GOI Awardees 2020 - Research

GOI Awardees 2020

Applicant Higher education institution

Scholarship theme Discipline Project title:

Aaron Kent Waterford Institute of Technology

Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship

Theatre Studies Re-shaping narratives: An analysis of life and culture as dramatised by Irish women playwrights following the Irish War of Independence, (1922-1959).

Adam Ryan University College Dublin


Microbial Genetics Genome diversity, drug resistance and virulence in the human pathogenic yeast, Candida parapsilosis

Aislaigh Cahillane National University of Ireland, Galway


Literatures Narratives of Water (In)Justice in Contemporary Hydrofictions from Australia, Ireland and the United States of America

Aisling Loftus University College Dublin


Organic Chemistry A Unified Approach for Safely Performing Underexploited High Energy Nitrosation Chemistries via Scaled Continuous Flow Technology Platforms

Alan Keane National University of Ireland, Galway


Medical Biotechnology

The Development of a Next-Generation Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Therapy for Critical Limb Ischaemia

Alby Benny Trinity College Dublin


Medicinal and Biomolecular Chemistry

Aspartic Acid Mediated 'Click' Technology for the Accelerated Synthesis of Peptide Therapeutics under Continuous-Flow Conditions

Ali Bakir Hamoudi University College Dublin


Sociology Civil Society Organisations Providing Social Services in Iraq: Structure, Accountability and Religion post 2003

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Alice Parkes University of Limerick


Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry

Next generation pharmaceutical processing: A systematic approach to formulating and manufacturing Multicomponent Fixed Dose Drug Combinations and Therapeutic Hybrids

Amelia McConville Trinity College Dublin


Literatures Poetry Studies and Neurohumanities: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Amrita Dwivedi Trinity College Dublin


Cell Biology Cross-Disease Assessment of Granulocyte Phenotypic and Functional Heterogeneity

Amy Hassett University College Dublin


Zoology, Ornithology, Entomology, Behavioural Sciences Biology

Identifying the principles of nervous system organisation in the ctenophore Pleurobrachia pileus.

Amy McGlinchey Trinity College Dublin


Condensed Matter Physics

New Concepts for Superconducting Tunneling Junctions: Utilising the deposition of superconducting thin films on stepped surfaces to fabricate novel MultiTerrace Junctions

Amy O'Halloran University College Cork

Environmental Protection Agency Postgraduate Scholarship

Law Private Transnational Environmental Regulation and Systemic Interactions in Global Environmental Governance

Andrea Muñoz Zamora

Trinity College Dublin



The instinct to learn or to learn an instinct? Unraveling the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying instincts, memory and learning

Andrew Burgess Trinity College Dublin



The prediction of renewable energy storage materials using adaptive quantum-mechanical theory

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Andrew Dorman Dublin City University


History The Experience of Soldiering in Eighteenth-Century Ireland

Andrew Hill Trinity College Dublin


History Deisidaimonia' (Panic!): A study of crisis, climate, and rebellion in Carthaginian North Africa

Anna Devlin Trinity College Dublin


History Economic ideas for a self-governed Ireland 1893-1923

Anna Karpinska Institute of Technology, Carlow


Ecology A study on the ecological impact of recycling derived fertilisers (RDF) using nematodes as environmental bioindicators.

Antzela Tzagiollari Dublin City University


Medical and Biomedical Engineering

Development of a Bioresorbable and Biomimetic Bone Adhesive (OsStic) for the Regeneration of Bone Defects

Aoibheann O’ Connor

University College Dublin


Organic Chemistry A New Paradigm For The Asymmetric Diels-Alder Reaction

Aoife Kearney RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences


Microbiology, Virology and Mycology

Carbapenemase producing Enterobacteriales (CPE): Identifying the drivers of transmission to patients in the healthcare-environment

Aoife Marie Foran University of Limerick


Psychology Harnessing groups for health: Eating disorder recovery as supported by everyday social connections

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Arlene Bonner University College Dublin


Organic Chemistry Development of Streamlined Routes into Diverse Drug-Like Aziridine Fragments via Multi-Step Flow Synthesis

Beatrice Canossi National University of Ireland, Galway


Law The use of truth commissions' evidence in prosecutions: bridging gaps and information sharing between international prosecutions and truth seeking mechanisms

Beatrice Monciunskaite

Dublin City University


Law What is the Status of Democracy in Lithuania and Latvia? A two Country Study in the Context of the Recent Phenomenon of Regression of Democratic Standards in Eastern Europe

Bernadette Phillips Maynooth University


Education The Montessori School as a healing environment: Translating childhood trauma research into effective trauma-informed educational practice.

Blake McGrane Corrigan

Maynooth University


Applied Mathematics

Statistical modelling applied to the spatio-temporal dynamics of the Heliothine moth

Caitlín Ní Chasaide Trinity College Dublin


Cell Biology The Mechanism of Pertussis Vaccine-Induced Sustained Protective Immunity

Calvin Swords Trinity College Dublin


Sociology “An exploration of how the concept of recovery is socially constructed and its impact on the delivery of mental health services – an Irish case study”

Cara Gaffney University College Dublin


Biochemical Research Methods

Understanding the cellular landscape of proteins delivered by extracellular vesicles

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Caroline O’Connor University College Cork


Environmental Studies

MultIpLe pregnancy: An investigation of thE riSk facTOrs aNd outcomEs in the republic of Ireland (The MILESTONE study)

Catherine O'Reilly Trinity College Dublin


Education Thinking and talking/talking and thinking: Exploring storytelling as pedagogy with young children to provoke emergent critical thinking skills

Celine Fox Trinity College Dublin


Psychology A dynamic network approach to understanding eating disorder pathology

Céline Thobois Trinity College Dublin


Theatre Studies The Making of the Beckettian Cyborg: From Beckett and Behaviourism in the Twentieth Century to Beckett and Neuroscience in the Twenty-First Century

Chiara Alessia De Benedictis

University of Limerick


Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

The role of the Zinc Transporter ZnT5 in Autism Spectrum Disorders: a functional characterization.

Chris Devitt University College Dublin


Theoretical Physics Gravitational Waves in Alternative Theories of General Relativity

Christopher West Dublin City University


Media A look behind the screens: the evolving agency of the user in Irish internet policy making

Ciara Buckley Athlone Institute of Technology


Medical Biotechnology

Modification of bioactive hyaluronic acid for stereolithography 3D printing of hydrogel conduits for peripheral nerve regeneration

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Ciara Leahy University of Limerick


Cell Biology Defining the impact of BILF1 on B cell transformation

Claire Doocey Cork Institute of Technology



Microbial-based therapies for pancreatic cancer

Claire O'Connor Trinity College Dublin


Genetics and Heredity

Development of a gene therapy for epilepsy

Clara Evans Maynooth University


Inorganic, Organometallic and Nuclear Chemistry

Novel anti-cancer organometallics; synergistic DNA damaging and photo-triggered CO releasing therapeutics.

Clara Mallon National University of Ireland, Galway


Theatre Studies Invisible Ireland? Performing and Representing the Working-Class in Irish Theatre during the Celtic Tiger Era.

Cliona Curley University College Dublin


Information Systems Analysing the movement of far right extremists to alternative technology (alt-tech) platforms, and the resultant impact on their ability to spread misinformation, incite violence and radicalise others

Cónal Murphy University College Cork



Predictive atomistic simulation and in silico design of quantum dots for classical and quantum light emitters

Conor O'Driscoll University College Cork


Organic Chemistry Direct alkylation of ketones

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Cordula Bieri Trinity College Dublin


Sociology From Direct Provision to Housing: The Lived Experiences of Refugees in Ireland

Dakota Holmes National University of Ireland, Galway


Physical Geography Providing Insights from Climate Archives (PICA): a multiproxy approach for the reconstruction of AMOC response to Quaternary climate events

Danish Us-Salam Trinity College Dublin


Economics Essays in Development Economics

Dara Curran University College Cork


Organic Chemistry Development of Green Nucleophilic Substitution Methodology Using Environmentally Benign, Sustainable Catalysts

Darren Beirne Maynooth University



Combination chemo-therapy: a modern approach to target colorectal cancer with dual-action Tyrosine Kinase inhibitor-Pt(IV) based drugs

David Martin University of Limerick


Law The Regulation of Shadow Banking and its Implications for Systemic Risk

David Mc Laughlin University College Dublin



Light Harvesting with Spin-Switchable Phosphorescent Dyes

Dawn Higgins Maynooth University


Psychology The development of a Boston process-based neuropsychological assessment for the screening and diagnosis of dementia for use with individuals with low and/or no literacy, such as the Travelling Population of Ireland.

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Deborah Malone National University of Ireland, Galway


Optics Investigating limitations on Adaptive Optics performance for the European Extremely Large Telescope

Deborah Mireles National University of Ireland, Galway


Business & Management

Understanding Subsidiary Managers Engagement in Strategic Activities

Delphi MacWhite-Begg




Investigating the effects of EOSRD mutations on early eye development

Diane Pelly University College Dublin


Economics The economic case for Worker Wellbeing Programmes. Are they worth the investment?

Diego Zambiasi University College Dublin


Economics Understanding the illict drug market to design effective policies

Dillon O'Reilly Institute of Technology, Carlow


Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

Colloid based Electrospray Micro-Thrusters for Electric Propulsion of Cubesats and Nanosats

Divya Ravikumar National University of Ireland, Galway


Sociology Food provision and the homeless population: working together to enable solutions

Dylan OFlynn Dublin City University


Environmental Sciences

Empire Evaluate - Effect based Monitoring for Environmental Pollution in Ireland and Evaluation of Mitigation Strategies to Minimise its Impact

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Edel Hanley University College Cork


Literatures Trauma in Women’s First World War Poetry and Autobiographical Writing

Edmond Gubbins Mary Immaculate College


Education Musical Futures as Critical Pedagogy: Investigating Generalist Primary Teachers’ Musical Backgrounds and Experiences and the Influence of a Whole School Participatory Action Research on Music Learning and Teaching

Eibhlín Halpin University College Cork


Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences

Spectroscopic Technology for Analysing Nitrogen Dioxide and Urgent Personal exposure measurements (STANDUP)

Eirini Evangelia Psychari



Media “Designing the future newsroom. How human-centred design and big data drive innovation in traditional newspapers: implications for journalism”.

Elena Saskia Schaa Trinity College Dublin


Cultural Studies How do Future Worldviews Emerge? Quantum Physics, and the Case of Werner Heisenberg’s ‘Religion without God’

Elin Strachan University College Dublin



Uncovering the pathogenic mechanisms underpinning dominant optic atrophy

Elisa Sabbadin University College Cork


Literatures The Long Line in American Poetry: An Alternative Tradition from Walt Whitman through William Carlos Williams to Allen Ginsberg

Elizabeth Quirke National University of Ireland, Galway


Literatures “When They Talk About Mothers”: Investigating Queer Kinship in Contemporary Poetry

GOI Awardees 2020

Elizabeth Tanner University College Cork


History An Analysis of the corollary between culture and structure in US Foreign Policy: South Asia, 1971

Emma Corley National University of Ireland, Galway


Psychology Cognitive Deficits in Schizophrenia: Characterising the Combined Effects of Common Genetic Variation and Early Life Adversity

Emma Dunne University College Dublin


Evolutionary Biology APOLLO: A prospective study on the Prevention Of heat Loss in LOw birth weight infants

Eoin Caffrey Trinity College Dublin


Colloid and Nanochemistry

Printed Nanomaterials for High-Performance Sensors

Eoin Carolan University College Dublin


Theoretical Physics Thermodynamics of quantum computational models.

Eoin Hurley University College Cork


Anthropology The expansion of the pharmacist’s role in primary care in Ireland: a mixed methods study

Erika Stiobhairt Trinity College Dublin



The Development of Memory Engrams Across the Lifespan

Evan Judge University College Cork


Organic Chemistry Flow chemistry in organic synthesis

GOI Awardees 2020

Federica Modafferi National University of Ireland, Galway



Investigating the Transgenerational Inheritance of Centromeres using a Bovine In Vitro Fertilisation Model System

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Economics Essays in Political Economy: Voting Behaviour, Organised Crime and Weak States

Francesca Guido National University of Ireland, Galway


Classics Recovering the sources, influence and transmission of Charisius’ Latin grammar

Francesco Barilari Trinity College Dublin


Economics Political Polarization: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment

Georgina Perryman Maynooth University


Geography The future of community heritage in Dublin: Place-making and productive nostalgia in response to urban transformation

Geraldine Brassil Mary Immaculate College


Literatures A Study of Nineteenth-Century Irish Women Writers and their Literary and Publishing Networks (1857-1900): Sarah Atkinson in Duffy’s Hibernian Magazine, The Irish Monthly and The Freeman’s Journal.

GERARD PARERAS University College Cork


Theoretical and Computational Chemistry

Design of Superior Catalysts for the Olefin Metathesis Reaction

Gillian Carney University College Dublin



Developing mechanisms to disrupt biofilm formed by antibiotic resistant Campylobacter jejuni on Supermarket Chicken Meat

GOI Awardees 2020

Giselle Harvey Limerick Institute of Technology


Education Public STEAM: Inventing Transdisciplinary Tools and Practices for ‘Education for Sustainability’ in Irish Adult Education Contexts

Glenna Swinand Trinity College Dublin



A New Ligation Technology for the Accelerated Synthesis of Cyclic Peptides under Continuous-Flow Conditions

Gráinne Daly University College Dublin


Literatures Remembrance Culture in Irish fiction: Theory and practice

Guillaume Thuery Trinity College Dublin



Are the stress-signalling pathway and the formation of stress-granules involved in retinal degeneration?

Gustavo Fehrenbach Athlone Institute of Technology


Agricultural Biotechnology

Development of innovative pulsed light-ultraviolet technology for safeguarding consumer health and fragile seafood industry from the winter vomiting bug outbreaks (norovirus)

Gwenaëlle HURPY-ROCHON



Biodiversity Conservation

The ecosystem services of Irish bats

Hannah Baker Trinity College Dublin


History A Revaluation of the Contribution of Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863-1941) to Visual and Political Culture in Ireland and Britain, as an Artist, a Promoter of the Fine Arts and a Social Reformer.

Hannah Rice Trinity College Dublin


Irish Language Studies

Self-Translation in a Bilingual State: An Investigation into the Practice of Self-Translation and its Interactions with Language Identity in the Irish-Language Context

GOI Awardees 2020

Harvey Gleeson University College Dublin


Colloid and Nanochemistry

Sustainable Nanoparticulate Photoabsorbers for Solar Induced Synthesis of “Green” Fuel and Chemicals

Ian Darragh Dublin City University



Profile and bioactivity of miRNA expressed in extracellular vesicles secreted from skeletal muscle during exercise of divergent type and intensity: A proof-of-concept pipeline for the identification of novel exercise derived therapeutics.

Ioannis Karvelas University College Dublin


Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing

Novice Programming Behavior and Programming Environments

Isabel Aust Dublin City University


Media An analysis of the journalistic and sociological framing of drugs, drug use, and drug legislation in Irish print and digital journalism, 1964 - 2018.

Isabella Emediato Trinity College Dublin



Pre-clinical development of NOX2/ROS blood-based biomarkers of chronic TBI

Isabellla Batten Trinity College Dublin



The Age-old Problem of ANCA Associated Vasculitis

Jack Callan Maynooth University


Geography Geographies of Abortion Access in Ireland

Jack Robinson Dublin City University



Ganglioside modified cavity supported lipid bilayers; New insights into cell membrane reorganization driven by Integrin-Galectin-Ganglioside interactions.

GOI Awardees 2020

Jacob Miller University College Dublin


Literatures The Origins of Post-Truth: Neoliberalism and Epistemic Crisis in Anglo-American Fiction, 1980 to the Present.

Jacopo Turini University College Cork


Italian The Environment, Borders and Identity: Contemporary Italian Literature in Alpine Frontier Areas

Jennifer McAndrew University College Dublin


Politics U.S. Reinvention of Music Diplomacy in the Post 9/11 Era

Jennifer Murphy Technological University Dublin


Sociology Evaluating the replicability and reproducibility of sports science research – a multi-lab collaboration project.

Joachim Bosschaert Dublin City University


Fluids and Plasma Physics

A Novel Plasma Source for the efficient production of Plasma Activated Water

Joanne Cosgrave University College Dublin


Cell Biology Investigating the anti-cancer effects of phytocannabinoids on the epigenome.

Johannes Aspman Trinity College Dublin


Theoretical Physics Weak Gravity and Modularity

John Ivory National University of Ireland, Galway



The reliability and diagnostic validity of clinical manifestations of biofilm in venous leg ulcers

GOI Awardees 2020

John Paul Clifford University College Cork


Economics The role of cities in driving national growth

John Walsh Trinity College Dublin


German Stefan George and Dante: Exile, Desire, and the Intertextual Self

Judit Villena Rodó National University of Ireland, Galway


Law Migrant Women, Coercive Control and Intimate Partner Violence: an examination of women’s ability to access remedies in Ireland and Spain

Karen Arulsamy University College Dublin


Economics Mental health and financial outcomes over the lifespan

Kate Autumn Evetts University College Dublin


Archaeology A Multi-Isotope Investigation of Faunal Remains From Newgrange, Co. Meath: Deciphering Later Prehistoric Subsistence and Connectivity

Kate Donaghy University College Dublin


Organic Chemistry Organocatalysed Glycosylations with RNA-derived Catalysts

Kathryn Dane Trinity College Dublin



Safety and Optimal tackle outcomes in Senior Women’s Rugby

Kathy Dillon National University of Ireland, Galway


French Representing the 'Other': The Sociological Importance of Contemporary Francophone women writers: Leïla Slimani, Noufissa Sabï and Houria Boussejra

GOI Awardees 2020

Katie O’Rourke Dublin City University


Environmental Sciences

Integration of holistic approaches to detect pharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment

Keith Lyons National University of Ireland, Galway



Venomous Invaders: Investigating the role of venom in ecological invasions

Kimberley Sheehan-Thomas




How does PYHIN1 contribute to human innate immunity?

Konstantinos Maronikolakis



Pure Mathematics Universality and boundary behaviour of holomorphic functions

Larissa Macedo Cruz de Oliveira

University College Cork


Geology Advancing Seabed Mapping Techniques for Deep-water Habitat Classification in Submarine Canyons (ASMaT)

Laura Cutugno National University of Ireland, Galway


Microbial Genetics Genetic characterisation of the Vibrio vulnificus stressosome and its role in stress response and virulence

Laura McQuaid University of Limerick


Statistics and Probability

A Flexible Parametric Modelling Framework for High-Dimensional Hierarchical Survival Data

Lee Gannon Trinity College Dublin



Building and testing of novel on-surface synthesised porphyrin-functionalised graphene nanoribbon nanostructures: Towards a platform of single-molecule sensor devices

GOI Awardees 2020

Lia Mills University of Limerick


Literatures Parallax in Fiction: Towards a practice-based theory of creative narrative intervention

Liam Whitmore University of Limerick



Determining the environmental factors that enable an otherwise neoplastically benign herpesvirus to overcome host immune responses and induce a tumour epidemic in marine turtles.

Lian McGuire Dublin City University


Education Bullying & Cyberbullying among Third Level Students in Ireland : An Empirical Study

Libor Zachoval Institute of Technology, Carlow


Distributed Computing

The Tracking, Modeling, and Predictive Analysis of Learner Behaviour Towards More Effective Learner Behaviours and Online Courses

Lilian Nwanze Maynooth University


Education The invisible burden: The emotional dimensions of racialization on the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Learner in the Irish Further Education System.

Lioba Verena Speicher

National University of Ireland, Galway


Classics The Old Norse Sagas of Antiquity: a study in cross-cultural Classical reception and transnational networks in Medieval Scandinavia, Ireland, and Europe.

Lisa Keenan University College Dublin


Psychology Exploring the nature and prevalence of sleep difficulties in children with Tourette syndrome: The relation with tic severity and executive functioning

Lorene Lefebvre National University of Ireland, Galway


Agricultural Biotechnology

Deciphering mechanisms of Biological Nitrification Inhibition (BNI) in forage and model grasses

GOI Awardees 2020

Louise Curtin Mary Immaculate College


Education An Examination of the New Allocation Model (Department of Education and Skills 2017) in Irish Primary Schools.

Luke Edward Brennan

Maynooth University


Organic Chemistry The design, synthesis & biological evaluation of theranostic agents targeting multi-drug resistant bacteria.

Luke Harvey Trinity College Dublin


Astronomy and Space Science

The nucleosythesis of kilanova and Ca-strong transients

Mairead Gallagher Technological University Dublin


Organic Chemistry Studies on Metabolites of Common Antibiotics in the Development of Antimicrobial Resistance (AM-AMR)

Mannthalah Abubaker

University of Limerick



The influence of CSF flow in the subarachnoid space and its role in TBI

Marco Ceravolo University College Cork


Italian Modern Italian Bestiaries: An Ecocritical Analysis of the Role of Animals in the Works of Federigo Tozzi, Dino Buzzati, Anna Maria Ortese

Maria Cullen National University of Ireland, Galway


History Humanitarian aid in hostile environments: comparing the emergency relief operations of Oxfam and Médecins sans Frontières in the Global South, 1979-1986

Maria Manning University College Cork


Literatures Performing Women's Poetry: An Evolving Craft

GOI Awardees 2020

Marie Clara Michel University College Cork


Organic Chemistry Development of Green, Sustainable Organic Synthetic Methods Using Enantioselective Catalytic Nucleophilic Substitution

Mark Kelly Trinity College Dublin


Atomic, Molecular and Chemical Physics

Mechanistic Insight Into Lignin Pyrolysis: Using Thermogravimetric Analysis and Mass Spectrometry to Develop a State-of-Art Thermal Degradation Pathway for Lignin Pyrolysis

Martin Kenny National University of Ireland, Galway


Theatre Studies Queer Connections: identifying and expanding a sense of a queer national consciousness through the production, presentation and reception of Irish theatre and performance, from 1960 - 2020

Mary Hopkins National University of Ireland, Galway



Preclinical and clinical investigation of the endocannabinoid system as a viable novel target for diagnosis and treatment of low back pain.

Marylette Roa National University of Ireland, Galway



Diversity and ecology of squamate gut microbiome

Mateus Emerson de Souza Miranda

Mary Immaculate College


Linguistics Spoken grammar construction and pragmatic features across the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR): An interlanguage corpus study

Megan Brien Technological University Dublin


History A History of Interior Design for Autism in Ireland, 1969 to present.

Meghan Winterlich National University of Ireland, Galway


Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry

Synthesis and characterisation of novel magnetic metal organic frameworks for a targeted delivery of anti cancer drugs through magnetic dynamic therapy

GOI Awardees 2020

Melissa Bohnert Trinity College Dublin


Sociology Social Inequalities in Child Time Use and Development in Ireland: A Mixed-Methods Longitudinal Approach

Michela Dianetti National University of Ireland, Galway


Italian The Narrative of Objects as Ethical Facts in Iris Murdoch and Elsa Morante.

Mohamed Beshr Technological University Dublin



Plasmon mapping of SERS-active nanostructures for prostate cancer detection using scanning probe energy loss spectroscopy

Mohammad Aboomar



Languages Evolutionary Biology in Contemporary Arabic Translation: Impact of Culture on the Dissemination of Science

Mohammad Ali Shafiei



Computer Software Self-protecting cyber-physical systems

Mohammadali Sahebalzamani




Multifunctional bone scaffold materials for segmental bone defect repair: development and characterisation of mechanically robust nanocomposite scaffolds with controlled degradation rate and tuneable local surface stiffness fabricated via Layer-by-layer assembly

Moonyoung Hong Trinity College Dublin


Literatures Tom Murphy's Theatre of Everyday Space

Nandini Gupta Trinity College Dublin

Andrew Grene Postgraduate Scholarship in Conflict Resolution

Politics The Wandering Minstrels of Hope: Tracing the Role of Women’s Grassroots Peacebuilding in Kashmir and Northern Ireland

GOI Awardees 2020

Naomi Corlett University College Dublin


Philosophy Temporal Asymmetry, Causation and the Open Future

Natalia Burakowska University College Dublin


Philosophy The Phenomenology of Dementia: An Embodied-Cognitive Account

Nathan Fox Maynooth University


Theoretical Physics Anyonic quantum computation in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates

NEHA KAMRANI University College Dublin


Literatures Representations of Sexual Violence in Contemporary Irish and Indian Theatre

Nery Ramati Dublin City University

Andrew Grene Postgraduate Scholarship in Conflict Resolution

Politics The Use of Preventive Artificial Intelligence Tools in Counter-Terrorism (PAITCT) and their Impact on Human Rights: The Case of the Israeli Security Agency (ISA) AI Tool.

Niamh O'Callaghan Institute of Technology, Sligo


Education “Taking Back Control” : An investigation into the current dietary patterns of Irish Cancer Survivors and their relationship with food and nutrition.

Nicholas O'Neill University College Dublin


Sociology Marketisation of home care in Ireland: a geographical perspective focusing on the private sector

Nikolett Warner National University of Ireland, Galway


Psychology Being diagnosed with cancer promoting genetic mutations BRCA 1 and 2 in Ireland: Development of an intervention to enhance coping skills and improve knowledge.

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Oisin Patrick Culhane Trinity College Dublin


Theoretical Physics Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of quantum clocks

Orlaith Darling Trinity College Dublin


Literatures ‘Something familiar about the shape’: association and alienation in Irish women’s contemporary short fiction

Paddy Cahalane Trinity College Dublin



Generative machine-learning models for chemical design

Peadar Kearney Maynooth University


French Blurred Boundaries and Fluid Selves: Post-Identity Francophone Cinema

Peter Shannon Maynooth University


Musicology Schubert’s Ninth Symphony: a composer’s ability to heal. (A conductor’s reading of Schubert’s Ninth symphony through the prism of Hans Georg Gadamer)

Peter Weakliam Trinity College Dublin


Irish Language Studies

An analysis of the theme of freedom in Pádraig Ó Cíobháin’s fiction

Philip Gavin Trinity College Dublin


Law The Influence of Creditors on Corporate Direction Across Common Law Jurisdictions

Phoebe Brown University of Limerick


Theatre Studies The potential for perceptible process: an exploration of the interconnections between differential equations (DEs) and contemporary dance choreography.

GOI Awardees 2020

Pierce Sinnott Trinity College Dublin



“Pleatronics”: 2D Material Pleat Self-Assembly and Superlubricity

Prosscovia Nambatya



Law Making Cross Boarder Securities Markets Work for Africa: Is Integration the Solution?

Rachel Healy University College Dublin


Cultural Studies Portraits of Giorgio Cornaro and his Heirs: Resolving issues of Identity, Authorship and Patronage in Renaissance Venice and Beyond

Ramesh Premaratne Ganohariti



Politics Impact of citizenship constellations on de facto states: A comparative analysis of post-Soviet de facto states

Rasha Alshaikh University College Cork



Hydrogels for the intraocular delivery of sphingosine -1-phosphate agents in the management of retinal diseases

Rebecca Brady Technological University Dublin


Applied Mathematics

Mathematical Models Linking Neuronal and Behavioural Responses in Parkinson’s disease

Richael Connolly University College Cork



How does the Artisan Food Entrepreneur (AFE) experience business growth? An examination of business growth in a ‘post growth’ context.

Robert Byrne University College Dublin


Astronomy and Space Science

Minding the Gap: Searching for Low Luminosity Transients in Nearby Galaxies

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Robert Feeney University College Cork


Literatures The Ghosts of Lafcadio Hearn: A Novel

Robert Watson University College Dublin


Physical Geography A multi-data machine learning approach to identifying, mapping and characterising sinkhole populations in karst environments

Roisin O'Malley National University of Ireland, Galway


Psychology Learning from what goes well: Improving the quality of primary care

Sandra Costello University College Cork


Film Studies Institutional Acts of Watching in Irish Cinema: Surveillance, Power and the Camera

Sandra-Carina Noble Maynooth University



Accelerating stroke rehabilitation using iterative learning applied via a brain-computer interface

Sarah Greeley University College Cork



Leading the Way: Developing the Identity of Future Leaders

Seun Adebayo National University of Ireland, Galway


Education Developing more culturally responsive pedagogies with Irish primary school teachers using a learning study approach

Shane Somers University College Cork



Drivers of variation in the microbiome of the wild great tit, Parus major

GOI Awardees 2020

Si Lok Ko University College Cork


Organic Chemistry Efficient Green Catalysis

Sid McDonnell University College Dublin



Implementing Workplace Well-being Programmes: A view from Institutional Theory

Simon O'Shaughnessy




Investigation of the Nutrient Requirements of Dendritic Cells in Vivo

Simon Poole Dublin City University



Development of Holliday junction-stabilising di-nuclear complexes via click chemistry: a new gene targeting strategy for metal-based drugs

Siobhán Buckley Maynooth University


Law “Contrasts in Tolerance?”: A cross-sectoral analysis of punitiveness in the adult and youth criminal justice systems of Ireland, Scotland and the Netherlands 1990 – 2015

Siobhán Hamon National University of Ireland, Galway



Therapeutic potential of parasite-derived immunomodulatory peptides in the treatment of sepsis and acute kidney injury (AKI)

Siobhan McEvoy University College Dublin


Psychology The dynamics of cohesion, integration, and collective efficacy: A case study of women’s refugee networks in Athens

Sonia Lenehan University College Cork


Developmental Biology

The INNOVATE Study - INvestigatiNg cOgnitive deVelopment in preterm and full term infAnTs using Eyemotion tracking.

GOI Awardees 2020

Stacey Kerr University College Dublin


Plant sciences, Botany

Pharming of high value metabolites from transplastomic plant cells using bioreactors

Stephanie Maher University College Dublin


Cell Biology Investigating the Effects of Phosphatases on Trk Mediated Signalling and Cell Fate in Neuroblastoma

Stephanie Robinson University College Cork


History The Bioarchaeology of Early Bronze Age Ireland: Health, Disease, and Trauma at the Transition from Stone to Metal

Stephen Keelan RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences



Brain metastatic breast cancer, a search for clinically actionable targets, in the epigenome.

Tara Comber University College Dublin



The development and use of a new multiple sclerosis in vitro model for the development of novel myelin-repair agents

Tian Yu Maynooth University


Electrochemistry The Electrochemical Detection of Pesticides and their Removal from water using Electro-Fenton and Electrocoagulation

Valerio Cataldi Trinity College Dublin



Activity Based Probes to reveal new insights into P53 deubiquitination

V'cenza Cirefice National University of Ireland, Galway


Geography Local environmental resistance to extractivism in Ireland: A feminist environmental justice lens

GOI Awardees 2020

Veronica Barry Maynooth University


History An examination of Nazi propaganda directed at women of the neutral states from 1933-45.

Yvonne Muldowney Trinity College Dublin


Education The development and testing of a protocol to integrate Palliative Care into Irish ICUs: A National Strategy Project

Ahmed Barhoum+A211:E281


GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Analytical Chemistry MAGICAN: MAGnetic Particle Based Biosensor for CANcer Risk Prediction, Diagnosis and Theranosis

Alessandra Di Grande

RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Cell Biology In depth-characterisation of the role of splenic microenvironment in the development of ABT-199 resistance

Ana Stefanovska University College Cork

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Italian Literary Space in Italian Neorealism

Andreea Petrasca Trinity College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Cell Biology Targeting cellular metabolism in inflammatory skin disease

Angelika Holzinger University of Limerick

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Electrochemistry Electrosynthesis and advanced characterization of conductive polymer/nanoparticle nanocomposites at electrified soft interfaces for sensor and polymer solar cell applications

Anna McKay University College Cork

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Literatures British Prison Hulks, 1775-1875: ‘Wicked Noah’s Arks’?

GOI Awardees 2020

Anne Mulhall Trinity College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Literatures Time and the Other Capitalism: The Pasts, Presents and Futures of Work

Anusha Mohan Trinity College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Psychology Causally investigating the dimensional variability in tinnitus as an imbalance between top-down and bottom-up neural processes

Ashley Shaw University College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Philosophy The Metaphysics of Need

Cecilia Brioni Trinity College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Italian (Trans)national Online Communities: Celebrity, Identity, and Reception on YouTube Italia

Ciaran Arthur National University of Ireland, Galway

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship History Intentional Obscurity and 'Divine Speech’ in Early English Texts

Ciaran McDonough University College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Celtic Studies Antiquarianism, Politics, and Sectarianism in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: A study of Ancient Laws and Institutes of Ireland (1852-1901)

Cliona Hensey National University of Ireland, Galway

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship French Reconstructive Memory Work: Trauma, Witnessing and the Imagination in Contemporary Writing by Daughters of Harkis

Colleen Taylor University College Cork

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Literatures Irish Writing and the New Materialism: Objects of Irish Character, 1720 – 1830

GOI Awardees 2020

Colm Delaney Trinity College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry

Bio-Inspired Photonic Sensors

Conor Tobin University College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship History "A Soviet Vietnam?" Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Carter Administration, and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

Denis Murphy Trinity College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Film Studies A labour history of screen production in Ireland (1958-2020)

Dieter Reinisch National University of Ireland, Galway

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship History Changing patterns of political violence and peaceful protest in European democracies: A historical comparison of social movements in Germany and Ireland

Dnyaneshwar Garad National University of Ireland, Galway

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Medicinal and Biomolecular Chemistry

Sulfamidates as Electrophilic Reagents for the Site-Specific Incorporation of Biologically Relevant Post-translationally Modified Lysine Residues into Protein.

Dualta O Fionnagain National University of Ireland, Galway

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Astronomy and Space Science

Characterising high speed transient radio emission from planetary electrostatic discharges using the Owens Valley Low Wavelength Array

Edward Molloy University College Cork

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Literatures Between History and Revolution: Radical Separatism in Ireland from Tone to Pearse

Efstratios Delogkos University College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Geology Fault growth on short timescales and the role of fault geometries and interactions on earthquake behaviour

GOI Awardees 2020

Elliot Carter Trinity College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Geochemistry Messages from the deep: Assessing the thermal and chemical evolution of the mantle during initiation of the North Atlantic Igneous Province

Elspeth Ward RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Medical Biotechnology

Rational Therapy for Invasive Lobular Breast Cancer

Emma Penney University College Cork

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Literatures Social-Class and the Women's Movement in Ireland: A Second Look at the Second-Wave

Ena Luis Trinity College Dublin


Morphological control of lanthanide-based nanostructures

Floris Verhaart University College Cork

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship History Enemies of the Text: Jean Hardouin and the Modernisation of the Humanities (1680-1765)

Gabriel Krasovec National University of Ireland, Galway

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Developmental Biology

Exploring the morphogenetic functions of apoptosis in the cnidarian Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus

Gaozhong Wang Trinity College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Optics Ultrafast nonlinear optical performance of photonic devices based on two-dimensional quantum nanosheets

Giulio D'Urso University College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Education Bullying in School Contexts in Ireland: Evidence from the Growing Up in Ireland and Children’s School Lives National Cohort Studies

GOI Awardees 2020

Guido Bartolini University College Cork

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Italian Adapting to a Difficult Heritage: The Memory and Responsibility for Fascism in Italian Literature and Cinema

Hannah White Trinity College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Ecology The contribution of common and rare species to spatial patterns of functional diversity

Harshvardhan Pandit Trinity College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Information Systems Exploring Privacy Risks of Technologies Using Knowledge Graphs

Helen O'Connor Trinity College Dublin


Development of lanthanide-based 0-3D architectures for the detection of freshwater pollutants

James Behan University College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Colloid and Nanochemistry

NANO-INT: Controlling the Nanoconstruct Interface for Targeted Applications in Nanomedicine and Biology.

James Phelan Trinity College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Cell Biology Defining the role of macrophage-mediated recruitment of neutrophils in the fight against Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

Jason Keegan Trinity College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Zoology, Ornithology, Entomology, Behavioural Sciences Biology

Teaching an old dog new tricks: The application of novel geospatial modelling techniques to investigate the interactions between two major reservoirs of Toxocara spp. infection.

Jason Porter University College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship History The Diversity of Slaving Strategies in Ancient Athens, 500–300 B.C.

GOI Awardees 2020

Jhimli PAUL GUIN University College Dublin


Round-the-clock metal-free visible-light photocatalyst polymer membrane reactor for elimination of short-chain per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances from surface waters

Joanne O'Dwyer National University of Ireland, Galway

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Cell Biology Creation of effective targeted immunotherapy in a local refillable delivery system for ovarian cancer

John Brown Maynooth University

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Politics Democratisation and post-neoliberal citizenship in Latin America: Lessons from Bolivia and Venezuela

John Gallagher University College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Literatures Science, Creation, and Cosmology in the Early Medieval Latin West

Julie Powell University College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship History The Attraction of Repulsion: Tales of Murder and the First World War

Ketlyn Mara Rosa Trinity College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Film Studies The Body in Battle and the Body Confined: Corporeal Representations in Cinema of Late Twentieth-Century Conflicts in Northern Ireland and Brazil

Kevin Tracey Maynooth University

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Literatures AMERGIN: Analysing Macaronic Early-Modern Readers by Gathering Irish Networks (1575-1675)

Lachlan Fleetwood University College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship History The ‘Habitable Globe’: Science, Geography and Environment in the Indian Sub-Empire

GOI Awardees 2020

Laura De Diego Garcia

RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Targeting mRNA polyadenylation to treat drug refractory epilepsy

Leyla Maria Gabriella Livraghi

University College Cork

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Italian Livy's legacy in Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio: the practice of reading history in Italian culture from the late 13th to the 14th century

Lonneke Peperkamp University College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Politics Claiming Subsistence Rights

Manfa Sanogo University College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Literatures From Hainteny to Negritude: Analysis of the Transnational Flow of Literary Currents between Malagasy and Francophone Literatures

Marconi Peñas Trinity College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Theoretical and Computational Chemistry

Accelerated rational design of earth-abundant catalysts for the hyperpolarization with para-hydrogen. Solving the sensitivity problem of NMR and MRI techniques.

Mariana Alves RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

The metabotropic P2Y1 receptor as novel therapeutic target for neonatal brain injury

Martin Schauss University College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Literatures The New Ecological Imaginary: Waste, Water, Energy, and the Built Environment in Twenty-First Century Experimental Prose (2001-2019)

Matteo Bonini University College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Pure Mathematics Algebraic Geometry Codes for Error-Correction in Distributed and Quantum Systems

GOI Awardees 2020

Mehmet Gurdal National University of Ireland, Galway


Development and assessment of full-thickness scaffold-free human corneal equivalents using macromolecular crowding

Melanie Altanian University College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Philosophy The Distinct Epistemic Injustice of Genocide Denialism

Mohamed Barakat Zakaria Mohamed


GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Colloid and Nanochemistry

Developing Novel 2D and 3D Defect-Free Cyano-Bridged Coordination Polymers-based Carbon/MXene Materials for Next-Generation Sodium-Ion Batteries and Electrochemical Applications

Mohemmed Faraz Khan



Enabling faster drug discovery – development of a unified software platform for computer-aided drug design

Niall Ó Súilleabháin Trinity College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship History ‘Servi Dei’: A Social History of Ecclesiastical Servitude in Northern France, c. 888 - 1120

Nima Afraz Trinity College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Distributed Computing

Blockchain-Based Distributed Framework for 5G and Beyond Network Infrastructure Sharing

Nitul Guha University College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Organic Chemistry Design, Synthesis and Applications in Asymmetric Catalysis of Chiral Ligands Exploiting Non-covalent Bonding Interactions

Olwyn Mahon University of Limerick

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Cell Biology Investigating the interplay between ECM architecture, cancer cell dynamics and immune cell-infiltrates in 3D reconstructions of human colonic tumour microenvironments.

GOI Awardees 2020

Peter Griffith University College Cork

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Archaeology Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments and Middle Stone Age habitat preferences in the Nakuru-Naivasha Basin, Kenya

Rachel Sheehan University of Limerick

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Psychology Rugby injury epidemiology: Relations to psychological factors

Robert Dunphy University College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Philosophy Scepticism and Presuppositionlessness: Hegel and the Problem of Beginning

Saidulu Konda National University of Ireland, Galway


Development of novel constrained sia-gal mimetics for the prevention of influenza virus infections

Salomé Paul Trinity College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Theatre Studies Redeeming Monstrous Women: Marina Carr and Greek Tragedy

Sheila Castilho Dublin City University

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing

Document-level Machine Translation Evaluation (DELA)

Silvia Speriani Trinity College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Classics Ajax. A Roman Myth

Siobhán Barrett Maynooth University

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Celtic Studies A Triad of Medical Glossaries

GOI Awardees 2020

Sirsendu Bhowmick National University of Ireland, Galway

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Medical and Biomedical Engineering

Fabrication of bioinspired artificial extracellular matrix scaffold for diabetic wound care

Smruti Sahoo Trinity College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Theoretical and Computational Chemistry

Computer simulation of charge transfer states in organic solar cells

Stuart Mathieson Dublin City University

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship History Sir George Gabriel Stokes: Evangelical Scientist and the Crisis of Faith

Sybren Heyndels University College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Philosophy Modal Normativism: Reviving an Old Tradition

Tara Dirilgen University College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Ecology From Roots to Pollinators: How above- and below-ground organisms interact through plants

Tony Twamley University College Dublin

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Agricultural Biotechnology

Investigating the role of receptor-like kinases (RLKs) in defence priming in wheat

Valentina Mele University College Cork

GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Italian Lyric Subjectivity in Guido Cavalcanti's _Rime_

Victoria Elizabeth Mullin


GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship Genetics and Heredity

Milking the past: Tracing the genomic origins of dairy cattle

GOI Awardees 2020

Zhonglei He Technological University Dublin


Anti-Cancer Strategy: Combining Cold Atmospheric Plasma with Theranostic Nanoparticles

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