Publications and other outputs
Publications listing
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Journal Article |
Journal Article | 2025 |
Psychopathology, Ultrasociality and the Real Clash of Civilisations: Towards a New Theory of International Relations to Address the Polycrisis |
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Policy brief |
Policy brief | art-based methodology, arts, methodology, DSIS, DSIS workshop, policy brief, ways of seeing, collage, poem, poetry | 2025 |
DSIS Workshop 1 Policy Brief - Arts and Methodology |
This policy brief summarizes the learnings of a DSIS workshop held at the Sustainability Institute UCC on 29 Nov 2024. It highlighted the importance of the ‘different ways of seeing’ element within the DSIS model, particularly through arts-based practices. | More details Read publication |
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Report |
Report | polycrisis, metacrisis, sacred, sacred ordinary, Mary McAleese, Restoring, DSIS, Sustainability, Human Flourishing | 2025 |
DSIS Workshop 2 Report: Restoring the Sacred Ordinary in a Time of Polycrisis |
This report describes the DSIS workshop ‘Restoring the Sacred Ordinary in a Time of Polycrisis’ held at University College Cork on June 17-18, 2025, hosted by twice former President of Ireland, Mary McAleese. | More details Read publication |
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Conference Paper / Proceedings |
Conference Paper / Proceedings | nos hemos escondido, we have hidden ourselves, Festival of Social Science | 2024 |
Nos hemos escondido: we have hidden ourselves |
Conference presentation at the Collective Social Futures, Festival of Social Science, 25/26 November 2024 UCC | More details Read publication |
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Journal Article |
Journal Article | Global Transformation, Cultural Transformation, social Institutions, Change, societal change | 2024 |
Conceptualising Global Cultural Transformation: Developing Deep Institutional Scenarios for Whole of Society Change |
This paper aims to contribute to current efforts to improve methodologies to find more ambitious and integrated strategies to jointly pursue the Paris climate target and other Sustainable Development Goals. | More details Read publication |
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Journal Article |
Journal Article | institutional imagination, societal challenges, Europe | 2024 |
Unlocking institutional imagination: Building institutional capacity to address societal challenges – the case of European missions |
This article contains the keynote address given by Wolfgang Polt at the Futures Forum conference on ‘Transformative Change: Unlocking Institutional Imagination’ that took place at Maynooth University on 4 April 2024, with responses from Maggie O’Neill, and Seán Ó Riain, and reflections from Ruth Freeman, Gerry Clabby, and Seán Ó Foghlú. The session was chaired by Ian Hughes. | More details Read publication |
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Journal Article |
Journal Article | Western tradition, Christian tradition, indigenous worldviews, narratives, paradigmatic transformation | 2024 |
Traditional and Contemporary Eco-cosmologies Within Western and Christian Traditions: Green Shoots for Integral and Integrative Sustainability Transformation |
This article traces persistent and important counter-narratives within Western and Christian traditions, which correlate more closely with many indigenous worldviews from across the globe than with dominant narratives from across these traditions. | More details Read publication |
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Conference Paper / Proceedings |
Conference Paper / Proceedings | Conceptualising, whole-of-society transformation, Deep Institutional Innovation, Sustainability, Human Flourishing | 2025 |
Conceptualising whole-of-society transformation |
The model of Deep Institutional Innovation for Sustainability and Human Flourishing. Presented at the 16th International Sustainability Transitions Conference, Lisbon, 24-26 June 2025 | More details Read publication |
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Conference Paper / Proceedings |
Conference Paper / Proceedings | poetics, epistemology, rhizome, arts-based practices, critical phenomenology | 2025 |
Poetics and the Environment - Portals into perception: Knowing with a poetic mind |
Conference Paper "Portals into perception: Knowing with a poetic mind" presented at UCC CACSSS Postgraduate Research Conference, University College Cork. 20-21 Feb. 2025 | More details Read publication |
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Report |
Report | climate Change, Security, Defence,Global Leadership, Ireland, Defence Forces | 2025 |
Defence Forces Review 2024 - Climate Change, Security, and Defence — A Global Leadership Role for Ireland |
Ian Hughes and Richard Wood contributed "Climate Change, Security, and Defence — A Global Leadership Role for Ireland" to the Defence Forces Review 2024 (pp. 65-72.) | More details Read publication |
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Presentation |
Presentation | DSIS, Groningen, Leeuwarden, Oct 2025, Live Not by Lies, World Philosophies, Meaning and Transformation | 2025 |
Live Not by Lies DSIS Presentation |
The International Conference on World Philosophies, Meaning and Transformation was held October 30-31, 2025 at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Ian Hughes made a presentation on behalf of DSIS entitled ‘Live Not by Lies – Transformation to Human Flourishing as Transformation to Authenticity’. | More details Read publication |
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Report |
Report | DSIS, Arts, Methodology, Ways of Seeing, Workshop | 2025 |
DSIS Workshop 1 Report: Arts & Methodologies; The importance of art-based practices |
This report presents a comprehensive overview of the workshop on reimagining social institutions, focussing on the gender, religion and education strands of the DSIS project, which took place on the 29th November 2024 at the Ellen Hutchins Building (Environmental Research Institute/Sustainability Institute) at University College Cork. | More details Read publication |