OUR STRATEGY: Our research strategy underlines our commitment to research excellence by calling out high impact publications, international journals, funded research, collaboration, and research that enhances business, policy and society. It also states our determination to promote gender diversity and to support researchers across all levels.
OUR VISION: To be a leading international centre of excellence for research in sustainable business, producing high quality research contributing to the development of society, policy and business.
Strategic Research Priorities
Engaging all academic staff and researchers inhigh impact publishing– increased targeting of research for publication in internationally recognised high impact journals, academic presses and citations
Enhance the School’s research excellence, especially viaprestigious funded research grants
Development of high-impact disciplinary and inter-disciplinaryresearch collaborationsand clusters within and across the School and internationally, investing in existing and new emerging areas where we have the potential to lead
Nurture the next generation ofresearch leadersin the School
Focus on innovationto deliver economic, societal, educational and entrepreneurial impact
Promotegender equality and diversityto support the research careers of all staff
Ensuring highest standards ofresearch integrity
Our People
Researchers and Experts
Cork University Business School is one of the two largest business schools in Ireland with the largest amount of research income. Our researchers and experts work interdisciplinarily with partners globally
Founded in 1980, the Centre for Co-operative Studies has carried out extensive research into agricultural, community, worker, housing and credit co-operatives and more recently social enterprises. It has an extensive Resource Room and is involved in the provision of information, and advice to existing and potential co-operative groups as well as operating a consultancy service.
All of the Centre’s activities are focused on helping people identify their own problems and meet their own needs through co-operative, economic and social action. Recently, this has meant conducting research into corporate governance and development issues in Gaeltacht communities, studying the role of women in credit unions and exploring the newly emerging social enterprises. The Centre has responded to recent invitations to review corporate management in an agricultural co-operative and to explore the feasibility of developing a new-generation co-operative, for organic foodstuffs in the Irish context. It has also been heavily involved in developing new distance learning programmes to meet the needs of people involved in a broad range of co-operatives, social enterprises and local development initiatives, including the BSc in Credit Union Business (Pathways), the BSc in Rural Development, and an MSc Co-operative and Social Enterprises.
The Centre for Investment Research (CIR) produces independent specialised investment research. The Principal researchers combine strong track records in academic research and publishing with industry experience gained at HSBS, UBS, Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank and FTI Finance. The team are experts in quantitative investment research and have extensive international and national academic links working with research groups at CASS Business School, University of Miami, University of Amsterdam, Deakin University (Australia), University College Dublin, Dublin City University and Queens University Belfast.
Led by Professor Mark Hutchinson and Professor Niall O’Sullivan, the CIR works closely with industry in practice oriented research addressing the research needs of institutional investment managers. CIR research has been funded by all of the major funding agencies, including the Irish Research Council, Science Foundation Ireland, Enterprise Ireland and the international alternative investments industry.
Projects:
The following are the area of research currently being carried at the centre:
Hedge fund and mutual fund risk and performance measurement.
The risk and return attribution of dynamic trading strategies.
The effect of the global financial crisis on investment fund risk and performance.
The Centre for Policy Studies has an active policy-driven research program in the fields of industrial policy, tourism, social policy and health economics. It has research collaborations both within UCC (with the Departments of Geography, Applied Social Studies, Statistics and with the Oral Health Services Research Centre) and externally (Florida Atlantic University, Economic and Social Research Institute, National Tourism Research Centre, University of Limerick and Research Unit,University of Cardiff).
Recent highlights include the award of a €237,000 HRB Research Grant to the Centre for Policy Studies to investigate GMS Drug Prescribing in Ireland. Other highlights include an earlier HRB Research Grant award to Dr Noel Woods of €300,000 (2007) and the inclusion of Dr. Woods as a Principal Investigator with the HRB Health Service Research Institute which received a €5 million PhD Scholars Programme award (2007).
The Centre for Sports Economics & Law (CSEL) is a collaborative unit of academics based across the Department of Economics and School of Law.
The mission of CSEL is to be a centre of excellence in research and a leading hub internationally for sports economics and sports law study and practice. Given the Centre’s interdisciplinary nature, our members endeavour to conduct research at the nexus of the two specialisms.
CSEL members include: Dr.David Butler (Director, Economics), Dr.Robert Butler (Economics), Prof.Maria Cahill (Law), Dr.John Considine (Economics), Dr.John Eakins (Economics), Dr.Declan Jordan (Economics), Dr.Seán Ó Conaill (Law), Prof. Conor O’Mahony (Law) and Dr.Aisling Parkes (Law) and Prof.Robert Simmons (Adjunct. Economics, (Lancaster University))
CSEL members bring expertise from a variety of backgrounds in their core discipline and have published sports research in many recognised international journals and books. This research has featured in general outlets such as;
The European Journal of Operational Research, The British Journal of Industrial Relations, Public Choice, The Scottish Journal of Political Economy, The Journal of Institutional Economics, Regional Studies, Applied Economics, The Journal of Economic Studies, Economic and Social Review and Oxford Economic Papers.
CSEL members have published research in numerous sport specific outlets such as;
The Journal of Sports Economics, The European Sport Management Quarterly, The International Journal of Sport Finance, The Handbook on EU Sports Law and Policy, Sport Management Review, Soccer and Society and the Sport and Entertainment Review.
The Centre for Sustainable Livelihoods (CSL), University College Cork, aims to determine and address issues that impact on people's ability to maintain and sustain their livelihoods.
The Centre's role encompasses research, development, training and advocacy in areas related to attaining sustainable livelihoods, both in the South and North. It brings together relief and development practitioners and academics drawn from the fields of food science, human nutrition, geography, politics, agriculture, economics, sociology, anthropology, and others. The Centre encourages networking between public and private action, South and North, between the economically rich countries and the disadvantaged in the Majority World.
Originally established in 1998 to commemorate Ireland's Great Famine, the Centre shifted its focus in 2003 to encompass a greater breadth of livelihood issues. The Centre is committed to research, advocacy and action in countries threatened by food insecurity. A key goal of the Centre is to broaden and deepen the world's understanding of food and nutrition security, agricultural innovation and development, environment and livelihood issues. As such it conducts actions along several broad strands - the linkages between poverty, food production and livelihood sustainability; governance and society; globalisation and economic change; climate change and natural resource management; value chain analysis and market development and analysis. The Centre provides information and expertise for a range of individuals and groups including policy makers, NGOs, other research institutions and the general public. The Centre sees the ongoing participation of key stakeholders in the South as a critical component of successful service delivery.
Centre for Resilience and Business Continuity (CRBC)
In an economy characterised by globalisation, terrorism, unstable financial systems, and social and political upheaval, an organisation’s ability to adapt and respond to the unexpected is a crucial hallmark of success. The resilient business must safeguard its people, assets and reputation whilst maintaining its core operations. Having built a wealth of experience helping European government agencies and emergency management practitioners to respond to large scale emergencies and disasters, the CRBC applies best practice to build resilient businesses and societies and ensure continuity. The research focus of the centre goes beyond recovery and emphasises the importance of mitigation and planning to minimise the impact of the unexpected. The research centre takes a multi-disciplinary approach to resilience and business continuity planning through the application of best practice and academic research. CRBC, led by Dr Karen Neville, recently coordinated the S-HELP project. S-HELP was a €3.5 million FP7-funded research project to develop to a suite of decision support tools and interoperability standards to aid coordination and control of major disasters across European borders.
The research centre has created a close network of security professionals and researchers to provide turnkey solutions at local, national and international level. In addition to creation of custom software development, CRBC recognises that people are an organisation’s most important asset. There is no substitute for competent, motivated, well-trained staff. Training and collaboration are hallmarks of CRBC’s approach to research which aims to address issues associated with diminished coordination, interoperability, collaboration and threat detection.
Core competencies of the centre include:
Creation of interoperability standards to promote collaborative disaster recovery
Dedicated decision support software to aid strategic decision makers plan and respond to the unexpected
Protection of vulnerable societies
Decision making and emergency management training
EU Funded Research projects focusing on security and resilience at individual, organisational and societal level
Service design and co-creation workshops for resilience training and planning
Extensive knowledge of EU civil protection modules
Coordination and collaboration for business continuity
Organisational learning and knowledge repositories
Financial Services Innovation Centre (FSIC)
The Financial Services Innovation Centre (FSIC) at Cork University Business School at UCC provides Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) capabilities to domestic and international companies. The FSIC is located in the university’s Business Information Systems (BIS) group and is a leading research centre in the Irish business area.
The FSIC plays a pivotal role in stimulating innovation in the financial services sector. It provides a resource for global financial services companies to participate in cutting - edge RDI that will have global impact. The Centre works through forming collaborative partnerships with industry to drive innovation activity focused on delivering new financial products and services in finance, banking, insurance, funds, regulation, technology and consulting.
Projects:
FuturICT:“The FuturICT Knowledge Accelerator: Creating Socially Interactive Information Technologies for a Sustainable Future”
PACITA: ‘Parliaments and Civil Society in Technology Assessment’
Global Competitiveness Institute (GCI)
The Global Competitiveness Institute (GCI) will serve as a focal point on the island of Ireland for innovative, interdisciplinary research and engagement on all aspects of global competitiveness.
The big question we address is: How can companies compete more successfully, sustainably and responsibly across borders?
Through ground breaking and cross-border research, the GCI will activate international insights that enable business and policy leaders to make informed strategic decisions and to proactively manage risk. We will work with our partners to understand and overcome the principal challenges facing international business and global society. These include geopolitical risk, corporate external engagement, trust and legitimacy, host country corruption, and cyber security.
For a discussion on how the Global Competitiveness Institute could collaborate with your company, agency or organisation, please contact:
Prof. Thomas Lawton | Global Competitiveness Institute | ORB 2.63 | University College Cork | Ireland.
Health Information Systems Research Centre (HISRC)
The Health Information Systems Research Centre (HISRC) is a research centre, at Cork University Business School at UCC, which seeks to maximise the benefit of adopting Information Systems within community and hospital healthcare. The HISRC builds on and applies lessons learnt in the business, financial, government and public sectors to identify and implement ICT solutions that reduce costs and improve patient health care outcomes. Its philosophy is that ICT, people and processes are interconnected and that this understanding enhances the probability of a successful of application of ICT within the healthcare sector.
Led by Dr Simon Woodworth and Dr Ciara Fitzgerald, the HISRC works closely with other research groups within and outside the business school and UCC. These include the College of Medicine and Health, the School of Nursing and Midwifery, the ASSERT research group, the INFANT national research centre, and the Tyndall national research centre In addition the HISRC has close working relationships with Cork University Hospital, Cork University Maternity Hospital and Nenagh General Hospital.
Projects:
Some projects currently being undertaken within the HIRSC include:
Electronic Early Warning Score / Wireless Ward
CIMULACT
Relative Clause Protocol (RCP)
X-Ray Patient Tracking
IMPACT
miChild
PANDA
Supporting Low cost Interventions For diseasE control (Supporting LIFE)
Human Resource Research Centre
The Human Resource Research Centre (HRRC) brings together scholars researching in the domains of human resource management in the Department of Management and Marketing at Cork University Business School.
Areas of research include leadership, organisational behaviour, talent management and learning and development. The development of this centre is timely given complex business environments that exist today. Effective human resource management can contribute greatly to a successful, sustainable organisation where strategic objectives are realised, whilst providing a positive workplace experience.
Spatial and Regional Economics Research Centre (SRERC)
The Spatial and Regional Economics Research Centre (SRERC) arises from the extensive experience and research expertise in regional science developed by a cluster of staff in the Department of Economics, University College Cork.
The Centre operates on the philosophy of research excellence and policy relevance. The members of the research centre have published more than 60 peer reviewed academic journal articles between them in leading journals in the field of regional economics including Environment and Planning A, Regional Studies, Papers in Regional Science, Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society, and Spatial Economic Analysis.
The membership of the Centre Justin Doran (Director), Declan Jordan (Director), Jane Bourke (Theme Leader), Frank Crowley (Theme Leader), Marie O’Connor, and Noirin McCarthy.
There are currently various postgraduate research programmes at CUBS, offered on either a full-time or part-time basis, with some incorporating structured training. They provide students with an opportunity to undertake advanced research on a particular aspect of business.
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