I am open to MSc by Research and PhD applications on topics related to my own research areas. If you wish to apply, please contact our Postgraduate Office direction at pplspgoffice@ed.ac.uk. For advice on writing a research proposal, please see:
https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/applying/your-application/research-proposals

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Current PhD Students

• Elizabeth Adeolu: http://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/elizabeth-adeolu​​
• ​Sarah van Eyndhoven: https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/sarah-van-eyndhoven
• Nina Markl: https://ninamarkl.github.io/
• Stephen McNulty: https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/stephen-mcnulty
• Tsung-Lun Alan Wan: https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/alan-wan

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Former PhD Students

• Mirjam Eiswirth (PhD, 2019) - It’s all about the interaction: Listener responses as a Discourse-organisational variable​
• Zac Boyd (PhD, 2018) - Cross-Linguistic Variation of /s/ as an Index of Non-Normative Sexual Orientation and Masculinity in French and German Gay Men​
• Zuzana Elliott (PhD, 2018) - Sociolinguistic variation among Slovak immigrants in Edinburgh, Scotland
• Daniel Lawrence (PhD, 2017) - Sound Change and Social Meaning: The Perception and Production of Phonetic Change in York, Northern England.​
• Ruth Friskney (PhD, 2015) - Apologies and the police
• Ifigenia Papageorgiou (PhD, 2012) - When Language Policy and Pedagogy Conflict: Pupil's and Educator's 'Practiced Language Policies' in an English-Medium Kindergarten Classroom in Greece

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Former MSc by Research Students

• Yujing Su (2019), Chinese gay men’s production of /s/ and /ɕ/ in standard Chinese Mandarin as indexes of non-heteronormativity.
• Michael Hobart (2014), One Social Meaning – Two Languages: Sociophonetic Markers Indexing Identity in Bilinguals [see also]
• Laura Rosseel (2013), Language attitudes towards Scots words in Edinburgh [PDF summary]