• Essays in strategic spatial planning and governance in Ireland’s city – regions 

  Brady, William M. (University College Cork, 2018)

  The aim of this PhD project is to develop an understanding of how strategic spatial planning is expressed and delivered as a specific mode of governance, in response to the particular challenges facing Europe’s second-tier ...
• ‘It feels like you’re in Funderland’: an ethnographic study of the performance of masculinities in youth cafés 

  Bolton, Robert (University College Cork, 2018)

  Using an ethnographic approach, this thesis explores how youth cafés act as objects and agents in the performance of young masculinities. Within the last ten years, youth cafés have emerged in the Irish context as a ...
• Professional integration experiences of international medical graduates in Ireland and Canada 

  Kolawole, Olaniyi Ajibola (University College Cork, 2017)

  International migration of health professionals, specifically, doctors, especially from the technologically developing countries to developing ones is a phenomenon that is has received considerable attention from researchers, ...
• Life in the city starts at the centre: a genealogy of the neoliberal city, through four generations of shopping spaces in Toronto 

  McElligott, Christopher (University College Cork, 2017)

  This thesis traces out changes in the urban landscape of retail consumption. It begins with a general history of shifts from arcades, to department stores, and moves to more recent shopping malls and shopping streets in ...
• Human trafficking in Ireland – reconstituting the rights identity of trafficked persons 

  Stapleton, Patricia (University College Cork, 2017)

  This thesis critically analyses state responses to human trafficking in Ireland and is positioned conceptually and theoretically within the branch of critical antitrafficking studies (Lindquist, 2013: 322). This approach ...

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