Dissertation Archive

This archive lists MSc dissertation titles from past students, showcasing the breadth of research over the years.

2025

Name	Dissertation Title
Qianhui An	ESG and Social Equity: Do ESG Strategies Contribute to Reducing Social Inequalities?
Dorottya Borka	The Impact of Religious Upbringing on Adult Sexuality: A Sociological Perspective
Matthew Brenner	The GAA, Community, and Identity: A Qualitative Analysis of the GAA’s Social Effects
Lena Cabezas	Investigating Attitudes towards Social Volunteering among Dublin University Students, Depending on Gender, Field of Study and Altruism Levels
Jenni Carberry	Barriers to Survivor Accessibility of DSGBV Services in the Republic of Ireland: A Rural/Urban Dichotomy
Bryan Crawford	How Musical Artists, through Lyricism, Personal Narrative, and Inclusion in Broader Social Movements, Contribute to a Global Epistemic Disobedience that Merits Inclusion in the Social Sciences
Anna Daly	Place, Power, and Participation: The Role of Local Authorities in Ireland’s Climate Transition
Alexandra Dardati	From Uprising to Urban Resistance: Exploring Spatial Politics, Anarchism, and Symbolism in Exarcheia, Athens
Anne Derkx	Navigating Digital Femininity: Young Women’s Engagement with Gendered TikTok Trends
Yanfang Ding	Digital Practices and Adaptation: Social Media Uses of Chinese International Students in the UK and Ireland
Endre Feigl	Post-Fascism Revisited: A Socio-Historical Examination of the Emergence and Sustention of Illiberal Democracies through the Case Study of Hungary and Forms of Non-Violent Resistance
Sandra Francis	Influence of Political Activism on Kerala's Colleges
Xiao Gai	The Rise of Self-Efficacy Among Chinese Women in the Education Sector and Its Impact on Career Advancement: A Perspective from Social Ideological Changes?
Maria Ghiuzan	Resistance to Contemporary Feminism in Romania: A Cross-Generational Comparative Case Study
Luis Guevara Naranjo	Autonomy, the Commons, and Collective Life: Anticolonial Horizons from Zapatista Practices
Isabella Kilper	Finding the ‘I’ in Pinoy: An Exploratory Case Study of Second and Third Generation Filipino American Experiences with Cultural Identity in the Digital Age
Yichao Li	When Care Excludes: How Exclusion is Legitimised by Policy Discourses and Cultural Rationalities in Guangzhou’s Mental Health System
Chang Lyu	Debating Sex Education in Ireland: Insights from Reddit Discussions
Marley Mc Mahon	Compounding Barriers to Volunteering : A Comparative Study of Gender and its Relation to Health Within Volunteering in Dublin
Adrienne Merriman	Motherhood, Madness, and Media: The Construction of Maternal Filicide in the US and Ireland: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Media Narratives in the Cases of Deirdre Morley and Lindsay Clancy
Hannah Perkins	Working Through Pain: Endometriosis and its Effects on Women’s Careers in Ireland
Sophie Roche	Framing the Tenant: Power, Stigma, and Identity in Irish Social Housing Discourse
Sreepurna Sahoo	Digital Migration Communities and their Dual Impact: Bonding, Bridging and Social Integration in the Online Era
Martina Smith	Highly Educated Pakistani Muslim Women in Ireland: Cultural, Structural, and Religious Barriers to Labour Market Participation
Tara Swinburne	‘Barriers to Having the Craic’: An Exploration of the Regulation of Nightlife Culture in Dublin
Aena Thakur	Understanding India’s Income Inequality through a Caste Lens
Chuchu Xie	Does Involution Necessarily Lead to Lying Flat? A Comparative Study of Chinese Graduates in China and Ireland

Previous Years

Name	Dissertation Title
Rebecca Belfor	Goals Beyond the Game: Football Fans in Germany as Agents of Social Change
Robert Bergin	Dublin’s Housing Crisis: The Role of Government, Effectiveness of its Policies, Economic and Neoliberal Forces, and Societal Values
Kayla Brittan	Unpacking the Barriers that Prevent South African Men from Proactively Engaging in Anti-Gender Based Violence Work
Charlotte Call	One Nation Under God: A Study on the Prevalence of Religious Rhetoric in American Politics Under Donald Trump 2015-2020
Catherine Cremens	Teacher Agency, Community Resistance, and the ‘Hidden Curriculum’: An Analysis of Post-Primary Relationships and Sexuality Education in Ireland
Beatrice Metzler	See How They Run: A Comparative Analysis of the Experience of Women with and without a Migrant Background Running in the 2024 Local Elections in Ireland
Steven Michel	Generation Z’s Experience of Climate Change Meaning-Making in the Case of Social Media: A Symbolic Interactionist Analysis
Li Nie	Job Quality of Location-based Digital Platform Labour: Comparative Study of Food-delivery Workers in China and Ireland
Philip Obaso	A Sociological Perspective of the Encyclical Laudato Si’ in Biodiversity Conservation: A Case Study of SHC Parish Sibu-Malaysia
Ryan O’Keeffe	The Role of Social Capital in Shaping Antisocial Behaviour in Urban Dublin
Victoria Rech	An Investigation of Ageism in Healthcare across Generations: Centering Young People's Experiences in Ireland and Beyond
Leonard Reuchlin	Bridging Wealth and Well-Being: The Impact of Social Cohesion in the Netherlands
Katherine Richert	Police Reform in the United States: Do Reforms Make a Difference in Police and Civilian Encounters?
Shannon Sullivan	A Tale of Ten Cities: France’s Cultural Diplomacy at Work in the United States
Louis Toole	Is The Future Bright? An Observation of UCD and TCD Students’ Attitudes towards Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace
Huiying Yang	Family Support and Value Change in Elderly Care within Intergenerational Families in Contemporary China

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: UnderstandingCollective 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)

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

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