
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
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
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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
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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 |
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 |