Recent Research Graduates
Congratulations to our recent research graduates!
The following research students have been successful in their vivas and recommendations have been made by their examiners that they be awarded.
| 2012-2013 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Student | Degree | Title |
| Esengul Ayaz | PhD | The impact of Turkey on the European Union's External Security |
| Patrick Diamond | PhD | Interpreting Continuity and Change in the UK Core Executive: The Nature and Contingency of New Labour's Approach to Whitehall |
| Katharine Dommett | PhD | Conceptualising Party Political Ideology: An Exploration of party Modernisation in Britain |
| Defne Gunay | PhD | The Europeanisation of Turkish Foreign Policy towards the Middle East |
| Yunjong Kim | PhD | The Failure of Socialism in South Korea 1945-2007 |
| Jewellord Nem Singh | PhD | States, Markets and Labour Unions: The Political Economy of Oil and Copper in Brazil and Chile |
| Maria Fernanda Vidal | PhD | Women's Representation in Mexican State Politics |
| 2011-2012 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Student | Degree | Title |
| Amy Barnes | PhD | The Politics of the Idea of Partnership: From contemporary aid policy to local health governance in practice in Zambia |
| Joao Carvalho | PhD | Bringing Politics Back in: The Impact of Extreme-Right Parties on Immigration Policy in the UK, France and Italy during the 2000s |
| Shih Yu Chou | PhD | Constructing National Interests: Narrating the Falklands Crisis |
| Victoria Hasson | PhD | The Role and Development of Deliberative Tradition in the Parliament of South Africa 1970-2009 |
| Gabriel Siles-Brugge | PhD | The Rise of ‘Global Europe’: Interests and Ideas in the Making of EU Trade Policy |
| Simon Staffell | PhD | Political Violence and Religious Discourse: The Case of Iraq 2004-2005 |
| Christopher Wellbrook | PhD | '"When a Dam Bursts": An anarchist approach to social movements' |
| Joerg Wiegratz | PhD | The Cultural Political Economy of Neoliberal Moral Restructuring: the case of agricultural trade in Uganda |
| Islam Yusufi | PhD | Europeanisation and Security Sector Reform: The case of the Republic of Macedonia |
| 2010-2011 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Student | Degree | Title |
| Dion Curry | PhD | Multi-level Governance Frameworks in British Columbia and Scotland. Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Concept |
| Matthew English | PhD | 'Filling-in' the 'Hollowed Out'? Assessing the Strategic Value of ICT in the New Labour Core Executive (1997-2010) |
| Daniel Fitzpatrick | PhD | Regulation in the British Political Tradition |
| Adrian Gallagher | PhD | Genocide and its Threat to International Society |
| Terri-Ann Gilbert-Roberts | PhD | The Dynamics of Regional Governance: The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Experience in a Context of Sovereignty Paradox |
| Blagoy Klimov | PhD | Challenging Path Dependence? Ideational Mapping of Nationalism and the EU's Transformative Power: The Case of Infrastructural Politics in SEE |
| Vasileios Leontitsis | PhD | Decentralisation Reforms in Greece (1981-2008): Exploring Inertia and Change |
| Laura McLeod | PhD | Gender Politics and Security Discourse: Feminist and Women's Organising in "Post-Conflict" Serbia |
| Moneef Mlafikh | PhD | Power and Autonomy in the Saudi State: Case Study Analysis of Policy Implementation |
| David Moon | PhD | Ideological Antagonism and Power Relations within Multi-level Political parties: The Post-devolution Welsh Labour Party |
| Antonella Schintu | PhD | The Biopolitics of Contemporary Forms of Activism: The Creation of Autonomous and Radical Subjectives and Ways of Life |
| Rory Shand | PhD | The Thames Gateway and the Social City: A Comparative Study of Governance of Brownfield Regeneration in the UK and Germany |
| Louise Strong | PhD | Understanding the Role of the Business Community in UK Climate Change Policymaking |
| Edgar Tembo | PhD | Assessing British and American Counter-Terrorism: Intelligence, Law Enforcement and Military Force |
| Laura White | PhD | The Politics of Partnership Illuminating the UK-Rwanda Aid Relationship |
| George Zammit | PhD | Reconsidering the Role of Parties at the European Level: Constructing Actorness for the Christian Democrat and Socialist Party Groups in the European parliament using an International Relations Framework |
| Roberto Zepeda | PhD | The Decline of Trade Unions in Mexico during the Neoliberal Period |