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 

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Name Email Research area
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 

 

Ayotunde Olufemi Iseyemi  a.o.iseyemi@stir.ac.uk 

 

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 

 

Liheng Zhang  liheng.zhang@stir.ac.uk 

 

 

History, Heritage, and Politics 

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Name  Email 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 

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Name Email Research area
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.

Silja Eveliina Koivuniemi 

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

 

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

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Name Email 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