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PhD Researchers

PhD Students

Qualification Code / Mode of Study Student Name Supervisor 1 Supervisor 2 Working Title of Thesis

DSocSc - Doctor of Social Science


Full- time

Alam, Barbara Theresa Caitríona Ní Laoire Fiachra Ó Súilleabháin An exploration of the experiences of interracial couples who are in the process of bringing up South Asian/Irish children in Ireland

DSocSc - Doctor of Social Science


Full- time

Anderson, Victoria Deirdre Horgan Simone McCaughren An Exploration of the Support and Facilitation of Young People's Religious Preferences in Children's Residential Care Service

DSocSc - Doctor of Social Science


Full- time

Balfe, John Anthony Siobhan O’Sullivan Lydia Sapouna Regulation, Re-definition and Resistance: Exploring the impact of Neo-Liberal and Managerialist rationalities on Social Care pedagogy through a Foucauldian lens of Governmentality

DSocSc - Doctor of Social Science


Full- time

Dare, Aoife Liz Kiely Claire Dorrity Obviously apparent: a critical assessment of the policy and practice of age assessments with unaccompanied minors

DSocSc - Doctor of Social Science


Full- time

Doherty, Cliona Claire Edwards, Gill Harold Edel Walsh (Economics) A study exploring the main influences on post-school pathways for young people with disabilities

DSocSc - Doctor of Social Science


Full- time

Higgins-Atkinson, Fern Liz Kiely Claire Edwards Tik Tok and Youth Mental Health

DSocSc - Doctor of Social Science


Full- time

McDonagh, Victoria Anne Eluska Fernández Shirley Martin The voice of young carers in Ireland

DSocSc - Doctor of Social Science


Full- time

Mulcahy, Ciara Rosie Meade Caitríona Ní Laoire The Master's Tools; Exploring Philanthropy and Governmentality in Queer Community Development- Strategies for appropriate funding sources and relationships for late-stage capitalism

DSocSc - Doctor of Social Science


Full- time

O'Donovan, Teresa Marie Fiona Dukelow Catherine Forde What can you do for me? Rethinking the phenomenon of clientelism in Ireland with Pierre Bourdieu

DSocSc - Doctor of Social Science


Full- time

Spillane, Gerard Cathal O’Connell Fiona Dukelow Peer working, destigmatisation and recovery: a Bourdieusian analysis of peer working in homeless services

DSocSc - Doctor of Social Science


Full- time

Wall, Patricia Martina Rosie Meade Órla O’Donovan Exploring Irish women’s experience of privilege in International Development in Africa over the last 40 years.

DSocSc - Doctor of Social Science


Full- time

Amberson, Jessica Claire Edwards Catherine Forde  

DSocSc - Doctor of Social Science


Full- time

Anderson,Vicky Simone McCaughren Deirdre Horgan The support and facilitation of young people's religious preferences in residential care services

DSocSc - Doctor of Social Science


Full- time

Dennehy, Janet Shirley Martin Gill Harold  

DSocSc - Doctor of Social Science


Full- time

Kutub, Yasmin Alastair Christie Caitríona Ni Laoire Irish Youth Unemployment Policy during Austerity

DSocSc - Doctor of Social Science


Full- time

McAleer, Marie Claire Fiona Dukelow Liz Keily  

DSocSc - Doctor of Social Science


Full- time

McGonagle, Helen Liz Kiely Máire Leane Constructions of Womanhood inThe MessengerMagazine

DSocSc - Doctor of Social Science


Full- time

       

DSocSc - Doctor of Social Science


Full- time

O’Leary, Gemma Gill Harold Claire Edwards  

DSocSc - Doctor of Social Science


Full- time

O'Shea, Cindy Carmel Halton & Criminology) Katharina Swirak - Sociology Voices from the Inside; Exploring the Role of Peer Support in the Irish Prison System as a Catalyst for Rehabilitation and Desistance decision making, Policies and Programs;a case study of Cork Prison Samaritan Listener scheme.

DSocSc - Doctor of Social Science


Full- time

Phelan, Agnes Caitríona Ní Laoire Claire Dorrity  

DSocSc - Doctor of Social Science


Full- time

Shier, Anne Marie Alastair Christie, Simone McCaughren Hilary Jenkinson Adoption Reunions: An Exploratory Study of the ‘Lived Experience’ of Irish Adult Intercountry Adoptees who have Reunions with their Birth Families in the Digital Age

DSocSc - Doctor of Social Science


Full- time

Williamson, Eileen Caitríona Ní Laoire Claire Edwards A Study of the Social Organisation of the Determination and Registration of Deaths by Suicide in Ireland.

PHDA - PhD (Arts)


Full- time

Busteed, Edith May Margaret Buckley, Fiona Dukelow Tracey Skillington Gender Dynamics in Youth Environmental Activism

PHDA - PhD (Arts)


Full- time

Horgan, Aoife Shirley Martin Deirdre Horgan Aged Out Asylum Seeking Minors

PHDA - PhD (Arts)


Full- time

Jeffers, Becci Catherine Forde Liz Kiely Young People and Activism

PHDA - PhD (Arts)


Full- time

Lynch, Aoife Deirdre Horgan Shirley Martin An exploration of the impact of managerial systems on early childhood practitioners’ capacity to facilitate meaningful child participation in early childhood education and care settings in Ireland. 

PHDA - PhD (Arts)


Full- time

Marah, Katie Carolyn Shirley Martin Claire Edwards Exploring of autistic children experiences participation on the spectrum in the primary school classroom

PHDA - PhD (Arts)


Full- time

Mathieu, Jodi Lynn Eileen Horgan Music  

PHDA - PhD (Arts)


Full- time

Mulcahy, Grainne Kate Liz Keily Orla O'Donovan Young Irish Women who emigrated and are living in other countries… Escape from Catholic Patriarchal Society or not

PHDA - PhD (Arts)


Full- time

Nash, Eoin Patrick Marie Leane Drama & Theatre Studies Distilling Meaning from Performing Arts Participation to Inform Rights Based Disability Policy and Quality Service Delivery

PHDA - PhD (Arts)


Full- time

O’Callaghan, Karen T.J. Ó Ceallaigh Dr. Deirdre Horgan Early Years Career Framework

PHDA - PhD (Arts)


Full- time

Uí Dhuibhir, Jennifer Marian Clinical Therapies Deirdre Hogan Developing a training module on Minority Language Immersion Education for Early Childhood Educators

PHDA - PhD (Arts)


Full- time

Loy, Annette Computer Science Eleanor Bantry White Tracking Devices

PHDS - PhD (Science)


Full- time

Gill, Donal Eluska Fernández Eileen Hogan  

PHDS - PhD (Science)


Full- time

Qirtas, Malik Computer Science Eleanor Bantry White  

DSocSc - Doctor of Social Science


Part-time

Hughes, Zoe Fiachra Ó Súilleabháin Máire Leane Queer Caring: An exploration of family caring by sexual minority people in Ireland

DSocSc - Doctor of Social Science


Part-time

Watters, Niall Rosie Meade Caitríona Ní Laoire Reproduction of social class inequality through the lends of current and recovering opiate users

PHDA - PhD (Arts)


Part-time

Cronin, Mary Teresa Eleanor Bantry White Cathal O'Connell  

PHDA - PhD (Arts)


Part-time

Hoffler, Eileen Siobhan O'Sullivan Catherine Forde A study of the relationship between the Irish missionary approach to development and the building of community capacity)

PHDA - PhD (Arts)


Part-time

Kamere, Leah Jacqui O'Riordan Cathal O'Connell Extending Microfinance Institution's Outreach to Rural Poor

PHDA - PhD (Arts)


Part-time

Lerner, Jonathan Nicola Maxwell Máire Leane Learning Disability & Covid & Service Provision

PHDA - PhD (Arts)


Part-time

Lynch, Arhonda Liz Kiely Máire Leane Women and Drug Addiction

PHDA - PhD (Arts)


Part-time

O'Connell, Olivia Liz Kiely Fiachra O' Suilleabhain Policy to Practice in Child Protection (CAPIG)

PHDA - PhD (Arts)


Part-time

O'Driscoll, David Public Health; 2 supervisors &Liz Kiely : Poverty, Social Inequality and ACES

PhD in Social Work


Part-time

Daniels, Maria Simone McCaughren Eleanor Bantry White Exploring the lived experiences of foster carers: IPA

PhD in Social Work


Part-time

Kelleher, Sara Fiachra O Suilleabhain Eluska Fernandez Mental Health and Menopause

PhD in Social Work


Part-time

Neligan, Mary Angela Fiachra O Suilleabhain Carmel Halton How to provide permanent families in foster care, who cannot be re-united with their birth families: with an emphasis on adoption

PhD in Social Work


Part-time

Saunders, Emer Kenneth Burns Carmel Halton Contact and Access Decision-Making for Children in Care

PHDL - PhD (Law)


Part-time

Cawley, Enda Terence Conor O' Mahony (Law) Catherine Forde Education Welfare & the Law.

CR PHA (Criminology)


Part-time

Krenzer, Ute Dr Katharina Swirak Liz Kiely ‘Sensing’ Experiences of Life After Prison in Hamburg and Cork –A Comparative Case Study Model of Seeing, Feeling and Mattering,discovering the Punitiveness and Potency of Welfare State Ideologies

Medicine CoBL


Part-time

Leocadio, Paula Nunes Medicine, CoBL Eluska Transitioning from parental to self-management: A phenomenological study of teenagers’ experiences of living with and managing Type 1 Diabetes

 

School of Applied Social Studies

Staidéar Sóisialta Feidhmeach

William Thompson House, Donovan's Road, Cork, Ireland.,

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