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PARC 24 - Practical Applied Research Conference at DBS

2024 Conference

April 18-19, 2024

Castle House 3.10, Dublin Business School, Dublin, Ireland

For anyone that would like to attend PARC 2024, click HERE to register free.

The Practical Applied Research Conference (PARC) at DBS is a conference, organised by the DBS Applied Research and Practice Committee, that celebrates the value of applied research. We can view applied research as  “research that is conducted for practical reasons and thus often has an immediate application. The results are usually actionable and recommend changes to increase effectiveness and efficiency in selected areas” (Lewis-Breck, Bryman, and Futing Liao, 2004). So, as you can see, this is wide open and is especially applicable to research in the business and education field. 

The conference is our third PARC event and is an opportunity to share the results of applied research projects beyond your own discipline and to generate a conversation about the experience of conducting applied projects with researchers from across a range of academic disciplines. Last year's event was a great success and it can be found here: PARC 23.

Papers presented at the conference will be hosted on the DBS Institutional Repository eSource. Participants at the conference are also welcome to submit their projects for a future edition of the DBS Applied Research and Theory Journal.

Topics

PARC welcomes submissions about the results of applied research projects as well as papers that discuss the experience of applied research in different contexts.  We also welcome papers and opinion pieces that consider specific issues with applied research. These papers could consider some of the following questions:

  • What is applied research? 
  • What distinguishes practical research from basic research?  
  • What challenges are there for applied researchers?  
  • What are the funding opportunities for applied research? 
  • What are the ethical challenges with applied research?  

 

The conference organisers would particularly welcome submissions that discuss cross-discipline applied research and/or are from collaborations between academics and students.  

This conference offers researchers from all disciplines the opportunity to exchange ideas and practical experience of the specific aspects of applied research—challenges, problems, issues, solutions— with fellow practitioners.  We welcome submissions about both the experience of conducting applied research and the results of applied research projects.