International Research Week 2025

About us

DCU is considered one of the most dynamic young international Universities in the world, ranked 59th globally in the 2024 Times Higher Education Young University rankings. DCU’s Business School (DCUBS) is triple accredited (EQUIS, AMBA and AACSB), aligning itself with the top 1% of Business Schools in the world. 

We are pleased to announce a call for its annual International Week. This year the focus is on research. We invite academics from around the world to contribute to one or more of the research themes we will be focusing on (see information on each theme below).  

Teaching and Learning (February 24th):

We welcome submissions for any area of teaching and learning research, but, in line with our strategic priorities, we are particularly interested in challenge-based learning. DCUBS has a reputation for excellence in challenge-based learning in enterprise. Within the European Consortium of Innovative Universities network, it is building on that experience to craft digitalised challenge-based learning opportunities, with particular emphasis on developing learning outputs through our virtual reality lab. If you are interested in attending and presenting research at the symposium, please fill out the google form or contact Gary.Sinclair@DCU.ie if you have any questions. Where you have been involved in team related projects or those in conjunction with the VR Lab, please ensure that all contributors are listed as co-authors, even if you intend to present the research yourself. 

Anti-Corruption (February 24th):

Obair: Decent and Sustainable Work (February 25th):

Obair’s core mission is to promote decent and sustainable work and support the delivery of quality jobs along with social protection and respect for rights at work to achieve sustainable, inclusive economic growth. The event will be structured around keynote speakers on sustainable careers, a research roundtable and the presentation of research papers. The overall aims are to:

● Facilitate the exchange of ideas and research findings on decent work, and related topics among academics, practitioners, and other key stakeholders.  

● Foster collaboration and networking between group members and other potential collaborators  

● Capacity Building  

● Develop funding and research project opportunities  

● Launch Obair as a new research group and a leader in the field of decent and sustainable work You can contact margaret.heffernan@dcu.ie for more information or submit a 250 word overview of your interest in the theme of the research day on the google form.  

Family Business (February 25th):

Online Harms in Sport (February 26th):

Online Harms in Sport (February 26th): DCUBS has led the way in international research on online harms in sport in its work as academic partner with Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, the United against Online Abuse coalition and its leadership of the Tackling Online Hate in Football project, funded by the 'UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities Research Grants Call'. We invite researchers and all relevant stakeholders within sport to attend a one-day symposium on Online Harms in Sport. The day will involve a panel of keynote speakers from industry and academia, presentations of the most up-to-date research, and networking and social events.  If you are interested in attending or presenting work, you can sign up via google forms. If you have any questions, contact Gary.Sinclair@DCU.ie for more information  

TrustLAB (February 26th):

How can we advance theory to navigate trust in an increasingly complex world? Join us for a one-day immersive workshop focused on questioning, debating, and innovating around trust research’s current trajectory and developing research ideas to support its third wave.  This will be an opportunity to work with trust scholars to explore uncharted territory in trust theory and support the development of novel and influential research ideas through new collaboration opportunities.   Don't miss this opportunity to deepen your understanding, challenge assumptions, and contribute to the future of trust theory.

Activities  

● Keynote address from Prof Guido Mollering, Witten/Herdecke University

● Assigned roundtable discussions debating unresolved issues highlighted in the keynote address

● Research idea development roundtables

● Trust Skills Development Session, including the opportunity to experience how Virtual Reality can be used for trust research & teaching.

● Social event 

How can you get involved?

We welcome attendees who are interested in trust research and would like to be part of our discussions. If you are interested in attending, you can contact lisa.vanderwerff@dcu.ie, colette.real@dcu.ie and niamh.daly@dcu.ie for more information or submit a 250 word overview of your interest in the theme of our research on the google form. 

Environmental, Social and Governance (February 28th): 

The Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) special interest group is an interdisciplinary hub from multiple fields including accounting, finance, marketing, innovation and operations management, reflecting the broad nature of the ESG research agenda and the prominence of this field. This event is an opportunity to foster research collaboration with international ESG research centres and institutes and support the growing number of ESG scholars. The ESG event will include workshops with international speakers across the three ESG pillars, and engagement opportunities for early career and PhD researchers. We welcome submissions from potential speakers and collaborators and ideas from early career researchers. Please register your interest via the google form and feel free to contact Yuhui Gao (yuhui.gao@dcu.ie ) or Aideen O’Dochartaigh (aideen.odochartaigh@dcu.ie) for further information. 

International Research Week: Workshops and social/networking events:

1.  VR workshop
2. Paper Development Workshops across all disciplines
3. Data hackathons across all disciplines
4. Doctoral Colloquium
5. Meet the Editors
6. Navigating grant applications, Marie Curie Association meeting
7. Media training
8. Evening social events 

Application Deadlines

Application: Fill out the google form to express interest in other research events that will be running

Application deadline: January 10th

Event: February 24th-February 28th