Previous Years Awards - 2003

Post Graduate Scheme

Members of Post Graduate Assessment Board:

• Professor John Deathridge,
  (Chair of Board)
  King Edward Professor of Music,
  King's College, London.
• Professor Jim Beckford,
  Professor of Sociology,
  University of Warwick.
• Professor Joanna Bourke,
  Professor of Modern British and Irish History,
  School of History, Classics and Archaeology,
  Birbeck College,
  University of London.
• Professor Andy Ellis,
  Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research,
  Professor of Psychology,
  University of York.
• Professor Norman Ginsburg,
  Professor of Social Policy,
  London Metropolitan University.
• Dr Kaarina Hollo,
  School of Modern Languages, (Celtic),
  University of Aberdeen.
• Professor Brian Ilbery,
  Professor of Human Geography,
  Coventry University.
• Professor Michael Kidd,
  Department of Economics,
  University of Aberdeen.
• Professor Richard Laughlin,
  The Management Centre,
  King's College, London.
• Professor Joni Lovenduski,
  Anniversary Professor of Politics,
  School of Politics and Sociology,
  Birbeck College,
  University of London.
• Professor H.B. Nisbet,
  Professor of Modern Languages,
  Sidney Sussex College,
  Cambridge.
• Professor Robert Pearce,
  Professor of the Law of Property and Equity,
  Department of Law,
  The University of Buckingham.
• Professor Robert Savage,
  Associate Director of Irish Studies,
  Boston College.
• Professor Matti Sintonen,
  Professor of Philosophy,
  Helsinki University.
• Professor Alan Smith,
  UNESCO Chair of Education,
  University of Ulster.
• Professor Norman Vance,
  Professor of English, Co-Director,
  Humanities Graduate Research Centre,
  University of Sussex.

Post Graduate scholarships were awarded to the following applicants for 2003-4:

Ms. Katharina Becker - University College Dublin
Hoards and depositions of the Bronze and Iron Age in Ireland.

Ms. Emma Bidwell - University College Cork
Female Performance of Masculinity.

Ms. Evelien Bracke - National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Tracing the diachronic development of Circe and Medea - the prototypical "witches" of Graeco-Roman literature - from their status as indigenous Greek goddesses.

Ms. Claire Bracken - University College Dublin
Deconstructing Identity: Postmodern Feminism(s) and Irish Writing and Film.

Ms. Suzy Byrne - Trinity College Dublin
The project explores the multiple identities of ageing and sexual orientation in Ireland.

Mr. Mark Campbell - University College Dublin
A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of Golfers' Perception and Cognitive Ability to Judge Slope.

Ms. Lorna Carson - Trinity College Dublin
An empirical investigation of the concept of motivation in language learning.

Mr. Fergal Casey - University College Dublin
Greening the Chesterbelloc: this thesis will examine the literature, economics and politics of GK Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc

Mr. David Collings - University of Limerick
Global or Local? A qualitative study of the Institutional Embeddedness of Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations Practices in US Multinational Corporations in Ireland.

Mr. Paul Connell - National University of Ireland, Maynooth
The Protestant providential mind of Rev. Tresham Dames Gregg (1800-1881).

Mr. Kieran Finbarr Cullen - Trinity College Dublin
Treatment of alcohol-related problems in Ireland: a study of policy and its implementation.

Mr. Andrew Cusack - Trinity College Dublin
The proposed research project is conceived as a comprehensive survey of the motif of wandering in nineteenth century German literature.

Ms. Simona Cutcan - National University of Ireland, Maynooth
The representation of women in Agota Kristof's work.

Ms. Chiara Dallavalle - National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Discovering common roots by sharing common places: The formation of ethnic identity within immigrant communities in contemporary Sicily.

Ms. Yvonne Marie Daly - Trinity College Dublin
The Pre-Trial Process in Ireland-Safeguarding the Rights of the Accused.

Ms. Síle Anne de Cléir - University College Cork
Religion, Culture and Creativity: popular devotion and cultural process.

Ms. Ranke de Vries - Trinity College Dublin
Editions of Aided Echach Meic Maireda and De Quabsis Torchi Corco Ché, containing the 7th-century poem Ba Mol Midend Midlaige, by Luccreth moccu Chíara.

Mr. Clement Desbos - University of Limerick
The emergence of the antiglobalisation movement in France: A study of the Association pour la Taxation des Transactions Financieres pour l'Aide aux Citoyens (ATTAC) from 1997 to 2002.

Mr. Brian Donovan - Trinity College Dublin
Does the Language of Irish Post-Primary Science Textbooks Contribute to, or Inhibit, Teachers' Teaching and Students' Learning Science Content?

Mr. Leonard Durac - University of Limerick
The Politics of lethal force in defining the concept of police.

Mr. Keith Egan - National University of Ireland, Maynooth
This project is a study of pilgrimage as a central cultural process that mediates the imaginative construction of modern religious identity.

Ms. Suzanne Egan - Trinity College Dublin
My project is on human rationality and aims to address the sorts of mental representations and cognitive processes that underlie the inferences that normal adult reasoners make in their everyday lives.

Mr. Johan Antoni Elkink - Trinity College Dublin
The project Democratic and Economic Diffusion studies the observed phenomenon of democratic countries influencing their non-democratic neighbours towards democracy.

Ms. Helen Finch - Trinity College Dublin
The Discourse of Bildung and the Attempt to Rescue the Autonomy of the Subject in the works of W.G. Sebald and Botho Strauss.

Mr. Brian Foley - Trinity College Dublin
This project asks the question whether the current rights jurisprudence of the Supreme Court actually possesses the degree of necessity thereby claimed.

Ms. Carmen Adriana Frese - University College Dublin
The Development of the Romanian Community in Ireland.

Ms. Louise Gallagher - University College Dublin
Welfare Measures and Optimal Compensation for the Siting of Waste Management Facilities.

Ms. Chiara Garattini - National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Irish Infantile Funerary Practices in a European Context.

Mr. Keith Gaynor - University College Dublin
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and First Episode Psychosis.

Ms. Christiane Gernet - Dublin City University
Globalisation and Women's Agency in South America - The response of women's activism.

Ms. Sharon Audrey Greene - University College Dublin
Settlement, identity and change on Connacht's Atlantic Isles, AD400-1100.

Mr. Brian Gurrin - National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Society and settlement in east Wicklow: 1660 1800.

Mr. Stephen Harrison - Trinity College Dublin
Furnished insular Scandinavian burial in Britain and Ireland: Landscape, status and gender in the early Viking age.

Ms. Marnie Hay - University College Dublin
The project's aim is to conduct a study of Bulmer Hobsons's contribution to the Irish nationalist movement in the areas of political, cultural and economic nationalism in the period 1900-16.

Ms. Jean Henefer - University College Dublin
The project will endeavour to determine how public library services can most effectively contribute towards social inclusion and the successful integration of Ireland's multiethnic communities.

Ms. Annette Jorgensen - National University of Ireland, Maynooth
This project seeks to create a model for examining how knowledge about food and the environment is constructed in the networks of the Irish organic food movement, and how such patterns of knowledge practices empower the movement in its resistance to industrialised food systems.

Mr. Thomas Kador - University College Dublin
This project will examine social and ideological aspects of people's mobility as a new approach to understand the Irish Mesolithic.

Ms. Anne-Laure Kelly - University College Dublin
The influence of the United States and American popular culture in the work of Rafael Alberti, Luis Cernuda and Federico Garcia Lorca.

Ms. Cliona Kelly - University College Dublin
A comparative study of the effects of frustration in common and civil law jurisdictions, with the aim of establishing whether legislative reform is necessary in Ireland and, if so, what form it should take.

Ms. Therese Kennedy - National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Teaching complex issues through the use of participative pedagogical methods: a case study of an Irish and South African university.

Ms. Fiona Larkan - National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Constructions of Sexuality, Risk and Choice: A comparative study - Ireland and South Africa.

Ms. Laragh Larsen - Trinity College Dublin
A Comparative Analysis of Monumental Landscape Symbolism in Colonial and Post-colonial Context: Nairobi and Dublin.

Ms. Mandy Lee - Trinity College Dublin
This thesis investigates the management of healthcare interfaces within coronary care from a "people-centred" standpoint.

Ms. Aisling Mac Aodha - An Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath
Fagháil Craoibhe Chormaic mhic Airt - Eagrán Scolártha.

Mr. Shane Mac Giollabhuí - Trinity College Dublin
Trojan Horse or Ugly Duckling: Public Policy and Reform in Presidential Africa.

Ms. Catherine MacGillycuddy - University College Cork
Syntax and Communication in a Corpus of Political Articles taken from Le Monde and Libération.

Ms. Simona Magnini - Trinity College Dublin
The language of advertising: a pragmatic analysis and a model for exploitation in second language pedagogy.

Mr. John Maguire - University of Limerick
This project will conduct an analysis of the activities of the IRA during the border campaign of 1956-62.

Ms. Deirdre K. Mc Alister - National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Invisible People? The archaeology of women and children in Ireland, 500-1200.

Mr. Peter McGoldrick - Trinity College Dublin
China: WTO Membership and Capitalist Reforms. Implications for the EU.

Ms. Miriam Moffitt - National University of Ireland, Maynooth
The Society for the Irish Church Missions to Roman Catholics, 1849-1960.

Mr. Thomas Mohr - University College Dublin
A study of the legal means by which Ireland evolved from Dominion status to a fully sovereign state 1922-1937.

Ms. Mary A. Moloney - University College Cork
The Impact of Arts Education on Learning.

Ms. Louise Morris - University of Limerick
This thesis will investigate the relationship between Irish society's knowledge about the use of genetic test results by the life insurance industry in the Republic of Ireland.

Ms. Eve Morrison - Trinity College Dublin
Trade unions, labour militancy and militant republicanism in Ireland 1918-23.

Ms. Kathleen Moylan - Dublin Institute of Technology
New Crossroads: Emerging identities and public spaces in 21st century Dublin.

Ms. Marion Mullin - Ollscoil na hÉireann, Má Nuad
Staidéar teangeolaíochta agus antraipeolaíochta ar an mbailiúchán béaloidis a rinne Robin Flower in Árainn i dtríochaidí an chéid seo caite.

Mr. Adrian Murphy - University College Cork
Geographies of Intoxication: drinking, space and masculinities in Ireland.

Mr. Griffin Joseph Murray - University College Cork
The Cross of Cong: Sign, Symbol and Society.

Ms. Máiréad Ní Bhriain - National University of Ireland, Galway
This project seeks to elucidate the complex relationship between intellectual engagement and French colonial crisis (1944-1962).

Ms. Máire Síle Ní Mhurchú - National University of Ireland, Galway
Agallamh Oisín agus Phádraig:Téacs agus tráchtaireacht.

Ms. Jennifer O'Brien - Trinity College Dublin
European Intellectual Influences on Irish Nationalism, 1880-1923.

Ms. Sandra O'Connell - Trinity College Dublin
George Reavey (1907-1976) - A Literary Biography.

Mr. Redmond O'Connell - Trinity College Dublin
The proposed study aims to develop a psycho-physiological map of the timing and ordering of the specific cognitive mechanisms underlying sustained attention.

Ms. Brid O'Farrell - Trinity College Dublin
Counteracting Eating Disorders: Establishing a Trust Bond with Self.

Ms. Brigid O'Leary - University College Dublin
Educational Choice, Education Returns and the Family - Transmission Mechanism and Policy Options.

Ms. Carol O'Riordan - University College Cork
The aim of this project is to thoroughly examine and describe the manuscript dictionary completed by Peadar J O'Conaill of Carne, Co. Clare.

Ms. Íde Marie O'Sullivan - University of Limerick
New Literacies in Language Learning and Teaching: The Role of Corpus Consultation Skills.

Ms. Dagmar Reschke - University of Limerick
This thesis proposes to explore the idea that possible connections may exist between historical prejudice against the societal group termed Roma, and present day discourse about them in the fields of media, academic and political discourse and public opinion.

Ms. Clare Roche - University College Cork
Young Women in Changing Ireland.

Ms. Eileen Rogers - University College Dublin
Quality of life of older people in residential care settings in Ireland and Sweden: a comparative analysis.

Ms. Nadine Rossol - University of Limerick
Visualising the Republic - Unifying the Nation. Constructing Republican Identity and National Culture in Weimar Germany.

Ms. Anna Ryan - University College Cork
Territory and Process.

Ms. Sinéad Smyth - National University of Ireland, Maynooth
The Acquisition and Maintenance of Laboratory-Induced Human Fear: Developing a Relational Frame Model.

Ms. Laura Watson - Trinity College Dublin
Music criticism in France 1890-1920, with special reference to Paul Dukas.

Mr. Simon Weckler - University College Dublin
An Examination and Exegesis of Aristotle's Metaphysics, Book XII.

Ms. Noga Zivan - Trinity College Dublin
This project will consider the impact of the political standpoints of the Northern Irish political parties upon the policies pursued by the governments of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, using the newly-released archive materials of Stormont, Westminster and the Dáil.

Funded by the Irish Government under the National Development Plan 2000-2006.