Research Students
Our newly established Doctoral Research Centre has a lively community of 182 full-time and part-time PhD and EdD research students. Some of our PhD students and their projects are listed below.
| Name | Thesis Title | Entry Year |
|---|---|---|
| Helen Adams | The Effectiveness of Programmes Aimed at Promoting the Socio-Emotional Development of Parents and Children Aged 0-3 Years. | 2011 |
| Smita Awasthi | Teaching children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An investigation of teacher training, teaching methods and pupil learning outcomes | 2009 |
| Anthony Caldwell | The Outer Limits or The Edge of Reason? The emergence of the Educational Industrial Complex | 2012 |
| Annalouise Condra | Popular theatre and acculturation: applied theatre techniques and the Mainland Chinese International student experience | 2010 |
| Pauline Connolly | The development and evaluation of a volunteer mentoring programme to improve literacy outcomes in primary school children | 2010 |
| Nicole Craig | The development and evaluation of a volunteer tutoring programme to improve numerical outcomes of primary school children | 2010 |
| Barbara Curran | Collective memory and history education in post-conflict societies: Can history education be used as a vehicle for reconciliation? | 2003 |
| Carol Day | Low incidence EAL students and their academic literacy in the mainstream secondary classroom | 2009 |
| Andrea Doherty | Exploring research into language in play, focussing on Vygotsky's theories | 2009 |
| Trisha Forbes | The role of schools in suicide postvention | 2011 |
| Naoimh Fox | An evaluation of mentoring intervention programmes aimed at improving literacy and language development among children with English as an additional language | 2010 |
| Michele Mallon |
An epidemiological study of young children’s awareness of and attitudes toward disability |
2010 |
| Rosemary McGill |
The development and evaluation of a preschool programme to promote socio-emotional development among 3-4 year old children |
2008 |
| Christine McSherry | Art Therapy as Life Story Research: Exploring the Lives of Older Women from North Belfast | 2006 |
| Lucy Royal-Dawson | The impact of conflict on the right to higher education: does the human rights framkework address it: | 2009 |
| Whitney Wall | Exploring the 'black box': an investigation of mathematics teachers' formative assessment practices in Belfast and Los Angeles | 2008 |
| Claire Warke | The Effects of Economic Disadvantage on Younger Children's Educational Attainment, Attitudes and Aspirations | 2011 |
| Elizabeth Welty | Citizenship Education in Emerging Multicultural Societies: A comparative Analysis of the North and South of Ireland | 2008 |
