Norah Storey - Waterford Institute of Technology

Title: PhD Researcher
School/Department: Business - Accountancy And Economics
Email: [email protected]
Building:: Luke Wadding Library
Campus:: Main Campus

My Biography

First year PhD student in the School of Accounting and Economics.

Recipient of a WIT Co-Fund PhD Scholarship with AIB.

Research title Investing in the Low Carbon Agenda: perspectives from Germany, Ireland and the UK

Supervisors: Dr. Sheila O Donohoe and Dr. Tom Egan

M.Sc. in Quantitative Finance from UoL (2015)

M.Sc. in High Performance Computing from TCD (1999)

B.Sc. Experimental and Mathematical Physics from NUI Maynoot (1997)

My Research

Research Group : AIB Centre for Finance and Business Research ►

Title of Research: Investing in the low carbon agenda: perspectives from Germany, Ireland, and the UK.

Supervisors: Dr. Sheila O’Donohoe, Dr. Tom Egan

Recipient of a WIT Co-Fund Ph.D. Scholarship with AIB commenced in September 2017.

The purpose of this research is to explore investment by institutional investors in the low carbon agenda. More specifically, this research aims to gain insights into why and how such investors finance low carbon projects given the increased perception of their riskiness. In particular, the key influences and factors pertaining to the decision-making process of institutional investors in this phenomena will be explored.