PhD Candidates

	Ms Salsabil Abdalbaki (Complex Systems and Computational Social Sciences) Research Interests: Data science; social network analysis; text mining; water resources management; Egypt; MENA region Thesis Title: Dynamic Topic Modelling and Network Analysis for Water Resources Management in the Nile River Email: salsabil.abdalbaki@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Johan A Elkink
	Mr Dave Banks (Politics & International Relations) Research Interests: Sport for Peace and Development; Social Identity; Political Psychology Thesis Title: The Effectiveness of Sports Reconciliation Projects on Post-Conflict Society Email: dave.banks@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Tobias Theiler
	Mr Isaac Bennett (Politics & International Relations) Research interests: Military innovation; conflict studies; emergent technology; just war theory; airpower Thesis title: Battlefields of the Future: How Military Innovation Will Change the Calculus of War in Asymmetrical Conflicts Email: isaac.bennett@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Professor Ben Tonra
	Ms Julia Canas Martinez (Politics & International Relations) Research Interests: Women's participation in political violence; foreign fighters; conflict studies Thesis Title: Women in political violence: The Western Muhajirat of the Islamic State Email: julia.canasmartinez@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Stephanie Dornschneider
	Mr Tony Casey (Public Policy) Research Interests: Political theory; governance; regulation; policy networks; agent based modelling; social network analysis Thesis Title: A Theory of Governance: The Micro-Foundations of Political Order Email: tony.casey@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Prof Niamh Hardiman
	Mr Michael Coleman (Politics & International Relations) Thesis title: The possibility of a Marxist account of Rights and its application to contemporary Far Left movements Email: michael.oleman@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Joseph Lacey
	Mr Pierce Daly (Quantitative Social Sciences) Thesis title: To quantitatively assess how wealth, and its distribution, has evolved historically in Ireland Email: pierce.daly@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Aidan Regan
	Ms Emanuela Ferrari (Politics & International Relations) Research Interests: Post structural political ecology; environmental conflicts/ environmental justice; social protest and resistance; decolonial theory Thesis title: Defending the local: Environmental defenders and the challenge of advancing alternative concepts of nature, development and sustainability Email: emanuela.ferrari@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Prof Ben Tonra
	Ms Dana Guy (Politics & International Relations) Research interests: political conflict; social media; Israel; Palestine Thesis title: The medium and the message: Social media, virtual communities and narratives in intractable conflicts Email: dana.guy@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Vincent Durac
	Ms Sarah King (Quantitative and Computational Social Science) Research interests: Quantitative text analysis; research methods; public policy; higher education policy; representation; responsiveness; legislative behaviour Thesis Title: The Politicization and Agenda-Setting Dynamics of Higher Education Funding Reform: A Comparative Perspective Email: sarah.king4@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Stefan Müller
	Ms Linette Lim (Politics & International Relations) Research interests: Authoritarian politics; media governance; propaganda and censorship in Asia; Chinese nationalism; mixed methods; quantitative text analysis Thesis Title: Invoking the Foreign Enemy: How China's Media Governance Entrenches Authoritarian Resilience Email: linette.lim@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Alexander Dukalskis
	Ms Marianna Lovato (Politics and International Relations) Research interests: European Union foreign policy; Europeanisation of foreign policy; Italian foreign policy; French foreign policy; European Union policy making Thesis Title: The rules of the game: How to bargain and win at the EU negotiating table - Understanding negotiation effectiveness in EU foreign policy Email: marianna.lovato@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Professor Ben Tonra
	Mr James MacCarthy Morrogh (Politics & International Relations) Thesis title: Foreign policy, fundamentalism and American public opinion: the impact of evangelicals and Christian belief Email: james.maccarthymorrogh@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr James Cross
	Mr Kevin McParland (Politics & International Relations) Research Interests: South Asian politics; education and development; globalisation and development Thesis Title: No country is an island: a comparative analysis of Sri Lanka's alliances with India and China, 2005-2015 Email: kevin.mcparland@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Andy Storey
	Mr Lucas de Melo Prado (Politics & International Relations) Research interests: Political theory; political discourse; discourse analysis; social justice; equality studies; democracy. Thesis Title: The Worst-Off and the Legitimation of Social Inequalities: Contemporary Electoral Discourses Across Varieties of Capitalism Email: lucas.demeloprado@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Joseph Lacey
	Ms Paula Montano (Politics & International Relations) Research interests: EU politics; political communication; political rhetoric; public opinion; quantitative text analysis Thesis Title: How do national and European elites frame integration? Extracting political elite discourse and measuring its influence in attitudes towards integration. Email: gina.montanoparrales@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr James Cross
	Ms Emma Murphy (Politics & International Relations) Research interests: Gender, transitional justice, reconciliation Thesis Title: The gendered healing gap Email: emma.murphy1@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Dawn Walsh
	Mr Jihed Ncib (Politics & International Relations) Research interests: Political representation; public opinion; public policy; legislative behaviour; quantitative text analysis Thesis Title: Dynamic representation and issue responsiveness: measuring the impact of institutional and contextual factors on individual legislators’ responsiveness using text analysis Email: jihed.ncib@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Stefan Müller
	Ms Sadhbh O'Neill (Politics & International Relations) Research interests: Normative political theory; the political and social theory of Jurgen Habermas; climate justice; democratic theory Thesis title: Deliberative democracy and climate change: an evaluation of the quality of parliamentary and extra-parliamentary discourse in the public sphere Email: sadhbh.o-neill@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Alexa Zellentin Co-Supervisor: Dr Tobias Theiler
	Mr Harry O'Rahilly (Quantitative Social Sciences) Thesis title: The relationship between traffic flows and market structure and price dispersion Email: harry.orahilly@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Professor Paul Walsh
	Ms Jelena Radakovic (Politics & International Relations) Research interests: EU enlargement, identity construction, discourse analysis, Western Balkans Thesis title: The Role of Identity Discourse in the EU Accession Process. Case Studies: Montenegro and Serbia Email: jelena.radakovic@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Prof Ben Tonra Co-Supervisor: Dr Dawn Walsh
	Mr Jambo Ramadhani (Politics & International Relations) Research Interests: Climate Change; Natural Resources; Social Inclusion; Public Policy; Leadership; Diplomacy; and Sustainable Development Thesis Title: A Framework for Decentralised Climate Financing in Tanzania Email: jambo.ramadhani@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr. Krishna Vadlamannati
	Mr Redmond Scales (Politics & International Relations) Research interests: Authoritarian politics; behaviour, Aid and development; security and defence; US politics Thesis title: Explaining variations in the control of authoritarian regimes: The impact of foreign aid on subnational regime control Email: redmond.scales@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Alex Dukalskis
	Mr Carl Smith (Politics & International Relations) Thesis title: China's Belt and Road Initiative in developing countries Email: carl.smith@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Krishna Vadlamannati
	Mr Benjamin Swift (Politics & International Relations) Thesis title: On Republican Intergovernmentalism, Procedural Legitimacy and Inter-Governmental Decision-Making in the European Union Email: benjamin.swift@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Joseph Lacey
	Mr Conor Twomey (Politics & International Relations) Research interests: comparative political economy of growth models, wealth and income inequality, and political communication. Thesis Title: The role of the media in generating popular support for austerity in the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis. Email: conor.twomey@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Aidan Regan
	Mr Jorge Tamames (Politics & International Relations) Thesis title: Populism as Countermovement: Left and right insurgencies in Western Europe Email: jorge.tamames@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Aidan Regan
	Mr Colm Walsh (Politics & International Relations) Research interests: Democratic reform; political cynicism; populism; electoral behaviour Thesis title: Political cynicism, populism and support for democratic reform Email: colm.walsh@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Johan A Elkink
	Mr Dino Wildi (Politics & International Relations) Thesis Title: How does European integration interact with right-wing populism in various countries, and which factors affect this interaction? Email: dino.wildi@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Thomas Däubler