Activity report – Graduate School of the College of Business and Law
2011 - 2012
Since the creation of the Graduate School in January 2011, the following activities have been
undertaken:
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Survey of CB&L staff on research supervision (March 2011) – report circulated to staff
Survey of CB&L Staff on access to research funding (May 2011) - report circulated to staff
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Round table event on Research Supervision (June 2011) – Notes circulated to staff
Round table event on Access to Funding (September 2011) – Notes circulated to staff
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Creation of three support schemes for conference travel support to early career staff
(scheme 1) and to PhD students (scheme 2) and to support the invitation of internationally
recognised speakers on research (scheme 3). Over 65 paper presentations supported to date
and over 10 event supported.
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Seminar series – the following seminars have been organised:
o Preparing the viva voce (March 25th, 2011)
o The academic career (June 3rd, 2011)
o CB&L Induction seminar 2011 / 2012 in-coming graduate students (October 6th,
2011)
o Critical Realist Information Systems Research in Action by Prof. Sven Carlsson (Lund
University, Sweden) , November 4th, 2011.
o Writing the literature review (December 2nd, 2011)
o Supervising PhD Research – Experiences from Australia, by Prof. Graeme Shanks
(University of Melbourne, Australia). Week beginning June 18th.
o Blog mining-review and extensions: “From each according to his opinion”, by Prof.
Daniel O’Leary, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, United States
o Induction seminar 2012 / 2013 graduate students (October 5th, 2012)
o Preparing the viva voce (November 1st, 2012)
o IRCHSS funding workshop (December 12th, 2012)
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Comparing in research, by Prof. Paddy O’Donovan (UCC). Date to be confirmed.
Psycho-analysis and Business Research, By Prof. Sebastian Green (UCC), Date to be
confirmed.
Other events:
o PhD Showcase Preparation & rehearsal sessions (May 2012)
o IRC postgraduate funding Application Clinic (February 2012 & March 2013)
o Special session on Doctoral opportunities in CB&L – UCC postgraduate open day
(Feb. 7th, 2013)
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University level work:
o Facilitation of CB&L response to FORFAS research priorities report
o Participation in judging panels UCC PhD show case 2011 / 2012 / 2013
o Work on changes to examination of PhD theses as part of ACGSC – many changes
introduced in October 2012
o Changes to rules and regulations on “PhD by published work “, “The Industrial PhD”,
“the structured PhD”.
o Co-author – report from ACGSC to AC on support schemes for Staff writing PhDs
o Facilitation of proposal of PG coded modules specific to CB&L
Web site:
o Multi-disciplinary web site completed and launched: Includes separate pages from
all main departments in the College, following systematic consultations with
disciplinary coordinators.