Academic biography

Dr Brenda McNally is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Centre for Climate and Society, School of Communications.  She is an interdisciplinary researcher specialising climate politics and communications. Her research examines the relationship between media, society and climate policy from an environmental communication perspective and focusses on how ideas about just transitions, socioecological relations and climate futures are being mainstreamed and normalised. She is currently investigating representations of the future of farming and food production, climate misinformation in climate policy debates, as well as the use of digital media to engage communities with climate action.

She has a BSc from UCD, an MSc in Science Communication and a PhD in Communications from DCU. Prior to returning to third level education, she worked in academic publishing, journalism and as a press officer.