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Dr.Jacqueline Reilly,
Head of School

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+44 (0)28 9036 8001

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+44 (0)28 9036 8201

E-mail:
socsci@ulster.ac.uk


 



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Graduated Students

Name Project Title

Nasim Ahmed

Privatization of State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in Bangladesh: A Study on Policy Implementation

Rana Alhelsi

Policy Decision Making in Post-Oslo Palestine: A Case Study of Three Policy Areas

Sahla Aroussi

Women in peace-building implementing SCR 1325: the way forward

Ayse Idil Aybars

Gender Equality in Employment in the EU: Europeanisation and Welfare States:

Carol Ann Barnes

The Politics of Commemoration: Unionist Governance in the early 1950s

Brénainn Brunton

Interface Areas In Belfast: A Case Study

Grace Burke

Using membership categorisation analysis to look at smokers’ talk

Jonny Byrne

The Belfast Peace Walls: Problems, Politics, and Policies of the Troubles architecture

Yuko Chiba

An assessment of the impact of sectarianism upon integration of Asian immigrants in Northern Ireland

Linda Clarke

Virtually Teachers: Using a Virtual Learning Environment to support learning on a PGCE Geography Course

Patricia Connolly

Measuring and Monitoring Organisational Communication: Crisis Management and the Catholic Church

Marian Corrigan

A critical analysis of the extent and success of service user involvement in health and social care for adults within the SHSSB.

Smita Das

Poverty and Inequality in Developing and Developed Regions: An Empirical Investigation of Causes and Correlates

Teresa Degenhardt

The war on terror as punishment: insights for criminologists

Dinali Devendra

Teaching Literature in an ESL/EFL context: an evaluation of the teaching of literature for the G.C.E Ordinary Level in Sri Lanka

Michael Dobbins

Creating enabling environment for students with severe learning disabilities

Josephine Doody

The UK Strategy of Counter-Terrorism: Can Lessons be Learned from the use of Exclusion Orders in Northern Ireland?

Tony Drummond

Irish Travellers and Criminal Justice on the Island of Ireland (North & South)

Michael Duffy

The study and treatment of Post Traumatic Stress arising from civil conflict

Neil Foster

New Labour and the Third Way - 'Permanent revisionism' or policy consistency? An analysis of the states' engagement with the private sector in the provision of healthcare'.

Cheryl Gamble

Phonology in Prader-Willi Syndrome

Lyndsey Harris

A Strategic Analysis of Loyalist Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland

Martin Hay

A Sociological analysis of Ulster-Scots ideology and identity.

Isobel Hawthorne-Steele

On course for change: an investigation into the journey taken by Community Youth Workers (NI) participants in transformative learning.

Kenneth Houston

Religion and Governance in the EU – Analysing the Dialogic Relationship

Aideen Hunter

A comparative study of integration in different school environments’

Khurshid Iqbal

The Right to Development in International Law: the Case of Pakistan Judiciary

Samer Issa

Exploring EAP Teachers’ Attitudes and Beliefs in Handling Feedback on Academic Writing in the UK and Syri

Grainne Ketelaar

Exploring connections between political disaffection and citizenship education in Northern Ireland: a critique of a synthesis of a range of current research critical to a coherent approach to effective schooling for democracy

Campbell Killick

Judgements of Social Workers Relating to Initial Adult Protection Referral: The Influence of Client, Practitioner and Agency Factors.

John McCombe

School History and the introduction of Citizenship education in Northern Ireland: the views of History teachers

Grainne McCoy

The Role of Local Government in Conflict Management: Portadown the case study. To be submitted June 2006

M. McCoy

Evaluation in the Public Relations Context: Attitudes, Practice, Methodologies

Bronagh McGahan

Migrant Workers and Equality of Service Provision, with reference to implementation of  the Racial Equality Strategy 2005-2010, as commissioned by the Office of First Minister

John Paul McGauran

Re-examining the Historiography of the Irish Poor Law debate 1833-1838.

Emma McGrath

To investigate mental health issues with specific reference to the service user perspective, including examining the therapeutic relationship between service users and social care staff

Cillian McGrattan

Political opportunities in Northern Ireland, 1972-1976

Cahal McHale

Examination of the impact of the practices operating in Donegal in relation to access / contact between parents and their children in care.

Aisling McLaughlin

The Family, Peers and Adolescent Drug use in Northern Ireland.

Karl McVicker

The Police and performance management: an examination of systems, perceptions and behaviours in three United Kingdom police services.

Vivimarie Medawattegedera

English Medium Instruction in Sri Lankan Secondary Schools: Policy to Practice

Jacqueline Monahan

Tribunals & Truth Commissions in Post-conflict Societies: the Impact on Reconciliation.

Eileen Monds-Watson

Investigating the Lived Experience of Families with Enduring, Maternal Mental Health Difficulties, and Examining the Social Work Response.
Social Work Research Area: ‘Mental Health Inequalities in Northern Ireland’

Khanyisela Moyo

The Multitudinous Complexities of Transitional Justice in Postcolonial Societies: A Zimbabwean Case Study

Caroline Murphy

An Exploration of Forum Theatre as Pedagogy for addressing Sectarianism

Peter Munce

Unionism and Human Rights in Northern Ireland

Gaudence Nyirabikali

The Role of Peace Education in Conflict Transformation – A Review through the Angolan Case

Mary O’Rawe

Policing, Security and Human Rights:  Northern Ireland and Beyond.

Catherine O’Rourke

Playing the State? Securing effective feminist engagement with the state in transition

Avril Roulton

Examination of alienation of unionist community as result of Belfast

Ahmed Sahlane

“The Discursive (Re)Construction of the 2003 Iraq War in Western and Arab Print Media: A Comparative Critical Discourse Analytic Approach”

Philip Saunders

A grammatical study of Kouya, language of Ivory Coast

Anne Smith

Using Bills of Rights to protect ‘meaningful’ Equality: Lessons for Northern Ireland from South Africa and Canada

Jacqueline Sinnamon

The Causes and Effects of Poverty in Contemporary Society: An Evaluation of Current Government Poverty Policies

Alison Sweeney

Work-based learning, an investigation of non-formal learning, its role in lifelong learning and human resources development.

John R. Topping

‘Beyond the Patten Report: Considering the Governance of Security in Policing with the Community’

Alina Ujupan

Assessment of the Council of Ministers decision-making on Structural Funds after the Eastern Enlargement

Heather Walker

The social construction of Identity: A Comparative analysis of the Ulster Scots in the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries



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