Assoc. Prof. and Director of the Spatial Dynamics Lab at University College Dublin
Dr. Dieter F. Kogler is the Academic Director of the UCD Spatial Dynamics Lab and an Associate Prof. in Economic Geography at the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy at University College Dublin. His research focus is on the geography of innovation and evolutionary economic geography, with particular emphasis on knowledge production and diffusion, and processes related to technological change, innovation, and economic growth. He is currently an ERC Starter Grant holder with the following project title: Technology Evolution in Regional Economies (TechEvo). In parallel he also leads an SFI funded Science Policy Research Programme project on Science-Technology Spaces (SciTechSpace). Dieter is an Editor of Regional Studies and an Editorial Board member of the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. His career path combines professional and research experience acquired in Europe, the United States, and Canada within a variety of areas pertaining to the spatial analysis of socio-economic phenomena.
Dr. Dieter F. Kogler
Associate Professor
Director, UCD Spatial Dynamics Lab (www.ucd.ie/sdl)
School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy
University College Dublin
Richview Campus
Belfield, Dublin D4
D04 V1W8
Ireland
mailto:dieter.kogler@ucd.ie
Pádraig Carmody is Professor in Geography at Trinity College, the University of Dublin where he did his undergraduate and masters work and is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. His Ph.D. is from the University of Minnesota in the US, where after graduation he also taught at the University of Vermont. At TCD he directs the Masters in Development Practice and CHARM-EU. His research centres on the political economy of globalisation in Africa and he has published in journals such as European Journal of Development Research, Review of African Political Economy, Economic Geography and World Development. He has also published nine books, including Africa’s Shadow Rise: China and the Mirage of African Economic Development (Zed Books with P. Kragelund and R. Reboredo, 2020), The New Scramble for Africa (2nd ed., Polity, 2016), the Rise of the BRICS in Africa (Zed, 2013) and as part of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers’ book series with Professor James T. Murphy, Africa’s Information Revolution: Technical Regimes and Production Networks in South Africa and Tanzania (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015). He sits on the boards of Political Geography, African Geographical Review, Journal of the Tanzanian Geographical Society and Geoforum, where he was formerly editor-in-chief. He is currently associate editor of Transnational Corporations published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan is Jean Monnet Professor of Economics at the University of Limerick (Ireland) where she co-founded the first research center dealing with contemporary Asian Studies in Ireland (in 1997). The Center serves as a repository for research on issues connected to economic growth and development in a Europe - Asia comparative framework. She is also an International Research Fellow at the Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Ruhr Universität Bochum (Germany) and she has taught in several Asian Universities, including Seoul National University, Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok) and Tsuda University in Tokyo. She has served as a consultant for the European Commission, the Irish Government and the International Trade Center, Geneva. She has also been the Coordinator of an Erasmus Mundus project with Australia and New Zealand. Her major research interests embrace the areas of comparative Europe-Asia economic integration, as well as economic growth models and structural change, with a focus on East-Asian countries.
Chris van Egeraat is associate professor of economic geography at the Department of Geography, Maynooth University Ireland. He graduated with a Master’s degree (Cum Laude) in Development Geography from Utrecht University and a PhD from Dublin City University Business School. He has worked as a research officer at the Economic and Social Research Institute and Dublin City University Business School, as a post-doctoral researcher at University College Dublin and as a Research Fellow at the National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA), Maynooth. His research interests and publications focus on the production and innovation networks and regional economic development. He is the current Secretary and former Chair of the Regional Studies Association, Irish Section.
Christine Bonnin is an Assistant Professor in the School of Geography, University College Dublin. Her ongoing research in Vietnam examines household food security, agricultural development policy and the livelihood strategies of socio-economically marginalised groups in the context of increasing market integration and environmental change. She also has broad interests in the area of food systems and food-related policy through research on agri-environmental governance and the regulatory landscape affecting food waste redistribution in the EU. Christine is currently lead investigator on an Irish Aid project in collaboration with Hanoi University and Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry on ’Interdisciplinary Capacity Building on Climate-Change Research and Education’.
https://people.ucd.ie/christine.bonnin
Professor Edgar Morgenroth is full Professor of Economics in the Business School, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, where he heads the school of Enterprise and Innovation He is also an independent member of the National Economic and Social Council (NESC), a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Regional Studies Association having served as its vice chairman and treasurer. He has held positions at the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Keele University and the Strategic Investment Board (SIB).
Professor Morgenroth holds a PhD in Economics from Keele University in the UK, and Bachelor’s (Economics and Geography) and Master’s (Economics and Finance) degrees from Maynooth University. He is also an alumni of Boston College, having been awarded a Diploma in Urban Economic Development in Boston (MA).
He is an expert in economic policy, regional development, public economics and trade and his research has a strong policy focus. Recent influential work include the background research for the National Planning Framework, which is Ireland’s high-level spatial development strategy. He has also conducted extensive research on Brexit that formed a key part in informing Ireland’s strategy around the Brexit negotiations and policy responses. Other recent studies include estimation of tax revenue elasticities, analysis of the impact of infrastructure on firm location, the effect of privatisation of enterprise efficiency and aspects of health services demand.
Professor Morgenroth has carried out research for a wide range of clients including the EU Commission, numerous government departments in Ireland and abroad, and various Irish regional and local authorities. His work is widely published including papers in eminent journals.
Dr. Giulio Buciuni is an Assistant Professor in International Entrepreneurship at Trinity College Dublin and the director of the M.Sc. in Entrepreneurship, which he launched in September 2017. Dr. Buciuni is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center on Global Value Chains at Duke University since 2011. Prior to joining Trinity Business School, he worked as a research fellow at the University of Toronto and at Cà Foscari University of Venice.
Professor Buciuni's research interest focuses on entrepreneurial ecosystems, SMEs' internationalization strategies and innovation in Global Value Chains (GVC). In particular, his most recent research analyses the evolution of industrial clusters and entrepreneurial ecosystems in the global economic scenario. The results of his works have been published in leading academic journals such as Industrial and Corporate Change, Regional Studies, and Journal of Economic Geography and have appeared on Forbes and the website of Harvard Business School.
In addition to working in the academic sector, Dr. Buciuni is the co-founder of a born-global firm operating in the design sector and is involved in several consulting and mentoring activities supporting the establishment and growth of new businesses.
Dr. Hyunha Shin is a postdoctoral research fellow in Spatial Dynamics Lab, University College Dublin. She holds a Ph.D. degree from Seoul National University in the field of technology management, economics, and policy. Currently, Hyunha works on the following project: Technology Evolution in Regional Economies (TechEvo). This 5-year ERC funded project allows Hyunha to take advantage of her expertise while further pursuing her keen interest in investigating the dynamics of structural change in scientific- and technological-knowledge production and diffusion processes across regional economies.
Justin Doran is Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Spatial and Regional Economics Research Centre in the Department of Economics, Cork University Business School, University College Cork. He holds a PhD (Land Economy) from the University of Cambridge.
His research interests lie in the areas of regional economics, economic resilience, applied and spatial econometrics, business innovation and firm performance. He has published extensively in these areas in journals such as Environment and Planning A, Regional Studies, and the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society among others.
Justin was the 2018 recipient of the Moss Madden Memorial Medal which is awarded by the Regional Science Association International - British and Irish Section to the author of the best article on regional science published in a particular calendar year. Justin received this award for his article on regional economic resilience published in Environment and Planning A.
Dr Majella Giblin is a Senior Lecturer in Management at the J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics, NUI Galway. She was awarded a Ph.D. in the area of regional industrial clusters from NUI Galway and she also holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree, Master of Economic Science degree, as well as a Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education Studies. Prior to her current position, she held the position of Ussher Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin. Her research interests include, the evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems; FDI-driven regional development focusing on high-tech sectors and related public policy; MNE subsidiary evolution. Dr Giblin’s most recent articles appear in Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Regional Studies, Global Strategy Journal, Industry & Innovation.
Niamh Roddy is an Executive in Ireland's Investment Promotion Agency (IPA), IDA Ireland and currently (acting) Manager of Strategy and Corporate Planning Team. Niamh has worked in enterprise policy development for 13 years, across Ireland’s enterprise agencies IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland. She has a background in Economics, Political Science and Law with qualifications from UCD, DIT and the Law Society of Ireland.
Pat Collins is a native of Galway and has worked as an Economic Geographer at NUI Galway since 2012. Prior to that he was a researcher at the Whitaker Institute where his work looked at the location decisions of multinational tech companies. More recently, Pat has turned his attention to Creative Economies and Cultural Production. Through a number of EU funded projects, Pat has sought to better understand the relationship between culture, creativity and production as well as identifying the unique role played by Geography. Pat has contributed to both of Galway’s designation of UNESCO City of Film and European Capital of Culture. He has published over 20 internationally peer reviewed journal articles and two books, the most recent in 2020 focusing on industrial development policy in Ireland.
Dr. Lucía Morales is an Academic Innovator and Active Researcher in the School of Accounting and Finance at Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin). Before her academic career, Lucía worked in the private sector, holding different roles: Assistant Financial Manager, Financial Manager, and Foreign Department Analyst (Bank). Lucía has worked at various Higher Education Institutions in Ireland, the U.K., and Spain, gaining an in-depth understanding of the main challenges faced by Third Level Institutions in the fields of Economics, Finance, Education, and Online Education at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Lucía has made significant research contributions. She has published her work in International Journals, and as Book Chapters in Economics, Finance, and Education with more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and more than 130 research papers presented and Peer Reviewed International Research Conferences.
Lucía is the founder and editor in chief of the Journal “Critical Letters in Economics and Finance (CLEF)” –. This journal encourages new ways to communicate and disseminate research in the context of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research with a well-defined connection to Economics and Finance.
Lucía is also the founder and Conference Chair of “Disrupting Thinking” -. A research event that seeks to develop research connections between scholars and practitioners as well as to start a dialogue that challenges traditional research approaches and how research output has been communicated; we aim to reach a broader audience.
Lucía has supervised doctoral theses with outstanding outcomes – Ph.D. (3) and DBA (7) theses, and she has acted as external and internal examiner at Doctoral Level (1 Ph.D. and 3 DBA thesis). Currently, Lucía is supervising a team of Ph.D. and DBA students at TU Dublin and the University of Liverpool in her areas of expertise.
Lucía’s Specialist Subject Areas & Research Interests include International Economics and Finance, Financial Economics, Time Series, Asian Studies, Emerging Markets, Economic and Financial Crises, Financial Markets Integration, Economic and Financial Contagion, Energy Economics and Commodity Markets, Economic Development, International Capital Markets, Data Science, Education, Distance Learning, and Critical Thinking, Action Research, Action Learning, and Self-regulated Learning. Currently, Lucía is working on developing a connection between Time Series Analysis and Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence techniques to enhance her understanding of Economic and Financial dynamics.
Lucía’s Education and Qualifications include B.Sc. (Major in Management); BBS. (Major in International Finance); M.A. in Applied Economics; M.Sc. in Financial Services; M.Sc. in Stock Markets and Financial Derivatives; Pg Cert in Third Level Learning & Teaching; M.Sc. in Applied eLearning; MSc in International Financial Markets; MSc in Education (Academic Innovator); Ph.D. in Economics.
For further information, please see my CV. You can contact Lucía via email – lucia.morales@tudublin.ie if you wish to discuss research ideas and pursue doctoral studies under her supervision.