Geographers leave Maynooth and follow a wide variety of career paths. These include research at the European Space Agency, Management Consultancy, Government Policy, Retail Planning... Our Alumni offer a resource that we are keen to develop. We would welcome more frequent contact with our Graduates so we can build career profiles to inform our existing students.
Maynooth University Department of Geography
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Name | Year | Title |
Silvia Caloca Casado | 2018 | Coastal vulnerability assessment of Co. Dublin and Co. Wicklow to current and future impacts of climate change |
Darren Clarke | 2018 | Challenges of Transformative Adaptation: Insights from Flood Risk Management. |
Suzanne Pegley | 2018 | Landscapes of Power: The Social Network of the Power Elite in mid-Victorian Ireland. |
Sean Fearghus O Conchuir | 2018 | The Artist as Citizen: Choreographing the National Brand |
Samar Saud Alduraibi | 2018 | Characterisation and Spatial Variability of the Magnetic and Electrical Resistivity Geophysical Properties of the Soils of Counties Kildare and Wicklow, Eastern Ireland. |
Irene Morris Cadogan | 2017 | Governing energy efficiency in the built environment: the geography of residential energy policy outcomes in Ireland |
Simon Noone | 2017 | Development and analysis of a homogeneous long-term precipitation network (1850-2015) and assessment of historic droughts for the island of Ireland. |
Steven Lucas | 2017 | Explaining the low rate of migrant self-employment in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. |
Weihsuan Liu | 2016 | Between State and Body: Religious Geopolitics, Cultivation and the Falun Gong. |
Paul Alexander | 2016 | Essays on Urban Climate Model (UCM) validation and application. |
Shaun Harrigan | 2016 | Exploring the Hydroclimatology of floods: Advanced Process Understanding for Improving Predictions. |
Sandra Walsh | 2015 | Salutogenesis 2.0: An examination of healthy ageing-in-place using a qualitative application of the Sense of Coherence |
Ciaran Pollard | 2015 | A Temperature-Dependent Development Model for Willow Beetle Species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in Ireland: Simulation of Phenology/Voltinism in Response to Climate Change |
Stephanie Keogh | 2015 | An Assessment of Radiative, Energy and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes over Three Urban Locations in Dublin |
Eoin O'Mahony | 2015 | Religious and secular places: understanding the changing geographies of religion in Ireland |
Jackie McGloughlin | 2015 | Climate change governance: enhancing local authorities' adaptive capacity |
Catriona Duffy | 2015 | Developing a temperature-dependent simulation model for Sitobion avenae: Impacts of climate change for spring barley in Ireland |
Eoin Grealis | 2014 | A Dynamic Spatial Microsimulation Model for Irish Agricultural Emissions |
Daniel Courtney | 2013 | Sustainability of Intensified Agricultural Production in the Boyne Catchment |
Julia Hall | 2013 | Information and Decision-support for Robust Adaptation of Irish Water Resources to Climate Change |
Mavuto Tembo | 2013 | A Dynamic assessment of adaptive capacity to climate change: A case study of water management in Makondo, Uganda. |
Zoe O'Reilly | 2013 | 'In between Spaces' : Experiences of Asylum Seekers in the 'Direct Provision' System in Ireland |
David Smyth | 2013 | Climate Change and Potential Impacts on Construction in Ireland: The Argument for Mitigation and Adaptation |
Elaine Burroughs | 2013 | Irish Institutional Discourses of Illegal Immigration: A Critical Discourse Analysis Approach |
John O'Byrne | 2013 | Networks and the Development of the Irish Biotechnology Sector |
David Meredith | 2012 | Labour and Geography in Ireland, 2006 Evaluating the National Spatial Strategy for Ireland 2002 - 2020: People, Places and Potential |
Adrienne Kendlin | 2012 | Young people as active citizens: placing youth participation structures in the Republic of Ireland under critical scrutiny |
Stephen Flood | 2012 | Climate Change and Potential Economic Impacts in Ireland: The Case for Adaptation |
Ciaran Broderick | 2012 | Climate Change and Altantic salmon (Salmo salar): Changes in Flow and Freshwater Habitat in the Burrisholle Catchment. Volume 1 and 2 |
Kevin Keegan | 2011 | Form in the manner of landscape:distillation of a concept through language and literature |
Sean O Riordain | 2011 | Changing structures meeting challenges: from centralised local governance to the ambiguity of disaggregation |
John Watters | 2011 | Migrant families in Ireland: understanding the cultural landscapes of transnational family life |
Aideen Foley | 2011 | Quantifying sources of uncertainty in regional climate model scenarios for Ireland |
Elizabeth Mathews | 2011 | Mainstreaming of Deaf Education in the Republic of Ireland : Language, Power, Resistance |
James Monagle | 2010 | The effectiveness of innovative management technologies in the professionalisation, organisation and delivery of catalytic special events in Kilkenny from 1991-2001. |
Sheelah Flatman Watson | 2010 | Access to primary education for students with an intellectual and/or pervasive developmental disability. |
Xiaochen Liu | 2010 | Climate Change Impacts on Urban Regions: Case Study for the Greater Dublin Region. |
Xavier Mir Pellicer | 2010 | Identification and characterization of quaternary sediments using geophysical and remote sensing techniques in central Ireland (Tullamore). |
Johann Gallagher | 2009 | Monitoring Access to Essential Local Public Service Infrastructure in Rural Areas |
Karen Keaveney | 2009 | Contested ruralities: housing in the Irish countryside |
Mary Kelly | 2009 | Viewing the past through the postcolonial lens: the imaginative geographies of Elizabeth Bowen, Edith Somerville and Martin Ross and George Moore |
Elizabeth Cullen | 2008 | Climate change and health in Ireland: a national vulnerability assessment |
Matthias Broscheid | 2007 | Theorising neo-liberal reforms and the shifting contours of local governance in Dublin: A case study on the metamorphosis of the local partnership model under the 2000-2006 Local Development and Social Inclusion Programme |
Caroline Crowley | 2007 | A Spatial Analysis of Agriculture in the Republic of Ireland, 1991-2000 |
Rodney Teck | 2007 | Mid-Latitude Explosive and its Cylcogenesis: The Confounding Factors |
Brendan O'Keeffe | 2006 | The contributions and limitations of Partnership processes in Rural Development |
Nicola Brennan | 2006 | Linkages, Logistics and the Spatial structure of the Irish Manufacturing Industry |
Proinnsias Breathnach | 2006 | The Diffusion of the Co-Operative Creamery System in Ireland. 1889-1920: A Spatial Analysis |
Conor Murphy | 2006 | The impact of Climate Change on Catchment hydrology and water resources for selected catchments in Ireland |
Andrew Power | 2005 | Landscapes of Care: A geographical study of informal care and care support in Ireland using international comparisons |
Rowan Fealy | 2004 | An assessment of the Relationship between Glacier Mass Balance and Synoptic Climate in Norway: Likely future implications of climate change |
Laura McElwain | 2004 | The detection and prediction of climate change in Ireland using an objective classifiation of atmospheric circulation patterns |
Martina Roche | 2004 | Cancer in the South Eastern Health Board Area: Actual Occurrence versus Public Perceptions of Risk |
Una Crowley | 2003 | A spatial Genealogy of Travellers in Ireland 1830-2003 |
Kasey Treadwell Shine | 2003 | Energising governance and exclusion: Exploring the Management and Trajectories of exclusion in a disadvantaged neighbourhood through complexity theory |
Ann Coughlan | 2002 | Off the beaten track: Attracting tourists to Rural Ireland as a strategy for Rural Development |
Adrian Kavanagh | 2002 | Social Deprivation, Political alienation and Community empowerment |
Francis Houghton | 2002 | Inequality, relative deprivation and health in Ireland: A multiscale analysis |
Celine McHugh | 2001 | A Spatial analysis of socio-economic adjustments in Rural Ireland 1986-1996 |
Seamus Lafferty | 2000 | The Spatial Implications of the Transformation of Production Agriculture in the Republic of Ireland |
MLitt
Name | Year | Title |
Martin Millerick | 2015 | The Roman Catholic Communities of Cloyne Diocese, Co. Cork, 1700-1830. |
Julie King | 2012 | The Impacts of Health Care Reconfiguration on Patient Access to Services: A case study of Nenagh General Hospital |
Oliver Nicholson | 2012 | An Analysis of Changes in the Long Term Charateristics of River Flows in the Munster Blackwater Catchment |
Nuala Murphy | 2010 | Assessing the robustness of adaptation decisions in water resources management to uncertainty in climate impact assessment. |
Adrienne Hobbs | 2008 | Who’s voting in Dun-Laoghaire-Rathdown?: General Election Voter turnout, 2002 and 2007 |
Denise Kelly | 2007 | Who Votes? An Exploration of the Factors Influencing Turnout Propensity in Fingal County |
James Campion | 2004 | Identifying Spatial relationships and strategies for rural development.An exploration of Rural/Urban connectivity in a selected Area |
Graduates

Dr Stephanie Keogh
U-Flyte
Research Project Manager
2009
- BA European Studies
- MSc in Climate Change
- PhD in Urban climatology

Philip O'Callaghan
Colaiste Pobail Setanta
Geography and Music Teacher
2012
- BA Geography and Music
- Professional Diploma in Education