Personal profile

Biography

As a Lecturer in Finance in the School of Business Norah's current role involves teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Previously Norah has lectured across undergraduate and postgraduate levels in TU Dublin in the School of Accounting and Finance. Norah has significant experience of curriculum and program development both in her current and her previous role.

Norah completed her PhD at SETU (Waterford Campus) in 2024. She was awarded an IRC scholarship for her PhD research which qualitatively explores institutional investors and their investment decisions in low carbon assets in the context of Germnay, Ireland and the UK. This work has been presented at many conferences and doctoral colloquia including IAFA, BAFA, EFMA and CINSC.

Research Interests

  • Sustainable Investing and Institutional Investors
  • Low Carbon Finance
  • Institutional Logics

 

Teaching

Norah currently teaches modules across multiple undergraduate programs including

  • Applied Quantitative Analysis
  • Probability and Operations Maangement
  • Maths for Business and Finance
  • Spreadsheets for Business
  • Advanced Spreadsheets
  • Spreadsheets and Databases
  • Statistics for Business

Norah delivers modules in the Graduate School of Business in the following:

  • Financial Derivative
  • Trading the Financial Markets 

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 13 - Climate Action

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, An Exploratory Study of the Influences on the Decision to Invest in Low Carbon Assets by Institutional Investors in Germany, Ireland and the UK, SETU

Award Date: 02 Dec 2024

Masters Degree, M.Sc. in Quantitative Finance, University of London

20112015

Award Date: 01 Dec 2015

Masters Degree, M. Sc. in High Performance Computing, Trinity College Dublin

19981999

Award Date: 01 Dec 1999

Bachelors Degree, B.Sc. Double Hons in Experimental and Mathematical Physics, Maynooth University

19931997

Award Date: 01 Oct 1997