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
Supervisor: Prof Johan A Elkink
Research Interests: Stakeholder engagement, citizen participation, community-based participatory research, and co-production across the public policy cycle, how public service skilling programs impact realization of co-created SDG outcomes.
Thesis Title: Civil Servant Upskilling in Bhutan to Identify and Implement Co-produced Sustainable Citizen Solutions
Supervisor: Prof Patrick Paul Walsh (SPIRe)
Co-Supervisor: Prof Ciara Whelan (Economics)
Research Interests: power dynamics, international development, humanitarian aid, food security, MENA region
Thesis Title: The Politics of Food Aid in the Middle East
Primary Supervisor: Dr Vincent Durac
Co-Supervisor: Dr Caitriona Dowd
Research interests: Quantitative text analysis, research methods, public policy, higher education policy, representation, responsiveness, legislative behaviour
Thesis Title: The Price of Knowledge: Representation and Responsivenes in Higher Education Policy
Supervisor: Dr Stefan Müller
Research interests: Education for sustainable development, tertiary education, public policy, interdisciplinary and intersectoral approaches
Thesis Title: Enabling lifelong learning for a just transition: A study of public policy approaches to advancing adult learning and professional upskilling for sustainable development
Supervisor: Dr Yoo Sun Jung
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
Supervisor: Dr Alexander Dukalskis
Thesis title: Foreign policy, fundamentalism and American public opinion: the impact of evangelicals and Christian belief
Supervisor: Dr James Cross
Research interests: Quantitative text analysis, political communication, climate politics, environmental psychology, EU politics, network analysis
Thesis Title: Taking the green pill: Moral language, emotion, and persuasion in the climate crisis
Supervisor: Dr James Cross
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
Supervisor: Dr Joseph Lacey
Research interests: Multinational enterprises, International economics, NLP, Data science, Statistical modelling, Political economics, Public policy, Economic Inequality and Democracy, Tax policy
Thesis Title: Democracy Challenged - How Corporate Tax Avoidance Fuels the Wealth
Inequalities that Undermine Democracy.
Supervisor: Prof Aidan Regan
Research interests: Human Resource Management, Sustainability Studies, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Performance Management
Thesis Title: Professionalization of the Field of Sustainability in South East Asia
Supervisor: Prof Patrick Paul Walsh (SPIRe)
Co-Supervisor: Prof Ciara Whelan (Economics)
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.
Supervisor: Dr James Cross
Research interests: Entrepreneurship Education, Sustainability, University-Industry Collaboration, Entrepreneurship, Innovations in Education
Thesis Title: Theorising Entrepreneurial Education for Educators in Higher Education: A Realist Evaluation of the Vietnam Ireland Bilateral Education Exchange (VIBE) Programme
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7156-5832
Primary Supervisor: Prof Suzi Jarvis (Innovation Academy)
Co-Supervisor: Prof Patrick Paul Walsh (SPIRe)
Research interests: Political theory, political ecology, Marxism, critical theory, normative political theory (theories of rights & justice), anarchism, anticolonial and decolonial theory, green political theory
Thesis Title: Climate Borders - Climate Induced Displacement, the Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment, and Fortress Europe
Supervisor: Dr Alexa Zellentin
Research interests: Universal Health Coverage, health system reform, health equity, global health policy, mixed methods research, program evaluation and implementation research, political economy & governance of health.
Thesis title: Plugging the Gap: How can India ensure equitable health coverage for its ‘Missing Middle’?
Supervisor: Dr Krishna Vadlamannati
Research interests: political communication, televised debates, mixed computational methods, Portuguese politics
Thesis title: Issues, emotions, and competition: televised debates in Portugal
Primary Supervisor: Dr Stefan Müller
Co-Supervisor: Dr Joseph Lacey
Research interests: Quantitative Social Sciences, Computational Ethics, Machine Learning, International Conflict, Muslim Resistance Movements, Conflict Analysis
Thesis title: Developing Tools for Cognitive Mapping Analysis of Arabic Interviews with Actors in Muslim Resistance Movements
Supervisor: Dr Stephanie Dornschneider-Elkink
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
Supervisor: Dr. Krishna Vadlamannati
Research interests: Public policy; gender, public health, inequality, maternal health, quantitative research methods, mixed methods, health economics
Thesis Title: Inequality in Maternal Health Care and the Offsetting Influences of Patriarchy and Community: A Study of India’s Indigenous Communities
Supervisor: Prof Supriya Garikipati
Thesis title: China's Belt and Road Initiative in developing countries
Supervisor: Dr Krishna Vadlamannati
Thesis title: On Republican Intergovernmentalism, Procedural Legitimacy and Inter-Governmental Decision-Making in the European Union
Supervisor: Dr Joseph Lacey
Thesis title: Populism as Countermovement: Left and right insurgencies in Western Europe
Supervisor: Prof Aidan Regan
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.
Supervisor: Prof Aidan Regan
Thesis Title: How does European integration interact with right-wing populism in various countries, and which factors affect this interaction?
Supervisor: Dr Thomas Däubler
Research interests: Corporate Tax Avoidance, International Political Economy, Inequality Economics, Complex System Economics
Thesis Title: Democracy Challenged - The implications of corporate tax avoidance for wealth inequality and democratic institutions
Supervisor: Prof Aidan Regan