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 |
|---|---|---|
| Orla Lenihan | Executive Compensation and Impression Management: An Empirical Analysis | Professor Niamh Brennan |
| Maureen Flynn | The Practice of Accountability for 'Clinical Governance' : a life-and-death setting | Professor Niamh Brennan |
| Karen-Ann Dwyer | An examination of audit materiality thresholds and risk assessment in new-form audit reports. | Professor Niamh Brennan & Dr Collette Kirwan |
| Neil Dunne | Rituals of Verification: Impression management and the audit profession | Professor Niamh Brennan & Dr Collette Kirwan |
| Maria Scanlon | The impact of the negotiation process on the quality of financial reporting | Dr Mary Canning |
| Emer Hunt | Ireland's position in the International Tax Landscape | 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 | Professor Eamonn Walsh |
| Martina Assereto | Evaluating and mitigating the financial risks of renewable energy integration systems: a real options approach | Dr Julie Byrne |
| Xuanyu Yue | Investment Strategies for companies for Low-carbon Development Policy in China | Dr Julie Byrne |
| Mohamad Faour | Essays in Market Microstructure and Financial Econometrics | Professor John Cotter & Dr Cal Muckley |
| Illia Kovalenko | Tail risk estimator and future returns forecast | DrTom Conlon & Professor John Cotter |
| Eketerina Goryagina | Investing with Minimal Regret. | Dr David Edelman |
| Yumeng Gao | The price impacts of media-expressed sentiment and investor attention in social media | Professor Andreas Hoepner & Dr Sha Liu |
| Fabiola Schneider |
Climate change: An operational risk factor on access to finance for fossil fuel enterprises |
Professor Andreas Hoepner |
| Mohamad Faour | A microstructure study on market liquidity | Dr Cal Muckley |
| Shivam Agarwal | Regulatory risk in financial institutions | Dr Cal Muckley |
| Yan Wang | Size and Book-to-Market Value Effect in Option Market | Dr Conall O'Sullivan |
| Tianshu Jiang | A study of the expected returns of individual equity options and a pricing model | Dr Conall O'Sulivan |
| Yang Zhao | The Determinants of IPO Withdrawal - An Empirical Analysis of China (Technology & Industrial Sectoe) | Professor Ronan Powell |
| Costanza Galanti |
Nurses’ and care workers’ unions facing New Economic Governance’s impact on health care in Italy and Romania. What transnational and trans-occupational class reactions? |
Dr Roland Erne |
| Mary Naughton |
Victims & Architects |
Dr Roland Erne |
| Vincenzo Maccarrone | A tale if two countries? The impact of the new European economic givernance on the Irish and Italian systems of industrial relations | Dr Roland Erne |
| Loredana Dreptate | Employee participation in recession – trust and consensual relations in the financial services sector | Professor John Geary |
| Sid McDonnell | Experiencing HRM: Do workplace wellbeing programs solve the mutual-gains / conflicting-outcomes dilemma? | Professor Anne Keegan |
| Dhuha Al-Mujadedi | Financialisation & HRM | Dr Colm McLaughlin |
| Treasa Kenny | Workplace Mediators in Ireland: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study | Professor Bill Roche |
| Paul Peter Knopf | Dynamics of inter-organisational trust repair in a buyer-supplier context | Dr Eamonn Ambrose |
| Bejamin Siedler | Income Inequality and Organizations | Dr Rashedur Chowdhury |
| Yanan Lin | The Reputation of the Chinese Hospitals and Employee Commitment | Professor Rosa Chun |
| Alaa Al Zawawi | Mergers & Acquisitions - A Cross Cultural Study of Performance Post-merger | Professor Brian Fynes |
| Samir Mirdad | Global Manufacturing Practices: The impact of national culture on process innovation | Professor Brian Fynes |
| Catherine McElhinney | Exploring Daughters' narratives of family business | Dr Maeve Houlihan |
| Michalis Louis | Sustainability risk management in global supply chains : A dynamic capabilities perspective | Professor Mark Pagell |
| Kevin Walsh | Why some regions are more successful at innovating than others? | Dr Rory O'Shea |
| Nicola Mountford | Off the fence and onto the field: Roles, rules, and relationships in the re-organisation of healthcare | Professor Susi Geiger |
| Ruiqi Wei | A Platform Approach in Servitization: How to Control Solution Networks with Digital Infrastructures | Professor Susi Geiger |
| Anna Yankulova | Value creation in Pharmaceuticals: A new comprehensive network within a fast-changing environment | Professor Susi Geiger & Dr Gerardine Doyle |
| Vanja Medugorac | Consumer behaviour in an Integrated Energy System | Dr Gertje Schuitema |
| William Fahey | Optimisation of Biopharamceutical Manufacturing Processes using Business Analytics | Dr Paula Carroll |
| Andrea Berger | Inventing infrastructure: The case of the development of a National Postcode System in Ireland. | Dr Seamas Kelly |
| Mark Connor | Designing optimal training prescription systems for elite team sport athletes. | Professor Michael O'Neill |
| Stefan Forstenlechner | Program Synthesis with Grammar and Semantics in G3P | Professor Michael O'Neill |
| David Lynch | Automated Self-Optimization in Heterogeneous Wireless Communications Networks using Techniques from Evolutionary Computation | Professor Michael O'Neill |
| Le Hai Nam | Statistical model selection in genetic programming | Professor Michael O'Neill |
| Stefano Mauceri | Anomaly detection in actigraphy data | Dr James McDermott & Dr James Sweeney |
| Jimmy Hennessy | The utilisation of neural networks to improve on current sun spot detection frequencies | Dr Sean McGarraghy |
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