Research for an MLit in Geography may be undertaken in any area of Geography that comes within the expertise of departmental staff. Applicants should identify and make contact with potential supervisors for their research project prior to submitting an application. Current broad research areas include Society and Space, Environment and Climate Change, and GIS and Remote Sensing.
Mark Boyle
Social theory and contemporary human geography, diasporas, geographies of religion, geographies of regeneration.
Rosemary Charlton
Anastomosing river channels in the Irish Midlands, meandering cave streamways, impacts of climate change on water resources and flood hazard in Ireland.
Rowan Fealy
Climate analysis and modelling (statistical/dynamical modelling); Uncertainty analysis; Urban climates (monitoring, observation and modelling); Climate and glaciers.
Ronan Foley
Health Geographies, GIS, Informal Carers, Therapeutic Landscapes, Spatial Data, Cultural Geography.
Alistair Fraser
South Africa, Uganda, Ireland, Development, Land reform, Rural studies, New Media, Music.
Conor Cahalane
Terrestrial and Aerial Surveying, Satellite Remote Sensing, Spatial Data and GIS
Mary Gilmartin
Political, cultural and social geography, migration, history and philosophy of geographic thought.
Adrian Kavanagh
Electoral Geography and Irish elections (voter turnout, friends and neighbours voting, electoral boundaries); Politics and geography in the Eurovision Song Contest.
Gerry Kearns
Geopolitics, Historical Geography, AIDS, Irish identities and cultures.
Sinead Kelly
Urban regeneration and planning; Property development processes; Gentrification, housing policy and community change.
Stephen McCarron
GIS and Quaternary glacial geology, palaeoenvironmental analysis.
Conor Murphy
Climate Change ,Water Resources/Catchment Hydrology. Adaptation to Climate Change, Environmental Modelling, Decision making and uncertainty.
Karen Till
Cultural, historical, and urban geography; Place making, art and social memory; Wounded Cities; Ethnographic Research Methods.
Chris Van Egeraat
Industrial Development; Regional Development; Multinational enterprises; Industrial clusters; Manufacturing and innovation networks.
Shelagh Waddington
Learning and teaching, primarily in geography, but also more widely; the use of collaborative learning and other innovative pedagogy.
James Walsh
Agriculture and Population Geography; Local and Regional Development; Western Europe Development Studies.
Robert Kitchin
Social geography, cartography, software, contemporary Ireland.