Professor Daly has worked in communication and management studies since 1995. He has taught managerial communication programmes at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Germany and in France. He currently teaches reflexive leadership, creativity and management communication. His primary research interests revolve around teaching and learning in higher education, business education pedagogy, and discourse analysis. He has presented papers at international conferences on these research areas. Professor Daly has an international background and speaks Irish, English, French and German fluently. Having studied languages (French, German & Spanish) in Ireland, Spain and Belgium, Professor Daly continued his studies in pedagogy and linguistics/communication, prior to taking up a post at the University of Bayreuth. While working in Germany, he completed a Postgraduate qualification in e-learning pedagogy. He also completed his doctoral research in higher education, which looked at the social, institutional and self-discourses of business apprentices. He also completed a Diploma in Human Relations in 2017. From 2015 - 2022, Professor Daly was Director of the MSc in Management Studies. Since 2022, he is the Director of the MSc in Management & Leadership.