Academic Staff
Olivia Edge
Lecturer in the School of Global Business
Email: olivia.edge@tudublin.ie
Tel: +353 1 220 7307
Qualifications
- BA in Counselling and Psychotherapy, 2022
- MBS (Research) in Business and Project Strategy, 2009
- BBS (Hons), 1997
Research Underpinning the Programme
- Ms. Edge’s research focuses on the psychological dynamics that drive transformation at the personal, interpersonal, and organisational levels.
- She investigates how individuals and teams navigate, resist, and embrace change and how psychology can be strategically integrated into management practices to foster sustainable, impactful change within organisations.
Publications include:
- Feeney, S., Edge, O., & Quinn, E. (2015). Developing Organisational Design Criteria in the Redesign of an Irish Higher Education Institution. Higher Education in Transformation Conference, Dublin, Ireland, pp. 369-373.
- Quinn, E., Edge, O., & Feeney, S. (2016). An Approach to Designing Services in a Technological University: Re-engineering or Seduction? Higher Education in Transformation Symposium, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, November 2-6.
- Her work emphasises psychological principles like resilience, adaptability, and emotional intelligence as key components of change readiness and positive organisational outcomes.
- Scholarship Underpinning the Programme
- Olivia’s teaching integrates psychological principles into management practices, helping students apply these insights in real-world settings.
- She combines her psychotherapist expertise in trauma treatment (including EMDR) with organisational change theories, giving students a holistic understanding of interpersonal dynamics and behavioural patterns in the workplace.
- She integrates emerging themes like resilience and emotional intelligence into her courses, preparing future leaders with skills to foster adaptive, healthy work environments.
Industry and Profession, Civic and Community Engagement, Staff Development
- Olivia is a member of MIACP (Member of the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy).
- She is also certified in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), a therapy focused on trauma treatment.
- Olivia brings her clinical experience into her teaching, creating an interdisciplinary approach to business psychology.