The President of Dublin Business School, Andrew Conlan-Trant, joins us for this episode and offers his thoughts on a wide range of topics including flexibility and lifelong learning; institutional governance and stability; the capacity to take change; and the evolution of an organisation’s culture. Andrew also reflects on the changes that Dublin Business School has undergone in the last ten years; the college’s ambitions for its graduates; the nature and practicalities of purpose and also considers what it really means to persist.

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Dr. John Hyland is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Human and Social Sciences at DBS, and a chartered psychologist with the British Psychological Society. His research centres mainly on three core areas; behaviour change and decision-making; health-related quality of life and well-being; and child and adolescent school victimisation. He is currently working with international and national colleagues on research such as factors which influence third-level teaching teachers understanding and use of contingency management in education; hostility, rage, and shame quitting in gaming; and homophobic attitudes in music and lyrics. Dr. Hyland is a current member and former chair of the DBS research ethics committee, and a member of both the DBS applied research and practice committee, and the DBS academic board.

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Lecturer and programme level manager, Dr. Kelly Hunnings talks about her PhD project, "The Chaotic Domestic: Tracing Affect in Representations of Nation, Class, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Laboring-Class Women's Writing" closely examines what she terms the “chaotic domestic” in the writing of a collection of poets who have been historically overlooked: Mary Barber, Mary Collier, Mary Leapor, Ann Yearsley, and Janet Little. 

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Filmmaker, scriptwriter and professional marketeer Chris Brennan, a DBS graduate, talks about his career post-graduation. Chris also discusses his latest innovation in content creation, Writing Chops, a creative writing brand dedicated to teaching the art and business of creative writing. You can also find out much more about Chris and his work: http://www.itschrisbrennan.com

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Film producer and academic Conor Murphy talks about the Irish film journal Film Ireland and his plans for developing an archival project based on a collection of every paper copy ever published.

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Research Coordinator Dr Andrew Browne and DBS Research Librarian Louise Cooke-Escapil talk about the importance of research, innovation, practice and enterprise at Dublin Business School. 

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