How to make your research world class: 100 Research Rules of the Game (seminar by visiting Professor Niamh Brennan)

Abstract

"There are several basic, and at times minor, pedantic, principles required to get published in good quality international peer-reviewed journals. These are what I like to call the “Rules of the Game”. Many are so basic, so taken-for-granted, that often students are not told them. This presentation is a one-stop-shop brief introduction to the 100 rules of the game I have assembled over many years from my work with doctoral students and early career researchers."

About the presenter

Niamh Brennan is Michael MacCormac Professor of Management at University College Dublin. A first class honours, first place in class, UCD Science (Microbiology & Biochemistry) graduate, Prof Niamh Brennan qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG, holds a PhD from the University of Warwick and is a Chartered Director of the Institute of Directors (London). She is an Inaugural Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Directors in Ireland and an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Actuaries in Ireland.

With 100+ publications, Niamh has a h-index of 24 reflecting 3,500+ Google Scholar citations. One of her papers received the 2010 British Accounting Review Best Paper Award; another Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal's (AAAJ) Mary Parker Follett Best Manuscript Award 2011; another a Mary Parker Follett 'highly commended' manuscript award 2014; Two of her papers are among AAAJ's 24 outstanding articles of the last 25 years; while her article, Can Directors Rely on Experts?, received the 2011 Accountancy Ireland Award. Niamh is associate editor of Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, the British Accounting Review and Accounting Forum. She has received three best-reviewer awards.

In a survey of alumni, Niamh was voted one of UCD's top three lecturers for the 2000s onwards. She has served as Head of Accounting and Associate Dean for Research at the UCD College of Business. Niamh has also held visiting positions at the University of Sydney, the University of South Australia, the University of Canterbury at Christchurch New Zealand, the University of Otago New Zealand, Queensland University of Technology, the Rotman School of Management University of Toronto, Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University.

Having established the UCD Centre for Corporate Governance in 2002, Niamh plays a leading role in the public discourse in Ireland and internationally on corporate governance. The Centre has provided executive and professional training to thousands of Irish company directors.

Niamh holds/has held several high-profile non-executive directorships and other governance roles. Appointed by the Minister for Finance, she chaired the Commission on Financial Management and Control Systems in the Health Services. Appointed by the Minister for Trade Enterprise and Employment, she was vice-chairman of the Review Group on Auditing. Niamh has also completed financial reporting, forensic accounting and corporate governance consulting assignments for some of Ireland's leading organisations and has served as expert witness in cases involving financial reporting, forensic accounting and corporate governance issues.

She is a regular TV, radio and newspaper contributor.