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(opens in a new window)Ishrat Ali

Thesis Title: Determinants of life expectancy in a socioeconomically poor and politically fragile state (Jammu Kashmir) of India
 

Marianna Cuberos Arboleda

Thesis Title: The proliferation of gender-based violence, its root causes (normative and structural) and how this interacts with activist and legislative efforts to combat it as well as with anti-gender and anti-rights movements

Supervisor: (opens in a new window)Lea David

Email: mariana.cuberosarboleda@ucdconnect.ie

 

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Oksana Avendano Flores Damaris

Thesis Title: Social Impact Assessment of Bioenergy and Bioeconomy Development in Ireland
Supervisor: (opens in a new window)Egle Gusciute
Email: (opens in a new window)oksana.avendanoflores@ucdconnect.ie 

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Michael Breslin

Thesis Title: Feud Violence in Ireland: A Sociological Perspective. 
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Titas Biswas

Thesis Title: Fascist Accelerationism and the Curious Case of the Neo-Hindu Xenophobe
Aidan Byrne

Aidan Byrne

Thesis Title: The Role of Volunteering in the Formation and Development of the Irish Nation State: An Historical Sociology Perspective
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Olga Bzdawka

Thesis: Marriage and Its Aftermath: Bride-Price, Patriarchy, and Colonial Legacies in Ruvuma, Tanzania
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Ritika Chaudhary

Thesis Title: The impact of communal violence on women in Uttar Pradesh, India
Supervisor: (opens in a new window)Lea David
Email: (opens in a new window)ritika.chaudhary@ucdconnect.ie

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Carlos Collado Garcia

Thesis Title: The role of emotions in climate activism, a comparative study of the Global North and South. A socio-cultural approach.
Supervisor: Egle Gusciute
Email: (opens in a new window)carlos.colladogarcia@ucdconnect.ie

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Maitiu De Hal

Thesis Title: An Fórsa Oibre le Gaeilge. Tráchtearrú na Gaeilge sa mhargadh saothair is a thionchar.
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Adaku Ezeudo

Thesis Title: Ethnic Diversity And Inclusion In Irish Film And Television

Daniel Guigui

Thesis Title: Mapping Cosmoscapes and Their Effects on Everyday Cosmopolitanism Across Four Irish Cities
 

Loghman Hamehmorad

Thesis Title: TBC
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Halyna Herasym

Thesis Title: Moral regulations of inequalities: the funerals of homeless people
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Aisling Hudson

Thesis TBC

(opens in a new window)Claire Mc Gettrick

Thesis Title: Illegitimate Knowledge? Pathologisations of Adopted People in Adoption Psychology and the Shaping of Adoption Policy
Supervisor: Seán L'Estrange
 
Yagmur Ismailoglu
Thesis Title: Exploring highly skilled Turkish women's labour marker entry in Germany and the UK by investigating determinants of labour force participation and personal motivations
Email: yagmur.ismailoglu@ucdconnect.ie
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Maria Giulia Molinaro

Thesis Title: To What Extent and With What Effects War, Understood as a Contemporary Historical Phenomenon, is Normalised
Xing Jiang

Xing Jiang

Thesis Title: A Study of the Digital Divide in Post- COVID19 World: The Elderly as a Case
 

Evi Numen

Thesis: Death on Display. A historical sociological survey of the dead body on view in Ireland

Supervisor: (opens in a new window)Barbara Gornicka

Email: evi.numen@ucdconnect.ie

 

 

Asifa Afrin Jamim

Thesis Title: Denominating Cosmopolitan Solidarity During Migration Crisis: Analysing Global Responses to Forcibly Displaced People

Supervisor: (opens in a new window)Sarah Carol

Email: asifa.jamim@ucdconnect.ie

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Yuwen Pan

Thesis Title: An institutional study on China's modernisation and stability
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Samuel Scanlon

Thesis Title: A Comparative Study of Tourism in Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine
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Annsar Shahhoud

Thesis Title: The Social Caging: The Mass Violence in the City of Homs (1950-2017)
Supervisor: (opens in a new window)Sinisa Malesevic
Email: (opens in a new window)annsar.shahhoud@ucdconnect.ie

Candace Thomas

T hesis Title: Displacement to Placemaking: How the Kurdish Alevi, Iraqi Yazidi and Irish Travellers navigate identity and change over time, space and place.
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Claudia Vlad 

Thesis Title: Cultural Heritage, civil resistance and transnational governmentality in East Jerusalem and the West Bank (from the Oslo Accords to today)
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Sofiya Volvakova

Thesis Title: Cultural mismatch and discipline gap in secondary schools in England, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland: A mixed-methods comparative examination

Supervisor: (opens in a new window)Sarah Carol

Email: (opens in a new window)sofiya.volvakova@ucdconnect.ie

Caroline Walsh

Thesis Title: An Exploration of the Irish State’s Immigration Policies and Procedures: An Archival Examination of Ireland's Immigration Legacy

Nada Yehia

Thesis Title: Between hospitalities and hostilities: cultivating  refugee agency in humanitarian encounters

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