Student Name Research Title E-mail Helen Basini The Reintegration of Ex-combatant Women in Liberia: Long-Term Challenges Helen.basini@ul.ie Damien Bolger Transforming Administration: A cross border comparative analysis of Administration and Governance on the Island of Ireland Damien.Bolger@ul.ie Lisa Breford Exploring migrant lives in transnational social spaces using the example of Polish migrants in Ireland Lisa.breford@ul.ie Stephen Buggy The Relationship between Multi-National Corporations and the International Labour Organisation: An Assessment of its Effects on Stephen.buggy@ul.ie Caroline Clarke A Hand up or a Handout? Exploring the use of Community Employment Schemes as a labour market activation measure for redundant wo Caroline.clarke@ul.ie Sean Costello Access All Areas? : A Critical Analysis of Programmes Supporting Greater University Representation of Students from Socio-Econom sean.costello@ul.ie Di Hu Construct China's Civil Service System: Incorporating Policy Transfer with Chinese Characteristics. Di.Hu@ul.ie Lisa Kiely An analysis of the evolution of Early Childhood Care and Education Policy in Ireland lisa.kiely@ul.ie Florence Lynch Institutional and political determinants of poverty reduction and growth in Africa florence.lynch@ul.ie Mary Ellen Lyons An Examination of the Europeanisation of Social Inclusion Policies in Ireland mary.lyons@ul.ie Ciara McCorley Trade Unions and Transitions: A Comparative Study of the Role of Trade Unions in Transitions from Authoritarian Rule in Africa ciara.mccorley@ul.ie Joanna McDarby Knowledge Economy in Ireland: Employability through Education or Neoliberal Ideology joanna.mcdarby@ul.ie Sarah Milne Power Exchange': Energy security discourse and the development of the Russian and European electricity industries sarah.milne@ul.ie Philip Mudge Core or chore: The impact of Irish social policy decisions on the responsibilities and expectations placed upon trustees of not- philip.mudge@ul.ie Hama Munyikwa Civil society organisations in Kenya and Zimbabwe and their role in the consolidation democratisation since 1997 hama.munyikwa@ul.ie Reza Niknamzarnaghi Place of the Middle East Human Rights in the United States Foreign Policy after 9/11 reza.niknamzarnaghi@ul.ie Tim O'Brien Non-voters: the silent 30%. Who are they? A case study of a group of non-voters in the 2011 Irish general election from the Waterford constituency timothy.obrien@ul.ie Fiona O'Gorman Convergence and Divergence Between the European Union and the United States with respect to the Middle East Peace Process fiona.ogorman@ul.ie Pieternella Pieterse Improving social accountability interventions in health care: Anti-corruption initiatives in the health sector in Sub-Saharan Africa pieternella.pieterse@ul.ie Caitlin Ryan Bodies, Power, Resistance: A corporeal examination of subjectivity and resistance in the occupied Palestinian territories caitlin.ryan@ul.ie James Emmanuel Wanki The European Union's role in the prevention of conflicts in Africa, with special attention on the extent to which the range of i james.wanki@ul.ie