Dr Anna Charalambidou

Director of Media Programmes

Anna Charalambidou

  • School Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries

  • Department School of Design

  • Location London

Research activities

My research interests are in discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. I have mainly worked with Greek Cypriot data, but my work and publications are positioned in the broader fields of interactional approaches to language and identities research. 

Using approaches from discourse and identities and ethnomethodology (Conversation Analysis & Membership Categorisation Analysis), I research:

  • Social Ageing
  • Languages in diasporic contexts
  • Discourses of food

    • I currently work on the Grenglish project, documenting the unique variety of mainly first-generation London’s Cypriot Greek speakers, which includes borrowing English words and incorporating them into the Cypriot Greek grammatical system. I am also the co-investigator in the Migrant food, languages, and identities in the dawn of the post-Brexit and COVID-19 era project with collaborators from Universities of Westminster, Salerno (Italy), Goldsmiths and Ohio State.


    Current Teaching

    I enjoy  teaching language and communication, research methods and entrepreneurship.

    I currently supervise  postgraduate researchers working in a range of areas, from PhDs in languageand communication to transcidisciplinary doctorates by professional practice.Their topics include:

  • Producing,  Perceiving, and Reacting to Requests in Social Media Messaging: The Case of  Thai University Student-Lecturer Interactions
  • Metacognitive reading strategyinstruction: Improving second language reading comprehension and motivation
  • Impact and implications of digital disruptions on public interestjournalism in Nigeria
  • OuLiPo for a New Generation: to what extent can digital media,constrained techniques, and fantasy tropes come together to engage young adultsin deconstructed experimental fiction as demonstrated through my interactivefiction, Without E?
  • Humanify Leadership in the Anthropocene

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    I am  delighted to have supervised the following researchers who have now  successfully completed their doctorates: 

  • Dr Kyu Hyun Park (Northumbria 2022) “Relevance Theory and thePragmatics of Production”
  • Dr Tricia Jenkins (Middlesex 2021) “’What is my Story?’ Olderpeople re-framing their lives through digital storytelling. An ethnographicapproach”
  • Dr Narmina Fataliyeva(Khazar University 2021) “Linguistic and extra linguistic factors regulatingthe synonym choice in English”
  • Dr Salim Bouherar (Middlesex 2019) “Understanding and teachingidioms: arguments for assuming home cultural contexts in teaching materials”
  • Dr Sarah Orthaber (Surrey 2017) “(Im)politeness at a SlovenianCall Centre”
  • Dr Nattana Leelaharattanarak (Surrey 2015) “Politeness and FaceManifestations in Hospitality Settings: An Investigation ofInterpersonally-Sensitive Activities”

    • Biography

    I am the Director of Media Programmes and Senior Lecturer in English Language, at the School of Design. Before moving to Middlesex in 2015, I worked at the European University of Cyprus, University of Surrey, Swansea University and King's College London.

    As Director of Programmes I manage programme teams and provided leadership in curriculum development, teaching and learning and quality assurance for BA Advertising, PR and Branding  (delivered internationally in London, Dubai, Mauritius and Vietnam), BA Digital Media and Communications, and MA Media Management. I also oversee the introduction and expansion of the first degree apprenticeship in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries: BA Digital Design apprenticeship. 

    I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

    Publications

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