Former PhD Students
2013
| Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Ying Yun Wang | The Economic, Family and Identity Experiences of the First and Second Generation Hong Kong Chinese in Ireland |
| Dr Il-Haam Petersen | A Multi-Methods Network Approach for Developing STI Capabilities in Southern Africa |
2012
| Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic | The Case Study of Bosnian Post-refugee Transnationalism |
| Dr Andrea Rigon | Co-producing Development: Participation, Power and Conflict in the Upgrading of Informal Settlements in Nairobi |
| Dr Jonathan Lacey | In Search of Legitimacy: An exploration of the Gülen movement’s Strategic Engagement in the Western context |
| Dr Justyna Salamońska | Moving Across Countries, Labour Markets and the Life Cycle: Polish and Central/Eastern European Migration to Ireland |
| Dr Michael Byrne | Depoliticisation and the Post-Conflict State in Northern Ireland: Sovereignty, Citizenship and Universality |
2011
| Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Patrick Bresnihan | Transforming the Fisheries: The Politics of Environmental Sustainability |
| Dr Alicja Bobek | Polish Migrants in Ireland: Migration Patterns, Social Networks and 'Community' |
| Dr Olivia Freeman | Accomplishing Consumer Selves and Relations: Analysing the Talk-in-Interaction of Preschoolers' Focus Groups |
| Dr Antje Röder | Socio-Cultural Integration of Immigrants in Europe: A Multi-level Analysis of Patterns and Determinants |
| Dr Anaheed Al-Hardan | Remembering the Catastrophe: Uprooted Histories and the Grandchildren of the Nakba |
| Dr Suzanne Harkins | Food, Obesity and Families: Practices in Irish Households with Young Children |
2009
| Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Dr David Landy | British Jewish Opposition to Israel: The Relationship Between Local and Distant Fields of Contention in a Social Movement |
| Dr Jean Cushen | Shareholder Capitalism, Normative Smokescreens and the Angry, Insecure Knowledge Worker |
| Dr Emma Calvert | Considering the 'Work' in Workplace Bullying: A Sociological Approach |
2008
| Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Sean Reynolds | Liquid Citizens? Towards a Sociology of Lesbian and Gay Intimate Citizenship in the Republic of Ireland |
| Dr Neil O'Boyle | Knowing What It Means to be Irish: Cultural Identity and the Production of Irish Advertising |
| Dr Naoimh McMahon | Food, Biotechnology, Science and Politics: Policymakers Engaged in Codex Alimentarius |
| Dr Sean Dunne | Fluid Constellation: Hybrid Dynamics of the Irish Bottled Water Industry |
| Dr Carla De Tona | Diaspora, Gender and Narrative Journeys: Italian Migrant Women in Ireland |
| Dr Brid O'Farrell | The Spiralling Swallow: A Sociological Auto-Ethnography of 'Eating Disorder(S)' |
2007
| Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Elaine Moriarty | Ireland and Race: Ideas, Intellectuals and Identities |
| Dr Abel Ugba | Shades of Belonging: Identity Construction among Pentecostal Africans in 21st century Ireland |
| Dr Matt Bowden | Policing and the Youth Question: Civil Society and the State in Urban Periphery Ireland |
| Dr Christian Gheorghiu | Globalisation, Christian Churches and Ecumenism |
| Dr Andrew Whelan | Coprolalia and Shibboleths: Musical and Textual Interaction in the Breakcore Room |
| The Impact of Global Business Models in a Developing Country: The Case of Human Resource Management in Two Multi-National Banks Operating in Tanzania | |
| Dr Aisling McCormack | Transition, Reconstruction, and Decline: A Portrait of NGO Development in Post-Apartheid South Africa |
| Dr Joanne McCarthy | The Principles and Discourses of the Social Model: Exploring their use and usefulness in the Irish context |
2006
| Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Michael Doherty | Does the Union Still Make Us Strong? Irish Trade Unions Membership in the Partnership Era |
| Dr Kay Inckle | On the Cutting Edge? Marking Gender, Embodiment and Knowledge |
| Dr Damien Brennan | The Sociology of Institutionalisation of the 'Mentally Ill' in Ireland |
| Dr Martha Van Der Bly | The Universal Surname: A Theoretical-Empirical Enquiry into the Relationship Between Globalisation and Sameness |
2005
| Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Petra Aigner | Discourses About Ethnic Minorities in Contemporary Upper Austria |
2004
| Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Aileen O'Carroll | In the Shadow of the Clock: Working Time in the Irish Software Sector |
2003
| Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Susanna Rance | Changing Voices: Abortion Talk in Bolivian Medical Settings |
| Dr Ewan Speed | Discourses of Mental Health Services and Mental Health Users Movements |
| Dr Martha Herrero | Towards a Sociology of Art Collections: The Making of An Art Collection for the Irish Museum of Modern Art |
| Dr Jonathan Pratschke | The Responses of Hospital Nurses in Ireland and Southern Italy to the Rationalisation of Public Health Care, 1985-2000 |
2001
| Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Gerard Boucher | The Small Island Scarcely Heard: Ireland's Multiple Integration and Identity |
| Dr Anne Good | European Union Supra State Feminism: Redistributional Gender Equality Policy and Training in Europe and Ireland, 1971-1997 |
2000
| Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Roland Tormey | The Part-Time Soul : Case Studies in the Management of Culture and Flexibility in Irish Retail |
1999
| Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Carol MacKeogh | Television and Adolescents: A 'Critical' Audience? A Participant Observation Study |
| Dr Laurence Cox | Building Counter Culture: The Radical Praxis of Social Movement Milieu |
| Dr Anne Coakley | Poverty and Social Inclusion: The Managment Strategies and Views of Mothers in Social Welfare Households |
1998
| Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Maria E. Lohan | The Transvestite Telephone: A Male Technology Dressed Up in Feminine Clothes |
| Dr Brian O'Neill | Discourses of the Arts and the Art Show: A Study of Middlebrowism in Irish Society |
1997
| Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Mairin Kenny | The Routes of Rresistance: Travellers and Second Level Education |
| Dr Ronit Lentin | Reoccupying the Territories of Silence: A Feminist Auto/biographical Exploration of the Gendered Relationship Between Israel and the Shoah |
1996
| Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Patricia Carr | Reconceptualising Enterprise Culture |
1995
| Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Carmel Duggan | Economic Diversity on Small-Holdings: A Study of Pluriactivity in West Connemara |
| Dr Brendan MacPartlin | The Restructuring of the Irish Trade Union Movement 1987-1993 |
1994
| Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Patricia O'Hara | Women, Farm and Family in Contemporary Ireland |
1993
| Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Aodh Ó Canainn | Engineers in Management |
| Dr Gerard Hanlon | Flexible Accumulation and the Rise of the Commercialised Service Class: An Examination of Irish Accountancy |
1992
| Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Josephine Browne | The Juridification of the Employment Relationship: A Study of the Impact of the Unfair Dismissals Acts 1977 |
| Dr Ali Reza Kaldi | Modernisation and Social Change in Iran: A Study of the Values of Tehran Residents Who Have Studied Abroad |
| Dr Kieran Allen | Fianna Fail and the Irish labour movement 1926-1982: From Populism to Corporatism |
1991
| Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Lorna Harding | Computer Skills Acquisition: An Examination of the Development of Computer Expertise in a Social Llearning Context |
| Dr Jean Tubridy | Social Experiences of Physical Disability in Ireland |
1989
| Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Gerarld Sullivan | From Moral to Ethical Economics: An Irish Exemplar |
1988
| Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Jo Murphy-Lawless | Women and Childbirth: Male Medical Discourse and the Invention of Female Incompetence |
| Dr Mary Jones | A Marriage of Convenience: The Domestic Life and Labour Force Activity of the Married Woman Worker |
| Dr Eamonn Slater | A Contribution to a Critique of the Idealisation of Irish Agricultural Development 1847 - 1882 |
| Dr Peter Corrigan | Backstage Dressing:Clothing and the Urban Family, With Special Reference to Mother/Daughter Relations |
1987
| Name | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Peter Murray | Citizenship, Colonialism and Self-Determination: Dublin in the United Kingdom 1885-1918 |