by Cairn Macfarland | 16th January 2023
Thesis Title: Transformation Zones: Digital Hubs, Class and (Geo)politics in Jordan Abstract: My project seeks to map the political agencies embedded in the development of digital infrastructures through an ethnographic study of the Aqaba Special Economic Zone (ASEZ)...
by Cairn Macfarland | 12th December 2022
Thesis Title: Building digital markets: the impact of voluntary regulation on the personal data economy Abstract: The project explores the standards and rules voluntarily created and adopted by organizations to establish forms of personal data circulation. Some...
by Sarah Kiernan | 7th March 2022
Thesis title: Measuring Nepotism and Its Effects on the Mexican Public Institutions Abstract: This project aims to explore the association between nepotism and public institutions’ performance in the context of the Mexican public sector, and contribute to the...
by Sarah Kiernan | 7th March 2022
Thesis title: The Politics of Impatient Bureaucracies. Public Sector Reform, Time Preferences and Local Policy Networks for Sustainable Development in Latin America Abstract: In politically fragmented and decentralised metropolitan areas, achieving long-term...
by admin | 7th March 2022
Thesis title: Abstract: First supervisor: Stijn Van Kessel Pathway:13-Politics, Public Policy & Governance Cohort: 2021-22
by Sarah Kiernan | 7th March 2022
Thesis title: Secularism within political parties in South Africa Abstract: This study investigates why South Africa has a very religious population, and yet a politics that has (so far) remained secular. I focus on the African National Congress (ANC), the...
by admin | 7th March 2022
Thesis title: ‘Flexible Subjects: A Contemporary Critical Theory of‘Flexibility’/Precarity Abstract: First supervisor: Lucia Pradella Pathway:13-Politics, Public Policy & Governance Cohort: 2021-22
by Sarah Kiernan | 7th March 2022
Thesis title: Laughing through frustration: to what extent has the October ‘revolution’ in Lebanon shaped a unified national identity/consciousness to create a civil functioning state? Abstract: This research aims to study collective action in Lebanon after the 2005...
by Sarah Kiernan | 7th March 2022
Thesis title: Industrial Corridor Development and the Recomposition of Labor Regimes in China and Vietnam Abstract: Since 2013, China has embarked on a set of infrastructure projects and free trade deals throughout Asia, Europe and Africa that are collectively...
by Sarah Kiernan | 7th March 2022
Thesis title: The European Union in the Global Refugee Regime: A Political Economic Approach to the Humanitarian-Development Nexus Abstract: This project examines the role of the European Union (EU) in promoting new technologies for aid and displacement management in...
by Sarah Kiernan | 19th July 2021
Thesis title: Public Policy in an AI Economy Abstract: From technophobia to enthusiastic predictions, artificial intelligence (AI) is receiving increasing media, economic, political, and academic attention. The renewed interest is the result of a substantial increase...
by Sarah Kiernan | 19th July 2021
Thesis title: Investigating the UN System Wide Framework of Strategies on the Environment for supporting the implementation of the environmental dimensions of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Abstract: In 2015, the United Nations released the Sustainable...
