Dr Noreen Byrne

Biography

Dr. Noreen Byrne is a lecturer at the Department of Food Business and Development and a researcher at the Centre for Co-operative Studies. Noreen is a co-director of the the MSc Co-operatives, Agri-Food and Sustainable Development.  She was the academic director for the Certificate, Diploma and Degree components of the  suite  of accredited education programmes for credit union officers across Ireland from 2014 to 2016.   Noreen teaches on programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level.  She was also appointed to the CIRIEC International Scientific Commission in 2018, Noreen's main research interests are in co-operatives, member relationship and member driven innovation, place-based development, agri-food and sustainability.

Grants and Honours

• 05/10/2020 - The role of agricultural co-operatives in Irish Agri-Advisory Services, Dept. of Food Business & Develpment and Centre for Co-operative Studies, University College Cork
• 06/07/2020 - Consumer Credit Directive and Personal Lending Protections, Dept. of Food Business & Develpment and Centre for Co-operative Studies, University College Cork
• 09/03/2020 - Financial Inclusion, Dept. of Food Business & Develpment and Centre for Co-operative Studies, University College Cork
• 06/01/2020 - BRIDE Valley: An Irish Bio-district in Development, Dept. of Food Business & Develpment and Centre for Co-operative Studies, University College Cork
• 25/06/2019 - Reducing youth unemployment: setting up co-operatives to enhance working opportunities in the EU, Dept. of Food Business & Develpment and Centre for Co-operative Studies, University College Cork
• 15/12/2007 - Mutual Learning on Financial Inclusion MuLFI, European Union

Other Activities

• 13/07/2022 - "Rethinking co-operatives: From local to global and from the past to the future"
• 22/04/2022 - Agricultural and Rural Convention ARC 2020
• 01/09/2021 - Invited submission on the Consumer Credit Amendment Bill 2021, FINPERT Joint Oireachtas Committee
• 22/05/2021 - Invited Speaker to Co-operative Party Conference NI May 2021
• 16/02/2021 - Invited presentation to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach on the Consumer Credit Amendment Bill 2018, FINPERT Joint Oireachtas Committee
• 12/11/2020 - Invited submission on the Consumer Credit Amendment Bill 2018, FINPERT Joint Oireachtas Committee
• 16/05/2019 - JOURNAL-INSTITUTION OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH
• 13/05/2019 - Ecch Case No. 512-021-1
• 01/10/2018 - International Scientific Commission on "Social and Cooperative Economy"
• 02/12/2015 - European Conference on Information Technology Evaluation

Pedagogic Experiences

• 2020 - Co-operatives and Sustainable Rural Economies, University College Cork, BComm (Hons) Commerce
• 2018 - Communications and Marketing for Sustainable Production Consumption, University College Cork, MSc Co-operatives, Agri-Food and Sustainable Development
• 2018 - Co-operative and Collaborative Responses, University College Cork, MSc Co-operatives, Agri-Food and Sustainable Development
• 2018 - Practice-Based Research Project, University College Cork, MSc Co-operatives, Agri-Food and Sustainable Development
• 2018 - Contemporary Socio-Economic & Environ Issues, University College Cork, MSc Co-operatives, Agri-Food and Sustainable Development
• 2016 - Co-operatives, Food and Rural Sustainability, University College Cork, BSc (Hons) International Development
• 2010 - Co-operatives and the Third Sector, University College Cork, MSocSc Voluntary and Community Sector Management
• 2006 - Community Co-operatives and Social Enterprises, University College Cork, MSc Co-operative and Social Enterprise (Online)
• 2006 - Social and Co-operative Entrepreneurship, University College Cork, MSc Co-operative and Social Enterprise (Online)

Research Domains

• Relationship between structure and member value
• Co-operative Studies  
• Sustainable development of the agri-food sector

Thesis

• 9999 - Masters Degree by Research (Thesis Primary Supervisor)
• 2016 - Exploring the financial impact, change management process and cultural integration in the merger of two credit unions, University College Cork (Thesis Co-Supervisor)
• 2019 - Business Growth and the Artisan Food Entrepreneur:A Case Study of Irish Farmhouse Cheesemakers. (Thesis Co-Supervisor)
• 2020 - Financial capability in credit unions, University College Cork (Thesis Co-Supervisor)
• 2020 - The role of chairperson in credit unions, University College Cork (Thesis Co-Supervisor)
• 2021 - TBC, University College Cork (Thesis Co-Supervisor)
• 2021 - Credit unions - tbc, University College Cork (Thesis Co-Supervisor)
• 2025 - Is there a viable business model for the Irish credit union sector?, University College Cork, University College Cork (Thesis Co-Supervisor)
• 2024 - Organisational Culture in Credit Union s, University College Cork (Thesis Co-Supervisor)

Publications