Prof Alma McCarthy
Professor Alma McCarthy (Cert. Executive Coaching, Dip. Training & Education, BBS & French, MCIPD, PhD) is Dean of J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics and Professor of Public Sector Management at University of Galway. Her research interests include public sector leadership and human resource development, training, work-life balance, and remote working. Alma’s work appears in top-ranked international peer-reviewed journals such as Public Management Review, Public Administration Review, Human Resource Management Journal, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Review, Advances in Developing Human Resources, and the Journal of Managerial Psychology. She has authored commissioned reports, papers at national and international conferences, books and several chapters in edited books.
Her research has influenced national civil service talent development policy and the Government’s national remote working strategy. She is a Chartered Member of the CIPD, the American Academy of Management, the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology, and served as elected Vice-Chair and Chair of the Irish Academy of Management (IAM). She was recently conferred a Fellow of the IAM for her service to the academy. She is an accredited member of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and certified to administer a broad range of cognitive ability, personality and occupational interest psychometric assessments.