Postgraduate Research students
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities has a strong postgraduate community whose members have come from all over the world to pursue their research.
Our PGR students fully participate in our Faculty's research. They enrich our culture; as independent researchers, participants in research projects, attendees at our conferences, or as participants in our research seminars. Many of our research students work across disciplines and have participated in and championed interdisciplinary working across the University, for example, through the interdisciplinary journal SPARK.
Below, you can find the profiles of some of our research students.
For any changes or updates to the lists, please email: fahfacultyoffice@stir.ac.uk
Communications, Media and Culture
| Name | Research area | |
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| Rachel Abreu | r.m.abreu@stir.ac.uk | The role of religious identity in ethnic minority women's conceptualisations of beauty on Instagram |
| Zaynab Mazin Faisal Al Baldawi | z.m.albaldawi@stir.ac.uk |
PhD project is on the impact of AI virtual influencers in the Marketing Industry, exploring how AI is changing the marketing game and affecting consumers, real human influencers, and marketeers |
| Awad Bhenick | awad.bhenick@stir.ac.uk | |
| Joseph Brett-Demetre | j.p.brett-demetre@stir.ac.uk |
Joseph’s research, in partnership with the National Mining Museum Scotland, focuses on press coverage of coal famines in the 19thand 20th centuries, with a specific focus on role coverage played in bringing the politics of the coal industry into the public sphere |
| Onyinye Chiweta-Oduah | onyinye.chiweta-oduah@stir.ac.uk | Researching health communication around pandemics in rural areas, to better understand the effectiveness of health communication strategies in pandemic circumstances. |
| Harriet Crisp | h.d.crisp@stir.ac.uk | |
| Anne Fortune | a.l.fortune@stir.ac.uk | Anne's research interests encompass World Literatures and Cultures, with a particular focus on popular cultural texts focusing on female characters, or which exist as a result of female labour. Anne's research aims to examine and explore how culture develops, influences and persuades. |
| Xinyi Gao | xinyi.gao@stir.ac.uk |
Xinyi Gao’s research is based on Chinese immigrant groups that have migrated to Scotland, and explores the media consumption habits of immigrant communities, as well as identifying trends and patterns regarding how immigrant audiences' media preferences are changing due to their experiences and cultural backgrounds. |
| Nicholas Alexander Haseloff | n.a.haseloff@stir.ac.uk |
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| Ayotunde Olufemi Iseyemi | a.o.iseyemi@stir.ac.uk |
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| Richard McBrearty | richard.mcbrearty@stir.ac.uk |
Thesis examines the development of football in Scotland as an organised and regulated activity from 1824 to 1873. This 50 year timeframe commences with the formation of the first recorded football club at Edinburgh in 1824 and concludes with the institution of the Scottish Football Association and Scottish Football Union in 1873. |
| Margot McCuaig | margot.mccuaig@stir.ac.uk |
Thesis is entitled ‘Sports documentaries, gender, class and emotion: an autoethnography’ |
| Levi Tippet | l.s.tippett@stir.ac.uk |
PhD is exploring the use of football-related sound archives for sports-based reminiscence with older people |
| Humphrey Wachuli Wasswa | h.w.wasswa@stir.ac.uk |
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| Liheng Zhang | liheng.zhang@stir.ac.uk |
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History, Heritage, and Politics
| Name | Research area | |
|---|---|---|
| John Allin | j.e.allin@stir.ac.uk | Methodism and the people: towards a spatial understanding of its nineteenth century impact. |
| Hezam Almee | hezam.almee@stir.ac.uk | |
| Shaikha Alsuwaidi | shaikha.alsuwaidi@stir.ac.uk | |
| Lilja Bernheim | lib5@stir.ac.uk | |
| Alina Botezatu | alina.botezatu@stir.ac.uk | |
| Sean Trevin Byrd | s.t.byrd@stir.ac.uk | |
| Mary Campbell | m.m.campbell1@stir.ac.uk | Clan Campbell: Spiritual Authority, Core of Medieval Highland Governance |
| Timothy S. Cooke | t.s.cooke@stir.ac.uk | Ranger operations in the Southern colonies and the Overmountain area, 1763-1781 |
| Catriona Helen Davidson | c.h.davidson@stir.ac.uk | |
| Lawrence David George East | lde2@stir.ac.uk | |
| Tomas Gerich | toma.gerich@stir.ac.uk | Reframing building conservation: Examining relationships between materialities, communities and values (SGSAH CDA project in collaboration with The National Trust for Scotland) |
| Ahmed Abdulrahman Ali Aal Ghardaqa | a.a.aal.ghardaqa@stir.ac.uk | |
| Scott James Gordon | s.j.gordon@stir.ac.uk | |
| Lucy Henry | l.v.henry@stir.ac.uk | Gender and Justice in the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Highlands: Women in the sheriff court of Inverness, 1748-1800 |
| Jacqueline Imrie | jacqueline.imrie@stir.ac.uk | |
| Hafeez Ullah Khan | hafeezullahkhan.khan@stir.ac.uk | |
| Rebecca Main | r.m.main@stir.ac.uk | Historicising the emergence and spread of Yersinia pestis (plague) in Neolithic and Bronze Age Eurasia |
| Tafadzwa Makara | tam8@stir.ac.uk | |
| Jamie McDiarmid | jamie.mcdiarmid1@stir.ac.uk | |
| Anu Shree Murali | a.s.murali@stir.ac.uk | |
| Effie Jay Nash | e.j.nash@stir.ac.uk | |
| Fraser Ellis Newham | f.e.newham@stir.ac.uk | |
| Geoffrey Omon | geoffrey.omon@stir.ac.uk | |
| Emmanuel Gbelokotor Onofua | e.g.onofua@stir.ac.uk | |
| Konstantinos Dinos Pappas | konstantinos.pappas1@stir.ac.uk | |
| Katharina Pruente | k.j.pruente@stir.ac.uk | Katharina works on clan history, diplomacy, and patterns of conflict and cooperation in Scotland and Europe during the early modern period. Her PhD project focuses on the social networks of Archibald Campbell, fifth earl of Argyll and chief of Clan Campbell (1558-1573) |
| Juan Benitez Quintana | j.j.b.quintana@stir.ac.uk | Piety in Medieval Augustinian Scotland |
| Ieuan Rees | i.d.rees@stir.ac.uk | I am currently working on an SGSAH funded Collaborative Doctoral Award ‘Heritage, Planning and Place: New Futures for Participatory, Creative Place-Making' at the University of Stirling, Glasgow School of Art, and with my project partner, Planning Aid Scotland |
| Paula Rubeiz | paula.rubeiz@stir.ac.uk | |
| Victoria Russell | v.i.russell1@stir.ac.uk | The Origins of the University of Stirling |
| Tadeo Vazquez Sanchez | t.j.vazquezsanchez@stir.ac.uk |
Tadeo’s PhD explores the discursive construction of nativism, authoritarianism and populism of populist radical right leaders across media settings |
| Eleni Sideri | lena.sideri@stir.ac.uk | |
| Emily Jessica Snowling | emily.snowling@stir.ac.uk | |
| Christopher Macgowan Stewart | c.m.stewart@stir.ac.uk | |
| Salwa Ibraheem Tawfeeq | s.i.tawfeeq@stir.ac.uk | |
| Martin Odey Wonah | w.o.wonah@stir.ac.uk |
Literature and Languages
| Name | Research area | |
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| Francis Aird | f.s.aird@stir.ac.uk | |
| Aubrey Aloi | a.k.aloi@stir.ac.uk | |
| Dyhia Bia | dyhia.bia@stir.ac.uk | The Politics and Aesthetics of the Grotesque and Carnivalesque in Post-independence Africa: from novel to theatre |
| Lauren Elizabeth Cameron | l.e.cameron@stir.ac.uk | |
| Yuchen Chen | yuchen.chen@stir.ac.uk | |
| Tsai-Yi (Janet) Chu | tsai-yi.chu@stir.ac.uk | |
| Neil Robert Conway | n.r.conway@stir.ac.uk | |
| Tsai-Yi (Janet) Chu | tsai-yi.chu@stir.ac.uk | The Double Writing of Edgar Allan Poe: Horror, and the Uncanny in the Selected Gothic Poetry and Fictions |
| Matthew James Edwards | m.j.edwards1@stir.ac.uk | |
| Calum MacLean Esler | c.m.esler@stir.ac.uk | |
| Maria Gemma Silva Ferrandez | m.g.silvaferrandez@stir.ac.uk | |
| Morven Gow | morven.gow@stir.ac.uk | Negotiating Authenticity in 21st Century Book Publishing |
| Quancan Huang | quancan.huang@stir.ac.uk | |
| Lucy Janes | e.l.janes@stir.ac.uk | My PhD project is a social and cultural history of swimming in Glasgow, 1850 to 1950. I'm using archival literary and historical sources to uncover the history of swimming culture, and learn more about the experiences of the men, women and children who swam in the River Clyde, private baths clubs and public swimming pools. |
| s.e.koivuniemi@stir.ac.uk | ||
| Ang Li | ang.li@stir.ac.uk | |
| Shaona Li | shaona.li@stir.ac.uk | |
| Yayuan Liu | yayuan.liu@stir.ac.uk | |
| Yiming Liu | yiming.liu@stir.ac.uk | |
| Isla Macfarlane | i.h.macfarlane@stir.ac.uk | Books, Borrowers and Visitors at the Library of Innerpeffray, 1855-1897 |
| Katie MacLean | katie.maclean@stir.ac.uk | |
| Helena Markou | h.l.markou@stir.ac.uk | The Shelf-Life of Books: An Exploration of the Lifecycle and Longevity of Books in the UK in the 21st Century |
| Emma McCabe | emma.mccabe@stir.ac.uk | |
| Ronan MCGreechin | r.p.mcgreechin@stir.ac.uk | My research aims to uncover the writings of shipyard workers in the long nineteenth century and consider their engagements with literary and associational cultures, and the way in which they represent issues such as professional identity, migration, religion and culture. |
| Irina Nakonechna | irina.nakonechna1@stir.ac.uk | Scottish identity and contemporary diasporic literature (1960-present) |
| Hollis Nelson | hollis.nelson@stir.ac.uk | |
| Francesca Pontini | francesca.pontini@stir.ac.uk |
Reading the Margins: Investigating Reading Practices in Early Sixteenth-century Scotland The central aim of this research is to understand how readers in early modern Scotland, interacted with and read the books, printed between 1495 and 1560, that they owned and/or that passed through their hands. The research takes into consideration readers' interests but also how they wrote and uses palaeography to define the preferred script by readers/annotators in sixteenth-century Scotland. |
| Jennifer Robertson | jennifer.robertson1@stir.ac.uk | Jane Austen and the visual culture of the long eighteenth century |
| Laurie Rostain | laurie.rostain@stir.ac.uk | |
| Eeva Julianna Savolainen | e.j.savolainen@stir.ac.uk | |
| Roberto Sbraccia | roberto.sbraccia@stir.ac.uk | |
| Yuyao Tang | yuyao.tang@stir.ac.uk |
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| Nicola Torch | n.l.torch@stir.ac.uk | The intersection between contemporary book publishing and social media environments to better understand how creative activities on social media platforms transform publishing practices. Her research project examines the commercial force that digital creators wield within contemporary culture and the power their literary outputs have on contemporary publishing. |
| David Gabriel Vescio | d.g.vescio@stir.ac.uk | |
| Weike Wang | weike.wang@stir.ac.uk | |
| Nicolette Williams | n.a.williams@stir.ac.uk | |
| Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman | cleo.o.callaghan.yeoman@stir.ac.uk | Analysing the relationships between novel reading and ideas of ‘improvement’ in early nineteenth-century Scottish novels. Cleo is particularly interested in the works of Scottish authors: Mary Brunton, Susan Ferrier, John Galt, Elizabeth Hamilton, James Hogg, and Walter Scott. |
| Wenwen Zhou | wenwen.zhou@stir.ac.uk | |
| Sonja Zimmermann | sonja.zimmermann@stir.ac.uk |
Law and Philosophy
| Name | Research area | |
|---|---|---|
| Devin Faith Adams | d.f.adams@stir.ac.uk | |
| Otomfonabasi Johanan Awah | o.j.awah@stir.ac.uk | |
| Olayiwola Babalola | o.s.babalola@stir.ac.uk | How can the Hague Securities Convention reform the legal and regulatory framework of African ‘big three’ and London stock exchanges’ intermediated OTC derivative trading? |
| Mohamed Omran | m.m.omran@stir.ac.uk | Do Libya's current competition rules in Commercial Law ensure fair competition? |
| Mariana Canto Sobral | mariana.cantosobral@stir.ac.uk | |
| Emilia Vassiliades | e.s.vassiliades@stir.ac.uk |