Conor McTiernan

Conor McTiernan is a Lecturer in Tourism and Hospitality at Atlantic Technological University's Department of Tourism & Sport. He holds a PhD in Social Sciences from Leeds Beckett University (2019), focusing on trust in inter-organisational knowledge transfer. His research emphasizes sustainable tourism, decarbonization strategies, and net-zero challenges. McTiernan is a Principal Investigator at the Design, Innovation, Creativity, Entrepreneurship (DICE) Innovation Academy. He actively contributes to policy analysis and enterprise sustainability initiatives.

Recent work includes studies on tourism curricula adaptation for net-zero goals, decarbonization case studies, and trust dynamics in travel disruptions. He organizes academic conferences and collaborates internationally on sustainability research. McTiernan is currently accepting PhD students in tourism-related fields.