Dr Geraldine Ryan

Biography

Dr. Geraldine Ryan (MA, Ph.D.) is a Senior Lecturer and Vice Dean for Learning & Teaching in Cork University Business School/ Department of Accounting and Finance at University College Cork. She undertook her doctoral thesis entitled ‘Understanding Asset Values’ in the Department of Economics, University of Warwick. Her research interests focus around firm valuation and business innovation, performance & exit.

She has published in highly ranked journals such as Economic Letters, Business Strategy & The Environment, and Urban Studies.  She has received a best paper award from Transeo, the European Association for SME Transfer. This paper was part of an IRCHSS funded project on small business succession (with Dr. Bernadette Power). She has secured competitive funding from bodies such as the IRCHSS, Enterprise Ireland, and the SEAI. 

She is Principal investigator on a H2020 research project sponsored by Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks on Multi-sectoral approaches to Innovative Skills Training for Renewable energy and sociAL acceptance (MISTRAL) and she is co-investigator on a Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) project called Community Engagement in Wind Energy: Innovative approaches to achieving a social license (with Dr, Bernadette Power and Dr. John Eakins). 

Within UCC Geraldine is the Programme Director for MSc Finance (Corporate Finance), Chair of CUBS  Academic Developments and Standards Committee, and serves on the College of Business and Law Curriculum Committee, the Accounting Staff-Student Consultation Committee and the MSc Finance Programme Academic Board of Studies.

Grants and Honours

• 01/01/2021 - Cork University Business School PhD Scholarship Funding Award, Cork University Business School, University College Cork
• 01/09/2019 - Community Engagement in Wind Energy: Innovative approaches to achieving a social license (Co-Wind), Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland
• 30/08/2019 - Multi-sectoral approaches to Innovative Skills Training for Renewable energy and sociAL acceptance (MISTRAL), Horizon 2020
• 03/01/2014 - Best Paper Award (Transeo), Transeo - European association for SME transfer
• 10/01/2008 - Business Transfers in Ireland (Northern Ireland Voucher), MISC Invest Northren Ireland
• 01/01/2008 - Research Grant, Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS)

Other Activities

• 17/11/2022 - DTU Riso, Denmark, Roskilde University
• 17/11/2022 - Invited speaker
• 16/09/2022 - St Gallen, University of St. Gallen
• 01/09/2022 - Irish Academy of Finance
• 01/09/2022 - Chair Staff Student Consultative Council, Cork University Business School
• 11/08/2022 - Chair CIM Attributes Working Group, University College Cork
• 01/03/2022 - CoBL Learning and Teaching - CUBS rep, Cork University Business School
• 01/03/2022 - ADSC - COBL rep, University College Cork
• 01/03/2022 - University Student Survey Boad - COBL rep, University College Cork
• 14/02/2022 - Vice Dean Learning and Teaching, Cork University Business School
• 01/12/2021 - UCC Curriculum Steering, University College Cork
• 01/09/2021 - CoBL Curriculum Committee, Cork University Business School
• 01/11/2020 - Chair, Academic Developments and Standards Committee, Cork University Business School
• 28/11/2019 - Local organiser IAF Annual Conference 2019
• 12/09/2019 - Session Chair, Communities, Renewables and the Low Carbon Transition Conference
• 08/04/2019 - British Accounting and Finance Association Annual Conference, British Accounting Association
• 01/01/2019 - MCF PABS, Cork University Business School
• 03/10/2018 - Irish Academy of Management Annual Conference 2018
• 03/09/2018 - Determinants of Equity Financing for Irish Technology-Based Firms, Irish Academy of Management (IAM)
• 09/04/2018 - British Accounting and Finance Annual Conference 2018
• 15/03/2018 - Dublin City University, Dublin City University
• 02/10/2017 - Conference organiser of the Inaugural CUBS Conference, Cork University Business School
• 01/06/2017 - MSc Finance (Corporate Finance) Programme Director, Department of Accounting, Finance, and Information Systems, University College Cork
• 08/06/2016 - INFER Annual Conference 2016
• 18/11/2015 - RENT Annual Conference 2015
• 01/09/2015 - BComm Programme Director, Cork University Business School
• 08/06/2015 - INFINITI Conference on International Finance 2015
• 07/05/2015 - Irish Economic Association Annual Conference 2015
• 18/09/2014 - ISBE Paper Development Workshop 2014
• 03/09/2014 - Irish Academy of Management Annual Conference 2014
• 18/05/2014 - INFER Annual Conference 2014
• 26/03/2014 - European SME Transfer Summit 2014

Research Domains

• Financial Economics
• Small Business Economics
• Applied Econometrics
• Innovation  

Thesis

• 2021 - Macroeconomic and Financial Leading Indicators of Economic Activity and Sovereign Bond Yields: a Financial Markets Perspective, University College Cork (Thesis Co-Supervisor)
• 2017 - Masters Degree by Research, University College Cork (Thesis Primary Supervisor)
• 2020 - Equity Financing of Technology-based Firms in Ireland, University College Cork (Thesis Co-Supervisor)
• 2024 - Opportunities and barriers for citizen participation in the energy transition: Onshore wind energy policy in Ireland, University College Cork (Thesis Co-Supervisor)
• 2024 - The Effect of Environmental Enforcement of Industry on Environmental Outcomes, University College Cork (Thesis Co-Supervisor)

Publications