Dr Gail Sheppard
Biography
Gail is an Assistant Professor of Accounting and the Society & Public Policy research lead at Maynooth University School of Business. Until recently she was the Programme Director for Arts Team Accounting and BCL Law and Accounting. Prior to joining Maynooth University she was a Lecturer in Accounting at TU Dublin. She started her career as an accountant in industry, during which time she qualified with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. Gail went on to complete an MSc in DCU, continued her studies in Queen’s University, Belfast before obtaining her PhD from University College Cork.
Gail’s research is multidisciplinary, focusing on public resource management and encompassing Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in Ireland and Covid-19 management. Her research has been published in international peer-reviewed journals and she is also a journal reviewer. Gail is a published author, having written a textbook in the area of Management Accounting.
More recently, Gail was awarded research funding, as part of a research team, by the National Open Research Forum (2023-2025) Strand II Open Research Stimulus Call 2023. The project 'A Review of Open Research in Health Ecosystems' (ROCHE) is working to explore and develop policies, practices, challenges, and opportunities for open research in commercialisable research, particularly Connected Health.
Gail is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, a former council member of the Irish Accounting and Finance Association and an external examiner for Atlantic Technological University (ATU).
In September 2022 Gail was a visiting Erasmus + lecturer at the School of Economics and Management, University of Bologna, Rimini Campus.
Research Interests
My research is multi-disciplinary focusing on public resource management. This includes my research into Public Private Partnership (PPP) in Ireland, the area of focus of my PhD. My research provides insights into the running and oversight of PPP management in Ireland. More recently my research has evolved into the area of risk management and how governments and companies plan for major crises.
My research has been published in Risk Analysis (ABS 4), the International Review of Administrative Sciences (ABS 3) and the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy (ABS 3). I have also presented my research the European Accounting Association conference, the Irish Accounting and Finance Association conference and the Irish Academy of Management conference.
Orcid ID:https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1404-6977
Research Projects
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Gail Sheppard; Matthias Beck (2023) 'The Impact of Covid-19 on PPP in Ireland' In: Revisiting Public-Private Partnerships Lessons from Covid-19. Switzerland : Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37015-1 | |
| 2015 | Sheppard G. (2015) 'Public private partnerships in the Republic of Ireland' In: Public Private Partnerships: A Global Review. [DOI] |
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Beck M; Sheppard G; (2023) 'Running red lights: Risk recognition versus follow-up implementation in the case of Germany's pandemic preparation'. Risk Analysis, . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2023 | Sheppard, G. and Beck, M. (2023) 'Transparency trade-offs in the operation of national Public Private Partnership units: The case of Ireland’s National Development Finance Agency'. Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, . [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Sheppard, G. and Beck, M. (2020) 'Stakeholder Engagement and the Future of Public Private Partnerships'. International Review of Administrative Sciences, . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2016 | Sheppard, G. and Beck, M. (2016) 'The Evolution of Public Private Partnership in Ireland: A Sustainable Pathway?'. International Review of Administrative Sciences, . [DOI] [Full-Text] |
Other Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Beck, M. and Sheppard, G. (2021) 'Visualizing the Impact of Europe's Slow COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout' The Open Public Health Journal, . [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Beck, M., Tobin, D. and Sheppard, G. (2021) 'The 2020 Novel Corona Virus Outbreak: One Year On' The Open Public Health Journal, . https://doi.org/10.2174/1874944502114010007 |
Conference Publication
Conference Contribution
Thesis
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Dr Gail Sheppard (2019) The Sustainability of Public Private Partnership in Ireland. [Thesis] [Link] |
Other Publication
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Beck, M.; Sheppard, G.; Watterson, A.; Shinnick, E. (2023) What Explains Country Differences in Covid Death Rates across the Europe? An Exploratory Analysis. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2018 | Dr Gail Sheppard; Professor Matthias Beck; Dr Margaret Healy (2018) The Sustainability of Public Private Partnerships in Ireland: An examination of stakeholder involvement. | |
| 2018 | Dr Gail Sheppard; Professor Matthias Beck; Dr Margaret Healy (2018) The Sustainability of Public Private Partnerships in Ireland: An examination of transparency. |