Professor Colm Kearney - Academic Career and Interests

Academic Career and Interests

Colm's lecturing career began at the University of Essex, after which he worked as a research associate in the Institute for Employment Research at the University of Warwick while completing his doctoral research. He joined the Economics Department at the University of New South Wales, becoming a Senior Lecturer in 1988. His first Professorial Chair was obtained in 1990 in the Department of Economics and Finance at University of Western Sydney. After serving as an economic advisor to the Australian government he took up the position of Professor of Finance and Economics at the University of Technology, Sydney, and continued with his research supported by a number of Australian Research Council awards.

From 2001 to 2011, Colm served as Professor of International Business at Trinity College. He was elected Dean of the Faculty of Business Economic and Social Studies in 2004. In 2005, Kearney was appointed to serve as Senior Lecturer (now Chief Academic Officer) of the College. In this role, Colm had direct responsibility for implementing restructuring policies for the university, which were agreed by Council and Board in July 2008. A significant achievement in this role, Colm gained College-wide agreement to synchronise Trinity College Dublin's academic semesters and programme offerings in line with the Bologna system of modularisation. Since 2012, Colm has been Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University in Melbourne.