Design and Innovation

Meet the Team

Dr Gabriel J Costello

Department: Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 

Campus: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Dublin Road Campus.

Email: gabrielj.costello@gmit.ie  

Tel:  091 742382 

Research Interest

  • The management, theory, philosophy and teaching of innovation and design.  

  • The socio-technical challenges of the transition to sustainable energy communities. 

  • Phenomenology; in particular the works of Edith Stein. 

  • The application of Aristotle's concept of phronesis to engineering and business education. 

Recent Publications

Majority of publications available on ResearchGate  

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gabriel_Costello 

Costello GJ (2019) The Philosophy of Innovation in Management Education: A Study utilising Aristotle’s Concept of Phronesis https://doi.org/10.1007/s40926-018-00104-7  Philosophy of Management Journal  1-16 Springer Nature SharedIt  https://rdcu.be/bfrgQ    

Costello GJ (2018) Proposing an Innovation-Based View of the Firm DOI:  https://doi.org/10.2478/ijm-2018-0006  Irish Journal of Management 37 (1):65–79  

Costello, G. J. (2017). Phenomenological Realism: A Pragmatic Lens for Information Systems Research. Systems, Signs & Actions SYSIAC (An International Journal on Information Technology, Action, Communication and Workpractices) 10(1), 34–53

Other Publications

See full list of publications.

 

Dr Mark Kelly

Department: Building & Civil Engineering

Campus: Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Dublin Road Campus.

Email: Mark.Kelly@gmit.ie

Tel:  +353 (0)91 742161

Research Interest

Construction and demolition waste prevention, reduction, and management; resource efficiency in construction; circular economy and the built environment; BIM and digital transformation; education for sustainability; behavioural and organisational change.

Recent Publications

Kelly, M. and Gottsche, J. (2020) Resource Efficiency on Site Toolkit, EPA.

https://www.epa.ie/waste/nwpp/sectors/

Acted as peer reviewer for ‘Introduction to Circular Economy for Beginners’ toolkit prepared by Resource Futures Scotland for the Southern Waste Region (2020).

http://southernwasteregion.ie/publications

Gottsche. J. and Kelly, M. (2020) Assessing the impact of resource efficiency on selected case studies in Ireland, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Waste and Resource Management, https://doi.org/10.1680/jwarm.20.00006

Other Publications

Full list of Publications