Professor Edel Conway

Professor Edel Conway is Associate Dean for Research at DCU Business School. Edel is an organisational psychologist with expertise in the areas of Human Resource Management and Organisational Change. She is especially interested in employee perspectives on work, particularly employee engagement and wellbeing and employee reactions to work intensification and organisational change.

Edel has managed numerous employee engagement surveys within the Irish civil service and the wider public sector. She has also engaged in research and consultancy projects within knowledge intensive firms, particularly in the pharma, ICT, and financial service sectors. Edel’s research has received both national and international recognition. She is a former recipient of the European Young Psychologist Award, as well as a DCU Albert College Fellowship.

Edel previously worked as a HR consultant with Citibank and was a research assistant at the London Business School. She is former Director of the LInK Research Institute at DCU. She is Editor of the Irish Journal of Management and is an Associate Editor of Human Resource Management Journal.  She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Personnel Review.

Edel sits on the council of the Irish Academy of Management and is a member of the Academy of Management, the European Association of Work and Organisational Psychology, the European Academy of Management, and the Psychological Society of Ireland.