Professor of Management and Organisation Studies

Email: paul.donnelly@tudublin.ie

Tel: +35312206410 

I joined TU Dublin—City Campus (formerly Dublin Institute of Technology) in 2004, on my return from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA.  Prior to moving to the US to study for my PhD, I worked in various roles (head of customer relations, head of internal communications, executive assistant to the commercial director, and business analyst) with Telecom Éireann (now eir).  See LinkedIn for further background. 

As Professor of Management and Organisation Studies, I teach final year undergraduate and postgraduate students in the areas of strategy, organisational behaviour and organisational theory. In terms of my teaching, I take the stance that I am not the ‘sage on the stage’ and that my students are not passive vessels to be filled with knowledge. Instead, I seek to engage students as active accomplices in their own learning —including critically examining knowledge and embedded assumptions— through creating an interactive, participative and collaborative learning space. As such, my role is that of a facilitator guiding students in their learning and encouraging both peer-to-peer and self-directed learning, thereby serving to lessen their dependence on me as the ‘all-knowing expert’ and placing more emphasis on their own abilities as learners.    

On the research front (see ResearchGate, ORCID and Arrow for publications), I am a founding member, director and principal investigator of TU Dublin’s Business, Society and Sustainability Research Centre. I am a Fulbright Fellow, Taiwan Fellow, and College of Business Research Fellow.  With an affinity for exploring management and organisation through the lenses of critical management studies, and working with qualitative methodologies, my research seeks to understand the experiences and practices of people and groups at the margins of management and organisation research. Also, I have interests in economic/industrial development, organizational forming, and the changing world of work. I welcome expressions of interest from prospective MPhil and PhD students in these or related areas. 

In terms of service and engagement, I am active within the university as a member of school, college and university committees, and as past Fulbright Ambassador to TU Dublin-City Campus.  Externally, I am active in service and engagement through such appointments and activities as: 

• Member, Social Sciences Committee, Royal Irish Academy.
• Independent Non-Executive Director, Board of Directors, Dóchas.
• Chair and Independent Non-Executive Director, Board of Directors, Ireland-United States Fulbright Commission. 
• Vice Chair and Independent Non-Executive Director, Board of Directors, Transparency International Ireland. 
• Expert Evaluator, European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency, European Commission. 
• Expert Evaluator and Monitor, Research Executive Agency, European Commission. 
• Awards Interview Panel Chair/Member, Ireland-United States Fulbright Commission. 
• Panel Moderator, Citizen’s Assembly on Gender Equality. 
• Past Independent Expert and Council Member, National Economic and Social Council. 
• Past Division Co-Chair, Critical Management Studies Division, Academy of Management. 
• Past Co-Chair, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, Academy of Management. 
• Past Member, Division and Interest Group Relations Committee, Academy of Management. 
• President Emeritus, Irish Fulbright Alumni Association. 
• National and international journal peer reviewing.