PhD projects
If you are thinking of applying for one of our PhD programmes and you are looking for potential supervisors, please email Constantin Orasan (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.
Please 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 our Centre.
Current postgraduate research students
| Name | Project title | Supervisors |
|---|---|---|
| Anastasiia Bezobrazova | Improving social-media text comprehension and simplification through AI | Constantin Orasan 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 |
| Charlotte Bonneau | AI-mediated comics: a critical phenomenology of access | Sabine Braun and Constantin Orasan |
| Daria Sokova | LLM-based Assessment of Web Content Accessibility | Constantin Orasan and Diptesh Kanojia |
| Emily Wells | Investigation of AI chatbots or widgets with entity linking for accessibility | Constantin Orasan and Doris Dippold |
| Felix Clutson | Playing between the lines and Bergkamp in Marseille: Language and identity in football鈥檚 contact zones | Dimitris Asimakoulas and Constance Bantman |
| Georgina Willoughby | Context-sensitive AI for text simplification and comprehension | Constantin Orasan and Diptesh Kanojia |
| Hope Qianhui Hao | Evaluating Interpreting Performance through Comparative Quality Assessment Models | Elena Davitti and Constantin Orasan |
| Iuliia Smakhtina | Improving classroom accessibility: Customizing automatic speech recognition tools to support DHoH students | Elena Davitti and Constantin Orasan |
| Jawaher Ahmed Alzahrani | AI-assisted medical translation in Saudi healthcare contexts | F茅lix do Carmo and Fang Wang |
| Jordan Painter | Automating Audio Description for Blind Audiences in Short-Form User-Generated Video Content | Sabine Braun and Diptesh Kanojia |
| Matilde Carbutto | Exploring human-AI interaction for real-time speech-to-text: a comparative process and product-oriented analysis | Elena Davitti, Anna-Stiina Wallinheimo and |
| Najat Alhuthali | Using MT in Translating Saudi Laws and Regulations | Constantin Orasan and Yuan Zou |
| Ola Smoczynska | Enhancing multilingual accessibility through human鈥揂I co-performance in interpreting | Sabine Braun and Elena Davitti |
| Olga Davis | Modular Audio Description: Using the extended track to enable personalisation for diverse audiences | Sabine Braun and Dimitris Asimakoulas |
| Olivia Hollins Molinero | Inclusive Gaming for Gamers with Sight Loss: Exploring Audio Description and Multimodal Mediation | Yuan Zou and Sabine Braun |
| 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 |
| Shaimaa Suleiman | Under Pressure: Emotion and Effort in Human vs. Machine-mediated Crisis 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 |
| Shiyi Tan | The use of ASR in interpreting | Sabine Braun and Constantin Orasan |
| 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 |
Completed PhD projects
- Eleanor Taylor-Stilgoe (2026)
Supervisory team: Constantin Orasan and F茅lix do Carmo. - Arianna Carloni (2026)
Supervisory team: Sabine Braun and Dimitris Asimakoulas. - Maria Andreea Deleanu (2025) .
Supervisory team: Sabine Braun and Constantin Orasan. - Soumely Madell (2025) .
Supervisory team: Elena Davitti and Sabine Braun. - Shenbin Qian (2025) .
Supervisory team: Constantin Orasan, F茅lix do Carmo and Diptesh Kanojia. - Jisue Park (2025) .
Supervisory team: Dimitris Asimakoulas and Ana Guerberof-Arenas. - Zeljko Radic (2025) .
Supervisory team: Sabine Braun and Elena Davitti. - 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.