The University of Sheffield
Department of Politics

Recent Research Graduates

Congratulations to our recent research graduates!

Since the start of the 2009/10 academic year the following research students have been successful in their vivas and recommendations have been made by their examiners that they be awarded.

2011-2012
Student
Degree Title
Christopher Wellbrook PhD '"When a Dam Bursts": An anarchist approach to social movements'
Islam Yusufi PhD Europeanisation and Security Sector Reform: The case of the Republic of Macedonia
Victoria Hasson PhD The Role and Development of Deliberative Tradition in the Parliament of South Africa 1970-2009
Joerg Wiegratz PhD The Cultural Political Economy of Neoliberal Moral Restructuring: the case of agricultural trade in Uganda
Amy Barnes                 PhD         The Politics of the Idea of Partnership: From contemporary aid policy to local health governance in practice in Zambia
2010-2011
Student Degree Title
Vasileios Leontitsis PhD Decentralisation Reforms in Greece (1981-2008): Exploring Inertia and Change
Terri-Ann Gilbert-Roberts PhD The Dynamics of Regional Governance: The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Experience in a Context of Sovereignty Paradox
Moneef Mlafikh PhD Power and Autonomy in the Saudi State: Case Study Analysis of Policy Implementation
Blagoy Klimov PhD Challenging Path Dependence? Ideational Mapping of Nationalism and the EU's Transformative Power: The Case of Infrastructural Politics in SEE
Adrian Gallagher PhD Genocide and its Threat to International Society
Dion Curry PhD Multi-level Governance Frameworks in British Columbia and Scotland. Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Concept
Louise Strong PhD Understanding the Role of the Business Community in UK Climate Change Policymaking
Laura White PhD The Politics of Partnership Illuminating the UK-Rwanda Aid Relationship
Laura McLeod PhD Gender Politics and Security Discourse: Feminist and Women's Organising in "Post-Conflict" Serbia
Antonella Schintu PhD The Biopolitics of Contemporary Forms of Activism: The Creation of Autonomous and Radical Subjectives and Ways of Life
David Moon PhD Ideological Antagonism and Power Relations within Multi-level Political parties: The Post-devolution Welsh Labour Party
Matthew English PhD 'Filling-in' the 'Hollowed Out'? Assessing the Strategic Value of ICT in the New Labour Core Executive (1997-2010)
Daniel Fitzpatrick PhD Regulation in the British Political Tradition
Roberto Zepeda PhD The Decline of Trade Unions in Mexico during the Neoliberal Period
George Zammit PhD Reconsidering the Role of Parties at the European Level: Constructing Actorness for the Christian Democrat and Socialist Party Groups in the European parliament using an International Relations Framework
Rory Shand PhD The Thames Gateway and the Social City: A Comparative Study of Governance of Brownfield Regeneration in the UK and Germany

2009-10
Student Degree Title
Mark Low PhD The Evolution of the Conservative Party Organisation: Renewal and the Re-characterisation of Local Autonomy
Fernando Solano-Ramirez PhD The Europeanisation of Citizenship and Foreigners' Rights in Spain and the UK: 1997-2007
Xiongwei Song PhD Analysing New Labour's Approach to Policy Implementation: A Case Study of Sure Start
Oybek Madiyev MPhil The Political Economy of Japan's External Energy Dependence: Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Diplomacy in Central Asia
Michael Latham PhD Restructuring the West European Defence Aerospace Industry: A 'domestic filtration' approach
Olalla Linares Segade PhD A Viable Democratic Alternative to the Traditional Corporate Models in Capitalist Society: A normative and empirical case for employee participation
Daniel Wunderlich PhD Europeanisation through the Grapevine? Implementing EU External Migration Policy in Morocco and Ukraine
Alexander Yanakiev PhD Europeanisation and Domestic Change: The Effects of EU Regional Policy in Bulgaria
Michael Neu PhD The Dilemma of Justified War
John Smith PhD Imperialism and the Globalisation of Production
Dama Mosweunyane PhD The Impact of Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) on Sustainable Development in Botswana
Jennifer Hugh PhD Incentives, Sanctions and Motivation: The Politics of Public Sector Reform in Relation to Jobseekers' Allowance