Dilyana Kiryakova-Ryan successfully defends her PhD

Thursday, February 7, 2019 - 11:45

Dilyana Kiryakova-Ryan successfully defended her PhD at her viva on 6th February 2019.  Her thesis “Meaning is Use: Civic Initiatives and Europeanisation from Below in Bulgaria”.   Pictured left to right is Dr. Pauline Cullen, Sociology Department at MU (internal examiner), Dilyana Kiryakova-Ryan, Prof. John O’Brennan, Sociology Department at MU, (supervisor), Prof. Ben Rosamond, Dept. of Political Science, Copenhagen University, Denmark (external examiner) and Dr. Noelle Higgins, Law Department at MU (chair). 
 
Pictured below is Dilyana with her supervisor John O’Brennan.