The Stephen Evans Awards
The Department has introduced two scholarships for its PhD students, namely The Stephen Evans Best Thesis Award and The Stephen Evans Best Paper Award, in recognition of the contributions and achievements of the late Professor Stephen Evans, former associate head of the Department.
The Stephen Evans Best Thesis Award
| Year | Student name | Title of thesis |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | WU Xiaoyan Ivy | Mainland Chinese students’ psychological adaptation to Hong Kong: an intergroup communication perspective |
2025 |
ABOH Sopuruchi Christian | Accent and Social Evaluation: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Language Attitudes and Stereotypes in University Settings in Nigeria |
| 2023 | XU Shaoxiong | Retraction Stigma Communication via Retraction Notices: A Corpus-based Multifactorial Investigation |
| 2022 | YU Wing Man | Communication and Interpersonal Dynamics in Virtual Team Meetings: An Applied Linguistic Perspective |
| 2021 | PAN Molly | Exploring Creative Metaphors in Video Ads: anifestation, Uses, and Effectiveness |
| 2020 | NARTEY Mark | Discourse and political myth-making: A critical discourse study of Nkrumaism |
| 2019 | JIN Blair | Doctor-patient Communication and Patient Satisfaction: An Exploratory Study of the Similarities and Differences between Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine Practices in Mainland China |
| 2018 | LIU Leo | Examining syntactic complexity in EFL academic writing |
| 2018
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MCKEOWN Jamie | Gendered use of metadiscourse in the workplace email of British marketing professionals |
The Stephen Evans Best Paper Award
| Year | Student name | Title of paper |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | PELTONEN Lucas John | Linguacultural Competence in Business English Communication: The Case of a Business English Textbook in China |
| 2024 | CHIGBU Godswill Uchechukwu | Religious othering in Nigeria’s electoral discourse: Towards a critical religious tolerance |
| 2024 | WU Xiaoyan Ivy | Mainland Chinese students’ psychological adaptation to Hong Kong: an intergroup communication perspective |
| 2023 | ABOH Sopuruchi Christian | Nigerian students’ attitudes toward endonormative varieties of Nigerian English |
| 2022 | QIU Han | A Mixed-Method Comparison of Therapist and Client Language across Four Therapeutic Approaches |
| 2021 | XU Brian | Hu, G., & Xu, S. B. (2020). Agency and responsibility: A linguistic analysis of culpable acts in retraction notices. |
| 2021 | ZENG Winnie | Zeng, W. H., Burgers, C., & Ahrens, K. (2021). Framing metaphor use over time:‘Free Economy’metaphors in Hong Kong political discourse (1997–2017). |
| 2020 | NEUPANE Madhu | Supervisory feedback across disciplines: does it meet students’ expectations? |
| 2019 | NARTEY Mark | "We must unite now or perish!" Kwame Nkrumah's creation of a mythic discourse |
| 2018 | JIN Blair | Small talk in medical conversations: Data from China |
