Maura is a full Professor of Management and the first Director of Entrepreneurship at Dublin City University. She is a nationally and internationally recognized scholar within the area of entrepreneurship having particular expertise in gender, entrepreneurial leadership, technology entrepreneurship, and family business. Accordingly, her research has been published in top-rated North American and UK journals. In addition, she has authored the book ‘Female Entrepreneurship’ and co-authored the book “Entrepreneurial Behaviour” and is currently leading a €1m EU/IRC funded project investigating gender inequalities in the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Maura is an experienced entrepreneurship educator and her use of innovative teaching practices has been recognized in her receipt of several teaching awards including more recently the 2019 Irish Women’s Award for her Services to Education. Maura has held Visiting Professor Positions at Massey University, New Zealand and Babson College, Boston and is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK and Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Saudi Arabia. Maura is a regular commentator on female entrepreneurship, women in leadership, accelerators and women in family business, on radio and in print.