Aisling Tuite

Dr Aisling Tuite

 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7141-5850

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Biography

Aisling is a Lecturer in Management and a Researcher in SETU School of Business with a background in Sociology, Business and Engineering. She has over 15 years of work experience in Management of Quality Systems, New Product Introduction and as an Asset Management Consultant in engineering utilities. 

 

Aisling is an organisation studies scholar with a particular interest in labour market experiences transformations of work and the experiences of unemployment, primarily through an STS/ANT perspective. Aisling employs ethnographic, biographical narrative and storytelling methods when collecting data.

 

Aisling is open to collaborations on research projects particularly those within Horizon Europe Cluster 2 or as an interdisciplinary social science partner within the areas of digital transformation and citizen centred technology development.

 

Funded Research:

2024 SETU Research Connexions

Pathway 11 Advanced Training Fund €1,000

Pathway 5 Publication Fund €1,860

2022-2026 From Lady Clerk to CEO (WIT President's PhD Scholarship) €89,000

2023-2024 PEStech: Making the Labout Market Visible (SFI National Challenge) €173,000

2019-2023 HECAT: Disruptive Technologies for Labour Market Decision Making (EU Horizon 2020) €3.5m

2019 Coordinator Support Grant (Enterprise Ireland) €5,230

2018 Coordinator Support Grant (Enterprise Ireland) €6,420

2017-2019 Understanding Unemployment in the Era of Big Data (IRC New Horizons) €200,000

2012-2015 An Alternative Banking Inquiry: A grandnarrative of organisation culture and change 1960-2000 (AIB Centre for Finance and Business Research, SETU, PhD Scholarship) €75,000

 

Research Track 1: Experiences of unemployment

As a member of Waterford Un/Employment Research Collaborative (WUERC) Aisling researches the lived experiences of unemployment including the impact of digital transformation in Public Employment Services (PES) and public/media perceptions of unemployed people (www.wuerc.com)

This work has resulted in a number of collaborative funded research projects:

Aisling is Co-PI on the Horizon 2020 HECAT: Disruptive Technologies for Labour Market Decision Making which developed a transparent and ethical digital technology for PES.

Aisling is a research lead on the SFI National Challenge project PEStech which explored the use of PAYE modernisation data to provide better and more visible labour market information (LMI) through digital tools.

 

Research Track 2: Experiences of Transformations in Work (www.OWLSresearch.com)

As a continuation of Aisling's PhD research this track focuses on the experiences of transformations in work. This research includes historical transformations related to gender, diversity and inclusivity and in the digital transformation of work. Currently this research has a particular focus on banking organisations, however it relates to a strong interest organisations that are embedded in the economy and labour market. 

A new and emerging strand of this research, which additionally ties to the study of unemployment and the labour market decision making, is a career lifecourse analysis of women science graduates in the pharmaceutical industry. The purpose of this research is to understand the barriers to long-term career success, including markers of job quality, job satisfaction and sustainability.

 

Current PhD Research:

Darren Byrne: An ethnographic study of the job crafting processes of technology professionals in the financial industry (Lead Supervisor)

Kate O'Keeffe: From 'Lady Clerks' to CEO: A biographical narrative exploration of the challenges, opportunities and educational programmes for female bank workers since the lifting of the marriage bar in Ireland (Lead Supervisor)

Maggie Breen: How to Make Snowflakes Stick: An exploration of the motivations influencing Generation Z’s work ethic, organisational commitment and turnover (Lead Supervisor)

Emma Holden: Understanding economically marginalised young adults' exclusion from digital-first Government Services: An ethnographic journey (Co-Supervisor)

 

Lecturing:

Organisation Behaviour

Organisation Psychology

Organisation Design

Managing Innovation

Operations Management

Lean Practice

Lean Communications

Continuous Improvement Concepts

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, An Alternative Banking Inquiry- A Grand Narrative of Organisation Culture and Change1960 to 2000, South East Technological University

2012 → 2016

Award Date: 01 Sep 2016

Masters Degree, M.Sc. – Business, Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship (First Class Honours), South East Technological University

2011 → 2012

Award Date: 01 Jul 2012

Bachelors Degree, B.A. (Hons) – Sociology (major) & Italian (minor); First Class Honours, South East Technological University

2008 → 2011

Award Date: 01 Jul 2011

National Diploma, National Diploma in Science (Quality Assurance); NFQ Level 7, South East Technological University

1994 → 1995

Award Date: 01 Jul 1995

National Diploma, National Diploma in Technology (Manufacturing); NFQ Level 7, South East Technological University

1993 → 1994

Award Date: 01 Jul 1994

National Certificate, National Certificate in Engineering (Mechanical); NFQ Level 6, South East Technological University

1991 → 1993

Award Date: 01 Jul 1993

Keywords

  • HM Sociology
  • H Social Sciences (General)
  • HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
  • HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare

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