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Dr. Mairead Brady

Associate Professor in Business Studies (Trinity Business School)
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Prof. Brady is an Associate Professor at Trinity Business School, where she also serves as the Director for Joint Honours Degrees in Law & Business and Computer Science & Business. Additionally, she holds an Adjunct Professor position at Warwick Business School in Coventry, England. With over 30 years of experience in lecturing at both undergraduate and graduate levels and supervising Ph.D. students, she has made significant contributions to academia. She is a co-author of the 5th European edition of the renowned textbook Marketing Management (2024), collaborating with marketing experts Philip Kotler, Keller, Goodman, and Hansen. Her research and teaching focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and digital issues in two main areas: management education and marketing management. In marketing management, she delves into leadership, digital transformation, and customer-centric challenges. Her research uniquely addresses the complexities of technology integration, examining its impact on both intra-organizational dynamics (internal relationships within an organization) and extra-organizational interactions (relationships with external stakeholders). In the field of management education, Prof. Brady"s research centers on the adoption of AI by European business schools. She provides a comprehensive analysis of the current landscape of AI integration and explores future possibilities, highlighting educational challenges, opportunities, and potential issues related to AI adoption. Her previous research includes studies on simulations and online games in higher education. She co-developed an online simulation game that has been successfully adopted by over 20 universities. Prof. Brady has received university and national funding for various research projects, including initiatives on deploying comparison activities to support student learning and studies on the academic adoption of technology-enhanced assessment. Prof. Brady is the current Chair (2024) of the Management Education and Development (MED) Division of the Academy of Management (AOM), whose has over 11,000 conference attendees annually. Her leadership roles within AOM have included chair-elect in 2023, program chair in 2022, and PDW (professional development workshop) chair in 2020. She organized the award-winning MED PDW on Teaching with Technology: In the Shadow of AI, (2023) alongside Martin Fellenz. Her recent co-authored paper, Mapping the Potential Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning on the Business Education System, (2023) with David Lefevre (Imperial College London) and Martin Fellenz, won the best paper award at the Services Science Forum in Naples. She also co-chaired the Irish Game-Based Learning Conference in 2016 and served as chair of the Irish Academy of Management Conference in 2004. She is co-host of the MED Educational Webinar Series. Prof. Brady has published over 110 articles in prominent journals, including the Journal of Marketing Management, Psychology & Marketing, and the British Journal of Educational Technology. She has served as a guest editor for several journals and has received multiple best paper awards. Her conference presentations include major events such as the European Academy of Management (EURAM), Academy of Management (AOM), European Academy of Marketing (EMAC), and Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy (ANZMAC). In addition to her academic career, Prof. Brady has over ten years of experience in various roles within a major multinational company based in Ireland. She also boasts over twenty years of consulting and executive education experience, working with senior management in national and multinational companies, start-ups, and government agencies.
  Data Challenges   Databases, database management, data mining   Digital Technologies   Educational Innovations at third level   Marketing   Marketing & Information& Communication Technology (ICT)   Social media and social networking   Strategic management, strategy and marketing   Technology usage in data analysis and interpretation
 Visiting Professor - Prof Dirk Lindebaum
 Visiting Professor - Prof Richard Blackburn
  Empowering student learning: Using comparison and feedback as drivers of self-directed learning
 National Forum Seminar Series: Students as self-regulating partners in feedback and assessment: Design, development, implementation and evaluation.
 Enabling Technology Enhanced Assessment of/for/as learning

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External Examiner: University of Cambridge for MPhil in Industrial Systems, Manufacture, and Management 2024
Member of the Teaching Task Force of the (AOM) Academy of Management November 2023
Chair of the Management Education and Development (MED) division of the Academy of Management (AOM). 2023 - 2024
External Examiner for PhD candidate: Hult International Business School December 2023
Chair Elect for the Management Education and Development(MED)division of the Academy of Management 2023. MED is the education theory, practice, and policy division of AOM. 2022-2023
Program Chair for the MED division of the Academy of Management 2022 2021- 2022
Professional Development Workshop (PDW) Programme Chair for the Management Education and Development (MED) division of the Academy of Management (2020/2021) 2020-2021
Junior Faculty & Doctoral Consortium Program chair for the Management Education and Development (MED) division of the Academy of Management (2020/2021) 2020/2021
Reviewer for the Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing, the Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of Marketing Management, the Journal of Qualitative Marketing Research etc. 2022
Reviewer for the International Marketing Trends Conference 2022-2023
Chair-Elect (2020 to 2024) Management education and development division (MED) of the Academy of Management. 5-year progression role. 2020-2025
External Examiner - University of Nottingham, UK and the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China: Masters in International Management (Marketing) and Masters in International Tourism Management. 2019-2020
External examiner Masters in Marketing and Masters in Tourism Marketing at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China 2019-2020
Invited Keynote University of Padua: "Challenges from within: Evidence from academic adoption of technology within assessment for/as/or learning" November 2018
External Panel Member for the position of Assistant Lecturer in E-Business & Retail Operations (HRC/A/303d/15) at the Dublin Institute of Technology 3rd July
Invited Keynote: Failing to Win: Are digital games a win-win for higher order learning in university education? At the Learnovate Annual Conference, Croke Park, Dublin. October
Keynote at Marketing and Technology Workshop. "Engaging the student through Online Business Simulations: Challenges and Opportunities" University of Newcastle, Durham and Northumbria 27th of Feb, 2018
National Teaching and Learning Forum Workshop: Technology Enabled Assessment: Evidence-based Discussion (With Dr Ann Devitt and Dr Rachel Kiersey) Sept 2017
Trinity College Staff Workshop - Formative Feedback is not for the fainthearted: The challenge of giving and receiving feedback in the higher education situation. Trinity Innovation Academy and Capsule May 2017
Trinity Education Workshop: Diverse Forms of Assessment - Long Room Hub - Trinity College Dublin January 2017
Workshop on Engagement - University of Nottingham. Formative Feedback and Student Engagement - The challenges of giving and receiving feedback - June 2017 2017
Guest Editor for Special Issue of the Service Industries Journal - Exploring interactive Communication using social media - with Prof Mark Durkan and Dr Aodheen McCartan from the University of Ulster. 2015
Co Chair of Irish Conference on Game Based Learning 2016 - Patrick Felicia (Waterford Institute of Technology, Ann Devitt (Trinity College School of Education) and Neil Pierce (Trinity College - Learnovate) Sept 2016
External Examiner: University of Middlesex 2004-2007
European Conference on Game Based Learning (ECGBL) Committee Member 2015
Reviewer for numerous journals: Including the British Journal of Management, Journal of Psychology and Marketing . Journal Marketing Management, . California Management Review * Journal of Interactive Marketing . International Journal of Technology Marketing, . Marketing Theory . European Journal of Marketing (3 star) and Tourism Review (3 star). 2002 - current
Review for American Academy of Management, Academy of Marketing (UK and Ireland) since 2004. 2002 - 2018
Guest Editor of the Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing 2008
Journal Reviewer: The European Journal of Marketing 2009
Paper Reveiwer for the IEEE/INFORMS International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics (SOLI 2007). 2007
Journal Article Reveiws for the Journal of Management Research News 2008
Conference paper reviewer for the American Academy of Marketing, Academy of Marketing (UK and Ireland) and the Irish Academy of Management. 2004-2013
Session Chair at the IEEE Conference, Philadelphia USA 2007: Track Chairs at the European Group for Organisational Studies (EGOS) Bergen 2006;'The Organising Society', Track: Technology, Organisations and Society: Recursive Perspectives. With colleagues from University of Oxford, University of St Gallen, Imagination Lab Foundation and the Norwegian School of Management. Academy of Marketing Science, World Marketing Congress 2005. Track: Electronic Marketing Academy of Marketing Conference both track and Doctoral Panel: Reviewer, Presenter and Panel Member 2004 and 2006. Irish Academy of Management 2001 - 2006. Track: Marketing European Academy of Marketing Track Chair
Journal Reviewer: Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal 2009-2010
British Academy of Management Track Reviewer Marketing and Retailing 2010
Academic Induction Panel Member 2017 - Trinity College Dublin Sept 2017 - 2018
Guest Editor (With Colm Kearney) of the Irish Journal of Management. 2005
Conference Paper Review for American Academy of Management Conference and the Academy of Marketing (UK and Ireland)
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Chair of the Management Education and Development Devision of the AOM which is the largest Management conference in the World. 2023 2024
Member of the Center for Digital Business and Analytics at the Trinity Business School 2018 2024
Program Chair for MED division of the Academy of Management Conference- 2022 2021 2022
Program Chair-Elect, Management Education Development Division of the Academy of Management (America). 2023 2024
Member of the Expert Group on Teaching and Education, Friends of the Teaching Committee. This supports the AOM Management Organization of 11,000 academic members in their teaching and education remit to members. Nov 2023 Nov 2024
Chair of the Professional Development Workshops (PDW) at the Management Education and Development Division of the Academy of Management (America) 2020 2021
Member of the British Academy of Management 2023 2024
Member of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) 2020 2024
Division Secretary of the Management Education Division of the Academy of Management (American) 2018 2020
Expert Group Member - Principles underpinning Assessment for learning: National Forum for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning. 2017 2018
Member of the Academy of Management (American) 2014 ongoing
Member of the Management and Organisational Behaviour Teaching Society (MOBTS) 2018 Ongoing
Member of Hamburg Aviation Conference Advisory Board 2013 2017
Member of the Academy of Marketing (UK and Ireland) 1997 Ongoing
Member of the British Academy of Management 2002 2008
Member of the European Marketing Academy 1999 2017
Member of the American Marketing Association 2000 2008
Member of the European Group of Organisational Studies (EGOS) - Sub Theme Convenor: Technology, Organisations and Society - Annual Conference 2006. 2004 2008
Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (UK) 2003 2004
Council Member of the Irish Academy of Management 2001 2006
Member of the International Competition Award Panel. "The Sheth Foundation Doctoral Thesis Award Competition." 2006 2009
Member of IEEE 2007 2009
Graduate Member of the Marketing Institute of Ireland 1989 2002
Executive Member of the MED Junior Faculty & Doctoral Students Consortium - welcome and closing events at the Academy of Management Conference 2022 2022
Cawley, C., & Brady M., The Criticality of Organisational Readiness of Business Schools for AI: The Time is Now, 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, Illinois., 2024, pp1 - 22, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Buddhima Sandamalie Hettiarachchy and Mairead Brady, Embracing the AI Revolution: Are marketers adopting AI within their Marketing Management Practices?, Irish Academy of Management, Munster Technological University | Bishopstown Campus, September, 2024, pp1 - 8, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Cawley, C., & Brady M., Towards a Research Design for Organisational Readiness of Business Schools for Artificial Intelligence, EURAM European Academy of Management, Bath University, 2024, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Caporarello, Leonardo, Cawley, C., & Brady M.,, Amplifying the Practitioner Voice in Management Education, August, 9-12, 2024, Chicago, Illinois., 1-6, Meetings /Conferences Organised, PRESENTED
Hartley, B., & Brady M.,, PDW co-hosted with MED and Journal AMLE on Reviewing as Craft in and for AMLE (co-hosted with AMLE), August, 2024, Chicago, Illinois., Meetings /Conferences Organised, PRESENTED
Mairead Brady and Martin Fellenz (Organisers), Teaching with Technology: Unraveling Emerging AI Practices in the Classroom. Shortlisted for BEST PDW 2024 for MED at the Academy of Management, American., August, 9-12, 2024, Chicago, Illinois., 1-6, Meetings /Conferences Organised, PRESENTED  TARA - Full Text
Brady., M, Leferve, D., & Fellenz, M.,, Mapping the potential impacts of artificial intelligence and machine learning on the business education system, Services Science Forum, Naples - WINNER OF THE BEST PAPER AWARD - SERVICE SCIENCE, Italy, 2023, 2023, pp1 - 8, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Mairead Brady, Martin Fellenz, David Lefevre, Denni Cawley, Leonardo, Caporarello, Stuart Allen, Anna Holland, Cynthia Fukami. WINNER MED Best Junior Faculty & Doctoral Student Consortium-Related Professional Development Workshop Award, Teaching with technology: In the Shadow of AI , 2023 August, In:Academy of Management Conference, 2023, Boston, Meetings /Conferences Organised, PRESENTED
Fellenz, M.R., Hoidn, S., & Brady, M. (Eds.), The Future of Management Education, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Routledge, 2022, 1 - 272pp, Book, PUBLISHED  URL
'May you live in interesting times': Considering the future of management education in, editor(s)Fellenz, M. R., Hoidn, S., and Brady, M., , The Future of Management Education, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Routledge , 2022, pp3 - 12, [Fellenz, Martin, Brady, Mairead and Hoidn, Sabine], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  URL
  

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Mairead Brady, Navigating Marketers Future Challenges: AI, Emerging Trends and Marketing Management Insights, Pearson Educational Webinar, Online, 18/11/2024, 2024, Pearson Education, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Brady, M., iPreeti Wadhwa , MED Junior Faculty and Doctoral Students Consortium, 2023 August, In:Academy of Management Conference, 2023, Boston, 1-6, Meetings /Conferences Organised, PUBLISHED
Preeti Waldiwa, Robert Bonner and Mairead Brady, Junior Faculty and Doctoral Students Colloquim, In:Academy of Management Conference, 2023, Boston, Meetings /Conferences Organised, SUBMITTED
Martin Fellenz, Mairead Brady, Michelle Macmahon, 'Deploying comparison based activities to support student self directed learning', https://compare-trinity.weebly.com/, 2021, 1 - 20, Digital research resource production, PUBLISHED
Fellenz, Martin, Brady, Mairead and MacMahon, Michelle, 'A Guide to Deploying Comparison Activities to Support Student Learning', National Forum for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning in Education, Trinity College Dublin, 2021, 1 - 20, Protocol or guideline, PUBLISHED
Brady Mairead, 'How Can We Get the Most out of Game Based Learning? ', Learnovate Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2018, -, Broadcast, PUBLISHED
Brady Mairead, Challenges from within: Evidence from academic adoption of technology within assessment for/as/or learning. Feedback and Technology-Enhanced Assessment in University., Fostering student learning through assessment: feedback and technology enhanced assessment in higher education -, University of Padua, November, 2018, University of Padua, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Devitt, Ann and Brady Mairead, Review of Immersive Learning Environments in Higher Education, Pearson Education, Pearson, July, 2015, p1 - 13, Report, PUBLISHED
Mairead Brady, Ann Devitt, Markus Lamest, S. Gomez Pearson, Winner and Losers in Gamification? The Role of Gamification in Third Level Learning and Higher Order Processing, 2015, Working Paper, PUBLISHED
Nicki Newman, Ann Devitt, Markus Lamest, Mairead Brady & Stephen Gomez , Marketing Simulation Research Report for Pearson UK. , London, 2014, p1 - 20, Report, PUBLISHED

  

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Award Date
Teaching Excellence Certificate Awarded for UG Teaching on BU3700 - Trinity Business School June 2024
Teaching Excellence Certificate Awarded for Post Graduate Teaching for BU7210 at Trinity Business School June 2024
Teaching Excellence Certificate Awarded at the Warwick Business School, Warwick University, England 2024 Jan 2024
Outstanding Service Contribution Award as Chair of the MED division of the Academy of Management (USA) Aug 2023 - Aug 2024
Finalist for the Best PDW at the Management Education and Development (MED) at the (American) Academy of Management conference, Chicago April 2024
Nominated for Award for Excellence in Research Student Supervision - Trinity College Dublin April 2024
Winner: MED Best Junior Faculty & Doctoral Student Consortium-Related Professional Development Workshop Award - AOM Conference, August 2023
Finalist: Best PDW at the Management Education and Development (MED) at the AOM conference, Boston August 2023
Winner of the Best Paper Award at the Naples Forum for Services Science, Ravello, Italy June 2023
Outstanding Service Contribution Award as Chair Elect for the MED division of the Academy of Management (USA) Aug 2022 - Aug, 2023
Nominated for Award for Excellence in Research Student Supervision - Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin March 2021 - March 2022
Teaching Excellence Certificate Award for Post Graduate Teaching at the Warwick Business School, Warwick University, England 2021- 2022
Outstanding Service Contribution Award as Program Chair for the MED division of the AOM Aug 2021 to Aug 2022
Winner of the Global Forum Best Symposium Award for the symposium which creates the opportunity to address global issues of significance, to management education and/or development. Award sponsored by Conservatoire National des Arts et Meteries. Symposium Organisers: Brady, M., Fellenz, M., and Hoidn, S., (2021) "The Future of Management Education: Changes, Challenges and Opportunities". August 2021
Nomiated and selected by a vote of members to become the Chair Elect on a 5 year track to become the Chair of Mangement Education and Development Division of the Academy of Mangement - largest Management Education conference in the world. June 2020 to August 2025
Awarded the Outstanding service contribution award as Chair -Elect (5 year programme) for the MED division 2017- 2018
Outstanding contribution as PDW chair for the MED division of the AOM 2020
Outstanding Division Reviewer Award 2021 at (MED - AOM )Management Education and Development Division of the Academy of Management Conference August 2021
Silver Award Winners in the 'Best innovation in the Science of Learning' at the QS Reimagine Education Awards 2020. A team of Trinity researchers - Brady, Fellenz & MacMahon & a team from the Uni of Glasgow - Nicol (Application lead), McCallum & Selvaretnam were delighted to achieve this for their applications titled : The Power of Internal Feedback: Comparison changes everything. December 2020
Shortlisted for the 'Best Innovation in the Science of Learning' category of the QS Reimagine Education Awards. This project was submitted by a consortium of University of Glasgow and Trinity College Dublin researchers. The submission draws on the ground-breaking research on feedback and comparison published by David Nicol (2020) and applied under his leadership at the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow through its Teaching Excellence Initiative. The project submission also draws on the application and development of these ideas across a range of disciplines by our team here at Trinity, of which the SATLE funded COMPARE project is a central part. The team members are Mairead Brady and Martin Fellenz as Co-PIs for this project which funds Michelle MacMahon as a PT PostDoc. December 2020
Outstanding Reviewer Award 2020 at Management Education and Development Division of the Academy of Management (American) 2020
Outstanding Service as Division Secretary Award 2019-2020 MED Management education and Development at the AOM 2019-2020
Award for: Outstanding Service as Division Secretary, 2018-2019, Management Education and Development (MED) Division, Academy of Management (AOM), USA August, 2019
Winner of the (Provost Award) TRINITY EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AWARD from Trinity College Dublin 2016-2017 2017
Winner of Best Paper Prize in the Marketing Track, Irish Academy of Management Conference, NUI Galway, 2015
Winner of Best Paper at the Academy of Marketing conference (UK and Ireland). Track: Marketing and Ecommerce 2012
Winner of Best Paper in Marketing Track - Irish Academy of Management Conference 2013
Winner of Best Paper Academy of Marketing Conference (UK and Ire): Track: Marketing 2002
Winner of the Best Postgraduate Paper Award at the Irish Academy of Management Conference 1998
Strategic Marketing Student of the Year Award 1989
SSRN Top Ten Paper Downloads: Marketing 2007,- 2018
Winner of the Best Post Graduate Research Paper. Dublin Institute of Technology: First Post Graduate Research for Industry Conference 1999
Winner of the Q Award for Outstanding Contribution to the ITT Quality Programme 1995
Prof. Brady's research spans two primary domains: marketing management practices and the future of management education. A central theme in her work is digitalization, particularly artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. Her focus is on the practical assimilation of AI into both business education and marketing management practices. She also addresses AI introduced inter-functional marketing challenges and explores extra- organizational and leadership issues. She is particularly interested in customer centricity and its influence on management practices. In the realm of management education, Prof. Brady investigates the impact of AI adoption on academics, students, and business models within higher education. Her work is concerned with the challenges of integrating technology into our traditional educational frameworks and how to innovate and experiment with AI. Her previous research includes studies on business models and AI adoption, financial and marketing data analysis, social networking and customer interactions, and managerial challenges related to IT and data-driven decision-making. Her current research interests are: The Challenges of Implementing AI in Management Education: Analyzing Institutional, Pedagogical, and Technological Barriers The Current and Future Role of AI in Marketing: Strategic Implications and Evolution of Marketing Management Practices Research which seeks to identify best practices for successful integration of digitalization on marketing effectiveness and organizational agility. She has received funding for several research projects, including studies on AI and marketing management, the adoption of IT within higher education assessments, technology and game-based learning in management education, and technological innovations in higher education, particularly concerning assessment methods.