Rachel has worked as a lecturer in Management at NUI Galway since 2002. She is currently an Associate Head of School with responsibility for developing the School's research culture and profile. She is also an Associate Academic Director of the AUA’s suite of technology management postgraduate programmes: MSc in Technology Management, Diploma in Technology Commercialisation, Diploma in Innovation Management.

Dr Rachel Hilliard holds a BCommerce from University College Cork and an MA in Economics of the European Union from the University of Exeter. She completed her PhD, ‘Learning to change: the role of organisational capabilities in industry reposonse to environmental regulation,’ at Dublin City University Business School in 2002. She has previously worked in industry, as a researcher on an FP4 international project at QUB and as a lecturer in DCU.

Selected Publications:

Hilliard Rachel and David Jacobson (2011). ‘Cluster versus Firm-specific Factors in the Development of Dynamic Capabilities in the Pharmaceutical Industry in Ireland: A Study of Responses to Changes in Environmental Protection Regulations.’ Regional Studies, Vol 45(10), pp. 1319-1328. [link]

Goldstein, Don, Rachel Hilliard and Valerie Parker (2011) Environmental performance and practice across sectors: Methodology and preliminary results. Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol 19(9-10), pp. 946-957. [link]

Hilliard RM and R Green (2005). ‘Governance and Institutional Change in Ireland.’ In S. Remoe (ed.) Governance of Innovation Systems. Paris: OECD. [link]