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 | Supervisor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emma O'Grady | Accounting |
VALue In Delivery of care for children with Cystic Fibrosis – VALID-CF Study |
Professor Gerardine Doyle |
| Ziqi Liu | Accounting | Essays in Entrepreneurial and Green Finance |
Dr Sean O'Reilly |
| Xuan Han | Accounting | To be confirmed |
Dr Fabiola Schneider |
| Yike Wang | Banking & Finance | Asset pricing via machine learning |
Professor Thomas Conlon |
| Min Zhang | Banking & Finance |
Essays on Sustainability and Firm Performance |
Professor Thomas Conlon & Professor John Cotter |
| Mahdi Niknejad | Banking & Finance |
Impact of Asset tokenization on risk management and account receivables |
Professor John Cotter |
| Xiaomeng Wang | Banking & Finance |
Essays on Narratives, Sentiment, and Volatility Management in Financial Markets |
Professor John Cotter |
| Banking & Finance | Improving Default Risk Assessment with Behavioural Indicators | Dr (Yong Kyu) Kevin Gam | |
| Banking & Finance |
Essays in Climate Transition: A Financial Perspective |
Professor Andreas Hoepner | |
| Banking & Finance | Essays on Machine Learning in Sustainable finance | Professor Andreas Hoepner | |
| Banking & Finance | Sustainable Finance of Offshore Windfarms | Dr Cormac Mac Fhionnlaoich | |
| Banking & Finance | Analyzing Racial Discrimination in Bank Loan Rates using Machine Learning Techniques |
Professor Cal Muckley | |
| Banking & Finance | To be confirmed | Professor Cal Muckley | |
| Banking & Finance | To Be Confirmed | Dr Conall O'Sullivan | |
|
Banking & Finance |
To Be Confirmed | Dr Conall O'Sullivan & Dr Richard McGee | |
| Banking & Finance | To be confirmed | Dr Alessia Paccagnini | |
| Banking & Finance | Empirical Asset pricing in Chinese Stock Market by Machine Learning | Dr Alessia Paccagnini | |
| Banking & Finance | Essay on Bayesian Vector Auto-Regression for Large Macro-Finance Dataset Forecasting | Dr Alessia Paccagnini & Professor Cal Muckley | |
| Banking & Finance |
Financial Portfolio Optimization, Using Deep Learning, Time Series Analysis, and Inverse Optimization Methods. |
Professor Valerio Poti & Dr Richard McGee | |
| Fangyan Wang | Banking & Finance | To be confirmed | Dr Vassilios Papavassiliou |
| Ruoyu Gao | Banking & Finance | To be Confirmed | Professor Ronan Powell |
| Yuwei Wang | Banking & Finance |
To be Confirmed |
Professor Ronan Powell |
| Nanhong Qian | Banking & Finance |
Exploring the Non-Linear correlation between ESG Performance and Cost of Capital and the Effect of ESG performance on Capital Structure Adjustment |
Dr Lisa Sheenan |
| Agnese D'Anna | HRM & Employment Relations |
Convergent and divergent trajectories of collective bargaining in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland: The case of the banking sector |
Professor Roland Erne |
| Burak Ceylan | HRM & Employment Relations |
To be Confirmed |
Dr Darragh Golden |
| Owen O'Connor | HRM & Employment Relations |
Sustainable Careers in Cybersecurity: how cybersecurity professionals envision and construct sustainable careers |
Professor Anne Keegan |
| Ruipeng Wang | Management | To be confirmed | Professor Rosa Chun |
| Musa Afandiyev | Management | Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Entrepreneurial re-entry after business failure. | Dr Orla Byrne & Dr Julia Backmann |
| Huong Hoang | Management | To be Confirmed | Dr Shuna Ho, Dr Geertje Schuitema |
| Management |
To be Confirmed |
Professor Mark Pagell & Dr Mary Parkinson | |
| Management |
Effect of Learning from Failure on the Subsequent Innovation of High-tech Enterprises in China |
Dr Dorota Piaskowska | |
| Management |
Resources and Capabilities Transfer in Multi-Systems and International Relations: A Stakeholder Innovation Ecosystem Approach |
Dr Luca Pistilli | |
| Marketing |
To be Confirmed |
Dr Marius Claudy & Dr David DeFranza | |
| Marketing | Nudge for sustainable travel behaviour and policy acceptance (TBC) | Dr. Geertje Schuitema | |
| MIS |
To Be Confirmed |
Dr Annunziata Esposito Amideo | |
| MIS |
Optimisation algorithms for last mile and shared mobility on the Electric Vehicle (EV) charging network |
Dr Paula Carroll | |
| MIS | Mathematical Modelling of Energy Markets | Dr Mel Devine | |
| MIS |
Strategic Adoption of AI-Enabled Decision-Making in Data-Driven Organizations |
Dr Matt Glowatz | |
| MIS |
The Implications of AI for Meaningful Work for Graduates and Early in Career Professionals (TBC) |
Professor Seamas Kelly | |
| MIS |
To Be Confirmed |
Dr Miguel Nicolau & Professor Michael O'Neill | |
| MIS |
To Be Confirmed |
Professor Michael O'Neill |
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