Elaine Berkery is a Lecturer in Management and a member of the Work, Knowledge and Employment research stream in the Kemmy Business School. Elaine's teaching interests are in the area of management principles, health care / public sector management and managing in the tourism sector. Elaine teaches on a wide range of programmes at both undergraduate and post graduate level. She has extensive experience of programme development including the MA in Business Management for which she is Course Director. Elaine is an Alumnus of the International Teachers Programme (ITP) and has been nominated for the Large Group Teaching Excellence Award at the Universities of Limerick. Elaine's research interests lie in the area of gender and leadership studies: Sex role stereotypes, gender stereotypes, Leader- Member Exchange, the impact/role of gender on leadership and advances in leadership studies. Elaine is currently registered for PhD at the University of Limerick. She has completed a study of "High Performance Work Systems within the Intellectual Disability Care Sector in Ireland", where she investigating the extent to which such systems are implemented within the sector. She previously carried out a study on staffing issues in the hotel sector in Ireland. Elaine has presented her research to international audiences on a number of occasions and has published her research in International Journals. She is a Senior Associate Fellow of the Academy of World Business, Marketing and Management Development, a member of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, Healthcare Management Section, and a member of the Strategic Healthcare Management Research group at the University of Limerick.