School of Education PhD Students |
PhD Education & Life Long Learning
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Dorothy Conaghan E-mail: dorothy.conaghan@ucdconnect.ie Thesis Title: Private Music Education: Cultural Opportunity or Classed-Based Insurance Against Risk? An examination of the relationship between privately-provided instrumental music education, social class positioning, cultural opportunity and insurance against risk. Thesis supervisor: Dr Declan Fahie |
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Deirdre Bennett E-mail: deirdre.bennett@ucdconnect.ie Thesis Title: The Presentation Order and Education in Ninteenth-Century Ireland Thesis supervisor: Professor Deirdre Raftery |
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Rachel Farrell E-mail: rachel.farrell@ucdconnect.ie Thesis Title: Pedagpgy for the integration of key skills in teaching and learning: A case for Ireland Thesis supervisor: Professor Judith Harford |
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Ruth Ferris E-mail: ruth.ferris@ucdconnect.ie Thesis Title: M. Michael Corcoran and the Global Expansion of Loreto Education, 1880-1915 Thesis supervisor: Professor Deirdre Raftery |
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Louise O'Reilly E-mail: louise.o-reilly.1@ucdconnect.ie Thesis Title: The assessment of critical literacy in second-level education in Ireland: policy and practice Thesis supervisor: Dr Conor Galvin |
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Alan Ó Baoill E-mail: alan.o-baoill@ucdconnect.ie Thesis Title: How actors responsible for policy formation in Irish education interpret, define and use OECD knowledge. Thesis supervisor: Professor Ciaran Sugrue |
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Donna Callan E-mail: donna.callan@ucdconnect.ie Thesis Title: Teaching and learning English with the use of learning technologies Thesis supervisor: Dr Conor Galvin |
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Donald Herron E-mail: donald.herron@ucdconnect.ie Thesis Title: The Evolution of In-Service Education and Training in Ireland 1950-95 Thesis supervisor: Professor Judith Harford |
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Ciara Nic Carthaigh E-mail: ciara-mairead.nic-carthaigh@ucdconnect.ie Thesis Title: Identifying Success: Language, Learning and Identity in the Liberian Early Grade Classroom Thesis supervisor: Dr Lelia Murtagh |
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Timothy O'Sullivan E-mail: john.o-sullivan.7@ucdconnect.ie Thesis Title: Leadership and Inclusive Education in the Secondary School Sector Thesis supervisor: Professor Ciaran Sugrue |
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Claire Redmond E-mail: claire.redmond.1@ucdconnect.ie Thesis Title: The Junior Certificate and Curricular Reform with reference to key skills. Thesis supervisor: Professor Maire Clarke |
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Ellen Regan E-mail: ellen.regan@ucdconnect.ie Thesis Title: Irish missionaries and volunteers in international education Thesis supervisor: Professor Deirdre Raftery |
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Niall Watts E-mail: niall.watts@ucdconnect.ie Thesis Title: Blending Learning in Higher Education What are the competencies of practitioners? How can they be developed? Thesis supervisor: Dr Conor Galvin |
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Sorcha Browne E-mail: sorcha.browne@ucdconnect.ie Thesis Title: Cultivating Creativity in Maths: A multi-level intervention working towards a third-space approach to primary mathematics teaching Thesis supervisor: Dr Shane Bergin |
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Shane Cusack E-mail: shane.cusack@ucdconnect.ie Thesis Title: Towards a pedagogy of poetics: the teaching of poetry and se cond-level education in Ireland Thesis supervisor: Dr Áine Mahon |
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Gavin Murphy E-mail: gavin.murphy@ucdconnect.ie Thesis Title: School leadership preparation and development: Policy, practices and perspectives in Ireland and Victoria, Australia Thesis supervisor: Professor Ciaran Sugrue |
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John Gregg E-mail: john.gregg@ucdconnect.ie Thesis Title: TBC |
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Elena Revyakina E-mail: elena.revyakina@ucdconnect.ie Thesis Title: The use of technology to support COP and PLN: A Comparative Study Thesis supervisor: Dr Conor Galvin |
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Jane Burns E-mail: jane.burns@ucdconnect.ie Thesis Title: Medical humanities, teaching and learning applications and the use of historical holdings as education resources in medical education Thesis supervisor: Professor Deirdre Raftery |
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Aisling Whelan E-mail: aisling.whelan@ucdconnect.ie Thesis Title: Educational Provision for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Mainstream Second Level Schools in Ireland |
PhD Children & Youth Studies
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Danielle Douglas E-mail: danielle.douglas@ucdconnect.ie Thesis Title: Children Asylum Seekers Living in Direct Provision A Children's Rights and Well-Being Approach Thesis supervisor: Professor Dympna Devine |
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Laura Corry E-mail: laura.corry@ucdconnect.ie Thesis Title: The study would base itself in international literature that states that culturally and linguistically diverse children from migrant backgrounds are disproportionately represented in Special Educational settings Thesis supervisor: Dr Lelia Murtagh |
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Mairead Mahon E-mail: mairead.mahon@ucdconnect.ie Thesis Title: A sociological and ethnographic study of young people's experience of reduced timetables in second-level schools Thesis supervisor: Professor Dympna Devine |
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Fionnuala Nig Shamhráin E-mail: fionnuala.nig-shamhrain@ucdconnect.ie Thesis Title: True Individual Selves: The Authentic (Re)Presentation of Voice, Gender Expression, & Gender Identity Among Children in Ireland Thesis supervisor: Dr Declan Fahie |
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Rowan Oberman E-mail: rowan.oberman@ucdconnect.ie Thesis Title: Global Citizenship Education and the Role of Children's Literature Thesis supervisor: Dr Áine Mahon |
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Cliodhna Martin E-mail: cliodhna.martin1@ucdconnect.ie Thesis Title: Dublin as a child-friendly city: reality or rhetoric Thesis supervisor: Professor Dympna Devine |
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Aoife Crummy E-mail: aoife.crummy@ucdconnect.ie Thesis Title: Valuing The Past - sustaining the future - An intergenerational study of Education, Knowledge and Identity in coastal communities Thesis supervisor: Professor Dympna Devine |