Former Students and Dissertations
2023
Name |
Dissertation Title |
Naziyeerke Baolati |
Social Inclusion and Identity of Ethnic Minority Counsellors in the Chinese University System |
Erin Barbery |
Hook-Up Culture Impacts the Way People Talk and Act: An Exploration of College Men’s Discourse Surrounding Hook-Up Culture |
Carla Caffrey |
The Anti-SJW’s: Guide to Gender Roles: Gender Hierarchies and Dominance in Alt-Right Livestreaming |
Shannon Carley |
A Purchasing Pathway: The Commodification of Volunteer Tourism Programs as demonstrated in Participant Motivation |
Lucie Duillon |
Creating and Experiencing Belonging to the Feminine Divine: A Critical Analysis of the (Re)Creation of a “Feminine” New Age Movement by French and Irish Esoteric Healers |
Kennedy Fiorella |
“The Actual Republican Tradition”: Investigating Youth Membership and Motivations for Participation in Sinn Féin |
Catalina Garcia |
Criminals, Victims or Nothing: A Case Study Investigating the Legal and Public Discrimination of Migrant Prostitutes in Spain |
Iryna Gokhman |
The Integration of Syrian and Ukrainian Refugees in the Republic of Ireland: A Comparative Case Study |
Alice McCarthy |
The Effect of Parenting Styles and Parent/Child Relationships on School Bullying |
Suzy Mooney |
Exploring how to Improve Recruitment and Inclusion for People with Disabilities in Organisations across Ireland: Employers’ Perspective |
Ziwei Niu |
Hope Labour in the Livestream E-Commerce Industry in Yiwu, China |
Zachary Porter |
Does the Proposal Matter? A Case Study of Collective Decision-Making in a Decentralised Autonomous Organization |
Jenna Pryor |
“I know I’m your student, but I’m a person”: The Teacher-Student Relationship from the Perspective of Black Louisiana High School Students |
Grace Stynes |
Exploring the Experiences of Womanhood through the Lens of Disability: An Intersectional Analysis on the Social Constructions of Femininity and Disability |
Emma Taylor |
Motherhood and Femininity: An Intergenerational Study Examining the Construction of femininity and Perceptions of Motherhood in Ireland |
Harriet Worrall Carter |
From Black Squares to White Guilt: Studying the Effects of the Black Lives Matter Movement on Public Opinion of Indigenous Issues in Australia |
Thomas Williamson |
Exploring the Housing Experiences of the Hindu Indian Diaspora in Manchester and Dublin |
Luming Xie |
The Constructed Everyday Nationalism among Chinse Youth |
2022
Name |
Dissertation Title |
Hanien Alouzi |
Exploring the Impact of Traditional gender Roles on the Aspirations of Young Muslim Women: A Case Study on Second-Generation Libyan-Maltese Women |
Titas Biswas |
Pedagogical Spatiality and the Politics of Identities: Analysing the Perception of ‘Privilege’ among 18-21-Year-Old Students in India |
Zhihong Chen |
From Exoticism to Extraterrestrialism: An Analysis of Heterotopias in Speculative Travel Writing |
Megan Elliott |
”Rights in Prison”: An Institutional Analysis on Irish Prisons and the Irish Prison Services |
Helen Hennessey |
The Labour Behind Live Music: An Exploratory Study of the Experience of ‘Below the Line’ Workers in the American Live Music Industry in the Context of Neoliberalism |
Aaron Koay |
“People Would Have Died”: How the Involvement of Community Pharmacy in COVID-19 Vaccination was Delayed - A multi-method policy implementation case study in Ireland |
Maria Khlebnikova |
‘If You Survived Working During COVID, You Can Survive Anything’: An Investigation of Nursing Students’ Perceptions on howCOVID-19 Impacted their Education |
Vanessa Moreno |
Hegemony Under Threat: A Critical Analysis of Corporate Responses to the Black Lives atter Summer 2020 Protests |
Aiden Murphy |
Hindered by Tinder: A Comparative Analysis of Gender Differences on Dating Apps in Ireland and the USA |
Charley Nordin |
Afterschool Arts and the Californian Inner-City: Addressing Challenges of Recruitment and Retention |
Tiffany Pereira |
The Identity Construction Processes of 1.5and Second-Generation Portuguese Immigrants in France |
Emily Ranken |
Tolerable Queers and Intolerant Migrants? A Study of Homonationalist Beliefs in Teachers in England |
Sarah Shannon |
Networks of Care: A Case Study of Virginia Abortion Support Networks from July 2016 to June 2022 |
Anais Simeral |
Fast Fashion to Sustainable Fashion: Attitudes and Behaviours of Young Adults Regarding Shopping for Clothes and Protecting the Environment |
Laura Watkins |
Resilience Recovery and Justice: Low-Income Renters’ Experiences of Hurricane Ida in New York City |
Pan Yuwen |
Precarious Voice: A Case Study of Small-Town Swot in Modern China |
Yiyi Xiao |
Chinese Female International Students’ Struggles with Identity and their Experiences in Ireland: A Qualitative Study |
Rong Zhou |
The Influence of Modernisation on Social Values and Regional Variation in China |
2021
Name |
Dissertation Title |
Oscar Arranz Videla |
Educational Aspirations and Parental Expectations: A Case Study of the Chinese Community in Spain |
Shelley Barcoe |
Healthcare in Ireland A Commodity Unfairly Divided: A Comparative Study to Explore the Disparities and Unmet Needs of Three Patient Categories |
James Conroy |
An Investigation into Professional Academics and their Experiences with Imposter Syndrome |
Henry DuBeau |
Waking the Feminists: Identifying Opportunities for Social Mobilization in the Irish Theatre Sector |
Daniel Guigui |
I was a Stranger, and You Welcomed Me: Exploring the Cosmopolitan Outlooks and Practices of Undergraduate Students in Ireland |
Monica Lievsay |
The Development of Procrastination in School Children |
Xingyao Liu |
Negotiation of the Demographic Dilemma: Ageing Population and Changing Structure of Household in China |
Diane O’Carroll |
‘Beyond Revenge Porn’: Examining Factors Inherent in Irish Society Influencing the Prevalence of Image-Based Sexual Abuse in Ireland |
Arzu Ozben |
Femicides in Turkey and its Workings as an Invisible Way of Necropolitics |
Alejandra Perez-Leon |
The Experiences of Returned Migrants in Guatemala: An Exploration of Identity Loss through the Hardships of Deportation and Reintegration |
Cobhla Surlis |
An Analysis of Online Commentary Pertaining to Irish Women who Engage in Digital Sex Work on ‘OnlyFans’ |
Clare Tormey |
Investigating the Factors Influencing Breastfeeding Initiation and Cessation in Women Working in the Department of Social Protection in the Republic of Ireland |
Yi Xu |
On the Change of China’s Gender Awareness in Recent Ten Years from the Official Weibo of People’s Daily |
Yifei Yang |
How have the Online Classrooms During the Covid-19 Pandemic Affected International Students’ Academic and Social Integration? A Case Study of Female Chinese International Students in Irish Universities |
Qianyu Zhou |
Values and Parental Involvement in Mate Selection and Marriage: A Study among Urban Younger Generations and their Parents in China |
Zhuohong Hou |
The Development of Higher Education under the Economic Boom: A Comparative Study between Ireland and China |
Ziyu Wang |
Marriage Experiences, marriage Decisions of Gays’ Wives and Influencing Factors in China |
2020
Name |
Dissertation Title |
John Erik Åndahl |
Between Assimilation and Multiculturalism? A Case Study of the Argentine Education System |
Sivan Banu |
The Impact of Political Events on Social Media Discourse Twitter and Xenophobia |
Tanisha Barkakaty |
The Assimilation of English Language in Assamese Culture: A Study in the Light of Media and Politic |
Peter Bothwell |
Gold Under Every Rainbow: The Irish LGBTQ Movement and Business Interests |
Michelle Bruno |
Love, Hate and Brazilian Feminist Nationalism: Understanding Collective Identity Narratives Among Migrant Women in Ireland |
Meghna Dutta |
Witch Hunting and Assam’s Hidden War on Women: A Comparative Study on The Rabha and The Bodo Community |
Fanghan Gao |
Online Classroom Experience of Students from Different Regions of China's Wealth Gap during Covid-19 |
Alannah Hannigan |
The Concept of Ethnic Diversity in Irish Primary Initial Teacher Education |
Con Keohane |
An Investigation into the Role of Language Activists in the Formation of an Urban Neo-Gaeltacht on the Shaws Road in Belfast in the 1960s and early 70s, and their Effect on the Wider Linguistic Movement |
Viktorija Kursite |
Online Surveillance Capitalism and GDPR |
Isabel Kelly-Russo |
Obstetric Violence: Evaluating Cesarean Overuse through the Lens of Patient Experience in the United States |
Li Ma |
Workers' Well-Being in Ireland: Comparing the Full-Time and the Part-Time |
Haoxiang Ma |
The Influence Mechanism of Postmaterialism on Creativity: The role of Uncertainty Avoidance and Subjective Well-Being: An Empirical Research based on WVS Wave 6 |
Erica Meslin |
The Irish Government and Development Organisations |
James Oreoluwa |
A Descriptive Study on Social media functionality and the Drive Towards Social and Political Consciousness in the Nigeria Social Space |
Aanya Sagheer |
Self-Understanding of National Identity: Citizens of Colour and the Irish Language |
Rasika Savale |
Change in Ethnocultural Identification and Practices: Pre- and Post-Immigration Experiences of Indian Professionals in Ireland |
Sebastiano Sessa |
From Liberalism to Neoliberalism: Ruling Classes, State, Labour and the Making of Italian Citizenship (1861-2014) |
Sarah Silbert Diversity Training and National Governing Bodies of Sport in Ireland |
2019
| Name | Dissertation Title |
|---|---|
| Eda Aslan | Places of Memory: An Inductive Research on Syrian Refugee Women |
| Camille Canter | Towards Quotidian Utopia: Alternative Reproduction and Utopia as Practice in Two Worker Cooperatives |
| Ann-Kathrin Cloppenburg | The Role of Childcare in the Modern Welfare State: An Exploratory Study of the Irish Childcare System |
| Lucy Eviston | Cycling in Dublin: A Solution to Congestion and the Climate Crisis |
| Esheksha Flanagan | “Because I’m a Hustler”: Identity and Opportunity in Social Movement Organisations |
| Sophia Gonsalves-Brown | Indelible Narratives: A Framing Analysis of the Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford Testimonies |
| Marine Hayward | Democratic Equality or Gendered Citizenship? Women, Swiss Democracy and National Community |
| Natalie Holland | “The More You Know the More You Owe”: A Case Study of Upward Mobility through Increased Access to Independent Schools in the United States |
| Carla Lips | Climate Change: The Underlying Mechanisms Leading to Environmentally-Friendly Individual Actions |
| Lowery McNeal | Bloody Sunday in Black and White: A Comparative News Framing Analysis of Derry’s Bloody Sunday in 1972 and 2019 |
| Jianfei Niu | The Chinese in Ireland: A Study in Attitudinal Change Regarding Gender Roles |
| Qiannan Zhang | Have Cultural Distinction been Presented Between Different Classes in Parenting? The Class Division of Objectified and Embodied Cultural Capital in China |
| Leila Reynolds | Sharing Stories to Build Power: A Bill of Rights for Domestic Workers in Seattle |
| Adrien Sautereau | Constructing National Identity: A Comparative Study of Secondary School Curricula in France and Ireland |
| Caroline Shanahan | Acceptance and Non-Acceptance in Psychiatric Diagnosis: The Coercive Power of Stigma and the Biomedical Model of Psychiatry |
| Kathleen Winston | What Does it Mean to be Canadian? Developing Understandings of National Identity in Alberta Schools |
| Yewa Zhang | Is Dai Tattoo Dying? Viewing Social Changes Through Ethnic Minority Art: Identity, Gender Equality and Social Control |
| Yuchen Zhang | “Who Wears the Trousers and Does it Matter?” A Comparative Study on Reversed Gender Gap among Couples in Europe and China |
2018
| Name | Dissertation Title |
|---|---|
| Neelakhi Dutta | Higher Education Funding in Ireland, UK, Germany and Sweden: Between critical reflections and policy analysis |
| Elizabeth Finder | Does Molly Malone Stand Alone? An Exploration of Gender Representation in Dublin’s Public Art |
| William Foley | Why People Protested in the Austerity Era: Incorporating the “new new” perspective |
| Andrew Gilliland | Neoliberalization and its Effects on the Built Environments of Dublin and Seattle |
| Adrienne Greenwalt | Gender Egalitarianism and Gender Parity in the Olympic Games |
| Elaine Haskins | Varieties of Interdisciplinarity: An exploration of the interdisciplinary archipelago of global environmental change (GEC) research |
| Aisling Hill | Changing Ireland, Changing Values: A Mixed Methods Study |
| Torie Howes | The Past in the Present: Collective Memory and Social Change in Belfast and Dublin |
| Andrew Mackay | High Tech Myths and Masculinities: Contrasting perspectives on gender inequality in the American technology sector |
| Darragh Miller | Social Change in an Irish Civil Society Organisation: Deepening Governmentality and Evolving Voluntarism |
| Tom Noonan | Going Green for Good: An Interpretive Analysis of the Accounts of Climate Change Activists |
| Conall Ó Brolchain | De Donde Eres?” “Éire”: A Study of Intercultural and Multilingual Education in an Irish Primary School Setting |
| Priyanka Ranganath | Gender Egalitarianism and Attitudes towards Immigration in Europe: The role of human values |
| Denise Smith | Migration in an Era of Economic Globalisation: The Role of the Irish State |
2017
| Name | Dissertation Title |
|---|---|
| Marta Antonetti | Gender and Political suitability in the Irish Dàil: A Vignette Experiment on the perception of legislators’ suitability for office |
| Niall Foster | Educating and Accommodating Ethnic and Religious Diversity in the Irish Primary School: A case study of urban Catholic, Educate Together and Community National Schools |
| Mayel Hadi | Assessing integration of non-native English speaking students in TCD and UCD through student unions and societies |
| Samantha Litwinczuk | Bargain Sex in Thailand: A Critical Analysis of Discourse and Commodity Chains |
| Courtney Marsh | An Garda Síochána adversity in a changing time: Making do with what they can from a US perspective |
| Maren Miller | Where Are All The Women? A study of the role of women in the 1916 Uprising, and their absence in the history lessons |
| Monika Pedroso | Indigeneity, Educational Achievement and Bilingual Education in Post-Colonial Latin America: A Comparative Study |
| Philip Ryan | Joining the everyday nation: A study of naturalisation rates and attitudes towards immigration |
| Zoe Van Nostrand | A Framing Analysis of the Dakota Access Pipeline Opposition Movement |
| Alexandra Woods | Mitigating Risk in an Uncertain World: The Structural Relationship That Exists Between the Irish State and U.S. Multinational Corporations |