Below are the research interests of academic staff engaged in supervising PhD students within Trinity Business School.
If you are interested in a particular research theme or a specific research project, please make direct contact with the staff member in question. In some cases, staff members may have access to funding for doctoral research purposes.
Supervisor: Barry, Frank || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include foreign direct investment and economic, business and industrial history. Doctoral research projects currently under supervision span various aspects of Irish economic and business development.
Vacancies for high-calibre PhD students exist in the following area:
Irish Economic and Business History:
Supervisor: Berrill, Jenny || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include international finance and international business.
Doctoral research projects currently under supervision include (i) the benefits of indirect international portfolio diversification, (ii) comparing the performance and foreign exchange exposure of multinational companies versus domestic firms, and (iii) firm-level geographic sales analysis in international portfolio diversification.
Vacancies for high-calibre PhD students exist in the areas of (i) the regionalisation / globalisation debate in international business, (ii) investing in emerging markets and emerging market MNCs, (iii) indirect portfolio diversification and (iv) measuring performance of assets and portfolios.
Supervisor: Brady, Mairead || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include The future of technology; The future of management education; The future of technology in business education; Digital game-based learning; and Marketing management and digital practices.Doctoral research projects currently under supervision include: Towards a framework of social media adoption by academics in third level education; digital game-based learning and third-level soft skill development; The data deluge within business and internal decision-making challenges.Vacancies for high-calibre PhD students exist in the areas highlighted above and/or Exploring the future role of technology within management education; An analysis of the role of technology within contemporary marketing practice; and Digital game based learning and management education.
Supervisor: Brennan, Louis || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include Global Strategy, Supply Chain Management, International Business, Technology Management and Culture & Operations Strategy.
Doctoral research projects currently under supervision include Culture and Innovation Strategy, FDI, Internationalisation, and Manufacturing Policy & Strategy.
Vacancies for high-calibre PhD students exist in the following areas: Supply Chain Management, FDI and Internationalisation particularly relating to firms from the fast-growing emerging economies entering the advanced developed countries.
Supervisor: Browne, Sarah || Email: [email protected]
Sarah’s research interests have recently focused on strategic social marketing. While most methods of marketing are geared toward selling goods or services, the “product” in social marketing is human behaviour. Social marketing is the development and integration of marketing concepts with other approaches to influence behaviours that benefit individuals and communities for the greater social good. Currently, Sarah is working on a research project exploring strategic social marketing approaches and the obesogenic environment. Other areas of research interest include the interrelationship between ethics and marketing practice, consumer data privacy, consumption and risk perception, with ongoing research projects in these areas.
Vacancies for high-calibre PhD students exist in the areas highlighted above.
Supervisor: Buciuni, Giulio || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include International Marketing and Entrepreneurship. Specific research focus is on the geography of innovation in global industries; the organisation and evolution of global value chains (GVCs); and the internationalization strategies of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Supervisor: Burke, Andrew || Email: [email protected]
Area of research interest is broadly Entrepreneurship but particularly: freelancers and the gig/project economy, venture finance, entrepreneurial strategy (economics based research), the economics of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial performance and market density, risk management in new ventures, efficacy of business planning and enterprise policy.
Supervisor: Campbell, Norah || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include critical marketing, especially critical service marketing; aesthetics, especially in the area of advertising as well as new methods of visual culture; and the philosophy of technology, especially theory development around technology and consumption.
Vacancies exist for critically engaged, imaginative students in the areas outlined above.
Supervisor: Cannon, Sheila || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include social entrepreneurship, non-profit organisations, organisational identity and neo-institutionalism. I am currently interested in how social purpose organisations balance their missions with pressures of formal organisations, such as increasing commercialisation. My research methods are qualitative, examining micro-processes of language and how institutional contexts are enacted. Empirical contexts of particular relevance are organisations experiencing survival challenges, identity crises, or the sense of ‘mission accomplished,’ or redundancy of mission.
Vacancies for high-calibre PhD students exist in the areas outlined above.
Supervisor: Coughlan, Paul || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include operations improvement, new product development and commercialisation of university research.
No vacancies for additional PhD students exist for the 2020-2021 academic year.
Supervisor: Cullinane, Sarah-Jane || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include organisational behaviour and human resource (HR) management. I am interested in employee well-being at work (e.g. work engagement, burnout and workaholism), and how jobs are designed by managers and crafted by employees to promote the quality of working life. I am also interested in how interventions such as mindfulness training can be used to reduce the effects of work-related ill-health and promote resilience and engagement for employees.
Doctoral research projects currently under supervision include the examination of social climate and employee health under work engaged vs. workaholic leaders, and the relationship between work environments, well-being and turnover in nursing.
No vacancies for PhD students exist for the 2020-2021 academic year.
Supervisor: Di Pietro, Francesca || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest is broadly Entrepreneurship but particularly: entrepreneurial finance, start-up growth, crowdfunding, and geography of crowdfunding.
Vacancies for high-calibre PhD students exist in the areas highlighted above and in aligned and/or closely related topic areas.
Supervisor: Dimitriu, Radu || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include branding, consumer behaviour and psychology, social media marketing, CSR and prosocial behaviour, or consumer adoption of new products.
Previously supervised research projects included projects on consumer knowledge and perceived consumer value, on the psychology of consumer product returns, on employer and corporate branding and on consumer adoption of autonomous products. Currently supervising projects dealing with consumer adoption and interaction with AI-enabled technologies, and with consumer perceptions of service in the context of chatbots.
Supervisor: Donnelly-Cox, Gemma || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include organisation theory, the non-profit organisational form and philanthropy: impact of blurring sectoral boundaries (public, private, non-profit) and hybridisation of organisational forms; the effects of social entrepreneurship in the European context; the impact of loss of support on organisational fields; and philanthropy and the public good
Doctoral research projects currently under supervision include: organisational survival and field-level transformations; institutional logics and field-level change processes; women and philanthropy.
Vacancies for high-calibre PhD students exist in the following areas: organisational hybridisation; social entrepreneurship in Europe: the effects of social entrepreneurship
Supervisor: Evers, Natasha || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include strategic management theory across different contexts; international entrepreneurship (Born Global Firms, International New Ventures); SME internationalisation strategy and growth; and business model innovation. Sectors of interest include: Life science technologies; Marine & Maritime; Sustainable Tourism and Creative Industries.Doctoral research projects currently under supervision include legitimation of new actors and new business policy partnerships in emergent sectorsVacancies for high-calibre PhD students exist in all of the above and in aligned and/or closely related topic areas.
Supervisor: Fellenz, Martin || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include organisational behaviour, management education and professional development, and other topics at the intersection of individual development and organisational change and innovation. Specific topic areas of interest include personal and leadership development; identity formation and reflective practice in professional and management development; design and implementation challenges in curriculum and assessment development; and the philosophy of contemporary professional and management education.Doctoral research projects currently under supervision include work on identity-oriented leadership development and on work and patient engagement in the health services. Vacancies for high-calibre PhD students exist in all of the above and in aligned and/or closely related topic areas.
Supervisor: Fu, Na || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include strategic human resource management, line manager’s implementation of HRM, HRM digitalisation, HR analytics, and professional service firms.
Doctoral research projects currently under supervision include HR analytics, digital transformation in HR, PSFs internationalisation.
Supervisor: Huang, Yufei || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include new product development and launch, supply chain management, entrepreneurial operations management, and quantitative marketing, using game theory, optimisation, statistics and econometrics.
Supervisor: Jain, Tanusree || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporate irresponsibility and corporate governance. Some research questions that interest me include exploring configurations of corporate governance structures and mechanisms that impact firm social responsibility performance including environmental performance, minority directors on corporate boards (including women on boards). Vacancies for high-calibre, passionate and motivated PhD students with strong quantitative background exist in or related to the areas highlighted above.
Supervisor: Jayasekera, Ranadeva || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include corporate finance, capital structure, real options, market efficiency, default prediction, behavioural finance, and financial flexibility.
Supervisor: Jha, Ashish Kumar || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include all areas of business analytics and information systems within the methodological domains of econometrics and experimental methods.Specific research themes include answering questions with regards to user generated content and its implication for firms and consumers using large scale-data analysis techniques, topic modelling, content analysis and data mining. Other interesting research themes include the domain of technology sustainability analysis using big data; text analysis and event studies to analyse impact on firms for various technological breakthroughs. Vacancies for high-calibre PhD students exist in any of the areas outlined above or closely related topic areas.
Supervisor: Laing, Elaine || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include risk management, international finance and corporate governance.
Specific research themes include the investigation into the financial and operational hedging of foreign exchange rate exposure in multinational firms and the role of corporate governance and regulation in mitigating FX exposure.
Vacancies for high-calibre PhD students exist in any of the above outlined above or closely related topic areas.
Supervisor: Liang, Xiaoning || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include marketing performance management, marketing analytics, dynamic capabilities, digital marketing and consumer behaviour. Some research questions that interest me include examining how companies can effectively measure marketing performance and use marketing metric information in decision making, how firms can develop their marketing analytical capability on the organisational or/and individual level, why motivations of electronic word-of-mouth communication are different across different countries, and how companies should adjust their online advertising budget allocation to maximise profitability.
Supervisor: Lucey, Brian || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include behavioural finance, financial market contagion, the financial economics of precious metals and the bibliometric analysis of business research.
Doctoral research projects currently under supervision include statistical arbitrage of precious metals, gold bubbles and lease rates, bimetallism in China and safe haven assets in financial crises.
Vacancies for high-calibre PhD students exist in the following areas: bibliometric analysis of the nature of collaborations and networks in management research literature; financial economics of precious metals, particularly high frequency analyses, the role of commodities and in particular precious metals as diversifiers; behavioural finance; and international financial integration.
Supervisor: McDonagh, Joe || Email: [email protected]
Principal interest in the process of leading large-scale strategic, organisational, and technological change in civil and public service organisations. Specific research themes include the diverse roles of managerial groups in leading large-scale change; integrating organisational strategy, change, and ICT; and collaborative approaches to inquiry and change.
Doctoral research projects currently under supervision are focused on collaborative approaches to strategy work and the alignment of strategies in civil and public service organisations.
Supervisor: McHugh, Gerard || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include (i) the legislative/legal history of accounting & financial reporting regulation from 1844 to the present; and (ii) financial analysis of modern enterprises / industries, especially where such analyses can contribute to our understanding of industry change.
Vacancies for high-calibre PhD students exist in the above areas, and other business areas where financial analysis forms a key part of the proposed research.
Supervisor: Monaghan, Sinead || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include international business, particularly firm internationalisation, digital business, global scaling and multinational companies; economic geography, specifically the role of subnational institutional differences on firm location and international entrepreneurship, especially the high-growth internationalisation of small firms, pacing and sequencing.
Doctoral research projects currently under supervision include digital business and global scaling, multinational subsidiary staffing practices and knowledge connectivity of innovation.
Supervisor: Muzellec, Laurent || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include: Digital Business Models; Value creation, value propositions and value capture for multi-sided digital platforms; Sharing Economy; and branding strategies on social network sites.
Doctoral research project currently under supervision includes investigating:
Vacancies with funding opportunities for high-calibre PhD students exist in the areas of digital business models and two-sided networks; social media strategies; and fictional brands.
Supervisor: Nolan, Eimear || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include international human resource management, expatriate / migrant management and cross-cultural adjustment, recruitment and retention, leadership, health care system.
Doctoral research projects previously supervised focused on the influence of hostel service scapes on social interaction and service experience.
Vacancies for high-calibre PhD students exist in the highlighted above, and other management areas.
Supervisor: O’Hagan-Luff, Martha || Email: [email protected]
I am conducting research in three main areas. Firstly, I examine firm internationalisation, and the indirect international diversification benefits that can be gained by investing in multinational corporations. This is linked to the phenomenon of home bias, investors’ reluctance to invest overseas. Secondly, I am conducting research in the area of corporate social responsibility and firm performance, that is, the business case for socially responsible behaviour by the firm, in terms of risk and return. In a similar vein I also examine the case for sustainable investing. Finally, I am researching the financial determinants of and financial consequences of self-employment and entrepreneurship.
Vacancies for high-calibre PhD students exist in these areas.
Supervisor: Pak, Jongwook || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include strategic human resource management and organisational change & development. Particularly, my research focus lies in enhancing the implementation effectiveness of management practices and innovation programmes. Also, I am interested in technological and cultural issues in managing organisations.
Doctoral research projects currently under supervision include social dynamics in HR implementation processes, and first-line managers’ HR attribution and its influence on their HR role identity.
Vacancies for high-calibre PhD students exist in areas highlighted above or related topics.
Supervisor: Roden, Sinéad || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include supply chain risk and resilience (the mitigation of supply chain risk and the impact of supply base characteristics on supply chain recovery); behavioural operations; and supply chain innovation (the role of Big Data and Smart Cities in supply chain and operations innovation).
Doctoral research currently under supervision examines the application of Justice Theory in supply chain disruption recovery.
Supervisor: Ryan, Paul || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include International New Ventures; Born Global Firms; Multinational Subsidiary Strategy; and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems.
Doctoral research projects currently or recently under supervision include: Born Global Networks; Multinational Subsidiary Management; and Industrial Clusters.
Supervisor: Sevic, Aleksandar || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include international finance, various aspect of corporate governance, ownership structure, multinationality and sentiment-related aspects of cost of equity.
Vacancies for high-calibre PhD students exist in the following areas: corporate governance and M&A, emerging markets, and market microstructure.
Supervisor: Shantz, Amanda || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include work engagement, human resource management, corporate community involvement, and corporate volunteering.
Doctoral research projects currently or recently under supervision include human resource management, corporate community involvement, and corporate volunteering.
NO vacancies for high-calibre PhD students exist for the 2020-2021 academic year.
Supervisor: Silver, Kenneth || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interests include business ethics, corporate personhood, corporate moral responsibility, financial ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of action, and conceptual foundations of strategic management.
No doctoral research projects currently being supervised.
Supervisor: Van Stel, Andre || Email: [email protected]
Area of research interest is broadly Entrepreneurship but particularly topics within the economics of entrepreneurship, including entrepreneurial performance at the firm, regional and country levels.
Supervisor: Vigne, Samuel || Email: [email protected]
Areas of research interest include financial economics, econometrics, corporate finance, and financial commodities.
Doctoral research projects currently under supervision are in the area of corporate finance and corporate social responsibility.
