Self: Gender and History in the Late Nineteenth-century Ghost Literature in China and Britain
Author: FU, M., 3 Aug 2017Supervisor: CAVENDISH-JONES, C. A. (Supervisor) & LEE, H. Y. K. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
Five Get into Gender Trouble: A Comparative Exploration of Gender Performativity and Identities, As Portrayed in the First Editions of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five Series through to Hodder’s 2010 Revised Texts
Author: MARSHALL, K. A., 14 Jul 2017Supervisor: JOHNSON, A. D. (Supervisor), CAVENDISH-JONES, C. A. (Supervisor) & JORDAN, P. E. R. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
‘Sponsorship’: An Exploration of Sexuality, Agency, Socialisation, and Competence in Local English Language Practices in Cambodia
Author: ROWLETT, B. J. L., 7 Mar 2017Supervisor: KING, B. W. (Supervisor) & NG, C. J. W. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
Practicing Intersectionality: Feminist Witches in Postmodern Re-Visions
Author: ZHAO, Z., 25 Jan 2017Supervisor: MATHER, J. L. (Supervisor) & DAVIS, R. G. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
Critical Thinking Requirements and Lexicogrammatical Resources for Chinese Students Taking GRE Writing Tests: A Computer-assisted Action Research Project
Author: WANG, H. S., 9 Jan 2017Supervisor: FLOWERDEW, J. (Supervisor) & KWAN, B. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
Will the ‘Real’ Author Please Stand Up: The Performance of Authenticity by Mohsin Hamid, Junot Diaz and Madeleine Thien in Literary Discourse
Author: RAMACHANDRAN, S., 9 Jan 2017Supervisor: BHATIA, A. (Supervisor), JONES, R. (Supervisor) & KING, B. W. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
- 2016
The Development of Chinese Doctoral Students' Disciplinary Critical Thinking During Thesis Writing
Author: LIN, S., 14 Sep 2016Supervisor: KING, B. W. (Supervisor) & FLOWERDEW, J. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
Music Figures, Inspiration and the Performance of Identity in the Contemporary Transnational Novel
Author: HILL, C. J., 15 Jan 2016Supervisor: JOHNSON, A. D. (Supervisor) & DAVIS, R. G. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
- 2015
Applied genre analysis in professional contexts: discourses of and perspectives from IPO lawyers and reporting accountants
Author: WAN, A., 15 Jul 2015Supervisor: FLOWERDEW, J. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
Internationalization and the Discursive Shaping of Higher Education Practices: A Case Study from Taiwan
Author: HAYWARD, T. G., 26 Jun 2015Supervisor: MILLER, L. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis