Current Research Students
| Student | Supervisor | Thesis Topic |
| Audrew Agnew | Dr Jim Campbell Dr Gavin Davidson |
End of life care decision making |
| Elizabeth Ashurst | Dr John Devaney Dr Dominic McSherry |
Interactive Staff Training Model for SHB Practioners |
| Aine Aventin | Prof Geraldine Macdonald Dr Stanley Houston |
The therapeutic use of computer simulation games in residential childcare settings |
| David Jason Brannigan | Prof Liam O'Dowd Dr Dirk Schubotz |
Work and Identity. A generational analysis of the impact of de-industrialisation and globalisation on male Protestant working class identity in Belfast |
| Brendan Browne | Prof Liam O'Dowd Dr Katy Hayward |
The effect of state management of cultural events in conflicted and divided societies |
| Maurice Mahon | Prof Robert Miller Dr Matthew Wood |
A critical examination of the role of habitus and class identity in graduate employment |
| Giulia Carabelli | Prof Liam O' Dowd Prof Madeleine Leonard |
Re(ad)dressing Mostar. Architecture and/of everyday life |
| Frank Carter | Mr George Wilson Dr Trevor Spratt |
What impact do experiences in practice learning, age and qualifications on entry to the social work degree have on newly qualified child care social workers competence to practice? |
| Matthew Conway | Dr Myrtle Hill | Feminism's role and influence in the current phase of the conflict in the Republican Movement in Ireland |
| Stephen Coulter | Dr Trevor Spratt Dr Michael Donnelly |
The impact of systemic family therapy as an element of treatment for families following trauma |
| Ivo Damkat | Prof Liam O'Dowd Dr C McCall |
Discourses of cross-border co-operation in Ireland |
| Fuseni Dawuda | Dr Myrtle Hill Prof Madeleine Leonard |
What Are the Socio-Economic and Health Impacts of Micro Credit for Women in the Northern Region of Ghana? |
| Anne-Marie Doherty | Prof Lindsay Prior Prof Frank Kee |
Improving population health and well-being in Northern Ireland, how health policy gets translated into practice |
| Laura Duncan | Prof Geraldine Macdonald | School exclusion, drug use and delinquency |
| George Dunwoody | Prof John Pinkerton Prof John Barry |
Differences in methodological approaches to participation affect the way young people engage in public decision-making processes; a case study of Northern Ireland |
| Delyth Edwards | Prof Robert Miller Dr Caroline Skehill |
The Girls of Nazareth House: An (Auto)biographical Approach |
| Nathan Emmerich | Prof Lindsay Prior Dr Matthew Wood/Dr M Rea |
Medical Ethics and the Older Patient: A Bourdiean Examination of Gerontological Practice |
| Fay Fernandes | Dr Pauline Prior Dr Chaitali Das |
Health and ethnicity: eastern Europeans in North Ireland |
| Kwabena Frimpong Manso | Prof John Pinkerton Dr Emma Larkin |
Indepth study of residential care for children in Ghana |
| John Gibson |
Dr Stan Houston |
Team Leadership in Residential Child Care |
| Laura Grant |
Dr Jim Campbell |
A study of Drug Prevention Services for Young People |
| Carole Jean Greer | Dr Anne Lazenbatt Dr Lorna Dunne |
Fear of Childbirth and its Consequences for Mothers, Fathers and Infants |
| Monika Halkort | Prof Liam O'Dowd Prof Mike Tomlinson |
The spatial anatomy conflict in Tripoli, North Lebanon. Conflict in Cities Programme |
| Emma Hamenoo | Prof Geraldine Macdonald Dr Ruth Leitch |
Child trafficking within the borders of Ghana: A case study of New Bakpa |
| Suzanne Hammad |
Prof Madeleine Leonard |
The Salience of Place in Popular Resistance: A Case Study of the Contested Palestinian Village of Bilin |
| Sarah Hannaford | Prof Robert Miller Dr Jim Campbell |
Qualitative study into young people in NI and participating in high risk activities |
| Jaclyn Harron | Dr Andy Percy Dr Karen McElrath |
Delinquency and antisocial behaviour between the ages of 11 and 16 years. A secondary data analysis of the BYDS |
| Julie Evelyn Harris | Dr Karen McElrath Dr Sarah Moore |
Female Injecting Drug Users' Risk Behaviours, Lifestyles and Experiences |
| Deena Haydon | Prof John Pinkerton Dr Laura Lundy |
Critical analysis of a rights-based approach to children 'at risk of offending' in Northern Ireland |
| Peter Johnson | Prof Madeleine Leonard Dr Matthew Wood |
Alcohol, adolescents and adults |
| Lynn Johnston | Dr Kathryn Higgins Dr Laura Dunne |
Intergenerational relations in lower socio-economic North Irish communities: An investigation into the nature of the relationships and impact of discrete, community-based intergenerational practice |
| Cathriona Kearns | Dr Sally Shortall Dr S Jess/Dr A Murchie |
Pesticide usage in non-agricultural and agriculture areas in Northern Ireland and the associate public perception of pesticide risk |
| Romana Khaoury | Dr Lisa Smyth P Connolly |
Equality, ethnicity and education: A case study |
| Sunyoung Lee | Dr Richard O'Leary Dr Laura Dunne |
Chinese School Children’s Cultural Identity in the Context of Northern Ireland |
| Amanda MacDonald | Dr Dominic McSherry Dr Greg Kelly |
Post-adoption contact |
| Sarah Machiniewski | Dr Sarah Moore Prof Sally Wheeler |
Social Control: Control of the Night-Time Economy |
| Maurice Mahon |
Dr Anne Lazenbatt |
Assessing Men’s Readiness to Engage in Domestic Violence Treatment Programmes (DVTPs) in Northern Ireland |
| Karla Mason | Prof Bob Miller Dr John Karamichas |
Theory culture identity |
| Paul Matthews | Dr Gary Potter Dr Karen McElrath |
Examining the Attitudes of Illegal Downloading from a Sample of Internet Users and Downloaders Themselves |
| Cara McCann | Dr Lisa Smyth Dr Margrit Shildrick |
How do non-heterosexual mothers in the north of Ireland narrate their maternal, sexual and national identities? |
| Fionntan McCarry | Prof Lindsay Prior Dr M Donnelly |
Narratives and networks in health policies relating to children in Ireland |
| Stephen McCloskey | To be confirmed Prof Madeleine Leonard |
The social impact of transnational corporate investment: Fruit of the Loom in Ireland and Morocco |
| Caoimhe McCutcheon | Dr Sally Shortall Dr Una Lynch |
Black or white: Ageing in modern society: problem or opportunity? |
| Ian McCutcheon | Dr Sally Shortall Dr Karen McElrath |
Ageing ex-prisoners in civil socciety. Learning lessons from shared experiences in Northern Ireland an South Africa |
| Lian McGavock | Dr Trevor Spratt Dr Emma Larkin |
Prevalence of adverse childhood experiences in a University student population |
| Marlene McGibbon | Dr Pauline Prior Dr Berni Kelly |
Young carers |
| Jennifer McIlwaine | Dr Lisa Smyth Dr Matthew Wood |
Reproductive politics in Northern Ireland. Medicalisation of pregnancy, labour and childbirth |
| Patricia McNeilly |
Prof Geraldine Macdonald |
Participation, empowerment and partnership in services for disabled children and their families |
| Lori McVay | Dr Sally Shortall Dr Ruth McAreavey |
The Development and Acquisition of Leadership Skills Among Rural Women in Northern Ireland |
| Suzanne Mooney | Dr Anne Lazenbatt Dr Berni Kelly |
Promoting a sense of coherency and wellbeing in teenagers and young adults with cancer receiving hospital care |
| John Moriarty | Dr Kathy Higgins Dr Duncan McVicar |
Peer influences on teenage substance use and antisocial behaviour in Northern Ireland |
| Nicoli Morrison | Dr Anne Lazenbatt Dr Berni Kelly |
Safeguarding in primary care: interdisciplinary understanding, recognition and reporting of child abuse |
| Christine Mullan-Jensen | Dr Stan Houston M Kavanagh |
Carer-young person relationships in two European residential care systems |
| Pauline Murphy | Prof Lindsay Prior Dr Pauline Prior |
Gender differences in young peoples' perception/negotiation of risk and health damaging behaviour |
| Keerty Nakray | Prof Mike Tomlinson Dr Karen McElrath |
Gender Budgeting and its Implications for Social Policy |
| Carol Newsom | Dr Anne Lazenbatt | Familial and Environmental Factors Influencing Teenage Pregnancy |
| Olga Novozhylova |
Prof John Pinkerton |
A social psychological interpretation of life course trajectories for residential care leavers in Ukraine |
| Rosemond Ofori-Manteaw | Prof John Pinkerton Dr Berni Kelly |
Support for Deaf Children in Ghana |
| Leeanne O'Hara | Dr Kathy Higgins Prof Madeleine Leonard |
A Study of the influence of neighbourhood social and leisure facilities on drug taking and antisocial behaviours in adolescence |
| Christina O'Neill | Dr Karen McElrath Dr Andy Percy |
Drug use among adults in Northern Ireland |
| Kathleen O'Neill | Prof Lindsay Prior Prof Richard English |
Conflict and Identity |
| Margaret Parkinson | Dr Patrick McCrystal Dr Dominic McSherry |
An Examination of factors that influence the life chances of young people in residential care in Northern ireland with refernce to drug-taking behaviours |
| Colletta Peta | Dr Caroline Skehill Dr Trevor Spratt |
Social Work Refugee Relations / The Experiences of Social Workers and Service Users |
| Linda Rootaam | Prof Liam O'Dowd Dr Lisa Smyth |
Conflict in cities: Berlin |
| Jorun Rugkasa | Prof Mary Daly Dr Pauline Prior |
Combating Health Inequalities |
| Justyna Samolyk | Dr Richard O'Leary Prof Robert Miller |
Behavioural analysis of Polish immigrants in Northern Ireland |
| Carolin Schlenther | Dr Azrini Wahidin Dr Dirk Schubotz |
Homosexuality among teenagers in Northern Ireland |
| Seaneen Sloan | Dr Anne Lazenbatt Dr Laura Dunne |
Associations between Infant Feeding, Mother-Child Feeding Interactions and Weight Gain |
| Cynthia Sottie | Prof John Pinkerton Dr Emma Larkin |
School Dropout in Ghana: Experiences, Perspectives and Policy Direction |
| Adrian Witherow | Prof Madeleine Leionard Dr Katy Hayward |
Who are the people? Protestant working class male youth subculture in East Belfast |
