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The Research Team

We are a team of academics from the University of Galway, Warwick Business School, University of Greenwich Business School, and University College Cork, and a policy researcher from the Centre for Health and Public Interest.

 

Professor Kate Kenny
University of Galway, Whitaker Institute and J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics

Kate Kenny is Professor in Business and Society at University of Galway, J.E Cairnes School of Business and Economics, Ireland. She has a B. Eng in Civil Engineering and a Phd from Cambridge University’s Judge Business School. Kate has held fellowships at the Edmond J. Safra Lab at Harvard University and Judge Business School. Kate has been researching whistleblowing and organizations for ten years, with projects funded by ESRC, British Academy, and Leverhulme Trust.

Professor Marianna Fotaki
Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

Marianna Fotaki is Professor of Business Ethics at University of Warwick Business School. She has a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science and was also an Edmond J. Safra Network Fellow (2014–2015) at Harvard University. Currently Marianna works on ESRC and British Academy/Leverhulme funded research on whistleblowing and corruption and conducts pilot projects on solidarity responses to refugee arrivals in Greece.

Professor Wim Vandekerckhove
University of Greenwich Business School

Wim Vandekerckhove is a Reader in Business Ethics at the University of Greenwich. He has provided expertise on whistleblowing to various organisations, including Transparency International, Public Concern at Work, the Whistleblower Advice Centre in the Netherlands, the UK Department of Health, the Council of Europe, and the British Standards Institute.

Dr Didem Derya Özdemir Kaya
Warwick Business School

Didem Derya Özdemir Kaya is a research fellow and associate lecturer at the OHRM division of Warwick Business School. She completed her PhD at the same institution in October 2019. Her research interests are affective labour and post-Fordist work. She draws on psychosocial, feminist and Marxist theories in her research. She has held research posts in teams investigating whistleblowing and domestic abuse.

Dr Meghan Van Portfliet
University College Cork

Meghan Van Portfliet is a Lecturer in Management at Cork University Business School and an Associate Member of the Whitaker Institute, NUI Galway. Her research is focused on how whistleblowers can successfully come through their journey, looking at the support of advocacy organizations and how these can shape the journey. She has published her work in journals such as the Journal of Business Ethics and Organization.

Dr Muhammad Irfan
Management Discipline and Whitaker Institute, University of Galway

Muhammad Irfan is an Employee Engagement & Voice Advisor for the Ministry of Health, B.C. Public Service, Canada. He has been involved in research and consultancy projects focusing on whistleblowing, employee voice, work culture, and effective leadership. He holds a PhD in Management from the University of Galway. Muhammad has experience across various industries, including higher education, tech startups, oil and gas, manufacturing, and the public sector.

Bashir Alao
PhD candidate, J.E Cairnes School of Business and Economics, University of Galway.

Bashir Alao is currently a PhD student at the J.E Cairnes School of Business and Economics, University of Galway. His research project is on whistleblowing systems, laws, ethics, and behavior and their impacts on corruption, fraud, and organization wrongdoing. He is working on a comparative study of Ireland and Nigeria. He is an experienced auditor and compliance expert and has authored and co-authored over ten research articles in the areas of corporate accountability, whistleblowing, auditing, and ethics.

Iain Munro

Iain Munro is Professor of Leadership and Organization at Newcastle Business School. He has previously worked at the universities of Warwick (1994-2000), St Andrews (2000-2009), and Innsbruck (2009-2013). He has research interests in whistleblowing and human rights, and more broadly in ethics and power in organizations. 

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