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I research coastal and marine governance issues from a social science perspective.

I am an urban designer and academic. My work is based around climate resilient design and productive cities

My research is focused on environmental impacts and circular economy thinking, and specific areas of interest include environmental impacts, life cycle analyses, optimisation of energy pathways, resource quantification and mapping, and economic assessment. Ongoing research projects include nutrient management of digestate combined with energy recovery, the use of short rotation coppice willow to reduce agricultural run-off and improve water quality, sustainability indicators for food, hydrogen for heavy duty transport, microplastic pollution in drinking water, and the sustainable use of plastics in a circular economy.

Gerard McCarthy is an oceanographer working in ICARUS (Irish Climate Research and Analysis Unit) in the Department of Geography at Maynooth University, where he leads a team of ten oceanographers and climate scientists. His research interests are in the role of the ocean in climate, specialising in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), with particular interest in evolution of the AMOC in the 20th century. Since starting work in Maynooth in late 2017, he has worked on piecing together Ireland’s sea level change since the mid-19th century.

Dr Brenda McNally is an Assistant Professor in Global Media and Journalism. Her research examines the relationship between media, society and climate action with a focus on how news media and strategic communications shape ideas about just transitions, socioecological relations and climate futures. 

Dr Fabiola Schneider is Asst. Prof. specialising in Corporate Sustainability Reporting and Sustainable Finance. Her research focus is on emission accounting and transition risk. Fabiola is involved in sustainable finance policy making at the EU-level through the European Commission's Platform on Sustainable Finance. Her expertise in the field revolves around the EU Green Taxonomy, SFDR, and CSRD.

Brian Ó Gallachóir is Associate Vice-President of Sustainability and Professor of Sustainability at University College Cork. He is also Director of MaREI, the SFI Research Centre for Energy Climate and Marine. Brian established energy systems modelling capacity in Ireland over the past 20 years and his research has underpinned Irish and EU energy and climate mitigation policies and energy company strategies. Brian has also researched the societal mobilisation of climate action and this is particularly evident in the multi-stakeholder Dingle Peninsula 2030 partnership project. Brian is a member of the National Social and Behavioural Advisory Group.

Prof Caulfield is a Professor in Transportation and Head of Discipline in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering. Since joining the Department Prof Caulfield has embarked on an intensive research program addressing global issues such as the environmental impacts of transport and methods to reduce the carbon impacts of transport and in 2017 he addressed the Irish Citizens Assembly on this topic. He recently provided advice to the Climate Change Advisory Council on pathways to decreasing transport emissions by 2030. Prof Caulfield is currently a member of the Steering Group for the review and update of the GDA Transport Strategy with the National Transport Authority.

I am an environmental scientist interested in how the natural environment impacts human health. I am particularly interested in water quality and the impact of climate change on human health and well-being.

Professor Yvonne Buckley is an ecologist and the Professor of Zoology at Trinity College Dublin, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and Academia Europaea, an Irish Research Council Laureate and was awarded the British Ecological Society President’s medal (2021) and BES award (2022). She has highly cited papers in conservation, ecology, zoology, botany and agricultural sciences. She is a Senior Editor for Journal of Ecology. Prof. Buckley is an ecologist with expertise in environmental decision making, conservation, natural capital management and population ecology. She co-directs Nature+, the Trinity Centre for Biodiversity and Sustainable Nature-based Solutions.