Research expertise: workplace wellbeing, leadership, mindfulness, resilience, IPA.

Email: Niamh.imbusch@tudublin.ie

Having started my early career as a lecturer in Dublin Institute of Technology, I then 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 TU Dublin, 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.

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 am primarily a qualitative researcher, with interests in IPA, ethnography and reflexive thematic analysis.