Dr. Meadbh Ruane

Meadbh Ruane has lectured in the Department of Business Studies since 2002. She lectures on both under and post-graduate programmes in the areas of digital business, managing change and strategy. Meadbh has been facilitating Action Learning Sets at ATU since 2008 as part of an executive MBS Innovation and Leadership programme. Additionally, she has extensive experience supervising participants in the completion of their dissertations on Master’s programme in the Department of Business Studies.

In her role as a lecturer and facilitator, Meadbh has a strong belief in practice-based education and continuing professional development where student-participants are at the centre of their own learning. She incorporates pedagogy that links real-world and practitioner experience to academic theory.

Before joining ATU Meadbh worked both nationally and internationally as a project manager and business analyst facilitating teams in developing software solution that addressed business challenges.

Meadbh was awarded her Bachelor of Commerce and Master of Business Studies from NUI Galway in 1990 and 1991 respectively and in 2018 was awarded her Professional Doctorate of Business Administration from the University of Northumbria.

Meadbh’s key area of research interest is in further developing understanding of the process of learning towards developing frameworks that can support organisational and individual transformation. Her doctoral thesis inquired into participant learning on an accredited post-graduate programme and is titled “A story of participants’ learning experiences: Illuminating the complexity and multi-dimensional process of learning”.

She is currently the course co-ordinator on the executive MBS in Innovation and Leadership at ATU where she delivers modules on Managing Change, Managing People and Action Learning Research.

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