UCD School of Geography, Planning & Environmental Policy

Professor Zorica Nedovic-Budic

Head of School
Chair of Spatial Planning
Member of IPI

Research Area

• GIS applications in planning
• Spatial data infrastructures
• Comparative urban planning 

Dr Gerald Mills

Deputy Head of School
Senior Lecturer
Subject Head: Geography

Research Area

• Urban climates
• Micro-scale climates
• Climatology

Dr Mark Scott

Senior Lecturer
Subject Head: Environmental Policy
Member of IPI

Research Area

• Sustainable rural development
• Environmental governance
• Sustainable places

Dr Joseph Brady

Dean of Arts  

 Research Area

• Urban geography
• Growth and development of Dublin

Professor J. Peter Clinch

Vice-President for Innovation
Jean Monnet Prof. of Environmental Policy
Honorary Member of RTPI

Research Area

• Sustainability and quality of life
• Behavioural economics
• Market-based instruments
• Environmental valuation 

Dr Veronica Crossa

Lecturer

Research Area

• Urban Latin America
• The informal economy
• Resistance

Dr Louise Dunne

Research Manager

Research Area

• Economic instruments for environmental policy
• Social acceptability of environmental taxes
• Psychology of environmental behaviour

Dr Colman Gallagher

Lecturer

Research Area

• Planetary, glacial and periglacial geomorphology
• The palaeohydrology of the Pleistocene-Holocene transition
• The alluvial geomorphology of the Holocene

Dr Berna Grist

Senior Lecturer
Member of IPI , RTPI, Bar of Ireland

Research Area

• Planning and environmental law
• Regulatory frameworks and enforcement
• Political culture and governance

Professor Alun Jones

Vice-Principal for Research and Innovation
Member of Royal Irish Academy and Academia Europaea 

Research Area

• Political geographies of Europe and Europeanization
• The interrelations between territory, government and power
• Interdisciplinary relations between political science and political geography

Dr Dieter F Kogler

Lecturer

Research Area

• Evolutionary and relational economic geography
• Regional spatio-sectoral processes related to knowledge flows and knowledge spillovers
• Spatial technology systems

Dr Julien Mercille

Lecturer
Director of MA Geography

Research Area

• US foreign policy, especially in the postwar period
• The US "War on Drugs"
• The Iranian nuclear crisis

Dr Niamh Moore

Lecturer
BA Director

Research Area

• Urban regeneration and policy formation
• Role of the public sector in the urban environment
• Higher education

Dr Enda Murphy

Lecturer
Director Graduate Studies

Research Area

• Transportation planning and urban spatial organisation
• Environmental noise and public health
• Creative economy, creative industries

Mr Derry O'Connell

Lecturer
Member of RTPI

Research Area

• Urban design
• The operational structure of small towns

Dr Eoin O'Neill

Lecturer
Member of RTPI

Research Area

• Flood risk
• Climate change adaptation
• Planning policy instruments

Dr Declan Redmond

Research Area

• Urban regeneration
• Housing and spatial planning
• Governance and planning

Dr Paula Russell

Lecturer
Member of IPI

Research Area 

• Spatial governance
• Community and civil society
• Urban regeneration

Dr Jonathan Turner

Research Area 

• Process fluvial geomorphology applied to river management
• Palaeoenvironmental chage
• Environmental pollution in fluvial systems

Dr Brendan Williams

Research Area

• Urban development
• Property and urban economics
• Transport and land use analysis and modelling

Dr. Michael Brennan

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Research Area

• European social surveys
• Modelling environmental characteristics
• Spatial planning, institutional coordination and governance 

Dr. Finbarr Brereton

Research Fellow

Research Area

• Environmental economics and valuation
• Economics of welfare
• Socio-economic analysis of flooding
• Environment and happiness
• Survey design and implementation

Dr. Craig Bullock

Research Fellow

Research Area

• Cost-benefit analysis and envoronmental valuation
• Natural environment
• Socio-economics/planning

Dr. Marcus Collier

Research Fellow

Research Area

• Landscape ecology

Dr. Walter Foley

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Research Area

• Socio-economics analysis
• Planning

Dr. Miao Fu

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Research Area

• Transport policy modelling and programming
• GAINS Ireland modelling
• Quantitative economics

Dr. Anna Jones

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Research Area

• Palaeoflood histories of alluvial rivers
• Holocene river development
• High-resolution geochemical analysis of floodplain sediments

Dr. Luke Redmond

Research Fellow

Research Area

• Environmental economics
• Carbon markets and emissions trading
• Flexible market mechanisms
• Climate and energy policy developments
• Emissions mitigation

Barbara Craig 

Executive Assistant

Clare Ni Cholmain

Senior Executive Assistant

Dominic Shellard

Graduate Administrator

Dr. Harutyun Shahumyan

Senior Technical Officer

Research Area

• Land use and transport modelling (MOLAND)
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Geospatial, spatio-temporal, statistical analysis
• Cellular automata
• Data management and analysis

Professor Nick Clifford

Research Area

• River processes and management
• Sustainable use of natural systems
• Geographical and environmental methods, techniques and philosophy 

Professor Mark Ellis

Research Area

• Labour markets and migration

Professor Paul Longley

Research Area

• Information integration within GIS
• Geodemographics
• Public service delivery
• Fractal geometry
• Taxation, housing and retail market analysis
• Discrete choice modelling

Professor Mark Tewdwr-Jones

Research Area

• Planning and place making
• Change in our environments
• Environmental capacity of land and local economic development

Professor Michael J. Bannon

Research Area

• Regional and urban planning

Professor Anne Buttimer

Member of Royal Irish Academy
Vice-President of Academia Europaea

Research Area

• History and philosophy of science
• Empirical studies on the human experience of place, space and movement
• Interactions of science and policy

Professor Frank Convery

Member of EEA Science Committee

Research Area

• Environmental economics
• Emissions trading
• The urban environment

Professor Willie Nolan

Research Area

• Settlement and society in rural Ireland 
• Local studies 
• Landscape and development

Professor Anngret Simms

Member of Royal Irish Academy
Member of the International Commission
for the History of Towns

Research Area

• European historic towns atlas project
• Comparative study of landscape formation in Ireland and Central Europe