Centre for Global Englishes
Centre for Global Englishes

Our people

Learn about our team and their expertise.

The director of the Centre for Global Englishes is Dr Will Baker.

Mrs Nehad Asiri

Connect with Nehad

Email: nana1g13@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 7442985327

Ms Nuro Yaseng

Connect with Nuro

Email: N.Yaseng@soton.ac.uk

Dr Özgür Şahan PhD

Senior Teaching Fellow

Research interests

  • Language performance assessment
  • Second language writing
  • English as a medium of instruction

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Özgür

Email: O.Sahan@soton.ac.uk

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Dr Robert Baird

Head of Department

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Robert

Email: R.D.Baird@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 8336

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Emeritus Professor Rosamond Mitchell FAcSS

Research interests

  • Second language acquisition
  • Language in education
  • Student mobility and study abroad
Connect with Rosamond

Email: R.F.Mitchell@soton.ac.uk

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Dr Rugang Lu

Senior Teaching Fellow

Research interests

  • Multimodal discourse analysis
  • Semiological approach to culture studies
  • Intercultural communication and language teaching

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Rugang

Email: R.Lu@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 9625

Dr Simin Sasani

Senior Teaching Fellow

Research interests

  • Intercultural Communicative Competence in ELT
  • Sociolinguistics of English as a global language
  • Intercultural pragmatics in the global Englishes context

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Simin

Email: S.Sasani@soton.ac.uk

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Dr Sonia Moran Panero

Lecturer B

Research interests

  • English as a global lingua franca (ELF)
  • Sociolinguistics, identity and semiotics in an era of globalisation
  • Translanguaging and transcultural communication

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Sonia

Email: S.Moran-Panero@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2255

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Mr Steve McVeagh

Connect with Steve

Email: S.McVeagh@soton.ac.uk

Dr Will Baker

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • English as a lingua franca and Global Englishes
  • Intercultural and Transcultural communication
  • English as a medium of instruction and education

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Will

Email: W.Baker@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 9423

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