Masters by Research
University-led research: helping organisations, communities, and society meet new challenges.
Organisations face significant challenges in the fast-paced global economy. Universities provide access to expertise and skills, helping to navigate challenges and mitigate risk in uncertain times.
The Faculty of Business and Social Sciences is passionate about research, supporting evidencebased practice that has a real and meaningful impact on organisations, communities, and society.
With a 50-year history of academic success, the new University has strengthened its research capacity, investing in a community of academic scholars, who support economic and social development within our region and beyond.
Faculty Profile
• Ninety-six academic staff
• Forty colleagues who have completed or are completing doctoral awards to Level 10
• Over 50 active research projects
• Diversity in grant application approx. ten million annually
• Thirty-five postgraduate students engaged in in research programmes of study
• Work in partnership with hundreds of organisations, and agencies in the public, private and not-for-profit sector annually
• Ambitious faculty team who support, guide and enable researchers to reach their potential.
Step 1: Identify a Management Challenge for a Research Project
The objective is to explore an area of direct interest to your organisation in depth. Examples could include needing to re-structure, introduce new processes, develop a new approach to markets in the light of regulatory or technological change, taking a new approach to developing your team’s skills, or managing a portfolio of products. For some organisations, issues that may not be immediate but are likely to become major within the next three years can merit investigation in depth through such a project. Experienced research supervisors work with your organisation to develop a SMART research project with defined roadmap, outcomes and timelines.
Step 2: Identify the Researcher
Consider whether you will engage one of your own team to take on a project, as part of a staff development initiative. Alternatively engage an external research student to bring in expertise.
Step 3: Fees & Funding
The research project duration is two years. Fees per annum: €3819.
The Faculty academic team can provide research expertise in the areas listed below. This list is not exhaustive and can be expanded to other areas. Please let us know your areas of interest and need.
• Business Process Reengineering
• Digital Transformation
• Digital Business Strategy
• Supply Chain Management
• Digital Business
• Digital Disruption
• Diversity and Inclusion
• General Insurance
• Remote Working
• Law and Business
• Women in Leadership
• Sustainable Finance
• Economics
• Sustainability
• Data
• Energy
• Telecommunications
• Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace
• Community Development
• Changing Demographics
• Skills Development for Tourism Organisations
• Building Tourism Organisation Resilience
• Marketing and Branding
• Business Management and Strategic Planning
• Change Management
Lecturer of Marketing and Director of CRISP (Centre for Research in the Social Professions). Research interests are in Customer Service, Corporate Social Responsibility, Marketing and Branding and Relationship Marketing.
Worked in leadership roles in large organisations for over twenty-five years. Research expertise includes leadership, management, and professional practice
Head of Department
Areas of research expertise and funding include Digital Disruption. Digital Transformation, Remote Working Business process re-engineering and Managing Change
Active researcher and lecturer across wide-range of tourismrelated fields including sustainability, biosecurity, and event management from global to local perspective.
Dr Marie Moran
Higher Education senior manager with experience in leadership, change management and strategic planning. Experience gained over 30 years in the public and private sector in Ireland and the UK.
Research interests include policy development and implementation.
Lorraine Murphy Lecturer in Law. Solicitor with 20 years general industry experience including Conveyancing and Probate. Research active in Education. Expertise in Business Law and Company Law.
Brendan O`Mahony Insurance professional with 30+ years’ experience nationwide. Regular lecturer for Insurance Institute of Ireland and CII (UK) contributor.
Dr Maria Scanlon Lecturer in accounting and Big4 trained chartered accountant. Research interests include auditing, corporate governance (audit committees), financial reporting interactions, sustainable strategy, and sustainability reporting.
Dr Deirdre Byrne
Staff researcher in the department. An experienced researcher with funding and networking expertise. Research areas: social care and sustainable tourism.
Lecturer in Business & Data Analytics.
Experienced economist with over a decade of research across energy, environment, education and telecommunications.
Dr Natalie Delimata
Worked and lectured in Social Care for 30+ years. Theoretical and empirical researcher specialising in health, society, creativity and ethics.
Dr James Hanrahan Research expertise includes sustainable tourism destination management, AI, climate change, tourism and the circular economy.
Dr Gwen Scarborough Lecturer in Social Sciences at the ATU. Research interests include women in work, how organisation can engage with the external world
Taylor Lecturer in human rights law. Human rights-based approach to projects. Human rights history; Business sustainability, due diligence and human rights models.
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Lecturer - worked in Community Development; research: minority ethnic groups; Roma; Direct Provision; Anthropology of childhood; interculturalism; economic and social history.
Dr Valerie McTaggart Dr Catherine McGuinn Dr Bryan Coyne Leonard Dr Breda McTaggart Dr Domhnall Melly Karin White