Dr Sarah MacCurtain is Co-Director of the Strategic Healthcare Management Research Group. She received her PhD from Aston Business School in 2005. She teaches Organizational Behaviour at the University of Limerick and is Course Director, MBS in HRM. Continuing research interests in include top management teams, trust and organizational performance, bullying, employee stress and well being, organisational climate and innovation. 

She has co-authored publications inclusive of books, monographs, book chapters, journal articles and conference papers. Her books and monographs include High Performance Work Systems: The Economic Evidence (2005), National Centre for Partnership and Performance; Principles of Organisational Behaviour, An Irish Text, Gill and Macmillan, 2004; Managing Knowledge Based Organizations: Top Management Teams and Innovation (2002, Blackhall);Effective Top Management Teams: An International Perspective (2001,Blackhall). 

Her articles have been published in journals such as Management Revue, Personnel Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Industrial and labor Relations Review, Academy of Management Best paper proceedings and Irish Journal of Management..