PResident's RePORt 2009/2010 - University College Cork

Foreword
UCC at a Glance
Academic Developments
Teaching and Learning
Research
College Reports:
Arts, Celtic
Studies and Social
Sciences
Business and Law
Medicine and Health
Science, Engineering and
Food Science
Events
Student Experience
Sports and Recreation
Buildings and Estates
Cork University Press
Finance
Governing Body
IRIS Appendix
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Research Highlights
UCC Spin-out: One of the most exciting developments to emerge
from research within the college this year was Dr Brian O’Flaherty
and Dr Simon Woodworth’s (both AFIS) licensed power-saving
technology to EnergyWatchIT, a new UCC spin-out company.
EnergyWatchIT sells a Green IT policy-management system that
dramatically reduces IT electricity costs. The company is based
in the UCC Incubation Centre. Two BIS graduates are founding
shareholders. The project was funded by Enterprise Ireland.
The Global Information Technology Report 2009/2010: The
importance of the information and communications technology
(ICT) sector and the €75 billion exports generated by this industry,
was highlighted in The Global Information Technology Report.
The report, launched by the College of Business and Law in
March 2010, is an Internationally-recognised collaboration
between the World Economic Forum and INSEAD. Following
on from the government report, Technology Actions to Support
the Smart Economy (2009), Ireland was selected as a country
case study. Barry Mc Sweeney, Adjunct Professor at the College
of Business and Law, authored a chapter of the report, ‘ICT
Supporting the Smart Economy: The Case of Ireland’.
Research Rankings: Business Information Systems (AFIS) was
ranked 30 of 100 in IS Research Rankings of Schools based on
Research Contribution (1990-2009)
Research Quality Review: A comprehensive Research Quality
Review was undertaken by the departments within the College
of Business and Law during 2009/2010 with impressive results.
Over half of the departments in the college achieved an overall
scoring of four out of five. In published output, over half of the
departments also scored more than 60 per cent for publications
ranked at three out of five, or above.
Arising from the Research Quality Review, the Strategic Plan
of the College of Business and Law has been updated and a
number of key actions were identified including:
• Recruitment of a Head of Graduate School
• The establishment of a number of senior academic leadership
positions
• Improvement of research infrastructure for staff and students
• Staff mentoring.
Click here for more information on the Research Quality Review
Grant Awards
Accounting Finance and Information Systems:
A number of research awards were received by Business
Information Systems, including €25,000 from Merrill Lynch-RDI
Centre Dublin regarding Potential of Mobile Technologies and
over €167,000 from the Innovation Partnership – Enterprise
Ireland to research Optimising Government to Customer
Payment Schemes (OGCPS).
Management and Marketing:
Dr Carol Linehan and Dr Joan Buckley were awarded a seed
fund grant by the Institute for Social Sciences in the 21st century
(ISS21) to support research into academic career progression
(February 2010).
Dr Carol Linehan secured €45,000 Pobal funding (with a research
team under the auspices of ISS21) to develop gender equality
programmes in relation to career progression in academia
(September 2010).
Research Publications
A comprehensive list of staff publications of is available in the
IRIS Appendix of this report.
Publications of individual staff members can also be accessed
within the departmental and centre websites – under staff
listings.