Dissertation Archive

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

2023

Name	Thesis Title
Dr Julia Leesch	Trends and Consequences of Assortative Mating on Education and Social Class Origin
Dr Melissa Bohnert	Digital Media, Child Development, and Wellbeing Outcomes in Ireland
Dr Arnie Trinidad	The Social and Class-based Identities of Filipino Nurse Migrants in Ireland

2022

Name	Thesis Title
Dr Stefanie Sprong	Explaining the 'migrant gap' among children in Ireland
Dr Ryan Alberto Ó Giobúin	Diverging Pathways: social class and choice in Irish secondary education
Dr Sara Bojarczuk	Polish Mothers in Ireland- A Comparative Study of the Role of Social Networks in Managing Care and Employment

2021

Name	Thesis Title
Dr Sara Singleton	What role does trust play in successful cooperation between the diverse actors involved in international peacekeeping missions?
Dr David Dunne	Going Native: a critical study of theories of 'nativism' as technologies of Western intervention
Dr Ciaran Devlin	Gender and Sexuality through the Screen: Using video games to tackle Misogyny and Homophobia

2020

Name	Thesis Title
Dr Phil Mullen	Identity and Belonging in Ireland for mixed-race Irish women who grew up in the Irish institutional care system
Dr Inga Sabanova	Migration and Social class: A Case Study of Migrant Families from the Baltics in Ireland

2019

Name	Thesis Title
Dr Egle Gusciute	'Who is Against Migration, and Why?'

2018

Name	Thesis Title
Dr Mariam Nagi	Contesting Discourses of Sexuality: Sexual Identity Negotiation among Urban Educated Egyptian Women
Dr Vasiliki Theofilopoulou	National Becoming through Aesthesis: Modern Literature Education in Greece
Dr Cliona Hannon	Capital, Capabilities and Culture: A Human Development Approach to Student and School Transformation
Dr David Cichon	The Political Economy of Labour Activism: Financial Capitalism and labour resistance in the Cambodian garment sector

2017

Name	Thesis Title
Dr Kathleen Sheehan	A Network View of the Agencies that Serve Ireland's Asylum Seekers
Dr Cormac McNamara	The Betting Shop: A Sociological Perspective
Dr Holly Foley	A Longitudinal Study to Explore the Lives of Russian Speaking Youths in Ireland

2016

Name	Thesis Title
Dr Kasia Wodniak	The Formation and Legacy of Networks: Poland Euro 2012
Dr Vanessa Stout	'Your Place or Mine'? An Examination of Nigerian Incorporation in Dublin and Los Angeles Cityspace
Dr Lisa Maria Reilly	Cliques, conflict, clairvoyance: The emotionality of the university classroom for non-traditional students
Dr Caroline O'Sullivan	From Scene to Flow: Music, Network, Evolution
Dr Caitriona Delaney	An Explorative Study of Army Wives in Ireland: Focusing on the Curragh Camp in Co Kildare
Dr Paul Candon	The Emerging Online Public Sphere in Ireland: A Case Study
Dr Gillian Kingston	Immigration, Integration and Discrimination in Ireland a Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrants in the Irish Labour Market
Dr Yaqoub Bouaynaya	Perceived Irishness: The (re)construction of Irish identity within the continuum of liquid modernity

2015

Name	Thesis Title
Dr Michael Murphy	The Social History of the Irish Recorded Music Industry
Dr Penelope Muteteli	Identity Polarization, Citizenship and Conflict Resolution: Governmentality in Cote d’Ivoire
Dr Waleed Serhan	Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon: From Co-Ethnics to a Racialized Minority
Dr Craig Considine	Family, Religion, and Identity in the Pakistani Diaspora: A Case Study of Young Pakistani Men in Dublin and Boston.
Dr Damien O'Tuama	Prising Open the Dublin Bikes' Journeys

2014

Name	Thesis Title
Dr Alessia Passarelli	Beyond Welcoming the Stranger: Integration Policies and Practices in Protestant Churches in Ireland and Italy
Dr Beata Sokolowska	Acculturation of Polish Teenagers in Ireland
Dr Marianna Prontera	Return Migration and Integration: A Comparison of Italian Returnees from Argentina and Europe
Dr Lorraine Mancey	Illusion and Disillusion in a Development Organisation

2013

Name	Thesis Title
Dr Martina Byrne	Performing Distance: The response of Irish professionals to Immigrants and Immigration
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

2010

Name	Thesis Title
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
Dr Aloysius Kahindi	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 Resistance: 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 Learning Context
Dr Jean Tubridy	Social Experiences of Physical Disability in Ireland

1989

Name	Thesis Title
Dr Gerald 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 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