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Graduate Dissertations 2001-2011
Abstracts of all SPD theses, where provided, can now be accessed from the Collections section of the Cregan Library website. |
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| 2011 GRADUATES | |
| PhD Research | |
| Dr Sylwia Kazmierczak | A systems level focus on the efficacy of classroom sound field amplification on the language development of children in seven urban DEIS schools in Dublin area. |
| Dr Aida Keane | Mapping Clinicians’ Discourses: Conceptualising and Treating Self-Injury in an Irish Context. |
| Dr Seán Moran | Virtue Epistemology: Some Implications for Education. |
| Dr Órla Ní Bhroin | Whither Inclusion: Pedagogy, Policy and Practice? |
| MA by Research | |
| Ms Clare Donegan | The Role of Music in the Unique Intercultural Context of the European School |
| 2010 GRADUATES | |
| Dr Louise Callinan | Revered Abroad, Abused at Home: Arthur Miller's contentious dialogue with America |
| Dr Gordon Kennedy | The Brownes of Westport House: Aristocracy, Politics and the Exercise of Power in County Mayo:1780-1830 |
| Dr Marian Keyes | "Taken from the Life" Mimetic Truth and Ekphrastic Eloquence in the Writings of Anna Maria Fielding Hall (1800-1881) |
| Dr James E. Reid | Walter Macken (1915-1967) – Playwright, Actor and Theatre Manager |
| Dr Chris Lawlor | The establishment and evolution of an Irish village: the case of Dunlavin, County Wicklow 1600-1910 |
| Dr Keith O'Sullivan | In a Tradition of Republican Revolution: Romanticism and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials |
Dr Emer Ring |
An Evaluation of the Effects of an Autistic Spectrum Disorder-Specific Post-Graduate Certificate Continuing Professional Development Programme on Practice in Six Schools |
2009 GRADUATES |
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PhD Research |
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Dr Colman Pearce |
Portfolio of original compositions with analytical commentary. |
Dr Conor McNamara |
Politics and Society in East Galway, |
MA by Research |
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Ms Katharine Brand |
'Keeping a watchful eye': The role of perceived parental monitoring in adolescent substance abuse. |
Ms Bernadette Carroll |
An exploration of crisis response structures: the development of an integrated resource for post primary schools in responding to deliberate self harm and suicide. A teachers perspective. |
2008 GRADUATES |
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| PhD Research | |
Dr Sandrine Brisset |
Bard of Modern Ireland: Perspectives on Voice and Mask within the Poetry of Brendan Kennelly. |
Dr Eithne Kennedy |
Improving Literacy Achievement in a Disadvantaged Primary School: Empowering Classroom Teachers through Professional Development. |
Dr Clíona Murphy |
The Importance of Teaching About the Nature of Science in the Primary Classroom. |
Dr Anne McGough |
An Exploration in Language Pedagogy: Developing Oral Language Skills in Three and Four Year Old Children in an Early Intervention Setting. |
Dr Andrew O'Shea |
Selfhood and Sacrifice: “Making Sacred” and “Making the Modern Identity” (A Comparative Study of Selected Works by René Girard and Charles Taylor). |
| MA by Research | |
| Ms Jo-Hanna Ivers | A phenomenological |
| Ms Denise Jeffers | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter: A Study of the Theme of Loneliess in the Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson and Eudora Welty. |
| Mr Eoin Mulvany | Portfolio of Compositions with Research Essay: Sound Synergies - Form and Fusion with Art and Architecture and the Influence of Iannis Xenakis on the Works of Eoin Mulvany. |
| MEd by Research | |
| Ms Anne Marie Kavanagh | An Appealing Outside and a Healthy Inside. An Analysis of the Factors that Motivate Irish Parents when Purchasing Food for their Children’s School Lunches. |
| Ms Cathríona Ryan | An Exploration of the Lived Experience of a Group of Children Diagnosed with Attention - Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and the Services Available within a Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Urban Area of Dublin. |
| Ms Sheila Ryan | The Social, Personal and Health Education Curriculum as a Resource for Teaching Nutrition in Primary Schools in Ireland. |
2007 GRADUATES |
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PhD Research |
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Dr Darren Kelly |
The Transition from Essentially Mono-Cultural Places to Poly-Cultural Spaces. |
Dr Frances Murphy |
Capacity Building for Primary Physical Education: Enhancing Teacher Expertise for Quality Teaching and Learning. |
Dr KevinO'Connell |
Portfolio of Original Compositions with Analytical Commentary. Vol 1 & 2. |
Dr Eimear Reilly |
Irish Foreign Policy and Popular Protest 1960-1970. |
Dr Maria Westvall |
Webs of Musical Significance A study of student-teachers' musical socialisation in Ireland and Sweden. |
MA by Research |
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Mr David Meehan |
An Exploration of the Relationship between Poet and Community based on the Work of Three Contemporary Irish Poets. |
Ms Evanna McCormack |
The Development of the Revised Curriculum in the Irish Primary School from Philosophical Ideal to Classroom Reality: Applying a Theoretical Lense to the Practical Classroom. |
Mr Oisín Uíbh Eachach |
Cur chuige síocanailíseach doimhneachts i leith phrós Phídraig Uí Mhaoileoin. |
2006 GRADUATES |
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PhD Research |
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Dr Padráig Ó Dálaigh |
Logainmneacha bharúntacht Orbhraí agus na Coillte Móire i dtuaisceart Chontae Chorcaí. |
Dr Desmond Slowey |
The Role and Image of the Ascendancy in the Irish Theatre, 1600-1900. |
MA by Research |
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Ms Deirdre Cully |
Diet and Activity Patterns of Pupils with Mild General Learning Disabilities in Special Schools in Ireland. |
Ms Karen Heeney |
A Study of Food Choices by Children in Schools that have a Healthy Eating Policy and Schools that do not have such a Policy in Ireland. |
Ms Sandie Purcell |
Portfolio of Original Compositions with Research Essay: Influences and Organising Principles on Selected Chamber Music of Dr Gráinne Mulvey and their Influences on my own Compositions. |
Ms Teresa Tancibok |
Comedic Playwriting and the Shavian Method |
2005 GRADUATES |
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PhD Research |
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Dr Philomena Donnelly |
Young Children's Philosophical Thinking and Ancient Proto-Philosophy: A Study. |
Dr Antonia Owens |
An Exploration of the Links between Male Identity and the Development of the Field of Men's Community Education in Ireland. |
Dr Josephine Russell |
Becoming a Moral Self through a community of ethical enquiry: A study of a class group from middle to late childhood in an Irish primary school. |
MA by Research |
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Mr Daniel Walsh |
The Design and Evaluation of Prototype Software for Teaching and Learning Chord Progression in Music. |
2004 GRADUATES |
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PhD Research |
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Dr Deirdre Butler |
Self-determined Teacher Learning in a Digital Context: Fundamental Change in Thinking and Practice. |
MA by Research |
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Mr Mauro Cherubini |
Microworlds for Ecology Explorations: From DigitalSeed to Biosphera on fostering Children's Understanding of Plant Biology. |
2003 GRADUATES |
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PhD Research |
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Dr Joseph Doyle |
The Model School-Model Teacher? The Model Schools and Teacher Training in Nineteenth Century Ireland |
MA by Research |
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Ms Rosemary Warren |
Adapting the Reggio Emilia Philosophy of Education to an Irish Promary School Context. |
2002 GRADUATES |
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PhD Graduates |
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Dr Carol Dunbar |
The Other Nation: an examination of the depiction of the poor in the children's fiction of Mrs Molesworth, Mrs Ewing, Silas Hocking and Frances Hodgson Burnett. |
2001 GRADUATES |
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PhD Graduates |
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Dr Claire Hayes |
A Psychoeducational Approach to Helping Adolescents Cope. |
Last Updated: Tuesday November 08 2011