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Biographical Details:

David Collings (PhD, Limerick) is Professor of Human Resource Management at DCU. He is also a Visiting Professor of HRM at King¿s College London. Prior to joining DCU, he held faculty positions at the National University of Ireland, Galway and the University of Sheffield. He is also the editor (joint) of the Human Resource Management Journal and Irish Journal of Management and permanent Chair of the EIASM workshop on talent management. David¿s teaching focuses on human resource management, international human resource management, talent management and international management. He holds a Certificate in Teaching and Learning from the University of Sheffield. He is currently supervising a number of PhD students in areas such as international staffing, subsidiary innovation, HRM and performance, and born global firms. He has taught and delivered executive education in the US, UK, Iceland, France and Denmark. He also actively consults with a number of global organisations.

Research Interests:

David¿s research focuses on the management of human resources with a particular focus on talent management and global mobility issues. His work has been particularly influential on debates around changing patterns of global mobility in the contemporary MNE and in developing the conceptual foundations of talent management as an academic discipline. He has published widely on these topics. A recent study by the ESRI ranked him as the sixth most productive business scholar on the island of Ireland. He has published six books, most recently Global Talent Management with Hugh Scullion published by Routledge (2011). His research has been published or is forthcoming at outlets such as Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Review, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and Journal of Vocational Behavior.