Shams Obaid Almuzaini

Being a prominent neurolinguist trained at a well-equipped, expert and motivating research environment is a dream. And I have found that the Department of Human Communication Sciences at The University of Sheffield with its uniquely specialized research cluster in neurolinguistics is the best place to attain such dream.

In 2008, I received a BA in English Language and Literature from The College of Languages and Translation in Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. During my BA years, linguistics was very interesting. To satisfy my eagerness for linguistics, I attended the MA program in linguistics at the same college after few months of graduation and completed it in 2011, with a first-class honours degree.

The field of neurolinguistics, in particular, fascinated me significantly. Thus, my MA thesis analyzed the morpho-syntactic features of Saudi Broca’s aphasics. As I acquired more research skills and more neurolinguistics knowledge through the MA thesis, my dream became greater.

For this, I have decided to accomplish my dream besides expanding my knowledge and sharpening my research ability by joining the postgraduate research students in the department of Human Communication Sciences. In 2013, I was fortunate to be awarded a scholarship to The University of Sheffield by King Saud University, where I am a lecturer there.