Current Research Students

School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies

School of Theology, Philosophy, and Music

School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies

Student Name	Principal Supervisor	Working Thesis Title
Ahmed Alhassani	Dorothy Kenny	A Corpus-based Study of the Use of Phrasal Verbs by Saudi Learners of English as a Foreign Language
David Carroll	Jean-Philippe Imbert	Songs to Save Your Life: The Queer Messaging of 1980's Pop Music
Julie Daniel	Veronica Crosbie	Second Language Acquisition
Aparajita Dey-Plissonneau	Françoise Blin	Designed and Emerging Affordances in Synchronous Tutor-learner Videoconferencing for Second Language Development: An Ecological Approach
Shane Forde	Patrick Cadwell	The Impact of Professionalism and Agency on Translator Ethics: The Ethics of CIR's Working for the Japanese Government
Fiona Gallagher	Angela Leahy	Using the emerging bi/Multilingual skills of learners to enhance language learning
John James Gleeson	Dervila Cooke	History and Memory in Didier Daeninckx's Les Enquêtes de I'Inspecteur Cadin
Ke Hu	Sharon O'Brien	A Reception Study of Machine Translated Subtitles for MOOCs
Boyi Huang	Ryoko Sasamoto	The Self-Mediation of LGBT⁺ Identities in the PRC
Ian Hurley	Ryoko Sasamoto	Assessing Intra-Character Awareness Excercises in teaching Japanese Kanji
Robert Lawlor	Jean-Philippe Imbert	Procuring Undetectability (few characters left)
Elena Lopez Cuenca	Angela Leahy	Developing communication skills in Spanish as an L2 context through the use of art works
Eddie Lopez Pelen	Mary Phelan	Challenges and Ethics of Interpreting for Unaccompanied Children in Asylum Hearings: The asylum interpreter’s perspective
Aishowarza Manik	Weiming Liu	Developing Learner Autonomy through WeChat
Erika Marcet I Torrijos	Ryoko Sasamoto	Developing Pragmatic Competence in Japanese Oral Interaction
Sarah Meehan O`Callaghan	Jean-Philippe Imbert	Approaching the Paradox of Being: Contextualising the Trauma of the Body in the Drama of Artaud, Beckett and Genet
Michael Monaghan	Jean-Philippe Imbert	Dismantling the Binary of Gendered Gazes in Aesthetic Representations of Murder
Nansy Ahmad Daoud Mosleh	Dorothy Kenny	Collaborative Translation in the Classroom
Nguyen Hai Duy Nguyen	Dermot Kenny	Translation and Development
Caitriona Osborne	Qi Zhang	Examining the Effects of Various Teaching Methods on Chinese as a Foreign Language Beginner Learners: A Study of Rote Memorisation, Delayed Character Introduction, Character-Coding and a Unity Curriculum Approach
Wichaya Pidchamook	Joss Moorkens	Freelance Subtitlers in a Subtitle Production Network in the SVOD Industry in Thailand: A Longitudinal Study
Sagun Shrestha	Francoise Blin	ICT in EFL classrooms: Affordances & Challenges
Eline Christina Sikkema	Joss Moorkens	Telops for Language Learning: Japanese Language Learners' Perceptions of Authentic Japanese Variety Shows and Implications for Their Use in the Classroom
Martin Toal	Agnes Maillot	Intercultural Communicative Competence: the case of an Irish, not-for-profit community based organisation for the homeless in the Republic of Ireland
Caroline West	Jean-Philippe Imbert	Dancing in the Shadows of the Outer Limits: An Exploration of the Experiences of Female Pornography Performers and Feminist Discourses on Their Experiences
Inga Daria Wojcik	Agnes Maillot	Intergenerational gender negotations in Nigerian households in Ireland

School of Communications

Student Name	Principal Supervisor	Working Thesis Title
Isabel Aust	Declan Fahy	Representations of Drugs in Irish Journalism
Dimitri Bettoni	Tanya Lokot	The Turkish Laboratory: Coopting Sousveillance
Marie Boran	Padraig Murphy	What Lies Beneath: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Online Reader Comments as a Space for Public Engagement with Science
Daniel Carey	Mark O'Brien	The working lives of former journalists and editors in Ireland: Continuity and Change
Ricardo Castellini Da Silva	Trish Morgan	ICT in education and Media Literacy together: an exploratory study on the opportunities afforded by new digital technologies to foster media literacy in second level students in Ireland
Sara Creta	Jane Suiter	New Journalism Publics
Samuel Danzon-Chambaud	Alessio Cornia	Cybernetics, an Answer to Newsroom Automation?
Stephen Desmond	Debbie Ging	The Films of Pedro Almodovar
Maeve Devoy	Paul McNamara	Literary Journalism
Mick Donohoe	Roderick Flynn	Platform Media & Pluralism
Glen Doyle	Debbie Ging	A study of Irish Adult Attitudes to Photographing Children and Their Impact om Everyday Photography Practices and Online Image Sharing
Kevin Doyle	John O'Sullivan	Digital Counteroffensive: The Rise of Social Media
Seamus Farrell	Declan Fahy	The Political Economy of Radical Media
Kelly Fincham	Jane Suiter	Hashtag Journalists
Maria Victoria Gomez	Patrick Brereton	Stories for Sustainability: media narratives and environmental understanding in youngsters in Ireland and Uruguay
Barbara Gormley	Padraig Murphy	Exploring Risk Communications Model during Pandemcs: Dtermination of the Relationship between Accuracy and Mediation in Public Health Communications
Anne-Marie Green	Paul McNamara	An lllwind
Tracy Mae Ildefonso	Aileen O'Driscoll	From the Margins to the Mainstream: An Analysis of Attitudes Among the Public and the LGBT Community to the Increase in LGBT Representations in Advertising in the Phillippines.
Simon Keating	John O'Sullivan	Sensationalising the Mega Spectacle
Istvan Laszlo
Kerry Lawless
Marian Mc Donnell	Miriam Judge	Technology design for cognitive impairment
Lucia Mesquita	Jane Suiter	The Impact of Collabotative Journalism
John Moran	Debbie Ging	Sex in the Multiplex: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Sex in the 250 Most Popular Films on Domestic Release, 2011-2015
Shane Murphy	Debbie Ging	Online Anti-feminist Movements and Radicalisation
Orla Ní Dhuill	Tanya Lokot	Irish Biodiversity Activism on Twitter
Viorel Hamilton Niculescu	Declan Tuite	People's engagement with (renewable) technology systems. Roadblocks and Triggers
Maria O Brien	Roderick Flynn	A Political Economy of Tax Expenditures for Audiovisual Industries in Ireland: A Cultural Policy Research perspective on Section 481
Kasandra O Connell	Roderick Flynn	An exploration of the development of film preservation in Ireland over the last century...
Paul O Neill	Trish Morgan	Practice What We Preach: Tactical Media Art as a form of Political Resistance
J Clark Powers	Donal Mulligan	Political agency in the context of social media
Irene Psychari
Rabia Qusien	David Robbins	Media framing of Environmental impact of CPEC
Niamh Sammon	Declan Fahy	The impact of newspaper coverage on Brexit
Lauren Teeling	Jane Suiter	New Media and Conflict. A Case Study of Israel
Paloma Viejo Otero	Debbie Ging	Hate Speech and Racism in Digital Environments
Neil Ward	Mark O'Brien	2020 Vision: Conflict and Communication
Christopher Tyler West	Tanya Lokot	Internet policy and individual agency in Ireland

School of English

Student Name	Principal Supervisor	Working Thesis Title
Anindita Bhattacharya	Keith O'Sullivan	"Bid him bring the knife of the magic blade I at whose lightning flash the charm will fade": Re-interpreting the Supernatural in Irish and Bengali Children's Literature
Fiona Bolger	Kit Fryatt	A search for Poems in the cracks between borders
Abbas Bowen	Julie Anne Stevens	Monsters Under the Bed: Horroe in Children's Literature
Tomas Buitendijk	Michael Hinds	Towards a Contemporary Poetics of the Sea
Xian Hui Adel Cheong	Derek Hand	Formal Innovation and the Contemporary Novel
Liza Costello	Kit Fryatt	Pastoral Tradition in the Writing of Dermot Healy
Marie Egan	Kit Fryatt	Authorial Complicity in Propriety in the Novels of Frances Burney
Rosie Hordon-Clark	Gearóidín Uí Laighléis	Angela Carter: Feminist through her Fiction?
Ellen Howley	Eugene McNulty	Oceanic Connections: The Sea as Boundary Space in Irish & Caribbean Poetry
Allison Hudson	Aine McGillicuddy	Beautiful Things: Material Culture.
Giorgia Hunt	Jim Shanahan	Male Hysteria and the Gothic
Iuliia Ibragimova	Paula Murphy	High fidelity modelling of non-linear membranes
Mark Kelleher	Paula Murphy	The Crafting of Isolation in the Postmodern Works of David Markson and Don de Lillo
Annalisa Mastronardi	Derek Hand	Joyce Legacies in Contemporary Irish Women Writing
Sharon Mc Ardle	Eugene McNulty	Performing the archive: Dorothy McArdle
Maighread Medbh	Kit Fryatt	Lord Love
Jennifer Mooney	Keith O Sullivan	Feminism and Power in the works of Louise O'Neill
Tapasya Narang	Kit Fryatt	Cosmopolitan Modernism:The Poetics and Politics of Derek Mahon and Arun Kolatkar's Works
Arthur O Dea	Michael Hinds	"Older Then, Younger Now" : Bob Dylan through Late Style
Aashima Rana	Michael Hinds	Study of Afro-American Folklore - Woment's Writings
Annette Skade	Kit Fryatt	Watch this Spillage: Anne Carson
Zornitsa Lachezarova Todorova	Kit Fryatt	Irish and Bulgarian poetic representations of nature in a post-independent period
Gyorgy Vidovszky	Eugene McNulty

Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge

Student Name	Principal Supervisor	Working Thesis Title
Nouf Alnasser	Ciarán Mac an Bhaird	Powering the financial growth of SMEs in Saudi Arabia
Batoul Batoulbanjar	Ciarán Mac an Bhaird	The investment decision making process of business angel networks (BANs) in Saudi Arabia
Elaine Beirne	Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl	An Investigation of Emotions and their Antecedents in an Irish Language MOOC
Simon Nicholas Bridge	Ciaran Mac an Bhaird	Questioning Enterprise Assumptions
Michelle Dunne	Úna Bhreathnach	Traidisiún Béil na mBan i gCnuasach Mhic Mhathúna
Patrick Gilligan	Uáitéar Mac Gearailt	Na Laoidigh, athair agus mac
Conchur Mac Lochlainn	Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl	A Study of the Motivation of Distance SLA learners
Jamie Murphy	Ciarán Mac Murchaidh	Aistriúcháin Ghaeilge cnuasach saothar leis na drámadóirí JM Synge, Lady Gregory, Brian Friel agus Martin McDonagh: mionstaidéar agus anailís chomparáideach ar ról na saothar seo i réimse dhrámaíocht na Gaeilge agus ar na dúshláin a bhain lena n-aistriú
Justin O Gliasain	Gearóid Ó Cleircín	Mionlogainmneacha i mBarúntachtaí Uíbh Fhailí Thoir agus Uíbh Fhailí Thiar, Co Chill Dara
Sean O Reilly	Ciaran Mac an Bhaird	Resourcing High Growth Firms
Mary Sinnott	Uaitear Mac Gearailt	Seán Ó Ciarghusa: Beatha agus Saothar

School of History and Geography

Student Name	Principal Supervisor	Working Thesis Title
James Akpu	Daithí O' Corráin	Irish Missionary Enterprise in Nigeria, 1905-1966
Charmaine Cruz	John Connolly	Habitat Mapping using High Resolution Imagery
Andrew Dorman	James Kelly	The Experience of Soldiering in 18th Century Ireland
Michael Duggan	James Kelly	Twenty hearts beating as none`: Primary Education in Ireland under Dr. W.J.M.Starkie and the Commissioners of National Education 1899 to 1920
Deirdre Foley	Leeann Lane	The Commission on the Status of Women in Ireland
Wahaj Habib	John Connolly	PhD in Smartbog
Gerard Hanley	Daithí Ó Corráin	Labour Relations in Independent Ireland, 1922-1946
John Hogan	Daithí Ó Corráin	The Origins and Development of the Legion of Mary
Clair Mc Donald	Jonathan Cherry	Mapping historical change on Walsh and Cosby Estate Lands
Geraldine O'Neill	Leeann Lane	Private Lives and Public Personas: female participation in the IRA during Ireland's War of Indepencence, 1919-1921
Iemima Ploscariu	Maria Falina	O lume impestritata (a dappled world): Romanian, Roma and Jewish Neo-protestants in Interwar Romania
Joseph Rodgers	Daithí Ó Corráin	O`Connell Street a History 1740 - 1988

School of Law and Government

Student Name	Principal Supervisor	Working Thesis Title
Arwa Alshehri		The effectiveness of a training programme
Christine Andreeva	Maura Conway	From Divergence to Coordination? Understanding the Development of European Union Counter-Terrorism Policy
Jonathan Arlow	Eoin O'Malley	Crises and Contradictions: libertarianism as a hegemonic ideological response to actually existing capitalism
Clare Barry	Adam McAuley	Inherent discretion of the Court and minor children
Lorraine Boran	Yvonne Daly	Neuroscientific Expert Evidence in the Irish Courts: Comparative Empirical and Theoretical Analyses of the use of Neuroscience in Civil and Criminal Trials.
Sheelagh Brady	James Fitzgerald	How and why do people join Violence Organisations?
Thomas Campbell	Niamh Gaynor	Climate Change Policy Narratives and consequences for Pastroalist Livelihoods in the Drylands of Ethiopia and Kenya.
Sweta Chakraborty	Ken McDonagh	Understanding the 'sacred' and 'secular'
Peter Cluskey	Maura Conway	Could digital news threaten global security?
Fabrizio Leonardo Cuccu	Paola Rivetti	Fron Identity Politics to Security Policies: The Construction of Citizenship in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia
Bitopi Dutta	Eileen Connolly	Gendering Development Induced Displacement
James Forbes	Tom Hickey	Mapping Pettit's Republican Theory to Disability
Aytan Gahramanova	Paola Rivetti	The Role of the Local Think Tanks in Restrictive Political Systems: The case study of Azerbaijan
Hasmik Grigoryan	Alexander Baturo	Policy Positions of Oppositions Parties in non- and partly-Democracies
Daniele Grippo	Federico Fabbrini	The Conflict Between the Principle of Mutual Trust
Seraphine Habimana	Eileen Connolly	The impact of quotas on the status of women in post conflict Rwanda
Maeve Howe	Diarmuid Torney	EPA Local Climate Governance
Ramadan Ilazi	John Doyle	EU's Everyday Practices of Statebuilding
Mariat Imaeva	James Gallen	Deferring human rights: Humanitarian exhumations as an alternative way of dealing with enforced disappearances
Tajma Kapic	Eileen Connolly	The impact of Consociational Peace Agreements on the descriptive representation of women in national and sub national institutions in divided societies: The case of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Niels Kirst	Federico Fabbrini	Rule of Law in the European Union
Marije Luitjens-Tol	Gezim Visoka	Building a Post-Conflict Resilient Society
Sose Mayilyan	Federico Fabbrini	EU Free Movement of Persons and Social Benefits
Sarah Louise Mc Donald	Yvonne Daly	Ensuring Jusitce in Sexual Offence Trials
Gearoidin Mc Evoy	Tanya Ni Mhuirthile	Accessing the right to a fair trial for speakers of regional or minority language users under the UN and Council of Europe Systems of Human Rights
Yameema Mitha	John Doyle	Representation of Pakistan in Indian Cinema
Veronica Mathew Mkilanya	Eileen Connolly	The Impact of Reserve Seat Quotas on the Status of Women MPs: a comparative case study of Kenya and Tanzania
Miraji Hassan Mohamed	Maura Conway	Contested Notions of Radicalisation and Youth Vulnerbility in Policy Discourses and Program Interventions: A Case of Mombasa County, Kenya
Khawaja Moinuddin	Maura Conway	Islamic State's Visual Propaganda:Content, Structuring, Purposes
Gian Marco Moise	Abel Polese	For an Oil Drop: Informality in Kazakhstan
Beatrice Monciunskaite	Federico Fabbrini	The Status of Democracy in Lithuania and Latvia
Anne Marieke Mooij	Federico Fabbrini	The Mandate of the European Central Bank after the Crisis
Shruti Neelakantan	Diarmuid Torney	Explaining climate policy in Indian states in the context of EU and Global environmental governance structures
Philip O'Connor	Gary Murphy	Engineering the Irish Economic "miracle": Charles Haughey and the politics of Social Partnership 1970-92
Ramesh Jayadeesha Premaratne Ganohariti	Gëzim Visoka	Citizenship constellations in de facto states
Proma Ray Chaudhury	Eileen Connolly	Women and Hindu Nationalism
Denise Ripamonti	John Doyle	The Political Structuration of the Maoist Insurgency in India: Security, Development and State Response
Harikrishnan Sasikumar	Kenneth McDonagh	"Deliberating Differences: Public Spaces and Political Culture in Kerala, India"
Rachna Shanbog	Jivanta Schottli	India's Foreign Aid Policy: the contradictions of becomign a global player
Liridona Veliu	Kenneth McDonagh	Back to the Future: Balkanization and the Euro-Atlantic Intergration Processes of Western Balkins
Maira Zeinilova	Eileen Connolly	The meaning of Women's Political Participation in Post-Communist Authoritarian Regimes: The case of Kazakhstan

School of Theology, Philosophy, and Music

Student Name	Principal Supervisor	Working Thesis Title
John Alderdice	Gabriel Flynn	Servant Leadership: A Paradigm for the Development of Ministry and Mission in the contemporary Methodist Church in Ireland
Mary Campbell	Ian Leask	Simone Weil and Mystical Theology
Brendan Comyn	Ian Leask	Plato Theory of Justice
Adam Cullen	Rhona Clarke	A Portfolio of Compositions with Commentary
Freya Dasgupta	Peter Admirand	Jewish-Christian Reconciliation in Asch`s Fiction
Martin Della Vecchia	Séan Doherty	Seeing Movement as a Compositional Approach
David Dunning	Ethna Regan	Gendering and Queering Theological Anthropology
Viji Varghese Eapen	Ethna Regan	Subaltern Public Liturgy for a Borderless Church
Mark Farrell	Bert Gordijn	Irish Archives and Records Management Legislation
Gugun Gumilar	Jonathan Kearney	Sharia in Democratic State of Indonesia
Louise Hassan	Peter Admirand	Christology and mythology: A song of ice and fire
Yvonne Higgins Murphy	Patricia Flynn	Imaging Sound from Notation: a study of children in the context of choral practice
Mohammad Hosseini	Bert Gordijn	Ethical Issues in Scientific Authorship
Paul Christiaan Kuyer	Bert Gordijn	Ethics of Nudging
Hannah Nicola Josie Millington	Róisín Blunnie	Compositional Shifts in the Vocal Works of E.Smyth
Gwenyth Morgan	Bert Gordijn	A Care-Based Stakeholder Analysis of Ethical Issues in Cybersecurity
Aine Mulvey	John O'Flynn	Art Song in Ireland - The Influence of the Gaelic and Irish Literary Revivals
Marcellinus Osakwe	Peter Admirand	Nigerian Postcolonial Thought and the Peace Process in Northern Nigeria
Austin Reece	Ian Leask	Transcending the Two Terrors: Philosophical Interpretations of Pathological Mourning, The Problem of Guilt, and the Task of Poetry
Anthony Royle	Garrick Allen	Citations in Ancient Epistolograph
Orla Shannon	Séan Doherty	The Forgotten Female: Twentieth Century Irish Art Music and the Cultural Politics of Revival
Anshika Sharma	Ethna Regan	Overshadowed: A Study of Female Characters
Steven Singleton	Brad Anderson	"Because it tells me so" : A qualitative investigation of the lived experience of engaging with the Bible in evangelical faith communities
Jobymon Skaria	Peter Admirand	Liberating Dalit Theology: A Postcolonial Reading of Abraham's Crossings to Egypt and Gerer and its Implications for Dalit Technology
Ian Tighe	Ian Leask	Hellenistic influence on Michel Foucault's subject
Michal Wieczorek	Bert Gordijn	Ethics of Quantified Self