Name: Dr. Sheila O'Donohoe
Qualifications: B. Comm, MBS, PhD

Main Subject Areas

Lecture on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes on the following modules: Capital Markets, Investments, Strategic Finance and Corporate Financial Interpretation; engage in supervision of  undergraduate research papers, dissertations on the Executive MBA, MBS and MBSI programmes as well as supervising postgraduate research students to Masters and PhD level.

Business or Professional Experience

Senior Lecturer with Dublin Business School in Malaysia at the outset of the establishment of their Business School, 1994-1996

Visiting Research Fellow: School of Banking and Finance, University of New South Wales, Sydney in 2006

Research Interests

I completed a PhD at the University of Nottingham on domestic and international mergers and acquisitions.

My research interests include mergers and acquisitions and small firm finance.

School and Organisational Roles

Joint Programme Leader of the MBS

Co-ordinator of the Finance Research Group

Finance subject leader in the School

Joint co-ordinator of the Seminar Series

Member of the Business School’s Quality Review Committee

Member of the Business School’s Postgraduate Research Policy Committee

Representative of the Business School on the RADAR Committee

Course development team member for several undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the School of Business

External Roles

External Examiner at Dublin Institute of Technology and at Athlone Institute of Technology

Secretary of the Irish Accounting and Finance Committee (2005-2008)

Chairperson of the National Coaching and Games Development Committee of the Camogie Association (2009-

Selected Publications

O’ Donohoe, S and Gregory, A. (2009) ' Returns to Domestic and International Acquirers from UK Acquisitions- Evidence from recent merger waves', INFINITI Conference on International Finance, Dublin, 9th June

O’ Donohoe, S and Gregory, A. (2009) ' The Wealth Effects from UK Acquisitions for Domestic and International Acquirers: some recent evidence', 20th Annual Conference of the Irish Accounting and Finance Association, Dublin, 8th May

O’ Donohoe, S , Hanley, A. and Lyons, C. (2008) ‘Relationship Banking within the Irish SME sector and its Implications’- The Irish Accounting Review, Vol 15 (2), pp 59-85

‘Getting Going on you PhD’ (2007) with Professor Ciaran O hOgartaigh at the 1st Irish Accounting and Finance Association Doctoral Colloquium, Tralee, Co Kerry, Ireland, 16^th   May

Huyghebaert, N, O’ Donohoe, S. and Rossiter, D. (2006) ‘Does the Value of Venture Capital Vary Over Investees Life Cycle? Evidence from Irish Investees’, Chapter Gregoriou, G.N., M. Kooli and R. Kraüssl. (eds), Venture Capital: A European Perspective, Elsevier, December

O’ Donohoe, S (2006) ‘Shareholder Returns in Domestic and International Acquisitions: Evidence from the Fifth Merger Wave’, Research Seminar, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 27^th July

O Donohoe, S and Butler, K. (2006) ‘Patterns of Funding of SMEs in the South of East of Ireland’, Research Seminar, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster, UK, 24^th February

Mahon, A and O Donohoe, S. (2006) ‘Economies of Scale in Irish Occupational Pension Plans’, Presentation to the Irish Association of Pension Funds, National Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 5^th April

O Donohoe, S (2006) ‘ Target Shareholder Returns: their Magnitude and Determinants following Takeover Announcements by Domestic and International Acquirers’, Irish Accounting and Finance Association Annual Conference, DCU, Dublin, Ireland, 9^th May

Murphy, C & O Donohoe, S (2006), ‘Hospital Governance: An Insight from the South East of Ireland’, Irish Accounting and Finance Association Annual Conference, DCU, Dublin, Ireland, 10^th May

O’ Donohoe, S. and Rossiter, D. (2005), ‘An Assessment of Value Added by Venture Capital for Irish Companies’, Research in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Conference, University of Naples, Italy, 17-18 November

O’ Donohoe, S (2005) ‘ Target Shareholder Returns from International and Domestic Takeover Announcements in the 1990s-Some UK Evidence’, 3^rd Corporate Finance Day, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 20 September 2005

O’ Donohoe, S (2005) ‘The Magnitude and Determinants of Target Shareholder Returns from International and Domestic Takeover Announcements in the 1990s-Some UK Evidence’, Global Finance Conference, Dublin, June 28-2 July

Mac Namara, F. and O’ Donohoe, S. (2005) ‘The Impact of Acquisitions on Operating Performance’; Some UK and Irish Evidence, 16^th Annual Conference of the Irish Accounting and Finance Association Conference, Universty of Limerick, 14-15 April

Mac Namara, F. and O’ Donohoe, S. (2005), ‘Mode of Integration and Financial Performance; Some UK and Irish Evidence’, Annual Conference of the Irish Academy of Management, Galway, 7-9 September 2005

O’ Donohoe, S. (2004) ‘2004-the Year of the IPO’, May edition, Finance Ireland