Senior Lecturer

Email: Brendan.K.O’Rourke@TUDublin.ie

Tel: +353 1 220 6375  

Discipline: Business & Society

 

Current role & Experience

Dr. Brendan K O'Rourke is Senior Lecturer in Business & Society His work examines how different perspectives, including those of experts and non-experts, elites and non-elites, and groups with varying interests and perspectives, shape and influence the economy and futures of business, society and sustainability.

Brendan adopts a critical and constructive approach to public learning, aiming to foster sustainability, democracy, and inclusivity in business and society. He incorporates this perspective into his writing and classroom teachings. Additionally, he serves as an Associate Editor for the peer-reviewed, fully open access journal, Human & Social Sciences Communications. (https://www.nature.com/palcomms/aims-and-scope)

 

Teaching & Supervision

Brendan has successfully supervised seven research post-graduate students, comprising six PhDs and one MPhil. In addition, he has guided numerous award-winning taught masters and undergraduate researchers.

Brendan has served as an external examiner at esteemed institutions such as Oxford University (External PhD examiner), Solent University (undergrade degree), and the National College of Ireland (undergraduate). 

 

Research

Books:

Hogan, J., Donnelly, P. F., & O'Rourke, B. K. (2010). Irish Business & Society: Governing, Participating & Transforming in the 21st Century. Dublin: Gill & McMillan

 

Chapters in Books:

O’Rourke, B.K. (2021). Media discourses on the economy in Ireland: Framing the policy possibilities. In M. Murphy & Hogan, John (Eds.), Policy Analysis in Ireland (pp.249-262) Policy Press.

Duffy, M., & O'Rourke, B. K. (2015). A systemic view of meetings: Windows on organization collective minding. In J. A. Allen, N. Lehmann-Willenbrock & S. G. Rogelberg (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Meeting Science (pp.223-243). Cambridge University Press.

O'Rourke, B. K. (2014). Discourse Analysis. In A. C. Michalos (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research (pp. 1658-1660.). Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.

 

Journal Publications:

Fitzgerald, J. K., & O’Rourke, B. K. (2023). Watchdogs of the Economy: The Development of Irish Economics Profession’s Independent Voice. Irish Economic and Social History,  https://doi.org/10.1177/03324893231161916

Hogan, J., Feeney, S., & O’Rourke, B. K. (2023). Quantitatively comparing elite formation over a century: Ministers and judges. Administration https://doi.org/10.2478/admin-2023-0009 

Graham, C., & O’Rourke, B. K. (2023). Ideological Presuppositions in Media Coverage of Corporation Tax Policy in the UK & Ireland. American Behavioral Scientist, https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642221144830

MacDonald, E., O’Rourke, B. K., & Hogan, J. (2021). Imagining the future in Irish budgets 1970–2015: A mixed-methods discourse analysis. Review of Social Economy, https://doi.org/10.1080/00346764.2021.1912381

Soro, T., Stott, T., & O’Rourke, B. K. (2021). The rules of the game: Discursive norms and limits in the field of online art magazines. Social Semiotics, https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2019.1637997

 

Conference Proceedings/Papers:

FitzGerald, J. K., & O’Rourke, B. K. (2023). Private Actors in the Public Sphere: The role of management consultants in the Irish Public Sector. British Academy of Management 2023 Conference, University of Sussex.

Hogan, J., Feeney, S. and O’Rourke, B. K. (2022, September).  Elite Formation in The Irish School System: Ministers and Judges.  Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec, 17 September.

Fitzgerald, J., & O’Rourke, B. K. (2021, July 2). Watchdogs of the Economy: The Development of Irish Economic Profession’s Independent Voice. 33rd Annual Meeting. https://sase.confex.com/sase/2021/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/17517

Graham, C., & O’Rourke, B. K. (2020, July 19). Smart Governance or Tax Havens? Media Coverage of Corporation Tax Policy in the UK and Ireland. 32nd Annual Meeting. https://sase.confex.com/sase/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/15548

O’Rourke, B., Hogan, J., & FitzGerald, J. K. (2020, February). Democratizing policy debates: Experts, media & public involvement in the discourses of economy. AltAusterity Conference 2020:  Rebuilding the Public Purpose, 28-29 February 2020, McMasters University, Hamilton, Canada., Hamilton, Canada.

 

Other Areas

Brendan is a founder-member of the international DiscourseNet Association (www.discourseanalysis.net), was co-founder and past Director of the Business, Society and Sustainability Research Centre and a co-founder and co-chair of the Discourse Analysis Group. He is also a member of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (www.sase.org ). More information on www.BrendanKORourke.net