Ongoing PhD Projects


Adeyemi Adekanle, PhD Candidate

The choice of a police career by black ethnic minority in Ireland: The concepts of trust and legitimacy in decision-making

Valerie Bonin, PhD Candidate

Relations between the entrepreneurial diaspora and the homeland : the case of the French entrepreneurs in Singapore.

Andrew Bray, PhD Candidate

Re-Modeling the Oberstown Children Detention Campus:  How does the change in the focus of offender management impact on the existing historical child-care habitus?

Niamh Caldwell, MPhil Candidate

'Representations of residential child care in the Irish Times from 1870 to present'

Chloe Carragher, MPhil Candidate

'The post-Brexit security field on the island of Ireland: The role of civil society in everyday security'

Melody Chineriyanga, MPhil Candidate

 'Black Masculinities and Affective Equality: the relational effects of racism on professional black men’s lives in Ireland'

Killian Cullan, PhD Candidate

'Investigating and Exploring the Impact of Police Pluralisation on Police Culture and Police Dispositions'

Fred Egwu, PhD Candidate

'EU Immigration Policy and Refugee Law: The Mediterranean Cross Over Perception and the (EU) Global Philosophy of Structural Quick Fix Policies'

Osaro Fajimiyo, MPhil Candidate

'In the names of sovereignty and national security are the fundamental human rights of returnee terrorists and spouses being washed ashore in the seas of illegalities and legalities?'

Darragh Farrell, PhD Candidate

"Exploring Governance Shifts and the Professionalisation Care Habitus"

Margaret Fingleton, PhD Candidate

An examination of migrant women's experiences of higher education studying Social Care 

Maura Finnie, PhD Candidate

Policing, accountability, and legitimacy: controversy, change and culture in A Garda Síochána

Francis Gahan, PhD Candidate

Masculinities and Affective Equality Practices in Professional Social Care in Ireland

Karen Griffin, PhD Candidate

'Orbanisation' of the EU Asylum policy – An examination of the emergence and impact of more populist right-leaning political influences in Europe on asylum policies.'

Ola Kazeen Falodun

"Security and Sustainable Governance in African Context: The Case of the Western Nigeria Security Network."

Caoimhe Kiernan, PhD candidate

Investigates the impact that the introduction of female judges has had on the development of Irish jurisprudence.

‌Jennifer McGarr, PhD candidate

Women and displacement; the experiences of refugee and asylum seeking women in Ireland.

Bulelani Mfaco, PhD Candidate

'Institutionalised Inhumanity: Direct Provision and the threshold of inhuman treatment'

Anna Maria Mullally, PhD candidate

Into the Blue: Women, Bathing and Gender Power Balances in 20th Century Ireland.

Jonathan O'Brien, PhD Candidate

“Interventions in Youth Offending: who supports young people through the criminal justice system? A case study of the Garda Síochána Strategic Approach to Offender Recidivism – Youth Crime Case Management programme” 

Artur Pylarz, PhD Candidate

Crime, Risk and Resilience in the Countryside: Governing Rural Security

Jason Quinn, PhD candidate

Being and Becoming Secure: Investigating and Exploring the Security Habitus

Silvanus Tanifon, PhD Candidate

'Is it Time for a Preventitive Approach? An Empirical Evaluation of the Common Law Response to the issue of Work-Related Stress'

Fiona Walshe, PhD candidate

Professionalisation of the social care sector

Rhona McGinn, PhD Candidate

 An Analysis of Professional Development and Learning to Support Enhanced Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education

Talib Al Kharousi, PhD Candidate

Towards the Development of a Balanced Legislative Framework for Consumer Data Protection in Electronic Commerce:  The Case of the Sultanate of Oman

‌ Laurence Paveau, PhD Candidate

The development of beauty standards through fashion: A figurational perspective