Ph.D. Students - Past and Present

Current PhD Students

Richard Asaba

David Begg

Jean Bridgeman

John-Paul Byrne

Jackie Conlan

Breda Cunningham

Hilary Darcy

Gavin Deady

Terence Dunne

Eoin Flaherty

Catherine Friedrich

Kerry Gallagher

Patrick Gallagher

Niall Gilmartin

Valerie Harnett

Jean Hogarty

Patricia Kettle

Christopher Lowe

Michelle Maher

Donatus Marut

Deirdre Mc Gowan

Joseph Moran

Linda O’Keeffe

Clodah O’Malley Gannon

Mary Phipps

Ivan Privalko

Fergal Rhatigan

Asia Rutkowska

Anna Szolucha

Maighread Tobin

Stephan Vormann

You may be interested to learn more about some of our recent postgraduate students and where their research has been published. This is just a selection - a full record will follow shortly.

Dr. Niamh Gaynor is now at DCU School of Law and Government. Check out Niamh's book, based on her dissertation, Transforming Participation?: The Politics of Development in Malawi and Ireland.

Dr. Michael Murray is now at the Department of Adult and Community Education at NUI Maynooth. Dr. Michael Murray won the prestigious Eda Sagarra Prize for his PhD dissertation on transnational governance and environmental politics (completed in this department in 2004).  Read Michael's article, based on his dissertation,  on ‘Multi-level ‘Partnership’ and Irish Waste Management : The Politics of Municipal Incineration’  Economic and Social Review Vol. 37, No. 3.

Dr. Anne O'Brien is a sociologist and broadcaster and an academic co-ordinator for Kairos Communications. Check out her discussion of the potential to develop the tourist industry - based on Anne's dissertation on the politics of the tourist industry in Ireland.

Read some of our recent Ph.D. theses online.

Find out more about what our current students are working on.