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 .
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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| r.m.abreu@stir.ac.uk | The role of religious identity in ethnic minority women's conceptualisations of beauty on Instagram | |
| 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 |
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| awad.bhenick@stir.ac.uk | ||
| 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 |
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| 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. | |
| h.d.crisp@stir.ac.uk | ||
| 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@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. |
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| 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@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. |
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| margot.mccuaig@stir.ac.uk |
Thesis is entitled ‘Sports documentaries, gender, class and emotion: an autoethnography’ |
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| l.s.tippett@stir.ac.uk |
PhD is exploring the use of football-related sound archives for sports-based reminiscence with older people |
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| Humphrey Wachuli Wasswa | h.w.wasswa@stir.ac.uk |
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| liheng.zhang@stir.ac.uk |
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History, Heritage, and Politics
| Name | Research area | |
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| j.e.allin@stir.ac.uk | Methodism and the people: towards a spatial understanding of its nineteenth century impact. | |
| hezam.almee@stir.ac.uk | ||
| shaikha.alsuwaidi@stir.ac.uk | ||
| lib5@stir.ac.uk | ||
| alina.botezatu@stir.ac.uk | ||
| Sean Trevin Byrd | s.t.byrd@stir.ac.uk | |
| m.m.campbell1@stir.ac.uk | Clan Campbell: Spiritual Authority, Core of Medieval Highland Governance | |
| t.s.cooke@stir.ac.uk | Ranger operations in the Southern colonies and the Overmountain area, 1763-1781 | |
| c.h.davidson@stir.ac.uk | ||
| 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) |
| a.a.aal.ghardaqa@stir.ac.uk | ||
| s.j.gordon@stir.ac.uk | ||
| 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@stir.ac.uk | ||
| hafeezullahkhan.khan@stir.ac.uk | ||
| r.m.main@stir.ac.uk | Historicising the emergence and spread of Yersinia pestis (plague) in Neolithic and Bronze Age Eurasia | |
| tam8@stir.ac.uk | ||
| jamie.mcdiarmid1@stir.ac.uk | ||
| a.s.murali@stir.ac.uk | ||
| e.j.nash@stir.ac.uk | ||
| f.e.newham@stir.ac.uk | ||
| Katie O'Neill | katie.oneill@stir.ac.uk | My research investigates how conspiracy theories influence political engagement in the United States, particularly since 2016. It combines content analysis and experimental methods to explore how misplaced certainty shapes belief and behaviour. |
| geoffrey.omon@stir.ac.uk | ||
| e.g.onofua@stir.ac.uk | ||
| konstantinos.pappas1@stir.ac.uk | ||
| 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) | |
| j.j.b.quintana@stir.ac.uk | Piety in Medieval Augustinian Scotland | |
| 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 爱漫岛, Glasgow School of Art, and with my project partner, Planning Aid Scotland | |
| paula.rubeiz@stir.ac.uk | ||
| v.i.russell1@stir.ac.uk | The Origins of the 爱漫岛 | |
| 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 |
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| lena.sideri@stir.ac.uk | ||
| emily.snowling@stir.ac.uk | ||
| c.m.stewart@stir.ac.uk | ||
| s.i.tawfeeq@stir.ac.uk | ||
| w.o.wonah@stir.ac.uk |
Literature and Languages
| Name | Research area | |
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| f.s.aird@stir.ac.uk | ||
| a.k.aloi@stir.ac.uk | ||
| 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@stir.ac.uk | ||
| tsai-yi.chu@stir.ac.uk | ||
| n.r.conway@stir.ac.uk | ||
| tsai-yi.chu@stir.ac.uk | The Double Writing of Edgar Allan Poe: Horror, and the Uncanny in the Selected Gothic Poetry and Fictions | |
| m.j.edwards1@stir.ac.uk | ||
| c.m.esler@stir.ac.uk | ||
| m.g.silvaferrandez@stir.ac.uk | ||
| morven.gow@stir.ac.uk | Negotiating Authenticity in 21st Century Book Publishing | |
| quancan.huang@stir.ac.uk | ||
| 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@stir.ac.uk | ||
| shaona.li@stir.ac.uk | ||
| yayuan.liu@stir.ac.uk | ||
| yiming.liu@stir.ac.uk | ||
| i.h.macfarlane@stir.ac.uk | Books, Borrowers and Visitors at the Library of Innerpeffray, 1855-1897 | |
| katie.maclean@stir.ac.uk | ||
| 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@stir.ac.uk | ||
| 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.nakonechna1@stir.ac.uk | Scottish identity and contemporary diasporic literature (1960-present) | |
| hollis.nelson@stir.ac.uk | ||
| 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. |
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| jennifer.robertson1@stir.ac.uk | Jane Austen and the visual culture of the long eighteenth century | |
| laurie.rostain@stir.ac.uk | ||
| e.j.savolainen@stir.ac.uk | ||
| roberto.sbraccia@stir.ac.uk | ||
| yuyao.tang@stir.ac.uk |
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| 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. | |
| d.g.vescio@stir.ac.uk | ||
| weike.wang@stir.ac.uk | ||
| n.a.williams@stir.ac.uk | ||
| 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@stir.ac.uk | ||
| sonja.zimmermann@stir.ac.uk |
Law and Philosophy
| Name | Research area | |
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| d.f.adams@stir.ac.uk | ||
| Otomfonabasi Johanan Awah | o.j.awah@stir.ac.uk | |
| 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? | |
| m.m.omran@stir.ac.uk | Do Libya's current competition rules in Commercial Law ensure fair competition? | |
| mariana.cantosobral@stir.ac.uk | ||
| e.s.vassiliades@stir.ac.uk |