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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