Dr. Bridget Carroll (PhD, MSc) is a lecturer in the Department of Food Business and Development and senior researcher with the Centre for Co-operative Studies, UCC. Bridget’s research interests include co-operative development, legislation and regulation and governance. She is a member of the Horizon Europe DICES research team and PI on a GRI-funded research project. Bridget is academic director of the Diploma in Corporate Direction (Food Business) and the Certificate in Co-operative Governance and Professional Development (both aimed at leadership development in agricultural co-operatives). She is Treasurer of the Society for Co-operative Studies in Ireland.

My research to date has focussed on organisational, legislative and regulatory aspects of co-operatives and worker co-operatives. Recent research has explored the role of employee owned business in succession issues that emerge in family businesses and factors in co-operative entrepreneurship. My doctoral research seeks to apply a network governance perspective to co-operative development. I am a member of the CIRIEC International Scientific Network and the Journal of Co-operative Studies Editorial Advisory Board.  

FE6305 Contemporary Socio-Economic Issues. (MSc Sustainable Development, Agri-food & Co-operatives; MSc International Sustainable Business; MSc International Public Policy & Diplomacy)

FE3101 SME & Local Development (BSc International Development)

FE3024 Agri-food Sustainability and Co-operatives (BSc Ag Science)

FE1101 Introduction to Co-operative Business (B. Comm.)

FE1837 Corporate Governance (Diploma in Corporate Governance)

FE1840 In-company project (Dip. in Corporate Governance)

FE1026 Introduction to Co-operatives and Co-operative Governance (Cert. in Co-op Governance)

Bridget has acted as a visiting lecturer at the Czech University of Life Science, Prague delivering a module on Co-operative Business. 

Academic Qualifications

• PhD, University of Stirling (2021)
• Postgrad. Cert. Teaching & Learning in Higher Education, University College Cork (2013)
• MSc, University College Cork (2005)
• HDip, University College Cork (1998)
• BA, University of Limerick (1992)