UL student Philip Hayes has won the Deloitte Top Technology Talent Competition for his new site Goforagoo.com, which aims to change the social networking space by exploring aspects of user interaction both on a virtual and physical level by drawing on Cloud as well as geosocial networking. The competition sought innovative ideas from university students at all levels across Ireland, on how technology can solve a
business problem. Philip has just completed his first year at UL, where
he is a Business Studies student.

UL and KBS graduate David Collings (BBS, MBS in HRM, PhD) was recently appointed as Professor of Human Resource Management at Dublin City University.  David has previously held academic appointments at the University of Sheffield and NUI Galway (where he was Head of the Management Discipline).  David joins a number of UL/KBS graduates on the DCU faculty including Dr Claire Gubbins, Dr Grainne Kelly and Dr Margaret Heffernan.

Under the UL40 Scholarship Initiative for Taught Postgraduate Programmes, there will be funding available for postgraduate students in the Academic Year 2012/13. Click here for full details and the online application material.

The KBS is delighted to announce that Prof. John Fahy, Department of Management & Marketing at the KBS, is the recipient of this year's Shannon Consortium Regional Award for Excellence in Higher Education Teaching.

The Consortium also acknowledge the considerable achievement of being among those short-listed for the award and the KBS is delighted that Dr. Deirdre O’ Loughlin, also of the Department of Management and Marketing at the KBS, was one of 5 short-listed candidates in the region.