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Areas of research supervision

St Mary’s carefully matches student research interests to the academic knowledge and skills of its research supervisors.

All students are supervised by a minimum of two members of staff each bringing discrete expertise to the research project.

  • Dr Michelle Paull
    • Modern drama and literature
    • Irish theatre and literature
  • Dr Russell Schechter
    • Creative writing
    • Film or literature which entails explorations of genre, notably crime, science fiction/fantasy or horror
    • Film/media studies
  • Prof Karen Sanders
  • Dr Christopher Wylde
    • The political economy of development
    • Theory of the state
    • IPE, and comparative development studies – particularly Argentina and/or Brazil (also Latin America more widely) as well as Malaysia (or SE Asia more widely)
  • Dr Carole Murphy
    • Modern slavery
    • Human trafficking
    • Exploitation abuse (domestic, sexual, other)
    • Gender-based violence
    • Addiction