• Chosen childlessness in Ireland: a qualitative study of women's decision making, biography making and identity management 

  Cronin, Joan (University College Cork, 2019)

  This thesis explores the experiences of women who are childless by choice in Ireland, to gain a greater understanding of the motives that influence the women’s decision making, to examine how others react to that decision, ...
• An examination of the Children’s Rights Alliance (CRA) as a new social movement (NSM) utilising Habermas’ communicative rationality and core periphery theories 

  Kenneally, Andre (University College Cork, 2019)

  The passing of the Children’s referendum in 2012 is viewed as a landmark moment in the continuing evolution of Children’s Rights in Ireland. Following a prolific period since the publication of the United Nations Convention ...
• 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, ...

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