Congratulations to two students in the Department who have been awarded doctoral funding through the ESRC North West Doctoral Training Centre.

Zhipu Yang has been awarded a +3 studentship (project title: 'A Diachronic Corpus-assisted Discourse Study of the Linguistic Features of Fed Communication and its Impact on Market Audiences', supervised by Tony McEnery).

Ziya Mi has been awarded a 1+3 studentship (project title: 'Enhancing real-time attitude monitoring: Application of corpus linguistic and discourse analytic methodology to Big Data and social media systems', supervised by Andrew Hardie and Elena Semino).