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NEWS&views
MSc in Business
New lecturer in
Analytics launched
IR and HR
management
FROM September 2008, UCD Michael Smurfit Grad-
uate Business School is offering a new MSc in Business DR Colm McLaughlin has joined
Analytics, which is aimed at graduates who would like to UCD Business School as a lecturer
use their aptitude for mathematics and computerised in industrial relations and human
problem-solving to address business issues. resource management. In this role,
This technically focused course will show how to use he is responsible for lecturing
advanced mathematics and quantitative techniques in a undergraduate students on
project management and problem-solving environment. employment relations and Irish
In developing the programme, UCD Smurfit School social partnership, and postgradu- Dr Colm McLaughlin
has established partnerships with companies that are ate students on the theory and
using quantitative analysis techniques in business. practice of industrial relations. He conjunction with University of
Aspects of these partnerships include company-funded is also supervising PhD students. Cambridge.
scholarships and access for students to real company He joins from the Centre for Dr McLaughlin has a PhD from
problems for their dissertations and projects. Business Research, Judge Business Judge Business School, University
This programme offers a fast route into IT and infor- School at University of Cambridge, of Cambridge, and is an MComm
mation systems management for graduates of engineer- where he examined Irish social and BA graduate of University of
ing, science and other quantitative areas and is included partnership from an international Auckland where he also held an
in the HEA Graduate Skills Conversion Programme, comparative perspective. He will academic position. Prior to under-
which is funded by the National Development Plan continue to work on an Economic taking his doctorate, he held man-
(NDP) of the Government and covers most of the fees on and Social Research Council agement positions within local gov-
the course. (ESRC) funded project on gender ernment in the UK and in the New
For more information, please visit equity and corporate governance in Zealand hospitality industry.
www.smurfitschool.ie.
ISEP social entrepreneur
conference at Smurfit School
OVER 50 delegates attended the recent ISEP (INSEAD
Social Entrepreneurship Programme) conference, which
was hosted by UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business
School in association with the National Foundation for
Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) and Social
Entrepreneurs Ireland.
During the conference, social entrepreneurs from
Ireland joined with more than 20 ISEP network members
The Quinn Farewell Ball Committee 2008: Kate Hegarty,
from across Europe and as far afield as India and North Claire Cullen, Andrew Walsh and Catriona Haugh
America. The conference, which examined a number of
themes connected with the topic of “Building a Social
Entrepreneurship Community”, was designed to promote Farewell to Quinn
an exchange of ideas, innovations and strategies.
The morning session looked at a number of areas being OVER 350 final-year students made the most of one of the last big nights
addressed by social entrepreneurs, while the afternoon before their exams at the annual Quinn School Farewell Ball on 17 April in
focused on organisational issues of social enterprises. Dún Laoghaire’s Royal Marine Hotel. More than 50 staff members also
The conference closed with a wine reception for the del- enjoyed the event, which was sponsored by Bank of Ireland and the Quinn
egates hosted by UCD Smurfit School in the main hall. School. A committee of students worked with staff to organise the ball.
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