Management Board
The role of the Management Board is to provide support and guidance to the Director in achieving the Institute’s goals and objectives. The Management Board is chaired by the Institute director and meets four times per year.
Dr. Diarmuid Torney
Diarmuid is an Associate Professor in the School of Law and Government at DCU. His research focuses on comparative and global politics of climate change, environment, and energy.
Dr. David Robbins
Dave is an Associate Professor in the School of Communications at DCU. His research examines media coverage of climate change, and the intersection of the press, politics and policy.
Prof. Pat Brereton
Pat is an eminent scholar of eco-cinema and other cultural responses to the environment. He is the author of Environmental Literacy and New Digital Audiences (Routledge, 2019), and Environmental Ethics and Film (Routledge, 2015), as well as many other journal articles and book chapters.
Dr. Goran Dominioni
Goran Dominioni is an Assistant Professor in Law and works primarily on climate change law & policy. He is particularly interested in the design of climate change policies – especially carbon pricing – to increase their mitigation effects, their compatibility with international law, and their public acceptability.
Dr. Declan Fahy
Declan is an Associate Professor in the School of Communications at DCU. A member of the editorial board of Environmental Communication, he researches the public communication of science, health, environment and technology.
Dr. Sandeep Rao
Sandeep is an Associate Professor of Finance in the DCU Business School. He researches in the area of Sustainable corporate finance, and the impact of climate change on corporations. Read more.
Dr. Darren Clarke
Darren is an environmental geographer with research interests in the social and governance aspects of climate change/environmental change and in environmental psychology.
Dr. Ellen Howley
Ellen is an Assistant Professor in the School of English. She received her PhD in 2020, for a thesis that examined engagements with the sea in Irish and Caribbean poetry. In 2019, she co-organised the IRC-funded, interdisciplinary workshop 'Planet Ocean', which addressed issues facing on the world's seas and oceans from perspectives across the AHSS-STEM axis. She has research interests in ecocriticism, postcolonialism and poetry studies.
Dr. Alice Brawley-Chesworth
Alice is a postdoctoral researcher at DCU’s School of Law and Government focusing on climate policy. Prior to earning her PhD in social science, Alice worked in the water sector for 30 years at the municipal level in the US as a chemist, engineer and policy analyst. Her research interests include institutional change, climate policy, infrastructure, social justice, and disciplinary cultures.
Asma Yaqoob
Asma is a PhD candidate at the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University. Her research focuses on women's political vulnerabilities in climate disasters. She is investigating the floods of 2022 in Pakistan that devastated millions of people with disproportionate impacts on women and young girls. Her research is primarily based upon the intersection of environmental stressors, structural inequalities, and political processes at multiple levels, which leads to gender inequalities in decision-making for flood risk management.