Carol Power is a lecturer in the Department of Food Business and Development and a researcher with the Centre for Co-operative Studies. She has a BA in Geography and Policy Studies, a PhD in Geography and a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Carol’s doctoral thesis focused on the role of voluntary business associations in stimulating industrial clusters and regional economic development. Since 2016, Carol has been Academic Director of the Pathways suite of programmes in Credit Union Business, offered in partnership with the Irish League of Credit Unions. She teaches across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the Department, including the MSc in Co-operative and Social Enterprise and the MSc in Co-operatives, Agri-Food and Sustainable Development, and is involved in the supervision of a number of Master's and PhD students. Her current research interests focus on co-operative and community-based responses to social and economic needs at local and regional levels.

Since 2016, Carol has been Academic Director of the Pathways suite of programmes in Credit Union Business. She contributes to modules on a number of undergraduate programmes: GV1400 Local Development and Public Health FE2008 Placement Plan FE3014 Concepts of Development FE3825 Credit Unions and Society FE4412 Sustainable Development: Food, Natural Resources and Gender FE4415 Research Project and Analytical Skills Carol delivers three modules on the online Master's Degree in Co-operative and Social Enterprise and is also involved in research supervision on this programme: FE6703 Co-operative and Social Enterprise Governance; FE6711 Research Methodology; FE6705 Innovation and Enterprise in Financial Co-operatives and Mutuals; FE6710 Research Dissertation (supervision). Carol also contributes to modules on the MSc in Co-operatives, Agri-Food and Sustainable Development: FE6305 Contemporary Socio-economic and Environmental Issues FE6306 Marketing for Sustainable Food Production and Consumption