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UCD School of Politics and International Relations

Scoil na Polaitíochta agus Gnóthaí Idirnáisiúnta UCD

PhD Students

PhD Candidate

Thesis Title

Supervisor

 

Abraham Aryan

Nationalism and pathological homogenisation in the context of Turkish nation-state

Dr Tobias Theiler

 

Erin Baumann

Between Politics and a Hard Place: explaining foreign policy in the post-Soviet space

Dr Derek Hutcheson

SPIRe Teaching Scholarship

Thitiwut Boonyawongwiwat Drug and Identity: The Ethno-Politics of Shan peoples on Thai-Burma borderland Prof Jennifer Todd  

Mary Rose Byrne

An investigation into the effectiveness of the Value Chain approach to Microfinance in Vietnam

Dr Andy Storey

 

Jack Bwalya

Scramble for Africa: Part Two? An Exploratory Investigation into the Relationship of Chinese Investment in 21st Century Africa. Case Study: Zambia

Dr Andy Storey

 

Yvonne Campbell

How do aid agencies interact with the military before, during and after field operations?

Prof Ben Tonra

 

Jennifer Carroll

The Politics of Judicial Selection and Judicial Selection Systems: Ireland in Comparative Perspective

Dr Niamh Hardiman

 

Kevin Coffey

Why do states commit to international criminal justice? Support for the International Criminal Court in Sub-Saharan Africa

Prof Dan Thomas

SPIRe Teaching Scholarship

Jessica Doyle

The role of civil society organisations in promoting gender equality in Turkey

Dr Vincent Durac

 

Roland Gjoni

Constitutional Engineering for Ethnic Conflict Management: Three Case Studies from the Western Balkans (Bosnia, Macedonia and Kosovo)

Prof Jennifer Todd

SPIRe Teaching Scholar

David Hallinan

Regional integration in Northeast Asia: Consequences for Europe and the World

Prof Dan Thomas

 

Brady Hills

'Twitter revolutions' and understanding modern democratic social movements

Prof Dan Thomas and Dr Jos Elkink

 

Valesca Holanda

Local Housing Councils and Participative Democracy - An Analysis of Local Power in Brazil

Dr Melanie Hoewer

 

Ronan Kennedy

The gender dimension of consociational democracy

Prof Jennifer Todd

 

Sonja Kopf

How Europeanised are the 'big three'? The foreign policies of Britain, France and Germany

Prof Ben Tonra

 

John Lohan

Reforming the Oireachtas: Good governance or governing the legislature?

Prof David Farrell

 

Stephen Massey

Lobbying in the EU

Dr Diana Panke

 

Susan McDermott

Coalition and Opposition: Fine Gael's Northern Ireland Policy, 1973 to 1987

Prof John Coakley

IRCHSS scholar

Michael McDermott

The Return to Bilateralism Through the Contonou Agreement: The Spread of Enhanced Intellectual Property Systems and the Implications on Agriculture in the Developing World

Dr Andy Storey

European Law & Governance PhD

Niall Morris

Irish Foreign Policy and its Implication for the International Relations Theory

Prof Paul Walsh

 

Thomas Murray

Socio-Economic Rights and the Irish Constitution

Dr Graham Finlay

 

Ciaran O'Driscoll

An Investigation of Fishery Regimes Within and Outside the European Union: Denmark, Ireland, Iceland and Norway

Prof Brigid Laffan

 

Muireann O'Dwyer

A Feminist Investigation of European Union Governance

Prof Brigid Laffan / Prof Imelda Maher (Law)

European Law & Governance PhD

Martin Okolikj

Electoral Institutional Arrangements and Voters Behaviour Based on Incumbents' Performance

Dr Jos Elkink

SPIRE Teaching Scholar

Stephen Quinlan

Youth Electoral Participation

Prof Richard Sinnott

IRCHSS scholar

Paul Quinn

African water: the psychology of cooperative regimes

Dr Diana Panke

SPIRe Teaching Scholarship

Claudia Saba

The Evolution of the Palestinian Liberation Movement

Dr Vincent Durac

 

Justin Sinnott Is Jerusalem finally being built? The growth of English nationalism since the 1990s Prof Jennifer Todd  

Deirdre Tinney

EU Social Regulation: Questions of Legitimacy

Dr Niamh Hardiman

 

Chun Zhang

The political economy of China's financial service liberalization in the context of WTO negotiations

Dr Niamh Hardiman

China - Ireland

 

SPIRe Staff also supervise Phd candidates across a number of thematic PhD programmes.

Global Human Development

PhD Candidate

Thesis Title

Supervisor

 

Mohammed Al Rizeiqi

The evolution of Modern Approach to Seafood Safety Regulation and Consumer Information Prof Paul Walsh  

Nyamulinda Birasa

Promoting food security in Rwanda through rice and Irish potato farming: Trends, constraints and opportunity

Prof Paul Walsh

 

Ali Dadgar

Theorising transition to democracy in Iran

Dr Vincent Durac

 

Lucas Katera

Accelerating growth by maximizing the impact of social services expenditure on agricultural labour productivity and income in rural Tanzania

Prof Paul Walsh

 

Mdadila Kenneth

Human Development and Trade liberalization in Tanzania

Prof Paul Walsh

 

Gibson Mandozana

Joint modelling logitudinal CD4 measurements and time to first line ART therapy failure in predicting individual times to second line ART therapy in the DART study

Prof Paul Walsh

 

Purity Mwendwa

Can the use of MHealth technology transform health care delivery to improve maternal and neonatal health outcomes? The case of Rwanda

Dr Samuel Brazys

 

Bernard Rutikanga

The impact of genocide to Rwandan reconciliation process 1994-2010

Prof Jennifer Todd

 

Jupiter Shikunzi Simbeye

Micro-economics of Infectious Diseases

Prof Paul Walsh

 

Joel Silas

Sexual Behaviour, HIV/AIDS Knowledge and Socio-Economic Consequences of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania

Prof Paul Walsh

 

Global Irish Studies

PhD Candidate

Thesis Title

Supervisor

 

Aoibhin De Burca

Anti Civilian Violence and the ‘Political Opportunity Structure’: the cases of Northern Ireland, Israel-Palestine and Sri Lanka

Dr Vincent Durac

GII scholar

Kim Jackson

The social significance of ethnicity in contemporary Northern Ireland and Quebec

Prof Jennifer Todd

GII scholar

Pascal Pragnere

Definitions of national identities in divided societies: causes, nature, effects. A comparative study of the Basque Country and Northern Ireland

Prof Jennifer Todd

GII scholar

Jodi Zaffino

American involvement in ethnic conflict

Prof Jennifer Todd

GII scholar

Public Policy

PhD Candidate

Thesis Title

Supervisor

 

Mary Halton

Corporate Governance in the Irish Financial Services Sector

Dr Niamh Hardiman

 

Quantitative Social Sciences

PhD Candidate

Thesis Title

Supervisor

 

Silvi Berger

Nineteenth Century Irish Immigration to America: From Starvation to Stagnation?

Prof Paul Walsh

GREP scholar

Adrian Corcoran

Industrial investment and household outcomes in Zambia

Prof Paul Walsh

GREP scholar

Yao Han

Cross-Border Conflict and Economic Development

Prof Paul Walsh

EMEA Scholar

Yuanyuan Ma

Growth theory and its evolution

Prof Paul Walsh