Dissertations

Amandine le Maire, PhD, 2024

Navigating deaf spaces: how mobility and immobility frame the experiences of deaf people in Kakuma Refugee Camp 
(Supervisors: Prof Annelies Kusters and Prof Gina Netto)

Clare Canton, MPhil, 2024

An exploration of deaf interpreters’ experience of professional autonomy and the source text: a qualitative and autoethnographic study
(Supervisors: Prof Jemina Napier and Dr Robert Adam)

Mette Sommer Lindsay, PhD, 2021

Deaf business owners’ experiences of and strategies in navigating an audist normative structured labour market in Denmark
(Supervisors: Prof Jemina Napier and Prof Kate Sang)

Christopher Tester, PhD, 2021

Intralingual Interpreting in the Courtroom: An ethnographic study of Deaf interpreters’ perceptions of their role and positioning
(Supervisors: Prof Jemina Napier and Dr Owen Harrington-Fernandez)

Emmy Kauling, PhD, 2020

Distributing responsibilities in the interpreted workplace: An exploration into professional discourse, tool-talk and team-talk
(Supervisors: Prof Jemina Napier and Prof Graham Turner)

Danny McDougall, PhD, 2020

Space and the Role of Sign Language Interpreters in the Theatre
(Supervisors: Prof Jemina Napier and Dr Annelies Kusters)

Michael Richardson, PhD, 2020

Playing Bilingual: Interweaving deaf and hearing cultural practices to achieve equality of participation in theatrical performance processes
(Supervisors: Dr Kerstin Pfeiffer and Dr Svenja Wurm)

Robert Skinner, PhD, 2020

Approximately There – Positioning video-mediated interpreting in frontline police services
(Supervisors: Prof Jemina Napier and Prof Nick Fyfe, University of Dundee)

Heather Mole, PhD, 2018

Narratives of Power: Critical Reflections on Signed Language Interpreting
(Supervisors: Prof Jemina Napier and Dr Katerina Strani)

Stacey Webb, PhD, 2017

Job demands, job resources, wellbeing and student outcomes: A study of sign language interpreter educators’ perceptions
(Supervisors: Prof Jemina Napier and Dr Svenja Wurm)

Robyn Dean, PhD, 2015

Sign Language Interpreters’ Ethical Discourse and Moral Reasoning Patterns
(Supervisors: Prof Graham TurnerDr Svenja Wurm, and Prof Jemina Napier)

Xiao Zhao, PhD, 2015

Constructing Linguistic Identity and Interpreting: a case study of SL interpreting on Chinese television for high-profile political conferences
(Supervisors: Dr Svenja Wurm and Prof Graham Turner)

Jules Dickinson, PhD, 2010

Interpreting in a Community of Practice. A Sociolinguistic Study of the Signed Language Interpreter’s Role in Workplace Discourse
(Supervisors: Prof Graham Turner and Prof Isabelle Perez)

Svenja Wurm, PhD, 2010

Translation across Modalities: The Practice of Translating Written Text into Recorded Signed Language
(Supervisors: Prof Graham Turner, Dr. Raquel de Pedro Ricoy and Prof Mike Sherwood)