Biography
Dr Eoin Plant-O’Toole is an Associate Professor in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at Â鶹ÉçÇø Business School. Eoin is Head of Research Degrees in the Business School and programme lead for the MSc Global Logistics and Supply Chain Analytics. He is theme lead for Circular Economy, Sustainable Consumption and Supply Chains at the Centre for Business Innovation and Sustainable Solutions. Eoin is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) Ireland, and UK. He is also a member of the Governing Council, and chairs CILT Ireland’s Policy Committee.
Eoin has held a number of academic positions in the UK and Ireland. Including head of the National Institute for Transport and Logistics (NITL), and Assistant Head - School of Transport Engineering, Environment and Planning at Technological University Dublin. Eoin has been on national expert advisory panels for logistics and supply chains. He has also published in a variety of international journals. His research is not only focused on the policy level, but also the practical elements for industry.
Eoin was previously head of the Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) programme at the University of Glamorgan. He has supervised PhD and DBA researchers to completion and examined in a number of UK and Irish institutions. He is open to supervising new PhD students.
Research Interest/Agenda:
Decoupling negative externalities of transport-logistics from economic growth,
Transport Policy,
Urban Logistics,
Physical Internet,
Supply Chain Technology Adoption,
Sustainable Supply Chain Management,
Modelling Business Decision-making.
The Theory of Planned Behaviour,
Structural Equation Modelling.