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