Lecturer

Email: niamh.imbusch@tudublin.ie

Qualifications Summary: MA (Hons), PG Cert in University Teaching & Learning, PhD, FCIPD

Position: Lecturer in MPO, TU Dublin Tallaght Campus

I joined DIT in the late 1990s where I held a lecturing position in business communications for a number of years, teaching on our BSc in Marketing and BSc in Management & Marketing programmes. In early 2000s, I left my role to set up my own consulting business, but my interest in third level education remained strong, and I continued to work on a part-time basis with the Faculty of Business, delivering guest lectures an supervising MSc projects and dissertations.

During my career, I have spent over 25 years working in industry with public and private sector organisations. My work involved developing programmes to support executive development, employee engagement, organisational change, and employee well-being and resilience. I have held senior international positions in human resource management and in consultancy, working in the US, Sweden, the UK and in Ireland. My industry experience extends across many sectors, including pharmaceutical, financial, SME, FMCG, utilities, information technology, services and media. I returned to academia full-time in 2018, as I was completing my PhD in Organisational Health and Well-being at Lancaster University. In my current role as a Lecturer in Human Resource Management, I enjoy working with undergraduate and postgraduate students, bringing my academic and industry expertise together to design and deliver theoretically grounded content with a highly practical orientation. I believe strongly in preparing work-ready graduates, and am particularly interested in how, as a teacher, I can embed transversal skills within my teaching programmes to enable this to take place.

Academic Publications

Papers

Brady, R., & Imbusch, N. (2022). At War with a Silent Killer: An IPA Study of the Lived Experiences of Community Pharmacists in Ireland during COVID-19. Technological University Dublin. DOI: 10.21427/FJ0Q- 5G72

Imbusch, N. (2022) “Formality and familiarity’: Checklist for sustaining collaboration in online delivery,” Unlocking student engagement opportunities in learning, teaching and assessment through active blended practice in the Faculty of Business, TU Dublin (Arrow).

Conference Proceedings/Papers 

• Imbusch, N., Herbst, O., and Donnelly, R. (2022) “Developing and embedding a pedagogy of entrepreneurial resilience in third level education,” Entrepreneurship Education Share & Learn Symposium, European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship and the GROWTHhub project, TU Dublin; presented 03 November 2022.
• Coleman, M., Jennings, M., Kavanagh, V., and Imbusch, N. (2021) “An award-winning response to emergency home working,” Irish Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Conference, presented 24 November 2021 (online).
• Imbusch, N. (2021) “Formality and familiarity: Contraindicated approaches to cultivate constructivism,” ViTL (Valuing Ireland’s Teaching and Learning) TU Dublin Cross-Faculty Symposium, presented 12 November 2021 (online).
• Lai, M.A. and Imbusch, N. (2021) “The Effects of Reward Allocations on With-in-Team Trust: A Social Interdependence Theory Perspective,” Irish Academy of Management conference, presented 25 August, 2021, Waterford Institute of Technology (online).
• Tanvir, F., Hooper, D., and Imbusch, N. (2021) “HR Analytics in Ireland: Is the Big Data Potential Being Realised?” Irish Academy of Management conference, presented 26 August, 2021, Waterford Institute of Technology (online)

Conference Posters

• Imbusch, N., and Donnelly, R. (2022) “Developing and embedding a pedagogy of entrepreneurial resilience in education,” Education Explorers – Mapping the future of learning at TU Dublin, 06 May.
• Israni, B. and Imbusch, N. (2021) “Influence of organisational situatedness on mindfulness practice: a preliminary systematic review and thematic synthesis of literature,” Annual Graduate Research Symposium, presented December 2021, TU Dublin.
• Israni, B. and Imbusch, N. (2020) “An Initial Literature Search Strategy to examine Psychosocial and Sociocultural Barriers to the practice of mindfulness in the organisations” Annual Graduate ResearchSymposium, presented December 2020, TU Dublin.
• Imbusch, N., Giga, S., and Collins, A. (2016) “An exploration of mindful management in a corporate culture,” Compassionate Mind Foundation annual conference, October 20 & 21, 2016, Manchester, UK.

Teaching and Supervision  

My teaching interests are in workplace wellbeing, leadership, mindfulness in the workplace, and personal resilience for employees and leaders in the context of organisational uncertainty. I am also interested in how employability skills, including resilience, can be embedded in teaching pedagogy.

I received a TU Dublin Fiosraigh first time PhD supervisor award in 2020. I was delighted to have been nominated for a Teaching Hero Award (National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education) in 2021.

I teach undergraduate modules in:

• Workplace Wellbeing
• Entrepreneurial Leadership
• Organisational Change
• Team Leadership
• Human Resource Management
• International Human Resource Management

I teach and supervise at post graduate level (level 9) across a range of programmes, including MSc in HRM; Entrepreneurial Leadership; Strategic management; Leadership, innovation and technology; Global business services; Project management; Product management; Entrepreneurship & innovation for women; Digital entrepreneurship; Business resilience; Digital leadership and transformation. I have supervised over 36 MSc dissertation and consultancy projects to completion. I currently supervise two PhD students, one researching mindfulness in commercial organisations, the other researching organisational change related to sustainability responses in a major utility.

Research Interests for Potential Research Students

I enjoy supervision and I would welcome applications from students interested in exploring:

• Mindfulness in the workplace
• Workplace wellbeing

I was the recipient of two GROWTHhub Bursaries, in 2021 and 2022, to pursue my research interests in resilience, including personal entrepreneurial resilience and resilience pedagogy. I also welcome applications from students interested in exploring:

• Resilience in the context of leadership
• Resilience in the context of organisational uncertainty
• Resilience pedagogy

Areas of Professional Expertise

• Workplace wellbeing
• Leadership development
• Organisational change
• Employee engagement

Committee and Panel Membership

Chartered Fellow, Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development

Contributor, EuroFound Network of Correspondents’ Irish consortium.

Member, TU Dublin Healthy Campus Working Group

Member, TU Dublin Holistic Education (UEM) Working Group

Member, TU Dublin, Entrepreneurial Education Community of Practice

Member, Contemplative Pedagogy UK and Ireland Interest Group

Member, European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology

Member, European Association of Work and organisational Psychology (EAWOP)

Member, International Society for Contemplative Research (ISCR)

Member, American Psychological Association (APA)