The Centre for Doctoral Research, a dedicated facility to Business Research, plays host to students from different countries and backgrounds, who work with our leading academics in a variety of research areas – Accounting, Banking & Finance, IR & HR, Management, Marketing and MIS in both Full-time and Part-time capacities.
Current PhD Students
| Student Name | PhD Thesis Title | Subject Area | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orla Lenihan | Executive Compensation and Impression Management: An Empirical Analysis | Accounting | Professor Niamh Brennan |
| Maureen Flynn | Impact of New Organisational Structures on Clinical Governance: the Case of a Large National Health Body | Accounting | Professor Niamh Brennan |
| Karen-Ann Dwyer | External audit quality, role expectations and role conflicts | Accounting | Professor Niamh Brennan & Dr Collette Kirwan |
| Neil Dunne | Rituals of Verification: Impression management and the audit profession | Accounting | Professor Niamh Brennan & Dr Collette Kirwan |
| Seamus McGrath | A Contingency Theory of board behaviour in an organisational crisis | Accounting | Professor Niamh Brennan & Dr Esther Tippmann |
| Maria Scanlon | The impact of the negotiation process on the quality of financial reporting | Accounting | Dr Mary Canning |
| Emer Hunt | Ireland's position in the International Tax Landscape | Accounting | Dr Gerardine Doyle |
| Jiawei Qian | How and to what extent would the key features of IFRS4 help to achieve it's intended objectives? From the perspective users of financial statements | Accounting | Dr John McCallig |
| Martina Assereto | Evaluating and mitigating the financial risks of renewable energy integration systems: a real options approach | Banking & Finance | Dr Julie Byrne |
| Simon Spencer | Energy and Food Price Interactions and Hedging Issues | Banking & Finance | Professor Don Bredin |
| Alaa Al Zawawi | The 'Universality' of Gold: A study into the notion that gold can be the most secure long-term investment for any investor regardless of geographical region or access to market | Banking & Finance | Professor Don Bredin |
| Masood Baig | Impact of Commodity Prices on Stock Market Development | Banking & Finance | Professor Don Bredin |
| Chenglu Jin | Public Pension Reforms and the Influence of Longevity Risk: An Emerging Market | Banking & Finance | Professor John Cotter |
| Niall McGeever | Risk Management | Banking & Finance | Professor John Cotter |
| Emmanuel Eyiah-Donkor | A GARCH Options Model with Jumps in Returns and Volatility | Banking & Finance | Dr John Cotter, Dr Valerio Poti |
| Mohamad Faour | Essays in Market Microstructure and Financial Econometrics | Banking & Finance | Professor John Cotter & Dr Cal Muckley |
| Ekaterina Goryagina | Asset Liability Management | Banking & Finance | Dr David Edelman |
| Fiona Hickey | The Origins of & reasons for different country effects to the Financial Crisis | Banking & Finance | Dr Cormac MacFhionnlaoich |
| Ee Lin Goh | Debt in internet Start-ups- why can't internet firms mount takeovers with debt? | Banking & Finance | Dr Cormac MacFhionnlaoich |
| Liqun (David) Cao | A Study of the Market Efficiency Impact by Financial Stock Markets Prediction Using Deep Neural Networks | Banking & Finance | Dr Cal Muckley |
| Jiayuan Chen | A microstructure study on market liquidity | Banking & Finance | Dr Cal Muckley |
| Yan Wang | Size and Book-to-Market Value Effect in Option Market | Banking & Finance | Dr Conall O'Sullivan |
| Brian Healy | Using option implied information for improved returns | Banking & Finance | Dr Conall O’Sullivan |
| Wael Almaqoushi | Audit Committee Indices : Application for Financial Reporting Quality and Merger & Acquisition Outcomes | Banking & Finance | Professor Ronan Powell |
| Huong Tran | Three Papers under the Theme of Innovation & Finance | Banking & Finance | Professor Ronan Powell |
| Vincenzo Maccarrone | An analysis of the extent to which recent transnational developments explain the fall of national social partnership in Ireland and Italy. | Industrial Relations & Human Relations | Dr Roland Erne |
| Julius Nyiawung | The Management of Employment Policies & Practices of Multi-national Companies (MNCs) in a Developing Country: The Case of Oil MNCs in Cameroon. | Industrial Relations & Human Resources | Professor John Geary |
| Loredana Dreptate | Employee participation in recession – trust and consensual relations in the financial services sector | Industrial Relations & Human Relations | Professor John Geary |
| Dhuha Al-Mujadedi | Financialisation & HRM | Industrial Relations & Human Resources | Dr Colm McLaughlin |
| Suzanne Carthy | Failure to Progress: Women’s Career Advancement in Irish Law Firms. Developing a Framework for an Availability Work Culture | Industrial Relations & Human Relations | Dr Colm McLaughlin, Dr Maeve Houlihan |
| Madison Kurchik | Managing Diversity in the Technology Sector: A Feminist Approach | Instustrial Relations & Human Resources | Dr Colm McLaughlin |
| Treasa Kenny | Workplace mediation and its influence in organisations | Industrial Relations & Human Resources | Professor Bill Roche |
| Pauline Phelan | In pursuit of Employee Engagement - A Critical Examination of the Role of Re-Structured HR Functions in Delivering Leading-Edge HRM Strategies | Industrial Relations & Human Resources | Professor Bill Roche |
| Paul Peter Knopf | Supply Chain Risk Management: A Multi Agent Based Approach: A Case Study for an Oil and Gas Company | Management | Dr Eamonn Ambrose |
| Bejamin Siedler | Income Inequality and Organizations | Management | Dr Rashedur Chowdhury |
| Yanan Lin | Relations between Guanxi and reputation gaps in Chinese Hospitals | Management | Professor Rosa Chun |
| Yun Mi Kim | Organisational Antecedents of Workplace Ostracism and its impact on In-role Performance | Management | Dr Jacob Eisenberg |
| Ali Nazarpour | The Effect of Country Level Factors on the Trade-off between Operational Performance and Mass Customization Capability | Management | Professor Brian Fynes |
| Samir Mirdad | Global Manufacturing Practices: The impact of national culture on process innovation | Management | Professor Brian Fynes |
| Dermot Reidy | Strategy, its use, and the survival of the Irish Construction Services industry during the period 2007 - 2011 (and beyond). | Management | Professor Pat Gibbons |
| Catherine McElhinney | All in the Family: A re-examination of the processes, dynamics and learning cycles of the family business | Management | Dr Maeve Houlihan |
| David Staunton | Rethinking Project Leadership - The Recreating Leader | Management | Dr Paul McGrath |
| Michail Louis | Supply Chain Risk Management: A Multi Agent Based Approach: A Case Study for an Oil and Gas Company | Management | Professor Mark Pagell |
| Kevin Walsh | Towards an evidence based approach to SME impacts | Management | Dr Rory O'Shea |
| Andrew Crose | Utilising Big Data Techniques for Multi-Channel Sales Optimisation | Marketing | Professor Susi Geiger & Dr Marius Claudy |
| Nicola Mountford | B2B or Bust: Choosing routes to market in an emerging sector – Connected Health | Marketing | Professor Susi Geiger |
| Ruiqi Wei | Customer Loyalty in B2B Services: A Relationship Dynamics Perspective | Marketing | Professor Susi Geiger |
| Gillian Moran | Investigating Receiver Perceptions of e-Word of Mouth Credibility | Marketing | Dr Laurent Muzellec |
| Valerie Gannon | Youth Media Practices | Marketing | Professor Andrea Prothero |
| Vanja Medugorac | Consumer behaviour in an Integrated Energy System | Marketing | Dr Gertje Schuitema |
| William Fahy | Optimisation of Biopharamceutical Manufacturing Processes using Business Analytics | Management Information Systems | Dr Paula Carroll |
| Andrea Berger | Inventing infrastructure: The case of the development of a National Postcode System in Ireland. | Management Information Systems | Dr Seamas Kelly |
| Stefan Forstenlechner | Investigating novel socio-inspired selection strategies for evo-devo-socio algorithms | Management Information Systems | Professor Michael O'Neill |
| David Lynch | Investigating novel socio-inspired selection strategies for evo-devo-socio algorithms | Management Information Systems | Professor Michael O'Neill |
| Le Hai Nam | Statistical model selection in genetic programming | Management Information Systems | Professor Michael O'Neill |
| Stefano Mauceri | Anomaly detection in actigraphy data | Management Information Systems | Dr James McDermott & Dr James Sweeney |
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