Dr. Claire Gubbins

Claire Gubbins is a Professor of Organisational Behaviour & HRM at DCU, Lead of RINN-AI Institute Pillar on Human-AI Collaboration & Cognition, Chair of Irish Academy of Management (IAM) Early Career Development Network (ECDN), Director of the Masters in Strategic Learning & Development, Elected Member of the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD)(US) and an Invited Fellow of the Centre for Evidence Based Management

Prof. Gubbins’ research interests centre around workplace social relationships. She investigates the role of social networks in facilitating informal learning processes and tacit knowledge circulation; the impact of hybrid/remote working models on social networks, understanding human-AI-human collaborations and the impact on workplace relationships, learning and decision making. She is also a proponent of and leader in the field of evidence-based practice for research and teaching as a mechanism to bridge the research-practice gap and a way to further university-industry collaboration. 

Prior to this, Claire was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at Carnegie Mellon University (USA), a visiting Professor in Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University in Riyadh, a former Director of DCU’s Executive MBA Programme and Graduate Diploma in Strategic Leadership, an Associate Editor for Human Resource Development Quarterly (an SSCI listed journal), a Deputy Director of LINK Research Institute (Knowledge and Learning) and a Senior Research Fellow on the Irish Centre for Manufacturing Research (ICMR) project on Tacit Knowledge Management, Learning and Systems in collaboration with Trinity College Dublin. She was a Lecturer in Management and HRM at University College Cork and a Lecturer of HRM and Organisational Behaviour with the Kemmy Business School at the University of Limerick. She was awarded her Ph.D. from the University of Limerick; her research was at the interface of organisational behaviour and human resource development and focused on the influence of social networks on career, professional development and work outcomes.

Prof. Gubbins was awarded an International Advance HE Senior Fellowship for Teaching Excellence in 2021. She received the DCU Presidents award for Excellence in Teaching (Assessment & feedback) in 2013 and was a nominee in 2011/2012/2015. 

She has presented at numerous academic and professional conferences and published book chapters and articles in such journals as Human Resource Management (US), Organization Studies, Journal of Management Inquiry, Human Resource Development Quarterly (HRDQ), Human Resource Management, Advances in Developing Human Resources, Human Resource Development Review, Journal of European Industrial Training, among others. She has also written and been interviewed for a number of professional magazines, media outlets and podcasts. She is on the editorial board for the Journal of European Industrial Training.

She is co-author of two books: Learning & Development in Organisations: Strategy, Evidence and Practice with Oaktree Press and Learning and Development Effectiveness in Organisations: An Integrated Systems-Informed Model of Effectiveness with Palgrave. She is co-editor of the Evidence Based Management Teaching Handbook with the Center for Evidence Based Management. Her prior research has also been translated into two commercial technologies, open access toolkits and case company reports. 

Awards for her work include: an Irish Research Council (IRC) Research Ally Award, a Fulbright Award, a Career Enhancement Award, US Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) finalist award for her dissertation; BEST paper runner-up for the Alan Moon Memorial prize at the International Conference on HRD Research & Practice; and Best paper in track at the Irish Academy of Management. She is a former Government of Ireland Scholar, awarded the Government of Ireland Research Scholarship (IRCHSS) and the University of Limerick Registrars scholarship to conduct her PhD. 

Prof. Gubbins is recognised in industry including serving on the council of the Learning and Development Institute (L&DI) of Ireland, as a judge for L&DI and HR & Leadership industry awards. She has over 20 years experience as an Invited Speaker, Consultant and Facilitator to a range of industries and engagements with the media in such areas as knowledge management through people, social networks and relationships, decision making, evidence based management and learning and development. She is a facilitator on a number of Executive Education offerings include the Enterprise Ireland Management4Growth programme for SME's at DCU and on the INVEST NI Leadership Development programme for SME's and other Executive Education customised client programmes. 

She is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD), the US Academy of Management, the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) and the University Forum for HRD (UFHRD).

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