Graduands

Current Students

Mr Samuel Almeida

Supervisors: Dr Alexander Dukalskis (UCD School of Politics & Intl Relations)

Thesis Title: Securing peace? Institutional reforms and transitional justice in Latin America

Tahulela Aifani Confidence

Supervisor: Prof Patrick Paul Walsh (UCD School of Politics & Intl Relations)

Thesis Title: Sustainable solid waste management in South Africa Cities: The potential of turning waste into a resource as poverty alleviation strategy.

Ms Louise Fitzgerald

Supervisor: Prof Patrick Paul Walsh and Dr Aidan Regan (UCD School of Politics & Intl Relations)

Thesis Title: Under what conditions climate policy is effective: The case of Germany.

Mr Ayano B. Hula

Supervisors: Prof Patrick Paul Walsh (UCD School of Politics & Intl Relations), Prof Nigatu Regassa Geda (Hawassa University, Ethiopia)

Thesis Title: The levels and determinants of household poverty, survival strategies and responses: A Case Study of Sidama zone, Ethiopia

Ms Yuanxin Li

Supervisors: Dr Samuel Brazys (UCD School of Politics & Intl Relations),

Thesis Title: China’s foreign aid in Southeast Asia

Mr Aklilu Kabiso

Supervisors:  Dr. Eoin O’Neill, (UCD Planning and Environmental Policy and UCD Earth Institute).

Thesis Title: Decentralised Spatial Planning and its effect on Environmental Management

Mr Sebastien Manzi

Supervisors: Dr Frank Walsh (UCD School of Economics) Dr Thomas Rusuhuzwa Kigabo (National University of Rwanda)

Thesis Title: Understanding commercial bank credit to the private sector and non-performing loans in Rwanda

Mr David Martyn

Supervisors: Prof Patrick Paul Walsh (UCD School of Politics & Intl Relations), and Conor Galvin (School of Education)

Thesis Title: Technology in Sustainable Development in Education in Zambia.

Mr Ally T. Masabo

Supervisors: Dr Samuel Brazys (UCD School of Politics & Intl Relations), Dr Lupa Ramadhani (University of Dar es Salaam)

Theis Title: A Study on Challenges and Politics of Natural Gas Governance in Tanzania

Mr Fredrick A. Mashingia

Supervisors: Prof Michael Bruen (UCD School of Civil Engineering)

Thesis Title: Investigating the Effects of Land Use/Cover on the Hydrological Response of East Usambara Mountain Forest in Tanzania

Ms Emma Mathias

Supervisors: Dr Andy Storey (UCD School of Politics & Intl Relations)

Thesis Title: An investigation of the impacts of food insecurity on the mental health of populations in rural Lesotho

Ms Sinead McGrath

Supervisors: Dr Melanie Hoewer (UCD School of Politics & Intl Relations),

Thesis Title: Internally displaced women: through a lens? A look at the transitional justice mechanisms that deal with internally displaced women in Colombia through discourse analysis

Mr George Lupakisyo Mwalwiba

Supervisors: Prof Michael Bruen (UCD School of Civil Engineering)

Thesis Title: Efficiency use of Natural Wetlands in Sediment trapping and Nutrient Removal in the Mara River Wetlands in Mara River Basin, Tanzania

Ms Orla Ni Cheallachain

Supervisors: Professor Jennifer Todd (UCD School of Agriculture and Food Sciences)

Thesis Title: Countering the threat: An exploration of British counter-terrorism before and after the ‘war on terror’

Ms Sadhbh O’Neill

Supervisors: Dr Tobias Theiler (UCD School of Agriculture and Food Sciences)

Thesis Title: Institutional barriers to effective climate governance: the case of the Paris Agreement

Ms Arya Pillai

Supervisors: Dr Deirdre O’Connor  (UCD School of Agriculture and Food Sciences)

Thesis Title: Essays on Financial and Rural Development in India

Mr Bernard N. Rutikanga

Supervisors: Professor Jennifer Todd (UCD School of Politics & Intl Relations)

Thesis Title: Denial as the last stage of genocide, the case of Rwanda, 1994-2013