Lecturer in Human Resource Management

Email: Niamh.imbusch@tudublin.ie

Having spent 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.

Imbusch, N. (2023, November 30). Exploring mindfulness [Video file]. In The Business & Management Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved January 4, 2024, from https://hstalks.com/bm/5455/.

Imbusch, Niamh (2023) "Everyone Could Use a Little Entrepreneurial Resilience," Irish Journal of Academic Practice: Vol. 11: Iss. 1, Article 9.  Available at: https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ijap/vol11/iss1/9

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).

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).