Fulbright Awards
Congratulations to Lena Connolly, a PhD student in Business Information Systems and member of the Work, Society and Governance research cluster, who has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to carry out research in the School of Information at University of California, Berkeley in 2014/2015. Her research activities will focus on the influence of cultural factors on employee behaviour in organisational settings. Lena previously visited UC Berkeley on an international exchange programme in 2012.
Dr Emer Mulligan has also received a Fulbright-CRH Scholar Award to carry out research in Harvard University, specifically in the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation within the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Her research activities will focus on (i) taxation in practice in US MNCs and (ii) US tax policy and administration, and she is a member of both the Performance Management and the Social Innovation and Policy research clusters at the Whitaker Institute.