Title of thesis
Historicity and Temporal Consciousness in New Wave Science Fiction

Name of Supervisor
Prof. Eric Sandberg

Title of thesis
The Use of AI-Generated Chatbots in Chinese Students’ English Learning: A Mixed-Methods Study of Usage-Characteristics, Student-Chatbot Classroom Interactivity, and Learning Outcomes

Name of Supervisor
Prof. Simon Harrison

Title of thesis
An Exploratory Study of High Schools Students’ Disciplinary Reading Performance in English Medium Instruction Context: Students’ Self-Directed Reading Strategies in China

Name of Supervisor
Prof. Matthew Sung

Title of thesis
Identity, Transformation, and Performance: Investigating Androgyny in Chinese Theatre Arts

Name of Supervisor
Prof. Reto Winckler

Title of thesis
Sustainable Communication Strategies in the Outdoor Apparel Industry: A Discourse Analysis of Outdoor Apparel Brands

Name of Supervisor
Prof. Esterina Nervino

Title of thesis
The effectiveness of implementing translanguaging pedagogy in genre-based EAP course in English medium instruction Chinese universities

Name of Supervisor
Prof. Lan Ge

Title of thesis
Language, identity, and rural revitalization: Mapping rural linguistic landscapes of globalizing China

Name of Supervisor
Prof. Esterina Nervino

Title of thesis
Gender, Body, and Space: Women’s Travel Writing on China in the 1880s-1940s

Name of Supervisor
Prof. Jeffrey Mather

Title of thesis
Ecological Imagination in British Children Fantasy in the 20th Century

Name of Supervisor
Prof. Klaudia Lee

Title of thesis
Exploring EMI Learners’ Language Learning Motivation, Language Investment, and Identity Construction in Tertiary Education: A Mixed-method Study of Business Undergraduates in Mainland China

Name of Supervisor
Prof. Matthew Sung

Title of thesis
Compliments and compliment responses in online contexts: a cross-cultural and cross-generational study between celebrities and influencers in China and Singapore

Name of Supervisor
Prof. James JIA

Title of thesis
The Pragmatics of Online Consumer Reviews among Chinese-English Bilingual Speakers

Name of Supervisor
Prof. James Jia

Title of thesis
Negotiating Interwar Pastoral with Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, and Sylvia Townsend Warner

Name of Supervisor
Prof. Klaudia Lee

Title of thesis
A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Sustainability Discourse in Corporate Communication in the Car Industry

Name of Supervisor
Prof. Esterina Nervino

Title of thesis
Breaking Barriers: Exploring Gender and Entrepreneurial Leadership through an Applied Linguistics Lens

Name of Supervisor
Prof. Esterina Nervino

Title of thesis
Investigating L2 EAP students’ feedback literacy development and its correlation with students’ academic writing performance

Name of Supervisor
Prof. Lan Ge

Title of thesis
A Mixed-method Study of Informal Language Learning in the Short Video Era: Influencers, Algorithms, and Viewers on Douyin

Name of Supervisor
Prof. Christoph Hafner