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Professor Edmond Byrne
Professor Edmond Byrne is the PI of the DSIS Project.
He is Chair Professor of Process and Chemical Engineering and PI at the Sustainability Institute, UCC.
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Professor Maggie O'Neill
Maggie O'Neill is one of the co-PIs of the DSIS Project.
She is a Professor in Sociology & Criminology at University College Cork and Director of ISS21, Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century and UCC Futures: Collective Social Futures
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Dr Gerard Mullally
Dr Ger Mullally is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Criminology, specializing in the areas of environment, community, sustainable development and climate change, and is one of the co-PIs of the DSIS Project.
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Dr Ian Hughes
Ian Hughes is Senior Research Fellow at MaREI Centre, Sustainability Institute, UCC, working on the DSIS project. He also works as a Research Officer in the Department of Education and Youth.
Ian has a PhD in Physics from Queen’s University in Belfast (1990) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from the Irish Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (2003). He worked in innovation policy from 2007 with Forfás, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, and the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research and Science, before transferring to the Department of Education and Youth in 2024.
Ian is author of Disordered Minds: How Dangerous Personalities are Destroying Democracy and contributing author to The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump and The More Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. His blog is disorderedworld.com. Ian is also a regular book reviewer for The Irish Times.
His publications and activities with DSIS are included across this website.
Bob Grumiau
Bob Grumiau is a doctoral student at University College Cork and is part of the Deep Societal Innovation for Sustainability and Human Flourishing (DSIS) project where his focus lies on the religion, gender & car and education strands.
He has a transdisciplinary background in philosophy, anthropology and political sciences. His research focuses on social movements and practices of designing alternative worlds in Latin America. His Research Interests are Critical phenomenology, Political philosophy, Social movements and Democracy, Poetics and Pluriversal Epistemologies. He is currently working on the role of poetry in the process of re-enchanting the world.
Simone O'Rourke
Simone is a Research Support Officer on the DSIS project. Her focus is on project communication and event planning.
Simone is involved in a number of research projects at University College Cork with a particular interest in transdisciplinary research. She holds a Business degree from VWA Bochum (Germany), a Higher Diploma and PG Certificate in "Sustainability and Climate Action in Enterprise" (UCC), and has completed a MSc in "Sustainability and Climate Reporting" (ATU).
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DSIS Advisory Board
Professor Mary McAleese – Twice Former President of Ireland, Chancellor Trinity College Dublin
Professor Rebecca Henderson - John and Natty McArthur University Professor, Harvard Business School
Professor William Hynes - Senior Climate Change Economist, World Bank
Professor Kieran Keohane – Professor of Sociology, University College Cork
Professor Kathleen Lynch - Emeritus Full Professor of Education, University College Dublin
Dr Colin Sage – Food Geographer, Independent Research Scholar
