Language, Interculturality, Technology and Education (LITE) Research Group members
Find out more about members of the Language, Interculturality, Technology and Education (LITE) Research Group.
Members of the LITE Research Group research the role of language, intercultural aspects, generative AI and technology in education, power, knowledge, ideology, identity and society, and the teaching and learning of languages.
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Doctoral students and topics
| Name | Topic |
|---|---|
| Jiayu Tie | Assessing AI Readiness Among Postgraduate Students in UK Universities: Exploring Factors Influencing AI Readiness for Artificial Intelligence Integration in Education |
| Mir Abdullah Miri | Education for Afghan Refugees in England: Narratives from a Social Justice Perspective |
| Yu Su | Exploring the Impact of AI-Driven Language Learning Applications on Chinese Students' Flow Experience and Autonomous English Learning in Yunnan Province |
| Haoxin Shen | Artificial Intelligence in English Medium Instruction: Exploring the Impact of GenAI on Students |
| Mercy Martins | Agency and Resistance as Anticolonial Praxis: Reimagining Language Practices in Nigerian Secondary School |
| David Busby | Study Skills Practitioner Identity and Agency in UK Higher Education |
| Jay Fonow | International Teacher Training Programs and the Anticipation of Epistemic Injustice: An Interview-based Study of the Professional Identity Construction of Non-native English Language Teachers in Southern China |
| Joe Garner | Learning Strategy Use in an English Medium Instruction Tertiary Education Context |
| Yuwei Lin | Students’ Willingness to Communicate in English Medium Instruction: A Case Study of a Sino-foreign Cooperative University |
| Xiaoli Liu | Chinese Heritage Language Learners’ Development in the UK |
| Siyu Nie | Corpus-based Analysis of Collocational Development of L1 and L2 Students’ Academic Writing |
| Kie Yamamoto | A Qualitative Investigation of Japanese Learners’ Perceptions of Teletandem Learning Experiences |
| Mary Langford | Mother Tongue Provision and the Role of the Mother Tongue in International Schools |
| Mohammad Alnahas | The Impact of Leadership Practices on EFL Teachers’ Motivation in Higher Education |
| Francoise Cerdan | Perspectives of Teachers in IB International Schools on the Decolonisation of the IB French Language Curriculum |
| Adam Lewis | Imported Ignorance?: Mainstream Teachers and EAL Students in British International Primary Schools |
| Farzad Mazandarani | A Critical Examination of the Life in the UK Test and ESOL Programmes: Perspectives of Migrants and Refugees |
| Christopher Samuell | Shaping Global Minds: A Study of Student Goals Relating to English Language Learning at TGUP and Non-TGUP Universities in Japan |
Previous doctoral students and topics
| Name | Topic | Year of completion |
|---|---|---|
| Angie Baily | Habitus, Agency and Guan: Raising multilingual children of Chinese heritage in Ireland | 2025 |
| Jinyao Chang | Heritage Language and Literacy Development in a Digital Age: The Case of Multilingual Transnational Chinese-English Families in the UK | 2025 |
| Walid Daffri | Academic Coloniality in English Language Teaching in Algeria | 2023 |
| Meltem Eski | English language teacher educator learning in Spain | 2023 |
| Carmella Jodrell | Gender differences in interactional strategies of educational coaches | 2024 |
| Wayne Jones | Language-related and non-linguistic challenges faced by Emirati students at an English medium university in the United Arab Emirates | 2025 |
| Hala Khaled | Language Learning Motivation in Multilingual Algeria: An Investigation into Possible Selves, Motivational Orientations, and Self-beliefs | 2022 |
| Chris Sowton | Language-in-education policy in South Sudan | 2023 |
| Kazuo Yamamoto | The role of faculty development programmes for Japanese instructors teaching university English Medium Instruction courses | 2025 |
| Rui Yan | Exploration of the effect of the use of gamified quizzes on student long-term motivation and engagement in an EFL | 2026 |
| Dan Zhao | The impact of using smartphone language learning applications on Chinese international students’ Willingness to Communicate (WTC): A Confucian Heritage Cultural (CHC) perspective | 2023 |
| Ying Zhou | Chinese EMI International Business Undergraduates’ Learning Motivation in a Transnational University: A Mixed-methods Longitudinal Study at a Transitional Stage | 2023 |