PhD Profiles
Name | PhD Research Theme or PhD Thesis Title | Principal Supervisor | Secondary Supervisor |
Judith Atwell | An Ethnographic Challenge to Resettlement as a "durable solution" for Refugees. | Dr Fiona Murphy | Dr Ulrike M Vieten |
Nisa Bayindir | "[Brand] identity fusion, smart technology brands and the extended consumer mind" | Dr Jonathan Lanman | Dr Paulo Sousa |
Taika Bottner | Dementia and the Art of Caring: New Opportunities for Creative Practitioners in the Ageing Economy | Prof Maruska Svasek | Prof Fiona Magowan |
Bryan Clancy | Organised by Faith: The Wright Way to Evangelical Christianity and the transformation of culture in an "Urban Village". | Prof Dominic Bryan | Dr Jonathan Lanman |
Edward Cooke | 'Care of the Orange self': An anthropological investigation of how the Orange community in Liverpool, Glasgow and Belfast takes care of the self through Orange parading rituals. | Prof Dominic Bryan | |
Matthew Gault | "Commemorating the Troubles" - Remembrance in Contest Rural Spaces | Prof Dominic Bryan | Prof Hastings Donnan |
Augusto Gazir Martins Soares | Tracking Online Political Sociality in Northern Ireland: Social media engagement in a context of persistent antagonism and increasing diversity | Dr Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou | Prof Dominic Bryan |
Hannah Gibson | Cultural intimacy and the country music scene in West Ulster | Dr Ioannis Tsioulakis | Prof Fiona Magowan |
Adam Wood Gilreath | Intergroup Conflict, Threat, and Radicalization: The Case of Peace Walls in Belfast | Dr Paulo Sousa | Dr Jonathan Lanman |
Samuel Greaves | 'Conservation and Religion in Post-Fukushima Japan: A multispecies approach'. | Dr John Knight | Dr Jonathan Lanman |
Brianna Griesinger | Narratives of Peruvian feminist identity in pursuit of reproductive justice | Prof Fiona Magowan | Dr Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou |
John Harron | Sectarianism:Have the processes and structures which sustain and perpetuate sectarianism been changed by the conflict in Northern Ireland, and have sectarianism perceptions or attitudes been altered? | Prof Dominic Bryan | Dr Paulo Sousa |
Mathilde Hernu | Supernatural explanations for negative life-events: the roles of Morality and Predictability. | Dr Paulo Sousa | Dr Jonathan Lanman |
Chrysi Kyratsou | "Refugees’ Musicking: Meanings and Encounters in a Greek Reception Centre" | Dr Ioannis Tsioulakis | Dr Fiona Murphy |
Yulong Li | Globalization and Puer Tea Culture: Heredity and Variation of “Cultural Memes” in Transnational Representation | Prof Fiona Magowan | Dr John Knight |
Amanda Lubit | Examining place-making and belonging through the movements of Muslim migrants in and around Belfast | Dr Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou | Dr Fiona Murphy |
Sinéad Lynch | Music in the Borderscape: How the Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland became a Movement for Music in Peacebuilding. | Prof Fiona Magowan | Prof Maruska Svasek |
Chiara Magliacane | "Echoes of suffering: An ethnography of trauma, violence and social work in post-conflict Belfast" | Dr Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou | Prof Fiona Magowan |
Tom Marshall | Navigating Mental Health - The Eastern European Migrant Perspective | Prof Maruska Svasek | Dr Fiona Murphy |
Maebh Martin | Musicians and the Post-Covid-19 Recovery in Northern Ireland | Dr Ioannis Tsioulakis | Dr Ali Fitzgibbon |
Jamie McCollum | An anthropological analysis of the Kurdish diaspora & democratic confederalism: Beyond nationalism and the nation-state? | Dr Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou | Prof Dominic Bryan |
Paul Morely | Catholic Syro-Malabar Migration in Northern Ireland and Transnational Religious Practices: An Ethnographic Study | Prof Maruska Svasek | Prof Fiona Magowan |
Valeria Nechaeva | Embodied Trauma: A Case-Study of Embodied Therapies and Collective Memory in Israel | Dr Fiona Murphy | Prof Maruska Svasek |
Sunday Owoade | The Significance of Verbal Arts in the Yoruba Indigenous Political System | Prof Fiona Magowan | Dr Eric Morier-Genoud |
Ciara Power | Dancing to the Beat of Gender (In)Equality?: An Investigation into Women’s Participation in the Electronic Dance Music Scene in Belfast and Dublin | Prof Fiona Magowan | Dr Ioannis Tsioulakis |
Alex Puma | Being Non-Binary in Binary Worlds: The Spatial, Emotional, and Intersubjective Lives of Non-binary People in Ireland | Prof Fiona Magowan | Dr Jamie Hagen |
Gareth Rice | "Quis Separabit": The fusion and fissure of Northern Ireland's unionist and loyalist identity in the aftermath of the Brexit Referendum. | Prof Dominic Bryan | Prof Graham Walker |
Jing Ru | Africans in China: Ethnic Identity and Expression | Dr John Knight | Prof Maruska Svasek |
Niamh Small | The middle ground and the manifestation of a symbolic Northern Irish identity | Prof Dominic Bryan | Dr Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou |
Mohaddeseh Ziyachi | Iranian Motherhood: A Cognitive Approach | Dr Paulo Sousa | Dr Jonathan Lanman |