Our Students and Alumni
Hear from our Linguistics Master's students and alumni about life at Queen Mary. Explore their experiences on the programme, the opportunities they took part in, and where their studies have taken them since graduating.
Profile of recent alumni
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Our alumni
Felice Cardelia (MA Linguistics in Society, 2025); Current position: ESL/EFL Teacher
Matthew Clench (MA Linguistics in Society, 2025)
Sum Kwok (MA Linguistics, 2025)
John McLoughlin (MA Linguistics, 2025); Other PG degrees: PhD History, 1988, Trinity College Dublin
Maria Pavlou (MA Linguistics, 2025); Current position: English Language Teacher
Dhanya Philip (MA Linguistics, 2025)
Sama Rantisi (MA Linguistics, 2025)
Ortega Sinclair (MRes Linguistics, 2025); Current position: PhD candidate (starting Sept. 2025), QMUL Linguistics
Sydney Smith (MA Linguistics, 2025); Current position: Administrative Assistant at Momentum Center
Bharat Toge (MA Linguistics, 2025)
Jane Welton (MA Linguistics, 2025); Current position: Language Teacher
Yuka Wong (MA Linguistics, 2025); Current position: Research Linguist at Dreamtonics
Yijia Zhang (MA Linguistics in Society, 2025)
Francesca Ziegler (MA Linguistics, 2025)
Joshua Boivin (MA Linguistics, 2024); Current position: PhD candidate (starting Jan 2025), QMUL Linguistics
Roșie Das (MA Linguistics, 2024); Current position: Subtitler at Eikon Group
Anne Hackman (MA Linguistics, 2024); Current position: Junior Technical Writer at Nexudus
Coleman Sokol (MA Linguistics, 2024); Current position: Technician Assessment Developer at Belron
Victoria-Elliot Bush (MA Linguistics 2023); Current position: PhD candidate (starting Sept 2024), QMUL Linguistics
Yunzhu Chen (MA Linguistics 2023)
Philip Grant (MA Linguistics 2023); Current position: Researcher in Linguistics and Digital Humanities
Becky Howard (MA Linguistics 2023); Current position: Sunday Times-bestselling Ghostwriter; PhD candidate (starting Sept 2024), QMUL Linguistics
Madlen Jones (MRes Linguistics 2023); Current position: PhD candidate, QMUL Linguistics
Zahra Rahmani (MA Linguistics 2023); Current position: Research Scientist/Data Analyst
Matilda Vokes (MA Linguistics 2023); Current position: PhD candidate (starting Sept. 2023), QMUL Linguistics
Fahad Almutairi (MA Linguistics 2022); Current position: PhD candidate, UCLA
Amal Alnajjar (MA Linguistics 2022); Current position: Language Trainer at Bunyan Academy
Jess Göbel (MA Linguistics 2022); Current position: PhD candidate, NYU
Cleo Hopkin-King (MA Linguistics 2022); Current position: Research Assistant at Moving Ahead
Supanat Jumpakum (MA Linguistics 2022)
Xinxin Liu (MA Linguistics 2022)
Tom Packer-Stucki (MRes Linguistics 2022); Current position: PhD candidate (starting Sept 2022), QMUL Linguistics
Victoria Taylor (MA Linguistics 2022); Current position: Corporate Partnerships Officer at Missing People
Alfie Vaughan (MA Linguistics 2022); Current position: Activities Administration Coordinator at Students' Union UCL
Holly Warner (MA Linguistics 2022); Current position: PhD candidate, Warwick
Zhongyang Yu (MA Linguistics 2022)
Marc Elliot Barnard (MRes Linguistics 2022); Other PG degrees: PhD Linguistics 2025, QMUL Linguistics; Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher in Linguistics at Université Paris Cité
Jonaki Begum (MA Linguistics 2021)
Elizabeth Cheshire (MA Linguistics 2021); Current position: Criminal Defense Attorney at Office of the Public Defender for the State of Montana
Imogen Davies (MA Linguistics 2021); Current position: Senior Surveillance Data Scientist at UK Health Security Agency
Zhicheng Ding (MA Linguistics 2021); Current position: Data Analyst and Maths Teacher at Acabridge Academy Shanghai
Salah Essa (MA Linguistics 2021); Current position: PhD Researcher, Bern University
Robert James Hellyer (MA Linguistics 2021)
Caitlin Hogan (MRes Linguistics 2021); Current position: PhD candidate (starting Sept 2021), QMUL Linguistics
Ryan Li (MA Linguistics 2021); Current position: Constraint engineer at Rime Labs
Yu-Hsuan Li (MA Linguistics 2021)
My Nguyen (MA Linguistics 2021); Current position: Freelance Translator/Interpreter/English teacher
Katharine Pearson (MA Linguistics 2021)
Vasiliki Polychroniadou (MA Linguistics 2021); Current position: Educator at Zografos Iraklis Secondary Education School
Tasneem Rizvi (MA Linguistics 2021); Current position: AI content evaluator at Outlier
Keren Rubner (MA Linguistics 2021); Current position: PhD candidate, UCL
Ryan Shaw-Hawkins (MA Linguistics 2021); Current position: PhD candidate, Glasgow
Alice Stanton (MA Linguistics 2021); Other PG degrees: MSc Cognitive Neuroscience, 2023, U Sussex; Current position: PhD candidate, Sussex
Zijing Song
Zhouyi Sun (MA Linguistics 2021); Current position: PhD candidate, MIT
Chloé Vincent (MA Linguistics 2021); Current position: Researcher in Linguistics, Ghent University
Celeste Wijnands (MA Linguistics 2021); Current position: Research Scientist at Twitch
Rhona Graham (MA Linguistics 2020); Current position: Senior Research Executive at Shift Insight
Lauren MacLennan (MA Linguistics 2020); Current position: Associate Director of Research at RED C Research
Célia Richy (MRes Linguistics 2020); Other PG degrees: PhD Linguistics 2024, QMUL; Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher in Experimental Sociolinguistics at CNRS
Tara Wyse (MA Linguistics 2020); Current position: HR Administrator at University of Nottingham
Christopher Washburn (MA Linguistics 2020)
Sarah Kirk-Browne (Mres Linguistics 2019); Current position: PhD candidate (starting Sept. 2019), QMUL Linguistics
Elango Kumaran (MA Linguistics 2019); Current position: AI data specialist at Notion
Chi Wah Eva Lui (MA Linguistics 2019)
Tom Trigg (MA Linguistics 2019); Current position: Project Manager at 3 Sided Cube
Nicholas Twinner (MA Linguistics 2019); Current position: Talent Advisor at Oracle
Yanan Zhang (MA Linguistics 2019)
Matthew Hunt (MRes Linguistics 2018); Other PG degrees: PhD Linguistics 2021, QMUL Linguistics; Current position: Lecturer in Sociolinguistics at University of Southampton
Vittoria Moresco (MA Linguistics 2018); Current position: Art Consultant at Washington Green Fine Art & Castle Galleries
Clare Shelburne (MA Linguistics 2018); Current position: Program Manager at Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Gregory Smith (MA Linguistics 2018)
Louis Strange (MRes Linguistics 2018); Other PG degrees: PhD Linguistics 2021, QMUL Linguistics; Current position: Lecturer in SocioLinguistics at Glasgow University
Margaret Wang (MA Linguistics 2018); Other PG degrees: PhD Linguistics, 2025, MIT; Current position: LLM Specialist at Handshake
Grace White (MA Linguistics 2018)
Ayra Yoosufani (MA Linguistics 2018)
Annie Victoria Giles (MA Linguistics 2017); Current position: Speech and Language Therapy Assistant Practitioner at NHS
Marina Merryweather (MA Linguistics 2017)
Rochelle Wild (MA Linguistics 2017); Current position: Teacher
Arwa Alsaby (MA Linguistics 2016)
Ben Garrod (MA Linguistics 2016); Current position: Product Manager | Platform, APIs & Applied AI at nShift
Emily Lake (MA Linguistics 2016); Current position: EAL teaching assistant
Maia Anne McWilliam (MA Linguistics 2016)
Hannah Jane Middleton (MA Linguistics 2016); Other PG degrees: PhD Linguistics, 2020, UCL; Current position: Neighbour Mediator at Calm Meditation
Matthew J Miller (MA Linguistics 2016); Current position: Product Marketing | AI & Analytics GTM Strategy at The Other Matthew Miller
Harriet Pawsey (MA Linguistics 2016)
Rosie Oxbury (MA Linguistics 2016); Other PG degrees: PhD Linguistics, 2020, QMUL Linguistics; Current position: Data Scientist at Nesta
Coline Delaporte (MA Linguistics 2015); Current position: Brand storyteller, Director of Verbal Identity at Interbrand
Christian Ilbury (MA Linguistics 2015); Other PG degrees: PhD Linguistics, 2019, QMUL Linguistics; Current position: Senior Lecturer in Sociolinguistics at University of Edinburgh
Oliver Peatman (MA Linguistics 2015); Current position: NHS Analytics Manager at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Yoshie Ishihara (MA Linguistics 2014)
Nina Kaufmann-Mainz (MA Linguistics 2014); Current position: Public Relations Officer at Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - German Research Foundation
Harry Robert Kennard (MA Linguistics 2014); Other PG degree: MSc Energy Demand in the Built Environment, 2016, UCL; PhD 2019, UCL Research Associate & Lecturer UT Austin
Chiara Marchetti (MA Linguistics 2014); Current position: EN>IT Translator | Proofreader | Localisation Specialist
Chris Mansfield (MA Linguistics 2014); Current position: University Teacher and Scholar at QMUL
Maryna Myntsykovska (MA Linguistics 2014); Current position: Freelance Conference Interpreter English | Russian | Ukrainian
Matt Potter (MA Linguistics 2014); Current position: Teaching Fellow
Melisa Rinaldi (MA Linguistics 2014); Other PG degree: PhD Linguistics 2018, QMUL Linguistics; Current position: Academic Developer, Teacher Trainer at University of East London
Victoria Robinson (MA Linguistics 2014); Current position: Institute Manager at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute for Child Health
Zoe Adams (MA Linguistics 2013); Other PG degrees: PhD Linguistics 2018, QMUL Linguistics; Current position: Research Fellow in Forensic Linguistics at Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics
Alice Greenfield (MA Linguistics 2013); Current position: Speech And Language Therapist at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
Morena Oliveira (MA Linguistics 2013); Current position: Marketing Director at Lina Stores
Malcolm Skene (MA Linguistics 2013)
Lara Tinay (MA Linguistics 2013); Current position: Product & Business Analysis at Third Bridge Group Limited
David Hall (MA Linguistics 2012); Other PG degrees: PhD Linguistics, 2015, QMUL Linguistics; Current position: Senior Analyst at Department for Education
Kyle Helke (MA Linguistics 2013); Current position: IB Economics Teacher at International School Manila
Annette Zhao (MA Linguistics 2012); Other PG degrees: PhD Linguistics 2018, QMUL Linguistics; Current position: Associate Director at ImpactEd Evaluation