Welcome to ERS in Research
With a focus on innovation to deliver economic, societal, educational and entrepreneurial impact, CUBS faculty and researchers are engaged in high impact disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research collaborations and clusters within and across the school and internationally, investing in existing and new emerging areas where we have the potential to lead.
UCC Futures enables a dynamic enhancement of research, support of innovation and translation of research to tangible solutions to address emerging societal needs and global grand challenges. Our strategic research agenda in CUBS is directly aligned with UCC Futures’ aim to produce impactful research that will support our society to thrive and to secure a sustainable future for all.
Research Centres
The Centre for Co-operative Studies has carried out extensive research into agricultural, community, worker, housing and credit co-operatives and social enterprises. The Centre’s activities are focused on helping people identify their own problems and meet their own needs through co-operative, economic and social action.
The Centre for Resilience and Business Continuity takes a multi-disciplinary approach to resilience and business continuity planning through the application of best practice and academic research. Led by Dr Karen Neville, the centre coordinated the S-HELP project, a €3.5 million FP7-funded research project to develop to a suite of decision support tools and interoperability standards to aid coordination and control of major disasters across European borders.
The Centre for Sustainable Livelihoods aims to determine and address issues that impact on people's ability to maintain and sustain their livelihoods. A current project led by Dr. Stephen Onakuse, Sustainable Production and Consumption: The Influence of Social Norms (SPAC), presents an opportunity to understand the social norms or behavioural characteristics to responsible production and consumption in Ireland. The project findings will identify areas on attitude-behavioural gaps and targets to stimulate sustainable behavioural change for attention of policy makers and the public.
The Spatial and Regional Economics Research Centre led by Prof. Frank Crowley and Prof. Justin Doran focuses the themes of spatial economic analysis, Spatial analysis of Innovation and Firm Growth, and City and Regional Economics. Research includes The Healthy Workplace Ireland: A Survey of Mental Health & Well-Being Promotion in Irish Firms, authored by Dr. Jane Bourke (UCC) Prof. Stephen Roper (Warwick Business School) and Niamh Lenihan (MTU & UCC), highlighting the challenges Irish employers face in relation to employee mental ill health and the organisational response to such challenges.
(link to the Research Centres: Research Centres | Cork University Business School )
Research Ethics and Integrity
As part of the National Forum on Research Integrity UCC and CUBS are committed to ensuring the highest standards of integrity in all aspects of research, founded on basic principles of good research practice to be observed by all researchers and research organisations. Our Code of Research Conduct applies to all involved in research, both staff and students, with a positive research culture underpinning our research integrity and research excellence.