'IRCHSS Awards' - Scheme 1: Postgraduate Scholarship 2008

Assessment Board Members

• Chair: Prof. Arnd Bohm
Carleton University, Canada

• Prof. Robert Aldrich
University of Sydney, Australia

• Dr. Simon Ball
University of Glasgow, UK

• Prof. Stefan Berger
University of Manchester, UK

• Prof. Mary Bryden
University of Reading, UK

• Dr. James Clackson
Jesus College, Cambridge, UK

• Dr. Claire Connolly
Cardiff University, UK

• Dr. Virginia Crossman
Oxford Brookes University, UK

• Prof. John Darby
University of Notre Dame, USA

• Prof. Hastings Donnan
Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

• Prof. Richard English
Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

• Dr. Marco Ercolani
University of Birmingham, UK

• Prof. Robin Frame
University of Durham, UK

• Prof. Patrick Hanafin
Birkbeck College University of London, UK
• Prof. Bernadette Hayes
University of Aberdeen, UK

• Prof. Brian Ilbery
University of Gloucestershire, UK

• Prof. Josef Jarab
Palacky University, Czech Republic

• Prof. Evanthia Lyons
Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

• Dr. James Mallory
Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

• Dr. Ian McBride
King’s College, London

• Prof. Brian Ó Conchubhair
University of Notre Dame, USA

• Dr. Oscar Odena
Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

• Prof. Michael Power
University of Edinburgh, UK

• Prof. Shaun Richards
Staffordshire University, UK

• Prof. Jim Samson
Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

• Prof. Robert Savage
Boston College, USA

• Dr. Tanja Staehler
University of Sussex, UK

• Prof. Alan Warde
University of Manchester, UK

• Dr. Claire Willsdon
University of Glasgow, UK

Postgraduate scholarships were awarded to the following applicants for 2008-9:

A B C D E F G H - K L M Mc N O P - R S - W

Leonardo Baccini (TCD)
Domestic Politics and International Cooperation: The Role of Institutions in the Formation of Trade Blocs

Helen Sofia Anne Basini (UL)
An Examination of Female Gender Based Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Joanna Baumgart (UL)
Language Accommodation and the Integration of English Language Learners in the Irish Secondary School Context

Biniam Egu Bedasso (NUIG)
The impact of education on health capital formation, poverty and income inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa

Julia Anne Bergin (NUIM)
Childbirth and Midwifery in Dublin: A Study of Women's Experiences in Childbirth, 1850 - 1900

Roisin Blunnie (TCD)
The Early Choral Works of Edmund Elgar and Late Nineteenth Century British Idealism

Anne Booker (TCD)
After 'The Middle Nation': the Development of Old English Identity in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Sean Brady (TCD)
Catania and the Great War: Regional Identity, the State and Mobilization in Sicily during the First World War

Margaret Brehony (NUIG)
Irish Migration to Cuba: 1835 – 1844

Jennifer Brett (TCD)
An Analysis of the Effectiveness of Development Aid and the role of Political Institutions

Amy Brogan (TCD)
The Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) & affective decision-making in obesity

Andrew John Browne (NUIG)
Redefining Late Modernist Poetics: Thomas Kinsella and American Modernist Poetry

Ailise Bulfin (TCD)
'To Arms!’ Narratives of Invasion Anxiety 1890-1914

William Patrick Burke (NUIG)
From Static to Motion Pictures: A Study of the Adaptation of Comics and Graphic Novels to Film

Lee-Ann Burke (UCC)
Mental Health Inequalities in Ireland

Emma Calvert (TCD)
Bullying in Irish Workplaces

Eve Campbell (NUIG)
Displacement and Relocation in Early Modern Ireland: Studies of Transplantation Settlements in Connacht and Clare

Jacopo Canello (TCD)
Firm-level technical efficiency and concentration in the electricity supply market: an empirical investigation using stochastic frontier approach

Jean-Baptiste Chesneau (UCD)
An Empirical and Theoretical Analysis of Technology Diffusion

Aleisha Clarke (NUIG)
An evaluative study of 'Zippy's Friends', an emotional literacy programme for primary school children

Linda Coakley (UCC)
The story of Polish food from production to consumption: An understanding of migrant life and food systems in contemporary Ireland and beyond

Seamus Martin Coll (NUIM)
Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev: Taking the Revolution to the East

David Comerford (UCD)
An Analysis of preferences for Commuting

Jason Comerford (UL)
Resilience and the Prevention of Early School Leaving

Roisin Corcoran (UL)
An Investigation into the Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Teacher Education

Aline Courtois (UCD)
The Irish Corporate Elite: A New Aristocracy of Wealth?

Martyn Cowan (TCD)
The preaching of John Owen in its historical, homiletical and intellectual contexts

Deirdre Cowman (UCD)
The Prevention of Eating Disorders through a School-Based Self-Esteem Programme: An Evaluation of the 'Everybody's Different' Programme

Jennifer Cronly (TCD)
Young People's Initiation into Heroin Use

Antoinette Curtin (TCD)
‘Beauty as a Matter of Course’: The Representation of the Heroine in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot

Michal Czorycki (UCC)
Journeys on the Periphery: The Question of Identity in Claudio Magris and Paolo Rumiz

Aoife Daly (TCD)
The International Legal Right of Children to be Heard in Legal Proceedings Affecting them

Eoin Maurice Daly (UCC)
Freedom of Religion in the Context of Public Education: Denominational Schools and the Constitutional Rights of Religious and Secular Minorities

Christian Danne (TCD)
Exchange Rate Regimes, Foreign Exchange Market Structure, and Welfare in Emerging Markets

Hilary Darcy (NUIM)
Official accountability and public dissent in the Republic of Ireland – an ethnographic study of community mobilisation on the issue of police misconduct

Patrick Delaney (WIT)
ICT’s and Social Networks: The new Leisure Phenomenon of the 21st Century

Luna Rocha Dolezal (UCD)
Shaping the Body: Phenomenology, Shame and Technologies of the Self

Susie Donnelly (UCD)
The Media and the Catholic Church in Ireland: Clerical Sex Scandals and Shifts in the Balance of Power

Karina Doorley (UCD)
Fiscal and social policies, working poor and gender inequality in Ireland

David Matthew Doyle (NUIG)
The Law and Sexual Transgression: An Saorstat 1922-1935

Anastasia Dukova (TCD)
Crime and Policing in Dublin 1850-1875

Christopher Dwyer (NUIG)
The Evaluation of Argument Mapping as a Learning Tool

Jessica Evans (TCD)
From East to West: The Discourse of Political Freedom in the Ancient World

Aisling Farrell (SPCD)
Separate Spheres: Irish women's organisations and change, 1922-49

Claire Farrell (UCC)
Women, Caring and Immigration: How gender, race and class intersect in the production of 'caring' in modern Ireland

Julie Finnerty (NUIM)
A Critical Edition of the Correspondence of Angelique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d'Andilly

Jason Flynn (DCU)
Crossing the Divide: The Role of Human Resource Management Practices in Enhancing the Flow of Knowledge Across Industry-University Boundaries

Eilionoir Flynn (UCC)
Advocacy Services for People with Disabilities - A Comparative Study of Disability Rights Enforcement in Ireland and Victoria

Alan Foley (UCC)
The Objects of Laughter: A Poetics of Humour in Old and Middle English Literature

Alessio Salvatore Frenda (TCD)
Grammatical Gender in Celtic: Language Change and Cognitive Issues

Ciara Gallagher (NUIM)
Activism and the new literary imagination: discourses of engagement in contemporary South Asian literature

Caoimhe Gallagher (TCD)
Neutrality with Rostigraben: Divided Swiss reaction to the invasion of Belgium 1914-1916 and the implication thereof on Swiss neutral identity

Michael Gallagher (UCD)
The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy: some implications for the Philosophy of Science

Fiona Gavin (NUIG)
Insular ornamental metalwork AD 300 - 500: 'Military Style' inspired art in Ireland and Britain

Martina Goudie-Hutton (UCD)
Consuming Stress: Low-income Women and Ways of Coping

Robert Grant (TCD)
The Possibility of Hybrid Theories of Linguistic Reference

Patricia Griffin (NUIM)
Global Indigeneity? Indigenous Language Immersion Education in Ireland and New Zealand

Maria Griffin (NUIM)
Pathways Through Penalties: Young Offenders and Their Experiences

Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic (TCD)
Between intercultural Ireland and post-Dayton Bosnia: Bosnian post-refugee transnationalism

Sara Hannafin (NUIG)
Coming ‘home’: Place, identity and second generation return migration

Sarah Kate Hayden (UCC)
Resonances of the Radical in the Female Modernist Poetic

Niamh Hayes (NUIG)
The prosecution of rape in international criminal law

Jonathan Heaney (NUIG)
Habitus Shift in ‘Liquid Modern’ Ireland

Brian Heffernan (NUIM)
Angels of Peace or Soldiers of Ireland? A Comparative Study of the Role of Catholic Clergy in the Emergence of Violence during the Irish War of Independence, 1919-21

Melanie Hoewer (UCD)
Crossing Borders. Gender and Identity in Conflict and Peace Processes

Eibhlin Hudson (UCD)
The Microeconometrics of Child Health Inequality in Ireland

Sarah Hunt (UL)
Democracy and Poverty Reduction Strategies in the Latin American HIPCs 1999-2006

Thomas Johnston (UL)
The Bloom of Youth: Experiencing Irish Traditional Music in Post-Primary Education

John Johnston-Kehoe (TCD)
Women police in twentieth-century Ireland

Laura Kelly (NUIG)
The history of early Irish female medical graduates, 1872 – 1922

Louise Kennefick (UCC)
Responsibility, Excuses and the Mentally Disordered Offender: An Analysis of the Defences of Insanity and Diminished Responsibility in the Irish Criminal Law

Marian Keyes (SPD)
Anna Maria Fielding Hall: A Cultural Study of her Illustrated Works and Children's Books

Francesca La Morgia (DCU)
Syntactic theory and bilingual first language acquisition

James Lawless (UCD)
European standards in the international trade in beef – Legitimate Objectives or Protectionist Smoke Screen?

Justin Leinaweaver (UCD)
Investigating the Impact of Domestic Actors on National Governments' Willingess to Engage in International Environmental Agreements

Aisling Lennon (UCD)
An Investigation into Autobiographical Memory and Awareness of Cognitive Deficits in Individuals with Acquired Brain Injury

Marie Leoutre (UCD)
Henri de Ruvigny, First Earl of Galway (1648 - 1720): His Networks, Connections and Significance

Diana Macri (DCU)
‘Who do they think they are?’ – Identity Narratives among Romanian minority in Ireland

Nora Maguire (TCD)
Childness: Tropes of childhood and their narrative functions in contemporary German literature

Catherine Mahon (NUIM)
Psycholinguistic grainsize and recombinative generalisation: An investigation of reading related skills in adult readers and children with learning difficulties

Margaret Mannion (NUIG)
An examination of Glass beads from Early Medieval Ireland

Noirin Bernadette McCarthy (UCC)
Religion, Settlement and the Landscapes of Early Medieval Mayo and Galway

Kieran McCarthy (UCC)
A River of Memory: Landscape, Identity and Remembering in the Lee Valley, Co. Cork

Justin McCubbin (UL)
"Inimircigh in Eirinn agus an Ghaeilge: Ide-eolaiocht agus cleachtas teanga lucht inimirce na Gaeilge [Immigrants in Ireland and the Irish Language: The language ideology and practice of Irish-speaking immigrants to Ireland]"

Susan McDermott (UCD)
Fine Gael and Northern Ireland, 1969-2007

Joanne McEntee (UL)
Partition and local identity: a study of two border communities, Armagh and Monaghan, 1920-75

Nadine McGale (DCU)
Exploring the effectiveness of exercise based interventions on indices of suicide risk

Deirdre McGillicuddy (UCD)
A Study of Social Inclusion and the Organisation of Children’s Learning in Irish Primary Schools

Aoife McGrath (TCD)
Choreographing Ireland: dancing bodies, narrative and cultural identity in contemporary Irish dance-theatre

Joseph McGrath (UCC)
The Criminalisation of Corporations and Corporate Officers: A New Corporate Enforcement Architecture?

Deirdre McHugh (NUIG)
Framing Political Violence: The Northern ‘Troubles’ in RTÉ television news, 1968-72.

Ruth McIntyre (UCD)
Experiences of Children with ADHD

Sharon McLaughlin (NUIG)
Protection of Children in the Online and New Audiovisual Services Environment

Kieran McNally (UCD)
Tracing the Representation of Schizophrenia in the English Language

Kathleen Middleton (TCD)
Migration and Cultural Identity in Ulster & Southwest Scotland, 1690-1715

Pilar Molina (UCC)
Poetics of War Poetry: Theory and Practice. An Analysis of Journals and Poetry Anthologies Published During the Spanish Civil War

Elena Moore (TCD)
Post-Separation Parenting: The social reality of access and custody orders for post-separation parent child contact

Niall Morris (UCD)
The Political Economy of Aid Donation

Paul Mulcahy (NUIG)
Dietary Influences on Psychological Performance

Conor Mulvagh (UCD)
Writing the Irish Parliamentary Party into the British Constitutional Narrative: the political evolution of the Party, 1880-1918

Philip Murphy (UCC)
An analysis of the political efficacy of ‘threshold voters’ in the Republic of Ireland

Elmarie Nagle (TCD)
An investigation of Irish-born sculptors active in Britain, 1800-1875

Ginger Nally (NUIM)
Pre-revolutionary French Society as influenced by the American Revolution: A study of the Translation, Publication, Dissemination and Impact of Political Writings of the American Revolution on French Political Thought up to 1800

Noirin Ní Bheaglaoi (UCC)
Portraying Ireland and the Irish: the influence of Gerald of Wales upon maps of Ireland

Morna Ní Chonchuir (UCC)
Is it possible to design engaging experiences with technologies without damaging user agency? A conceptual and empirical enquiry

Laoise Ní Dhúda (NUIG)
Pobal Gaeltachta an Bhreacbhaile: Cás-staidéar sochtheangeolaíoch agus eitneagrafaíoch sa bheartas teanga

Aoileann Ní Mhurchu (DCU)
'Irish' Identity and Commonsense Citizenship: A Poststructuralist Analysis of the 2004 Citizenship Referendum

Norma O’Brien-Horgan (UCC)
The Special Position Afforded to the Dwelling-house by Criminal Law

Ciaran Ó Gealbhain (UCC)
"Traidisiún na hAmhránaíochta i nGaeltacht na nDéise (The Singing Tradition of the Waterford Gaeltacht)"

Fearghal Ó hAodha (UCD)
The Effect of House Prices on Consumption Levels with Evidence from Irish Micro-data

Éadaoin O'Brien (NUIG)
An Examination into the Medico-Legal and Forensic Investigations of War Crimes: Legal Framework, Practice and Developing Norms

Emily O'Brien (TCD)
Privacy and exposure in domestic tragedy, 1592 – 1625

Mark O'Connell (TCD)
Narcissism and Narrative in the Novels of John Banville

Michael O'Connell (UCC)
The urban/rural breakdown in the settlement of first-generation Irish immigrants from 1850 until 1920; a global perspective

Karen O'Connell (UCD)
Conceptualising the Notion of Irish Rurality in EU Political For a and the Implications for Irish Political Objectives in EU Decision Making Arenas

Stefano Odorico (UCC)
Semiotics and (non)fiction. A semio-pragmatic analysis of documentary cinema

Grace O'Keeffe (TCD)
The Register of the Hospital of St John the Baptist, Dublin: a prosopographical analysis

Aisling O'Meara (UCC)
The Meaning and the Measurement of Sadism

Margaret O'Neill (NUIM)
A Comparative Study of Elizabeth Bowen and Kate O’Brien

Jacqueline O'Toole (NUIG)
Women and the Body-Project: an analysis of the embodied practices of women defined as overweight and obese in an Irish context

Pierce Christopher Parker (UL)
Do Economic Experiences of Different Nationalities of New EU-10 Migrant Workers Differ in Ireland?

Sinead Pembroke (UCD)
Irish State Reformatory/Industrial schools: the social consequences for former residents

Marie Percival (NUIM)
The Psychology of Migraine

Mark Phelan (NUIG)
Irish Responses to Fascist Italy, 1919-1932

Annalisa Porfilio (UCC)
Rethinking Social Theory

Joseph Powderly (NUIG)
Theories of Judicial Interpretation and the Development of International Criminal and International Humanitarian Law

Brendan Power (TCD)
A Study of the Irish Volunteers: 1913-1916

Stephen Quinlan (UCD)
The Problem of Youth turnout/abstention

Laerke Recht (TCD)
Sacrifice in the Bronze Age Aegean and Near East: a poststructuralist approach

David Patrick Reid (TCD)
The Tithe War, 1830-1838

Ciarán Joseph Reilly (NUIM)
The role of the land agent and management policies on landed estates in King’s County 1835-53

Kim Rice (UCD)
Living from the Mountains to the Sea: Understanding Neolithic Settlement and Society in the Dublin - Wicklow Uplands and Lowlands

Sinead Mary Ring (UCC)
Due Process on Trial: The Impact of Due Process Values in Delayed Prosecutions for Child Sexual Abuse

Andrew Sargent (NUIG)
The Charge of the Red Bull - A study of Elizabethan border governance and the changing status of the Dacres

Evelien Schillern (UCD)
The Dutch financial and landed interests in Ireland, 1689-1702

Martin Schmitz (TCD)
Analysing financial globalisation: Modes of risk sharing and financial reforms

Katja Scholz (UL)
Exploring identity in a selection of Christoph Hein's prose works (1997-2007)

Edel Semple (UCD)
Representations of Whoredom in Early Modern Literature, 1558-1660

Barry Shanahan (UCD)
'Telling it like it is': Hip-Hop as Representative in extra-musical forms

Leslie Louise Sherlock (UCD)
Reconceptualising Services for Dublin's 'At-Risk' Adolescent Girls

Barbara Siller (TCD)
Identities in post-war German and Italian Literature from the South Tyrol

Barbara Strahan (NUIM)
Schubert's Piano Duets: The Emergence of a Marginal Genre

Brianne Sullivan (NUIG)
Death and Burial Customs in Ireland, 1850-1920

Sara Templer (TCD)
Identities and Exile: A Study of Zimbabwean Migrants and the Prospects for Reconciliation

Nienke Tjoelker (UCC)
The Alithinologia (1664) by John Lynch

Dominic Trepel (UL)
Cost effectiveness of routine screening of dementia patients for depression

Edward Tynan (NUIM)
War veterans, land distribution and revolution in Ireland, 1919-1923

Rebecca Wall (TCD)
The Origins of Town Life in Ireland: Settlement Patterns and Networks of Exchange in South East Munster, c. 700-1100

James Walmsley (TCD)
The English experience in medieval Ireland: identity formation, cultural transmission, and political conflict in the case of the Bermingham family

Louise Walsh (UCD)
Black and Green Blueprints: A Comparative Analysis of the Harlem Renaissance and the Irish Literary Revival

Gavin Wilk (UL)
Recognition and Resistance: Irish Republican Activism in the United States, 1922 – 1939

Grace Windsor (NUIG)
The Other Estates: Saints, Lepers and Prostitutes in Medieval English Literature 1300 to 1500

Simon Workman (TCD)
Louis MacNeice, Radio and the Auditory Imagination

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