Master theses

2023-2025

University of Limerick:

  • Is the Conservative-Liberal Polarity on Climate Responsibility in Europe Shaped by Worry and Attribution? (Chidubem Izuakor, supervisor: Jenny Roth)
  • A moral framework: stakeholder and public perspectives on prisoners rehabilitation and reintegration (Emilie Renate Granlien, supervisor: Sarah Jay)
  • Rethinking Latinidad in the US: Experiences of Afro-Latina Scholars in Academia (Amelia Otmischi Tamayo, supervisor: Sarah Jay)
  • How WEIRD is the Right? Mapping Ideological Roots of Gender Equality and Religious Intolerance Attitudes in India (Aysha Liyana Kinakool Chalandayil, supervisor: Mike Quayle)
  • Maternal incarceration research across the European Union: a scoping review (Christina Kramarov, supervisor: Daragh Bradshaw)
  • Fragments of the Self: Queer Women Navigating Identity Disclosure and Concealment in the Workplace (Flavia Leonhardt, supervisor: Pablo De Tezanos-Pinto)
  • trans and non-binary subjectivities in Central America: a network analysis of experience-based communities (Linx Alexaner Arango Schmitt, supervisor: Pablo De Tezanos-Pinto)
  • Roots and Realities: Cultural Influences on Parental Attitudes Towards Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention in Zimbabwe (Lilian Badze, supervisor: Sarah Jay)
  • Climate change beliefs, political orientation, and adaptation: a cross-national mixed-methods study on climate policy support (Nathalia Moreira Barbosa Campos, supervisor: Mike Quayle)
  • unpacking life satisfaction: a comparative analysis of migrants and non-migrants’ pathways (Ogenameh Johnson, supervisor: Paul Maher)
  • Navigating Identity and Migration: The Lived Experiences of Indian Immigrant Women in the Netherlands (Pankhuri Fnu, supervisor: Sarah Jay)
  • Religious Beliefs, Political Context, and Support for Political Violence: The Moderating Roles of Political Interest and Stability (Rabail Baloch, supervisor: Paul Maher)
  • Masculine Identity, Work and Relationships: A Mediation Analysis Across Political, Contexts in the U.S. (Rebecca Power, supervisor: Pablo De Tezanos-Pinto)
  • Language Anxiety: A Thematic Metasynthesis of Migrant Acculturation in the Global North (Sijjal Shafique, supervisor: Pablo De Tezanos-Pinto)
  • school-based intergenerational arts initiatives: a qualitative exploration of the experiences of children, older adults, and facilitators (Thi Cat Tien Ho, supervisor: Sarah Jay)
  • The Role of Anti-Muslim Racism in Shaping the Lives of Muslim International Students in Ireland (Andi Rezqi Jozefzoon, supervisor: Sarah Jay)
  • Intersecting Identities and Belonging in Higher Education: Exploring the Experiences of Students with Migrant Backgrounds in Barcelona (Jaimy Aimée Jozefzoon, supervisor: Sarah Jay)
  • Speaking Nonetheless: A Qualitative Exploration of Advocacy for Intergroup Dialogue in the Polarized Discourse around Israel-Palestine in Germany (supervisor: Pablo De Tezanos-Pinto)

SWPS: 

  • Nudging and Feedback as a Combined Approach to Promoting Pro-Environmental Behavior: An Online Experimental Study among Malaysian Adults (Ching Ting Ang, supervisor: Marzena Cypryańska- Nezlek)
  • Cross-Cultural Differences in Cognitive Aging: A Comparative Study of Lifestyle, Memory, and Attention in Mexico and Poland (Ivan Everardo Lopez, supervisor: Aneta Brzezicka)
  • “I Tell Them to Have Sumud, to Have Sabr, for Your Children, for Yourself”: Culturally-Informed Resilience and Humanitarian Gaps among Syrian Refugee Women in Greece (Karen Youssef, supervisor: Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska)
  • Vamos a llegar un día: Collaborative Collage, Storytelling, and the Migration Narratives of Mothers and Children in Transit (Madelyn Primeaux, supervisor: Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska)

UiO: 

  • Bridging The Divide: Perceptions of Muslim Feminist Identities Among Western Feminists (Ayşe Gül Efe, supervisor: Jonas Kunst)
  • We are going to somehow lose the culture and then we have to preserve what we can !”Acculturation among second-generation Kurds in Norway: Exploring the experience of losing culture while striving to preserve it (Dilare Reheimu, supervisor: Samantha Harris)
  • “I belong to nowhere now”: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Pakistani Migrant Women’s Lived Experiences of Identity, Nostalgia and Exclusion (Eisha Mehtab, supervisor: Gulnaz Anjum)
  • “I don’t want my daughter to have the same life like me”: Agency, Motherhood, Hope, and Resistance Among Roma Romanian Women in Oslo (Elaina Christine Studt, supervisor: Sigrun Marie Moss)
  • From Diffuse to Defined: A Mixed-Methods, Data-Driven Investigation of the Undifferentiated Group Observed in Majority Acculturation (Lucille Gibert, supervisor: Jonas Kunst)
  • Care as a bridge between climate resilience and climate justice: An interpretive phenomenological analysis of women’s experiences of climate activism in Latin America (Nubia Rodrigues, supervisor: Gulnaz Anjum)
  • I feel that I have to prove myself”: Bisexual individuals’ experiences of belonging within Norwegian society (Sara Hanna, supervisor: Guro Brokke Omland)

ISCTE: 

  • A Self-Determination Theory Perspective on the Impact of Gender Role Attitudes Across Academic and Leisure Contexts (Amelie Luise Wendlinger, supervisor: Ricardo Borges Rodrigues)
  • “Where do I belong?”: Intersectional experiences of home/lessness and un/belonging among South Asian trans and gender-diverse migrants (Aniruddha Methi, supervisor: Carla Moleiro)
  • The Real Impostor: Coloniality and Patriarchy in the Academic Journeys of Mexican Women in Europe (Cynthia Aime Flores Lopez, supervisor: João Manuel de Oliveira)
  • More Than Endurance: Women’s Resistance Strategies in Contexts of Economic Dependency and Gender-Based Violence in Colombia (Erika Lorena Infante, supervisor: João Manuel de Oliveira)
  • Navigating Identity Threat: Collective Narcissism and Intergroup Hostility in Türkiye (Gabriel Nicolay Petrovich Maldonado Efanov, supervisor: Rita Guerra)
  • Echoes of Sexism: A Thematic Analysis of Ambivalent Sexism in Turbo-Folk Lyrics (Klaudija Abat, supervisor: Ricardo Borges Rodrigues)

2021-2023

  • Women’s Ways of Knowing: Feminist Analysis, Community Development and Empowerment in Women’s Collective Ireland (Mariantonia Borza, supervisor: Ronni Greenwood)
  • Representation of women in American and Canadian newspapers in the discourse on climate change and COP27 and the associated psychosocial impacts (Justine Chouinard)
  • Psychosocial interventions for refugees and asylum seekers to improve mental health: a systematic review (Catarina Andrade, supervisor: Anca Minescu) 
  • Plurisexuality: Belonging to the LGBTQ+ Umbrella and Coping With Intragroup Discrimination (Mona Corinna Griesberg, supervisor: Ronni Greenwood)
  • Those Who Love Art, I Love Them: An Exploration of Joint Creative Expressive Arts as a Pathway to Belonging and Safety (Lindsay Grosvenor, supervisor: Sarah Jay)
  • Exploring emotional pathways towards collective giving (Miguel Leyva)
  • The effectiveness and acceptability of a brief, synchronous mindfulness intervention at Limerick University during end of year exams (Aline Marie Lie)
  • Individual and Group Identification: Different Relationships with Social Support and Well-being (Vitória Machado)
  • LGBTQ+ International Students and Their Experiences of Home in Ireland (Ümit Sahin, supervisor: Ronni Greenwood)
  • An Exploration of community-based Mental Health Interventions for and with Irish Travellers (Lina Scharf, supervisor: Anca Minescu)
  • Different Sex Educational Sources and Topics, their perceived influence and their correlations on Sexual Health Behavior, Sexual Health Communication, Sexual Satisfaction and Consent in Germany and South Africa (Imke Sich)
  • Trans resilience in Portugal: Protective factors for trans and gender-diverse people and the role of trans community connectedness (Feli Sühs, supervisor: Carla Moleiro)

2019-2021

  • Psychosocial factors that influence HIV testing and condom use in men: A cross-cultural perspective (Antonio Milá Roa, supervisor: Carla Moleiro)
  • “Do you want me to continue?”: sexual education and consent in young masculinities in Mexico (Emilio Antonio Toussaint Ortiz, supervisor: Diniz Lopes)
  • Economic inequality and wealth based stereotyping: a comparison between Kenya and Portugal (Grace Wacera Muoka, supervisor: Melanie Vauclair)
  • Haven’t we learned anything from HIV, EBOLA, and other pandemics?: the effect of COVID-19 stigma on interpersonal behavior and health practices (Hilal Kassem, supervisor: Mauro Bianchi)
  • A scoping review on critical incidents as a training tool in diversity interventions (Itumeleng Magoai, supervisor: Melanie Vauclair)
  • Who’s the preferred environmentalist?: and for whom?: a multidimensional approach to impressions of environmentalists using a conjoint analysis (Karolin Kibele, supervisor: Miriam Rosa)
  • The harmful effects of perceiving racial microaggressions: a study with black Brazilians in Brazil (Laís Sant’Ana Vitoria Regis, supervisor: Melanie Vauclair)
  • Tackling gendered aspects of acculturation through Turkish migrant women’s experiences in Europe (Nazli Yagmur Erdogmus, supervisor: Carla Moleiro)
  • Explaining normative and non-normative collective action tendencies based on the SIMCA, and perceived oppression as a mediator, in the context of the pro-democracy movement in Thailand (Pichayapohn Ritkampee, supervisor: Miriam Rosa)
  • Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and peer problems in children and adolescents exposed to maltreatment (Sara Giuffrè, supervisor: Joana Baptista)
  • Psychological processes underlying microaggressive communications by majority members against black people in Ireland (Sine Bering Holdensen, supervisor: Melanie Vauclair)
  • Blowing hot air or serious talk?: a social recognition approach to the collective narcissistic claim for recognition (Wilma Marie Middendorf, supervisor: Rita Guerra)
  • Identity Fusion with a Political Leader: The Role of Value Congruence in Predicting Violent Intentions and Prosociality (Milena Nikolic, supervisor: Jonas Kunst)
  • “I am who I vote for”: Personality Antecedents of Identity Fusion in the US and in Italy (Elsa Brunet, supervisor: Jonas Kunst)
  • The Bicultural Identity and Multilingual Communication among Mauritians (Deepti Beeharry Panray, supervisor: Paweł Boski)
  • Bicultural identity integration and life satisfaction: Two generations of Bangladeshi in the UK (Raihana Sharmin, supervisor: Paweł Boski)
  • Searching for fantastic narratives: sentiment analysis of conspiracy and formal media Twitter databases (Carlos Pastor, supervisor: Andrzej Nowak)

2018-2020

  • The Masked Other: A Comparative Study on the Representation of Immigrants in Fox News During the Obama and Trump Administration (Anna Constanza De Keulenaar, supervisor: Carla Mouro)
  • Not Real Rape? Predictors of Intimate Partner Sexual Violence and Attitudes Towards the #Metoo Movement in Nigeria and Norway (Joyce Anthonia Ojokojo, supervisor: Beate Bleibt)
  • Role of Trust, Cultural Orientation and Communication In Times of COVID-19 In Ireland
  • Understanding Motivation Factors and Compassion Fatigue as a Way to Increase Volunteer Recruitment and Retention in NGOs Working with Refugees in Turkey (Gabriela Francisca Heermans; supervisor: Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska)
  • Factors Affecting Employers’ Hiring Preferences towards Asylum Seekers or Refugees in the U.S.: A quantitative study approach
  • Fluidity Of Identity Of People With Multiple Cultural Experiences
  • The influence of self-care on compassion satisfaction, secondary traumatic stress and burnout on humanitarian aid workers working with refugees and asylum seekers
  • Cross-cultural Investigation of the Phenomenon of Androcentrism
  • When and how vulnerable- and grandiose narcissism predict collective narcissism: the role of perceived social status, dimensions of self-worth, intuitive cognition and need for closure (Michaela Grossschaedl, supervisor: Rita Guerra)
  • The Danger of Social Media: A Mixed-Method Analysis of Threat Content in Right-Wing Hate Tweets (Mona Frank, supervisor: Jonas Kunst)
  • “But I’m One of the Good Ones”: A Qualitative Investigation of Internalized Islamophobia (Nuran El-Mahgary, supervisor: Jonas Kunst)
  • Stable and contextually malleable factors of psychological adaptation in home and host country. Studies on Nigerians in Africa and in Poland (Oluwanisola Oluwadamilare Olotu, supervisor: Pawel Boski)
  • Strength in Support: Post-Migratory Stress, Social Support, and Quality of Life in Adult Refugees from Syria Resettled in Norway (Prue Cauley, supervisor: Milan Obaidi)
  • Exploring Emergent Opinion-based Groups in Afghanistan Using Bipartite Modeling
  • Demographic Trends and Normative Influences on Prejudice against Travellers in Ireland
  • Who is the most Kosovar? The role of relative ingroup prototypicality in intergroup relations in Kosovo (Genta Shabani, supervisor: Sven Waldzus)
  • Exploring social well-being amongst community environmental leaders: a qualitative study (Ivan Gonzalez, supervisor: Miriam Rosa)
  • Eudaimonic Well-being and Social Support of Queer Migrants (Karen Rabello Ferraz, supervisor: Beate Seibt)
  • Effects of language priming on national and european identification. A cross-national comparison (Kira Schick, supervisor: Margarida Vaz Garrido)
  • “We should all be Bosnians but…” Youths’ Negotiations of Identification with a Common Bosnian Identity (Lara-Sabina Sorgenfrei, supervisor: Sigrun Moss)
  • Exploring the Acculturation Gap and Intergenerational Conflict in the Domain of Female Sexuality (Sarah D’Antoni, supervisor: Kinga Bierwiaczonek)
  • Gender-based Violence and Psychological Abuse: Exploring the risk factors with survivors of domestic violence in Albania (Sunika Joshi, supervisor: Carla Moleiro)
  • Can we overcome? The social identity dimensions of surviving sexual assault
  • A New Measure of Well-being Combining Social Capital and Subjective Well-being (SWB) Based on Data from the European Social Survey
  • Psychological well-being, coping and stress experiences of postgraduate students at the UL

2017-2019

  • Investigating Ethnic Diversity in Soccer Teams as a Venue to Prevent Extremism: A Multi-Level Study (Ann-Cathrin Coenen, supervisor: Jonas Kunst)
  • Media Charity Campaigns predicting Collective Action and Positive Stereotypes about Syrian Refugees in Ireland (Beatriz Gomez Moreno)
  • Common Ingroup Identity Model & Structured Free Recall: Comparison of Bias Reduction Approaches on Specific Target Groups (Beverly Sue Li, supervisor: Rita Guerra)
  • Heteronormative Beliefs and the Impact on Self-acceptance and Disclosure of Male Homosexuality in Portugal and Turkey (César Alexander Torres Rosado, supervisor: David Rodrigues)
  • He is (not) one of Us: The Effect of Leaders? National Background on Leader Prototypicality, Sense of Continuity of Identity and Post-Merger Identification (Clara Pluckelmann, supervisor: Miriam Rosa)
  • Beyond Intergroup Antagonism: Extending the Relational Model to the Group Level (Munadhillah, supervisor: Thomas Schubert)
  • When History Perpetuates Stereotypes and Narratives: The Burden of Historical Representations on the Well-Being of Africans Living in Europe
  • Awareness Intervention Against Modern Slavery in India: Influence of Caste Prejudice (Saranya Manoharan, supervisor: Jonas Kunst)
  • Is standing by your moral opinion a Western phenomenon? A Cross-cultural study on moral consistency (Ali Sarmad, supervisor: Melanie Vauclair)
  • Exploring the treads of service providers working with refugees in Istanbul, Turkey
  • Cross-Cultural Validation of Worries about Leadership and Motivation to Lead in Germany, France, Japan, China and South Korea
  • The influence of social media on the social identification and cross-cultural adaptation of international students in Europe: A longitudinal analysis (María Leonor Gaitán-Aguilar, supervisor: Joep Hofhuis)
  • Are Future Leaders Worried about Work-Family Conflict?
  • Interact & aspire high: Contextual conditions of acculturation and educational aspirations (Mario Amigot Pozueta, supervisor: Rita Guerra)
  • An Agent Based Model Investigating Group Genesis in a Homogeneous Population via Meta-Contrast
  • I Am Because We Are: In-Group Identification and Perceived Social Support as a Social Cure for Sexual Minorities, A Cross-Cultural Comparison (Gustavo Alberto Aybar Camposano, supervisor: Carla Moleiro)
  • Effects of Racialized Sexual Harassment in the Workplace on Women’s Psychological Wellbeing and Job Satisfaction
  • Beyond National Symbols: Identity and Political Processes on Quality of Intergroup Relationship with Different Outgroups in the Context of South Korea
  • Social Inclusion of Chinese Immigrants in Portugal: The role of Length of Stay and Social Networks (Jia Fu, supervisor: Kinga Bierwiaczonek)
  • Maintenance and Innocence: Motivations that Determine Dominance Strategies of High-status Groups (Jonathan Kang, supervisor: Thomas Schubert)
  • Are Women and Men Equally Motivated and Worried about Leadership?
  • Unfair, unstoppable, unique: Social identity arguments and collective action in Ecuador’s 1990 indigenous uprising
  • Arab Muslims’ negative meta-perceptions and non-normative collective action (Elissa Issa, supervisor: Rita Guerra)
  • Education, acculturation, and adaptation: Unaccompanied migrant and refugee youths in Italy (Francesca Osima, supervisor: Carla Moleiro & Sandra Roberto)
  • The Interactive Effects of Perceived Workplace Discrimination and Organizational Culture on Job Attitudes: A Study of Ethiopian Bank Workers
  • Development of Ambivalent Sexism in Childhood: Effect on Future Career Aspirations (Stefanie Richters, supervisor: Ricardo Rodrigues)
  • (Trans)forming queer in migration narratives: the case of Russian gender/sexually nonconforming migrants in Berlin (Svetlana Solntseva, supervisor: Carla Moleiro)
  • Perceptions of European and National Identities among Georgians
  • Understanding intercultural competence of international students in light of their lived experiences in Ireland (Vanessa Laber)
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