PhD projects
If you are thinking of applying for one of our PhD programmes and you are looking for potential supervisors, please email C.Orasan@surrey.ac.uk listing the names of the supervisors you have identified as having expertise in your chosen area, along with your CV and a short research proposal.鈥疨lease do not contact the potential PhD supervisors directly because they may be unable to respond to the initial enquiry. Below you can find a list of the current and past PhD projects conducted in CTS.
Postgraduate research students
| Name | Project title | Supervisors |
|---|---|---|
| Arianna Carloni | Watching and Listening to Dance: Investigating Audio Description for Dance from a Textual and Audience Reception Perspective | Sabine Braun and Dimitris Asimakoulas |
| Charlie Vickers | Resolving Puzzles: Reducing cognitive dissonance in 鈥榩uzzle films鈥 for visually impaired (VI) audiences through adapted audio description (AD) | Sabine Braun and Dimitris Asimakoulas |
| Eleanor Taylor-Stilgoe | Use of Machine Translation in Healthcare Settings: A Symptom of a Wider Problem? | Constantin Orasan and F茅lix do Carmo |
| Felix Clutson | Playing between the lines and Bergkamp in Marseille: Language and identity in football鈥檚 contact zones | Dimitris Asimakoulas and Constance Bantman |
| Jisue Park | Metaphors in comic books from Korean into English: A study of translation process and final product using different translation modalities | Dimitris Asimakoulas and Ana Guerberof-Arenas |
| Maria Andreea Deleanu | Accessible Cues to guide narrative comprehension for audiences with diverse cognitive abilities | Sabine Braun, Constantin Orasan and Kim Starr |
| Matilde Carbutto | Exploring human-AI interaction for real-time speech-to-text: a comparative process and product-oriented analysis | |
| Najat Alhuthali | Using MT in Translating Saudi Laws and Regulations | Constantin Orasan and Yuan Zou |
| Olga Davis | Modular Audio Description: Using the extended track to enable personalisation for diverse audiences | Sabine Braun and Dimitris Asimakoulas |
| Prapaporn Sompakdee | Exploring Equivalence, Cultural, and Language Representations in the World Natural Heritage Sites Tourism Discourses of Thailand and the USA | Ana Frankenberg-Garcia and Doris Dippold |
| Pratibha Joshi | Mapping India鈥檚 Audio Description Practice within an emerging Art Museum Community: The Role of Professional Training on 鈥楴on-Expert鈥 Audio Description | Dimitris Asimakoulas and Sabine Braun |
| Sara Palmer | The diversification of translation services in commercial marketing translation | F茅lix do Carmo and Sabine Braun |
| Shasha Zhang | Exporting the 鈥淩eal鈥 China: Exploring Chinese National Ideologies within China-Produced TV Documentaries and their Translations | Dimitris Asimakoulas and Sabine Braun |
| Shenbin Qian | Sentiment preservation in neural machine translation | Constantin Orasan, F茅lix do Carmo and Diptesh Kanojia |
| Shiyi Tan | The use of ASR in interpreting | Sabine Braun and Constantin Orasan |
| Shaimaa Suleiman | Under Pressure: Emotion and Effort in Human vs. Machine-mediated Crisis Translation | F茅lix do Carmo and Joanna Gough |
| Soumely Madell | Multilingual communication in maternity | Elena Davitti and Sabine Braun |
| Wangyi Tang | Disrupter or enabler? Assessing the impact of using automatic speech recognition technology in interpreter-mediated legal proceedings | Sabine Braun, Constantin Orasan and Fang Wang |
| Zeljko Radic | Voicing in Interlingual Subtitling | Sabine Braun and Elena Davitti |
Completed PhD projects
- Francesca Maria Frittella (2024)
Supervisory team: Sabine Braun and Elena Davitti - G枚khan Firat (2024)
Supervisory team: Joanna Gough, Joss Mookerns (Dublin City University) and Constantin Orasan - Ahmed Saeed (2024)
Supervisory team: Sabine Braun, Elena Davitti and Tomasz Korybski - Eloy Rodriguez Gonzalez (2024)
Supervisory team: Sabine Braun, Elena Davitti and Tomasz Korybski - Cheima Bouchrara (2023)
Supervisory team: Sabine Braun and Dimitris Asimakoulas - Gustavo Zomer (2023)
Supervisory team: Ana Frankenberg-Garcia, Felix do Carmo and Geraint Rees - Diana Madalina Singureanu (2023)
Supervisory team: Sabine Braun, Graham Heike and Joanna Gough - Yi Gu (2023)
Supervisory team: Ana Frankenberg-Garcia, Joanna Gough and Fang Wang - Eleanor March (2021)
Supervisory team: Beth Palmer, Dimitris Asimakoulas and Maria Adams - Jaleh Delfani (2019)
Supervisory team: Sabine Braun and Dimitris Asimakoulas - Marta Gabrych (2019)
Supervisory team: Sabine Braun and Elena Davitti - Konstantina Georgiou (2019)
Supervisory team: Dimitris Asimakoulas and Stephen Mooney - Rangsima Ninrat (2019)
Supervisory team: Ana Frankenberg-Garcia and Sabine Braun - Jing Wang (2019)
Supervisory team: Ana Frankenberg-Garcia and Sabine Braun - Demetris Bogiatzis (2018)
Supervisory team: Paul Vlitos and Dimitris Asimakoulas - Eleni Karvounidou (2018)
Supervisory team: Dimitris Asimakoulas and Marion Wynne-Davies - Khadidja Merakchi (2018) .
Supervisory team: Margaret Rogers and Sabine Braun - Giacinto Palmieri (2018)
Supervisory team: Dimitris Asimakoulas and Constance Bantman - Kim Starr (2018)
Supervisory team: Sabine Braun and Emma Willians - Hanan Al-Jabri (2017)
Supervisory team: Sabine Braun and Elena Davitti - Beatrice Carpi (2017)
Supervisory team: Ana Frankenberg-Garcia and Elena Davitti - Athil Khaleel Farhan (2017)
Supervisory team: Ana Frankenberg-Garcia and Dimitris Asimakoulas - Daniel Wilson (2017)
Supervisory team: Doris Dippold and Sabine Braun - Joanna Gough (2016) .
Supervisory team: Sabine Braun and Margaret Rogers - Selin Kayhan (2016)
Supervisory team: Dimitris Asimakoulas and Margaret Rogers - Katerina Perdikaki (2016)
Supervisory team: Sabine Braun and Dimitris Asimakoulas - Sara Dicerto (2015) .
Supervisory team: Sabine Braun and Dimitris Asimakoulas - Ming-Chi Wu (2015)
Supervisory team: Dimitris Asimakoulas and Margaret Rogers - Richard Bale (2013) .
Supervisory team: Sabine Braun and Margaret Rogers - Artemis Lamprinou (2013)
Supervisory team: Margaret Rogers and Dimitris Asimakoulas - Melis Unal (2013)
Supervisory team: Margaret Rogers and Sabine Braun - Frances McGonigle (2013) .
Supervisory team: Margaret Rogers and Sabine Braun - Oscar Yeung (2012) .
Supervisory team: Margaret Rogers and Sabine Braun - Davide De Leo (2011) .
Supervisory team: Margaret Rogers and Sabine Braun - Mar铆a de Montserrat Rodr铆guez M谩rquez (2010)
Supervisory team: Margaret Rogers - Catherine Slater (2009) .
Supervisory team: Margaret Rogers and Fiona Doloughan - Giusepe Palumbo (2009) .
Supervisory team: Margaret Rogers - Gaby Thomson-Wohlgemuth (2007)
Supervisory team: Gunilla Anderman - Panayota Georgakopoulou (2003)
Supervisory team: Gunilla Anderman - Chiew Kin Quah (2003)
Supervisory team: Gunilla Anderman - Vilelmini Sosonis (2003)
Supervisory team: Margaret Rogers - Pernilla Bergfeldt (2003)
Supervisory team: Margaret Rogers - Stephan Grosse (2001)
Supervisory team: Margaret Rogers - Heather Fulford (1997)
Supervisory team: Khurshid Ahmad and Margaret Rogers