2021 SWHEL Strategic Priority Project

Sustainable wellbeing: humans, environment, and liveability (SWHEL)

 

Sustainable wellbeing: humans, environment, and liveability (SWHEL) is a UCD Earth Institute Strategic Priority project for 2021-2023.

 

About

Despite the importance and increased concern for sustainability, there is no agreed definition of sustainable well-being. UCD has research expertise in many dimensions of sustainable well-being but at present this is fragmented and dispersed across a range of schools and disciplines. This Strategic Priority (SP) initiative will establish an interdisciplinary network on sustainable wellbeing within UCD to facilitate collaboration and build capacity and community on the topic. The network will forge links with relevant academics and other stakeholders at local, national and international levels. Core tasks will be to develop interdisciplinary conceptual and operational maps of sustainable wellbeing, identify gaps in research and form teams for future projects. The initiative will also act as a platform to communicate with stakeholders, including government and mass media, so that interdisciplinary research and expertise on this topic will impact on relevant decisionmakers and the general public.

SWHEL is a UCD Earth Institute Strategic Priority project led by Nessa Winston (Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice) and Karen Keaveney (School of Agriculture and Food Science) with co-applicants Jennifer Symonds (Education), Finbarr Brereton (Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy), Orla Kelly (Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice), Conor Buggy (Public Health, Physiotherapy & Sports Science), Leonard Lades (Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy). 

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Members

If you would like to become a member or join the mailing list, please email caitriona.devery@ucd.ie.

UCD members

 

Nessa Winston profile picture Dr Nessa Winston is Associate Professor in Social Policy in the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice. She previously worked in the Centre for European Economic and Public Affairs and the Social Science Research Centre in UCD and in the Departments of Sociology, at the University of Toronto and NUI, Maynooth. She is a graduate of Social Science in UCD, and has a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Toronto. Her main research interests relate to housing and community issues and she is currently working on a series of projects relevant to the UN SDGs, especially around sustainable communities, affordable energy, food, and transport.
Finbarr Brereton profile picture Dr Finbarr Brereton is a Lecturer in Environmental Policy with UCD Planning and Environmental Policy. He is an Environmental Economist with a PhD (Environmental Policy) on the topics of Quality of Life and the Economics of Happiness. Finbarr’s research interests focus on exploring the determinants of subjective well-being, specifically the spatial environmental determinants. He is a member of the UCD Earth Institute.
Orla Kelly profile picture Dr Orla Kelly is an Assistant Professor in Social Policy at the UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice. She specialises in studying sustainable human well-being, eco-social policy, sustainable development, and the social dimensions of climate change. She has expertise in quantitative research and mixed methodologies.
Conor Buggy profile picture Dr Conor Buggy is an Associate Professor in Occupational and Environmental Studies. He is the Programme Director for the Masters on Occupational Safety and Health. He holds a degree in Environmental Science from TCD (1997 to 2001) and a PhD from DCU (2001 to 2006). Prior to UCD, he worked for five years in the private sector as a project environmental scientist working on a wide variety of national and regional construction and planning projects ranging from ports to airports, motorways to power plants, regional plans to environmental licensing.
Leonhard Lades profile picture Dr Leonhard Lades is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Policy, UCD School Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy. He is part of the UCD Behavioural Science & Policy Group. In the past, he was an EPA Research Fellow in Behavioral Economics at EnvEcon, a Lecturer (with tenure) in Economics and an Early Career Fellow in Behavioural Science at the University of Stirling, UK.

 

Additional members

Dr Ole Boysen, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science

Sinead Buckley, UCD School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Dr Craig Bullock, UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy

Mariana Cerca, UCD School of Biosystems and Food Engineering

Dr Arlene Crampsie, UCD School of Geography

Aoife Crummy, UCD School of Education

Dr Michelle Downes, UCD School of Psychology

Dr Katherine Fama, UCD School of English, Drama and Film

Dr Kelly Fitzgerald, UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore

Dr Miriam Fitzpatrick, UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy

Dr Sinead Flannery, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science

Dr Aleksandra Gajowy, UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy

Professor Eileen Gibney, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science

Sophie Graefin von Maltzan, UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy

Professor Alison Hanlon, UCD School of Veterinary Medicine

Dr Giuseppe Infranca, UCD School of Veterinary Medicine

Victoria Kavanagh, UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy

Dr Aleksandra Konic Ristic, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science

Dr Seán L’Estrange, UCD School of Sociology

Dr Sulagna Maitra, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science

Professor Donna Marshall, UCD School of Business

Dr Beatriz Martinez-Pastor, UCD School of Civil Engineering

Dr Ajay Menon, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science

Dr Anna Molter, UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy

Dr Miguel Nicolau, UCD School of Business

Associate Professor James O’Donnell, UCD School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Professor Emeritus Helen O’Neill. Formerly Founder Director of UCD Centre for Development Studies

Dr Zoe O’Reilly, UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice

Dr Aifric O’Sullivan, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science

Professor Mark Pagell, UCD School of Business

Dr Vikram Pakrashi, UCD School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Dr Mary Parkinson, UCD School of Business

Aalisha Patil, UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy

Dr Lorenzo Posocco, UCD School of Sociology

Professor Mark Scott, UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy

Michaela Schumann, UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems

Dr Joseph Sweeney, UCD School of Biosystems and Food Engineering

Professor Ravindranathan Thampi, UCD School of Chemical Engineering & Bioprocessing

Zhengfeng Wang, UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy

Associate Professor Annetta Zintl, UCD School of Veterinary Medicine

 

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Events

 

Past Events

 

Unpacking green and just transition policies: instruments and toolboxes webinar by Ekaterina Domorenok, 18 April 2023

 

Ekaterina Domorenok delivered a webinar on Unpacking green and just transition policies: instruments and toolboxes via Zoom on 18 April 2023. This was a joint webinar with UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice.

Abstract: The need to simultaneously address ecological and social costs and risks of climate change has challenged the established welfare and green state regimes, requiring to coordinate policy strategies and individual policy instruments across a range of sectors. Along with the complexity of practical solutions that this task implies, a range of theoretical and conceptual issues arise for those who aim to map and understand these processes. The rapidly growing though still underdeveloped scholarly debate on eco-social transitions still lacks solid theoretical grounds, especially from the political science perspective, and much empirical research remains to be done to assess how and to what extent governments at the different territorial levels manage to cope with the multifaceted eco-social agenda.

Building on public policy studies and, in particular, policy integration research, this presentation offers a theoretical reflection and some original empirical findings on how social and environmental priorities can be addressed at the level of individual policy instruments.

 

‘Sustainable Wellbeing’ webinar by Dr Milena Buchs, 26 May 2022

 

 

Nessa Winston Sustainable Wellbeing Webinar Poster 2022

The talk begans with an introduction to the Sustainable Wellbeing network by Dr Nessa Winston, UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice and lead for UCD Earth Institute’s ‘Sustainable Wellbeing: humans, environment and liveability (SWHEL)’ strategic project.

Speaker: Dr. Milena Buchs, Assoc. Prof. in Sustainability, Economics and Low Carbon Transitions, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, UK on ‘Just Climate Policies and Sustainable Welfare’.

Organised by: Dr Nessa Winston, UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice & lead for UCD Earth Institute’s ‘Sustainable Wellbeing: humans, environment and liveability (SWHEL)’.

If you have any questions please email Nessa.Winston@ucd.ie.

 

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Literature

 

Literature coming soon.

 

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Data

 

Data coming soon.

 

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