Claire is a Professor of Organisational Behaviour & HRM at DCU, LINK Lab Lead at the Irish Institute of Digital Business, Director of the Masters in Strategic Learning & Development with L&DI (Learning & Development Institute of Ireland), Chair of the Irish Academy of Management Early Career Development Network and an Invited Fellow of the Centre for Evidence Based Management. Claire is a past Fulbright scholar, Director of the Graduate Certificate in Strategic Leadership programme with Teagasc, Director of DCU's Executive MBA Programme and Associate Editor for Human Resource Development Quarterly (an SSCI listed journal).
She is published in such journals as Organization Studies, Human Resource Management (US), Journal of Management Inquiry, Human Resource Management (HRMJ), Human Resource Development Quarterly, Advances in Developing Human Resources, Human Resource Development Review, Journal of Knowledge Management and Journal of European Industrial Training, among others. She has also published 3 co-authored books: Learning and Development in Organisations: Strategy, Evidence & Practice with OakTree Press Publishing; Learning and Development Effectiveness in Organisations: An Integrated Systems-Informed Model of Effectiveness with Palgrave Macmillan and the Evidence Based Management Teaching Handbook with CEBMa.
Awards for her work include: an IRC Research Ally Award, Fulbright Award, a Career Enhancement Award, US Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) finalist award for her dissertation; BEST paper runner-up for the Alan Moon Memorial prize at the International Conference on HRD Research & Practice; and Best paper in track at the Irish Academy of Management.
She was awarded the Advance HE Senior Teaching Fellowship award in 2021 for teaching excellence. She received the DCU Presidents award for Excellence in Teaching (Assessment & feedback) in 2013 and was a nominee in 2011/2012/2015 and in 2018 in the Team Category for her role as MBA Director as nominated by the MBA participants.
She is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD), the US Academy of Management, the US Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) and the University Forum for HRD (UFHRD).
She is an Elected member of the Board of the US Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD), on the Council of the Learning and Development Institute (L&DI) and the Irish Academy of Management (IAM). She is on the editorial board for the Journal of European Industrial Training.
Previously, Claire was a Fulbright Scholar at Carnegie Mellon University USA, a Senior Research Fellow on the Irish Centre for Manufacturing Research (ICMR) project on Tacit Knowledge Management, Learning and Systems, a Senior Research Fellow at the Enterprise Research Centre with the University of Limerick working in collaboration with Trinity College Dublin on the ICMR project on Training and Training Information Support. She was a Lecturer in Management and HRM at University College Cork and a Lecturer of HRM and Organisational Behaviour with the Kemmy Business School at the University of Limerick. She was awarded her Ph.D. from the University of Limerick; her research was at the interface of organisational behaviour and human resource development and focused on the influence of social networks on career, professional development and work outcomes. She is a former Government of Ireland Scholar, awarded the Government of Ireland Research Scholarship (IRCHSS) and the University of Limerick Registrars scholarship to conduct her PhD.
She has over 20 years experience as an Invited Speaker, Consultant and Facilitator to a range of industries and engagements with the media in such areas as knowledge management through people, social networks and relationships, decision making, evidence based management and learning and development. She is a facilitator on a number of Executive Education offerings include the Enterprise Ireland Management4Growth programme for SME's at DCU and on the INVEST NI Leadership Development programme for SME's and other Executive Education customised client programmes. She has been a Judge for the Learning & Development Institute of Ireland (L&DI) National L&D awards.
LINKEDIN Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairegubbins/?originalSubdomain=ie
Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cj1hXKcAAAAJ&hl=en
Book
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | (2025) Evidence Based Management Teaching Handbook. Leiden: CEBMa. [Link] | |
| 2020 | Garavan, T.N. O' Brien, F. Duggan, J. Gubbins, C. Lai, Y. Carbery, R. Heneghan, S. Lannon, R. Sheehan, M. Grant, K. (2020) Learning and Development Effectiveness in Organisations: An Integrated Systems-Informed Model of Effectiveness. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. [Link] | |
| 2020 | Garavan, T.N. Hogan, C. Cahir-O' Donnell, A. Gubbins, C. (2020) Learning and Development in Organisations: Strategy, Evidence and Practice. Dublin: OakTree Press. [Link] |
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Claire Gubbins (2025) 'Knowledge & Organisational Learning & Its’ Management Through HR Practices : A Critical Perspective' In: Human Resource Management: A Critical Approach. UK : Routledge. [Link] | |
| 2023 | Gubbins, C.; Garavan, T.N.; Bennett, E.E. (2023) 'Digital Learning: A Bright New Dawn for Learning and Development' In: Palgrave Studies in Digital Business and Enabling Technologies. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Claire, Gubbins,Thomas, Garavan (2022) 'Sustainable HR Careers in an era of Disruption: A Provocation' In: : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. | |
| 2018 | Claire, Gubbins (2018) 'Knowledge & Organisational Learning & Its Management through HR Practices: A Critical Perspective' In: : Routledge. | |
| 2014 | Gubbins, C. (2014) 'Social Capital, Networking and International HRD' In: Garavan, T.N., McCarthy, A. & Carbery, R(Eds.). A Handbook of International HRD: Context, Processes and People. : Edward Elgar (EE). | |
| 2014 | Gubbins, C.; Korte, R. (2014) 'Social capital theory and HRD: Debates, perspectives and opportunities' In: The Routledge Companion to Human Resource Development. [Link] | |
| 2013 | Gubbins, C. (2013) 'Social Capital' In: Flood, P. & Freeny, Y(Eds.). The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Management: Organizational Behavior (3rd Edition). London : Blackwell Publishers. Forthcoming. | |
| 2013 | Gubbins, C. & Andriessen, D. (2013) 'Metaphor' In: Flood, P. & Freeny, Y(Eds.). The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Management: Organizational Behavior (3rd Edition). : Blackwell Publishers. Forthcoming. | |
| 2013 | Gubbins, C. & Kennedy, J. (2013) 'Learning and Knowledge' In: Harney, B. & Monks, K(Eds.). Human Resource Management Practice in Ireland: Progress, Context and Challenges. Dublin, Ireland : Blackhall Publishing. | |
| 2012 | Gubbins, C. (2012) 'Managing the New Workplace: Collaborating in the organization ' In: Wankel, C(Eds.). Management through Collaboration: Teaming in a Networked World. : Palgrave Macmillan. | |
| 2010 | Gubbins, C. & Dooley, L. (2010) 'Social Network Analysis as a tool for understanding innovation and knowledge management in dynamic networks' In: O'Brien, E. Clifford, S. Southern, M(Eds.). Knowledge Management for Process, Organisational and Marketing Innovation: Tools and Methods. : IGI Global. | |
| 2006 | Garavan, T.N. & Gubbins, C. (2006) 'Training and Development in the Irish Hospitality Sector' In: McGing, G. & Connolly, P(Eds.). Hospitality Management in Ireland: Theory & Practice. : OakTree Press. | |
| 2014 | Gubbins, C. & Korte, R. (2014) 'Social Capital and Human Resource Development' In: Poell, R., Rocco, T. & Roth, G(Eds.). Routledge Companion to Human Resource Development. : Routledge. | |
| 2006 | Thomas, Garavan,Claire, Gubbins,Carole, Hogan,Margaret, Woodlock (2006) 'Transitioning to a Strategically Aligned HRD Function: The case of a Health Services Organisation' In: : Routledge. | |
| 2004 | Garavan, T.N. McCarthy, A. McMahon, J.& Gubbins, C. (2004) 'Management Development in Micro and Small Firms in Ireland: Linking Management Development Practices to Firm Strategic Type & HRM Orientation' In: Stewart, J. & Beaver, G(Eds.). HRD in Small Organisations: Research and Practice. London : Routledge. |
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Harney, Brian; Gubbins, Claire (2024) 'Human Resource Development (HRD) Meets Human Resource Management (HRM): A Skills Based Agenda for a FRAGILE World Order'. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 26 (4). [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Garavan, T.G.; McCarthy, A.,; Lai, Y.; Clarke, N.; Gubbins, C. (2021) 'Putting the System back into Training and Firm Performance Research: A Review & Research Agenda'. Human Resource Management Journal, . [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Gubbins, C.; Dooley, L. (2021) 'Delineating the tacit knowledge-seeking phase of knowledge sharing: The influence of relational social capital components'. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 32 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Garavan, T.N.; Heneghan, S.; O’Brien, F.; Gubbins, C.; Lai, Y.; Carbery, R.; Duggan, J.; Lannon, R.; Sheehan, M.; Grant, K. (2020) 'L&D professionals in organisations: much ambition, unfilled promise'. European Journal of Training and Development, 44 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Dooley, Lawrence; Gubbins, Claire (2019) 'Inter-organisational knowledge networks: synthesising dialectic tensions of university-industry knowledge discovery'. Journal of Knowledge Management, 23 (10). [DOI] | |
| 2018 | Gubbins, C.; Harney, B.; Van der Werff, L.; Rousseau, D.M. (2018) 'Enhancing the trustworthiness and credibility of human resource development: Evidence-based management to the rescue?'. Human Resource Development Quarterly, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2016 | Gubbins, C.; Garavan, T. (2016) 'Social Capital Effects on the Career and Development Outcomes of HR Professionals'. Human Resource Management, 55 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2015 | Gubbins, C.; Rousseau, D.M.; (2015) 'Embracing translational HRD research for evidence-based management: Let's talk about how to bridge the research-practice gap'. Human Resource Development Quarterly, . [DOI] | |
| 2015 | Claire, Claire,Denise, Denise (2015) 'Embracing Translational HRD Research for Evidence-Based Management: Let's Talk About How to Bridge the Research-Practice Gap'. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 26 . [Link] | |
| 2014 | Gubbins, C.; Dooley, L. (2014) 'Exploring Social Network Dynamics Driving Knowledge Management for Innovation'. Journal of Management Inquiry, 23 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2013 | Ellinger, A.D.; Anderson, V.; Gubbins, C.; Lynn Lunn, M.; Nimon, K.F.; Sheehan, M.; Werner, J.M.; (2013) 'The Generous Spirit of the Peer Review Process: Perspectives and Insights From the HRDQ Editorial Team on Providing High-Quality Reviews'. Human Resource Development Quarterly, . [DOI] | |
| 2012 | Gubbins, C.; Corrigan, S.; Garavan, T.N.; O'Connor, C.; Leahy, D.; Long, D.; Murphy, E. (2012) 'Evaluating a tacit knowledge sharing initiative: A case study'. European Journal of Training and Development, 36 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2009 | Gubbins, C.; Garavan, T.N.; (2009) 'Understanding the HRD role in MNCs: The imperatives of social capital and networking'. Human Resource Development Review, . [DOI] | |
| 2009 | Andriessen, D.; Gubbins, C.; (2009) 'Metaphor analysis as an approach for exploring theoretical concepts: The case of social capital'. Organization Studies, . [DOI] | |
| 2009 | Gubbins, C.; (2009) 'Social Networks: An Introduction'. Journal of European Industrial Training, . [DOI] | |
| 2008 | Gubbins, C.; Maccurtain, S.; (2008) 'Understanding the Dynamics of Collective Learning: The Role of Trust and Social Capital'. Advances in Developing Human Resources, . [DOI] | |
| 2008 | Garavan, T.N. Wilson, J. Cross, C. Carbery, R. Sieben, I de Grip, A. Strandberg, C. Gubbins, C. Shanahan, V. Hogan, C. McCracken, M. & Heaton, N. (2008) 'Mapping the context and practice of training, development and HRD in European Call Centres'. Journal of European Industrial Training, 32 . | |
| 2007 | Oâdonnell, D.; Gubbins, C.; McGuire, D.; Jørgensen, K.M.; bo Henriksen, L.; Garavan, T.N.; (2007) 'Social Capital and HRD: Provocative Insights From Critical Management Studies'. Advances in Developing Human Resources, . [DOI] | |
| 2007 | Storberg-Walker, J.; Gubbins, C.; (2007) 'Social Networks as a Conceptual and Empirical Tool to Understand and âDoâ HRD'. Advances in Developing Human Resources, . [DOI] | |
| 2006 | Gubbins, C. Garavan, T.N. Hogan, C. & Woodlock, M. (2006) 'An Examination of a Public Sector HRD Function'. Irish Journal Of Management, . | |
| 2005 | Claire, Claire,TN, TN (2005) 'Studying HRD Practitioners: A Social Capital Model'. Human Resource Development Review, . | |
| 2013 | Andrea, Andrea,Valerie, Valerie,Claire, Claire,Mary, Mary,Kim, Kim (2013) 'The Generous Spirit of the Peer Review Process: Perspectives and Insights From the HRDQ Editorial Team on Providing High-Quality Reviews'. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 24 . [Link] | |
| 2012 | Gubbins, C. Corrigan, S. Garavan, T.N. O' Connor, C. Leahy, D. Long, D. Murphy, E. (2012) 'Evaluating a Tacit Knowledge Management Initiative: its Business Value, ROI and Challenges'. European Journal of Training and Development, . | |
| 2010 | McGuire, D. & Gubbins, C. (2010) 'The Slow Death of Formal Learning: A Polemic'. 9 . | |
| 2009 | Andriessen, D. Gubbins, C. (2009) 'Metaphor Analysis as an approach for Exploring Theoretical Concepts; The Case of Social Capital'. ORGANISATION STUDIES, . | |
| 2009 | C, C,T, T (2009) 'Understanding the HRD Role in MNC’s - The Imperatives of Social Capital and Networking'. Human Resource Development Review, 8 . | |
| 2009 | Gubbins, C. & Garavan, T.N. (2009) 'Understanding the HRD Role in MNC's: The Imperatives of Social Capital and Networking'. 8 . | |
| 2009 | Claire, Claire,D, D (2009) 'Metaphor Analysis as an Approach for Exploring Theoretical Concepts: The Case of Social Capital'. Organization Studies, . | |
| 2008 | Claire, Claire,TN, TN,J, J,C, C,R, R (2008) 'Mapping the Context and Practice of Training, Development and HRD in European Call Centres'. Journal of European Industrial Training, . | |
| 2008 | Gubbins, C. & MacCurtain, S. (2008) 'Understanding the Dynamics of Collective Learning:The Role of Trust and Social Capital'. 10 . | |
| 2008 | C, C,S, S (2008) 'Understanding the Dynamics of Collective Learning -The Role of Trust and Social Capital'. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 10 . | |
| 2007 | Claire, Claire,J, J (2007) 'Introducing Social Networks as a Theoritical and Empirical Tool to Understand and Do HRD'. Advances in Developing Human Resources, . | |
| 2007 | Storberg-Walker, J, & Gubbins, C. (eds.) (2007) 'Social Networks to Understand and Do HRD:Special Issue'. 9 . | |
| 2007 | Claire, Claire,J, J (2007) 'Social Networks to Understand and Do HRD'. Advances in Developing Human Resources, . | |
| 2006 | Claire, Claire,TN, TN,C, C,M, M (2006) 'An Examination of a Public Sector HRD Fund'. IRISH JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT, . | |
| 2005 | Gubbins,C. & Garavan, T.N. (2005) 'Studying HRD Practitioners: A Social Capital Model'. 4 . |
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Research Interests
Research interests are in the areas of
* learning and development: informal learning, knowledge sharing, tacit knowledge, learning and development in new world of work (remote, online, hybrid, Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence- Human-AI Collaboration)
* workplace relationships: social networks, social networks and trust, social networks and relationships in new world of work (remote, online, hybrid, Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence- Human-AI Collaboration)
* evidence based decision making
Anyone interested in pursuing a PhD in this area should get in touch.