UCC lecturer bids to halt appointments

A university lecturer has launched a High Court challenge aimed at halting a selection process for the appointment of 10 senior posts at University College Cork’s school of business.

The application has been brought by Joan Buckley, a senior lecturer in marketing and the current head of the Department of Management and Marketing at UCC, arising out of the college’s decision not to shortlist her for 10 professorial positions it advertised last year.

She claims the process engaged in by UCC to appoint professors at Cork University Business School is “tainted” and “flawed”, and should be set aside. A new process should be put in its place, she claims.