DCU Letters

23 DCU PhD and Postdoctoral projects receive funding under Government of Ireland scheme

The 23 new PhD projects come as part of €27.5 million in funding for 290 projects announced by Minister Patrick O'Donovan today. The Government of Ireland schemes are designed to support early-career researchers to pursue research in any discipline across the sciences, engineering, humanities and social sciences.

All awardees are based in Ireland’s higher education and research-performing organisations. This year, there are 210 PhD scholars and 80 postdoctoral fellows. The 23 DCU projects range from a social history of Munster's street furniture undertaken by Tom Spalding to an examination of entrepreneurial social media identities to be carried out by Georgia Fenlon.

In addition, one project involving Melissa Lynch examining the impact of social and cultural capital on low socio-economic status student progression from DEIS schools in Ireland is one of ten scholarships funded in collaboration with partner agencies. Lynch's project is part funded by the Department of Children, Equality Disability, Integration and Youth.

The full list of DCU awardees is available below.

 

Postgraduate Scholars:

Angelina Foley, New organocatalysed cycloadditions of vinyl ketenes to access delta-lactone pharmaceuticals and polymers

Anna Keller, Meet me in VR or VC? A comparative investigation on the impact of virtual reality and video conference technology on relationship development in global virtual teams

Ciara Buckley, Understanding and Preventing Sexual Violence in the LGBTQ Community

Collette Byrne, Marketisation Evolvement: Questions, Answers and Challenges

Conor Roddy, Ireland during the Anglo-Irish Truce

Cormac Keenan, An examination of the post-revolutionary lives of the dependants of the Irish Revolution and Civil War, 1923-80

Georgia Fenlon, Entrepreneurial Social Media Identities: An Intersectional Exploration

Hayley Brabazon, Gender, Legacy, and Memory: the post-revolutionary lives of Irish women

Jack Campbell, Tweet it like you mean it: Social media and the lay social audit

Jake Tiernan, Evaluating the Role of Sensory Perception and Perceptual Decision-Making in Elite-Level Soccer Performance

Jasmine Faudone, Conflicts and New Borders: The Withdrawal Agreement Protocols of Northern Ireland, Gibraltar and Cyprus

John McGrath, Challenges and Opportunities in Creating an Online Harms Framework

Karen Beckett, Parental ADHD and its Influence on Parenting Styles and Mental Well-being: A Dyadic Approach

Katie Murtagh, New Catalytic Methods for the Enantioselective Alpha-Alkylation of Carboxylic Acid Derivatives Suitable for Pharmaceutical Applications

Lorenzo Pisani, SEE Toolkit: Developing Open-Souce Codes for solving the Semiclassical Einstein Equations

Nithya Kothenmaril, ABSENCE IN PRESENCE: DALIT WOMEN’S EXPERIENCES IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS IN KERALA, INDIA

Obumneke Anyanwu, Exploring Cultural Heritage in Nollywood Film Music

Orla McGovern, “Asking the Algorithm”: Understanding the Help-seeking Behaviours of Young People on TikTok – A Co-Design Approach to Optimise Mental Health and Wellbeing

Melissa Lynch, NOBODY REALLY KNOWS! Exploring the Impact of Social and Cultural Capital on Low Socioeconomic Status (LSES) Students Progression from DEIS Schools in Ireland

 

Postdoctoral Fellows:

Dr Catherine Baker, Fake Science: Investigating the Role of Biological-Essentialist Pseudoscience in Far Right, Male Supremacist and Anti-Trans Disinformation Online

Dr Daniel Carey, The Standard: Ideological Cornerstone of Catholic Ireland

Dr Fereshte Ildarabadi, Optimised Design of Tuneable Dot Platforms for Advanced Valleytronics

Dr Tom Spalding, A Social History of Munster’s Street Furniture: Heritage, Oral History and Place-making