Carol Power

Biography

Carol Power is a lecturer in the Department of Food Business and Development and a researcher with the Centre for Co-operative Studies. She has a BA in Geography and Policy Studies, a PhD in Geography and a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Carol’s doctoral thesis focused on the role of voluntary business associations in stimulating industrial clusters and regional economic development. Carol is Academic Director of the Pathways suite of programmes in Credit Union Business, which is offered in partnership with the Irish League of Credit Unions. She teaches on the MSc in Co-operative and Social Enterprise and also contributes to modules on the Postgraduate Diploma in Co-operative Organisation, Food Marketing and Rural Development. Her current research interests focus on the credit union movement in Ireland, and also on co-operatives and social enterprises as a response to social and economic needs at local and regional levels. Carol is a member of the Board of the UCC-based Institute for Social Sciences in the 21st Century (ISS21). ISS21 is affiliated to the Irish Social Science Platform. Carol is also convenor of the ISS21 Civil Society Research Cluster.

Research Interest

Carol works on the development and co-ordination of modules on the Pathways suite of programmes in Credit Union Business. Carol delivers two modules on the Master's Degree in Co-operative and Social Enterprise and is also involved in research supervision on this programme: FE6701 Co-operative and Social Enterprise FE6705 Innovation and Enterprise in Financial Co-operatives and Mutuals FE6710 Research Dissertation (supervision). Carol contributes to modules on the Postgraduate Diploma in Co-operative Organisation, Food Marketing and Rural Development, including: FE6116 Local Food Marketing: Application and Practice. She is also involved in mentoring BComm Work Placement students.