Recently-completed PhD and MRes
These students have successfully completed their doctoral / MRes studies in recent years:
Doctoral and MRes theses are available for consultation in the Edward Murphy Library at NCAD. Inquiries should be sent to libraryloans@staff.ncad.ie.
Dr Moran Been-noon - Conflict and Conviviality: Creating Politically Engaged Art situations in Contemporary Ireland (2015)
Dr Máire Ní Bhróin - Formative Assessment of the Visual Arts: a study of the experiences and perspectives of pupils and teachers in Irish primary schools (2013)
Dr Maureen Burke - Discourse and Ideology: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Irish Education Policies and their Impact on Art Education in the Further, Adult and Community Education Sector (2015)
Dr Kay Byrne - An investigation of the crime scene photograph encompassing history, criticality, and practice, from forensic science to its manifestation in art photography (2020)
Dr Robert Clarke - Practice based project on exploration of co-existence of ephemerality, alchemy, queer aesthetics, and documentation (2021)
Dr Stephen Cooney - Visual Tools for Comprehension of Music: An Intuitive Model Originating in Artistic Practice (2018)
Dr Emma Creighton - Designing Learning: An Intervention in General Education (2019)
Brendan Dowling (MRes) - The Invention Of Greek Landscape: The Role Of Fred Boissonnas Photography and Western Hellenism In The Creation Of The Imagination Of Greek Landscape (2024)
Dr Micheal Earley - William Earley (1872-1956)-Ecclesiastical Artist (2023)
Dr Andrew Folan - Grasping the Untouchable: Establishing New Realities at the Virtual-Actual Interface (2014)
Dr Owen Gallagher - Reclaiming Remix: The Critical Role of Sampling in Transformative Works - A Multimodal Semiotic Analysis of Rhetoric and Ideology in Critical Remix Video (2014)
Dr Lucy Hill - Activating a Posthuman Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm in Irish Early Childhood Art Education. (2021)
Dr Christina Kinsella - Bracha L. Ettinger's Matrixial Theory and Aesthetics: Matricial Flesh and the Jouissance of Non-Life (2013)
Dr Lucy Dawe Lane - Bochner's Intermittent Objects: Aesthetics, Embodiment and Affect in Conceptual Art (2015)
Dr Lisa Moran - Torn Subjectivity: the artistic response to memory and difficult pasts in the work of Miroslaw Balka (2019)
Dr Cathy Fitzgerald - The Ecological Turn: Living Well with Forests To Articulate Eco-Social Art Practices Using a Guattari Ecosophy and Action Research Framework (2018)
Dr Margaret Fitzgibbon - Loss and return: exploring collective memory in an Irish family archive 1950-1966 through installation art practice (2013)
Dr Liza Foley - From Hide to Hand: The Leather Glove as Material and Metaphor in Polite English Culture, circa 1730 to 1820 (2018, funded by the Irish Research Council)
Dr Emma Mahony - The Critical Art Institution and the Neoliberal State (2016)
Dr Caoimhe Mc Mahon - Into the Wild: A framework to facilitate in-context prototype evaluation in the later stage of new product development (2018)
Dr Sinead McCann - Does it fail if it is only art? The significance of using live performance art to make visible subjective experiences of women parenting alone within the conditions of neoliberal biopower governance in Ireland (2015)
Dr Caroline O'Brien - Fashioning material that matters: An examination of design and making at the National Ballet of Canada (2023)
Dr Rebecca O’Dwyer - Neither / NOR: The Problem of Writing About Contemporary Art (2018)
Dr Sally O'Leary - Stephen Willats sharing the ethics of ‘self-responsibility’ with second order cybernetics (2022)
Dr Emma O’Toole - Objects, Spaces and Rituals: A Social and Material History of Maternity and Infancy in Ireland, ca. 1730 to ca. 1830 (2018, funded by the Irish Research Council)
Dr Alison Pilkington - Unfamiliar Terrain: An Investigation Through Painting on The Idea of The Uncanny (2015)
Dr Ruby Wallis - Coolorta - revisiting the landscape via lens-based art practice (2015)
Dr Candace White - Materialising Modernity: New Buildings for Leisure and Travel in Ireland, circa 1920 - 1950 (2018)