HEAT-ADAPT

UCD researchers are collaborating with partners and the community in Dar es Salaam to co-design and produce Nature-based Solutions that can combat heat-stress caused by climate change. Funded by SFI and Irish Aid’s SDG Challenge grants, the project will develop evidence-based, socially inclusive, low-cost and “fit for purpose” exterior greening and community cooling centres, which can enhance the community's resilience and heat adaptive capacity.

Ripple

UCD-led Creative Climate Action project bringing artists, researchers, and communities together to devise and implement real changes in the fight against climate disaster, using art as a means of connecting the science with the populace. 

SOPHIA

EU and industry supported, UCD-led consortium developing usable tools to predict who will develop complications of obesity. As part of the study's work package seven, an engaged research approach is employed to ensure that the voices and experiences of people living with obesity are central to developing ways to improve treatment.

CUPHAT

Funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the Ireland Wales Co-operation Programme, CUPHAT is working with twelve upland communities to increase sustainable forms of tourism in coastal upland areas of Ireland and Wales. The goal is to create more sustainable livelihoods, communities and environments in these areas.

iCHANGE

In collaboration with the Smart Dublin programme and schools across Dublin, this H2020 Innovation Action project aims to change behaviours and demonstrate sustainable transport solutions.

PRISM

An off-shoot of NeoMarE, funded through the Irish Research Council and supported by UCD Earth Institute, PRISM uses a citizen science approach to help map the impacts of climate change and human activities on coastal shell middens in coastal communities. The project is developing digital mapping tools to help volunteer citizen scientists record their observations of environmental impacts, and develop new approaches to build resilience.

Power2Progress

Intervention-led programme, in collaboration with Zurich and with support from the Z Zurich Foundation and funding from Rethink Ireland, supporting over 600 senior cycle students from DEIS schools to reach their full academic potential. In order to bridge the digital divide, the programme provides participating students with their own laptop in addition to other resources.

Safe Learning Study

UCD partnership with Concern Worldwide developing robust evidence on strategies to improve learning and reduce School Related Gender Based Violence in Sierra Leone. The Study involves a randomised control trial of tiered interventions relating to literacy, gender, safety and wellbeing, in 100 communities. The research involves in-depth qualitative analysis of children’s everyday lives across home and school in four case study villages.

UCD Centre for Sustainable Development Studies (CSDS)

CSDS fosters Education, Research and Policy Outreach on Sustainable Development. This inter disciplinary group of academics, researchers and students focus on contemporary sustainable development issues.

UCD Centre for Business and Society (CeBaS)

The Centre works with charities, civil society groups, companies and unions to engage in research, connections and actions that help address the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy

World-class expertise in a wide-ranging set of disciplines across Social Sciences and Law, Health and Agricultural Sciences and Business.

UCD Centre for Irish Towns (CfIT)

CfIT brings together researchers and stakeholders from across the island of Ireland to support the revitalisation of Irish towns.

UCD SEC

UCD Sustainable Community brings professionals, students and staff members together to engage and educate the wider university community on sustainable energy practices and research.

UCD Earth Institute

Fostering multidiscipline research to improve fundamental understanding of our rapidly changing environment and find solutions for a sustainable future.

Just Transition Research Group

UCD-led group increasing knowledge and understanding of Just Transition by building an international research network, dissemination activities, a multi-stakeholder conference, and creating a website / database of best practice and policy approaches.

Empowering community-led green urban development

Supporting climate action through tree planting

Helping parents support youth mental health

PINNACLE: empowering women in India and Pakistan to become education leaders

GUIDE appointed to the ESFRI Roadmap, marking it as a landmark European research infrastructure

Helping Kids! – promoting inclusive peacebuilding

Inspiring a site of national conscience at the Sean McDermott Street Magdalene Laundry

Promoting women in peace mediation across the island of Ireland

Dr Orla Murphy

Co-Director of the UCD Centre for Irish Towns (CfIT), PI on Ripple, member of the Round Table of the New European Bauhaus, research and practice focus on Irish towns, housing, and participatory design, in the context of climate resilience and a just transition.

Dr Christine Bonnin

Assistant Professor of Geography, specialises in ethnographic and community-based participatory research on questions linked to livelihoods and access to resources, PI of SYNERGI: Mozambique Socially Inclusive Edible Urban Green Infrastructure and Co-PI for CUPHAT.

Dr Tobi Eniolu Morakinyo

Assistant Professor at UCD School of Geography, specialising in nature-based solutions for urban climate mitigation and sustainable urban energy planning, co-lead for HEAT-ADAPT, on project team for SYNERGI: Mozambique.

Prof Eilis Hennessy

Professor at UCD School of Psychology, research addresses stigma, bias, and discrimination experienced by children and adolescents with chronic health problems with a particular focus on those who have mental health and behavioural problems. 

Dr Mathew Creighton

Associate Professor at UCD School of Sociology,  PI for EqualStrength and Co-PI for the European Social Survey in Ireland.

Dr Gabriela Martinez Sainz

Ad Astra Fellow at UCD School of Education, researching children's rights and education for sustainable development, Director of VARiE research group and Co-founder of the Child Rights Chats digital space.

Dr Orla Doyle

Associate Professor in UCD School of Economics, specialising in the economics of human behaviour, Director of the UCD Childhood and Human Development Research Centre and President of the Irish Economics Association.

Dr Micheal Collins

Associate Professor at UCD School of Psychology, specialising in how and why violence affects behaviours and attitudes related to conflict transformation, primarily during childhood adolescence, leads the Helping Kids! lab.

Prof Katherine O'Donnell

Professor at UCD School of Philosophy, specialising in gender and feminist theory, co-lead of Open Heart City project working with Justice for Magdalenes Research, co-founder of the Irish Lesbian and Gay Archive: the IQA.

Dr Laura Taylor

Associate Professor at UCD School of Psychology, specialising in how and why violence affects behaviours and attitudes related to conflict transformation, primarily during childhood adolescence, leads the Helping Kids! lab.