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Professor Mann was nominated for his support and guidance throughout the PhD journey, instilling independence and confidence during the challenges of Covid-19 and personal milestones in his students’ lives.

He is recognised for providing honest and thorough feedback and insight that provokes a deeper engagement with the topic, and encouraging and facilitating networking opportunities, helping to create a welcoming environment. He has also provided opportunities to co-write papers, helping to kickstart careers in academia. Mann was nominated for his support and guidance throughout the PhD journey, instilling independence and confidence during the challenges of Covid-19 and personal milestones in his students’ lives.

He is recognised for providing honest and thorough feedback and insight that provokes a deeper engagement with the topic, and encouraging and facilitating networking opportunities, helping to create a welcoming environment. He has also provided opportunities to co-write papers, helping to kickstart careers in academia.

Meifang Zhuo has received another IATL Project Support Funding, with an award of £1500, for a student-led interdisciplinary project entitled 'Technostress in the age of generative AI: Voices from L2 doctoral students in the UK. ' In this project, she will be collaborating with and receiving mentoring from two staff members:  Associate Professor, Dr. David Orrego-Carmona from School of Modern Languages and Cultures  Associate Professor, Dr. Carla Toro from Warwick Medical School This project will soon recruit L2 doctoral students in the UK as research participants. Participants will be involved in informative, fun and creative data collection sessions and receive reimbursement/lunch for their participation. Please express your interest by email: meifang.zhuo@warwick.ac.uk.

Marianna Patrick, who has been offered the post of Research Fellow to support Ema Ushioda’s Leverhulme Trust project “Navigating the ethical complexities of using generative AI for academic writing”! This is a two-year full-time postdoctoral research position starting in April, and Marianna beat stiff competition from a very large pool (100+) of applicants!

The project is titled ‘Fostering Belonging: Empowering Doctoral and Early Career Researchers in Intercultural Research Context’.

Li, J., & Gong, W. (2025). Engaging young language learners in participatory research: Visual arts-based approach. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 4(1), 100187. See it here.

Altman Peng research, coauthored with Dr Chunyan Wu and Dr Yu Sun, is featured in a news story. Phys.org. 2025, 5 February. Activists leverage social media to counter China's state-controlled narratives, Available here.