Dr Carol Kelleher

Biography

Carol is a Senior Lecturer in Service Management and Design in Cork University Business School.  Having spent over ten years in industry in various executive roles including working as a Management Consultant and as a Senior Brand Manager, Carol commenced her academic career in Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) in 2004. 

Carol joined UCC in August 2007, where she is involved in lecturing on postgraduate, undergraduate and executive programmes. Carol was awarded her PhD in Marketing from the triple accredited Cranfield School of Management , Cranfield University, United Kingdom in 2013. Carol was also awarded a Masters in Business Studies (1st Degree Hons) from the Smurfit School of Business, UCD and an MSc in Executive in Executive and Personal Coaching (1st  Degree Hons) from UCC. She also has a Higher Diploma and Certificiate in Teaching and Learning Sin Higher Education from UCC. She is currently completing a Doctorate in Social Sciences (DSocSc), a collaborative professional learning and research programme, at UCC (2023-2027).

Together with Professor Patricia Kearney, UCC School of Public Health, Carol is Co-PI for the PPI Ignite@UCC  network (2022-2026). She is also member of the Executive Management team of UCC's interdisciplinary Institute of Social Science of the 21st Century (ISS21) and co-leads UCC's ISS21 Caring Working Group. Other membership roles include UCC Academic Council (non-professorial member), the UCC College of Business and Law Athena Swan Equality and Diversity Commitee member, CUBS Postgraduate Research Committee and Department Postgraduate Director.

Carol has received a number of international and national awards and grants (including four Irish Research Council New Foundation awards) for her interdisciplinary research in the areas of  care and care relations in health and social care contexts. . Her other research interests relate to co-creation, collective consumption and service design/management. She was awarded UCC Early Career Researcher of the year in 2019, as well as UCC College of Business and Law Early Career Researcher of the year.