Sustainability & Climate Change: Building Research-Community Partnerships
Sustainability & Climate Change: Building Research-Community Partnerships
This workshop has now been fully booked, please add your details to our Waiting List here if you are still interested.
How can research and community expertise work together to tackle climate change? Where can organisations find partners and funding to make a real difference?
Join researchers, civil society groups, and funding experts for a half-day event focused on building partnerships that meet the urgent challenges of sustainability and climate change.
This event will look at how engaged research can help communities. It will also explore how civil society and academic partners can work together effectively. Participants will learn about funding opportunities for impactful projects through presentations, networking, and expert insights on national and EU funding streams.
The programme will feature community organisations and Maynooth University researchers, each giving brief talks on their expertise, research needs, and collaboration experiences. There will be a networking session to encourage new connections, followed by an overview of national and European funding opportunities, including Horizon Europe and the LIFE Programme.
Whether you're a researcher wanting to team up with community partners or a civil society group seeking academic expertise, this event offers a welcoming space to share ideas and explore next steps.
A networking lunch will close the event, with MU Research Office staff available to discuss funding pathways and provide guidance on potential follow-up initiatives.
Contact MU: noreen.lacey@mu.ie
This event is a joint collaboration between The Wheel’s Access Europe programme and Maynooth University.
- This workshop has now been fully booked, please add your details to our Waiting List here if you are still interested.
- Please email ames@wheel.ie if you have any special requirements.
Meet Your Speakers
Emma Murtagh is The Wheel’s Director of Development and Member Services and is in charge of delivering our funding strategy. This includes identifying new areas for growth and opportunities, overseeing funding applications, and working with our partners and stakeholders. She also supports the teams that deliver The Wheel’s many member services – including the Skills, EU, and Shared Island Programmes – to identify opportunities and maximise their value to members. One of the parts of her job that she enjoys most is working with members to support them with all things funding, and to better understand how we can improve our member offering.
Prof Mark Boyle - Social Sciences Institute (MUSSI), Maynooth University
Chair of the Research Committee in the Department of Geography, and Chair of the Maynooth University Examination Appeals Committee. Conducts research on a) the politics of urban and regional development; b) migration and development in both host and destination regions and c) western hegemony, colonial and post-colonial geographies.
Prof. Jennie C. Stephens is Professor of Climate Justice at the ICARUS Climate Research Centre, Maynooth University. She is an internationally recognised scholar on renewable energy transformation, the power of fossil fuel interests, energy justice, climate justice, higher education, energy democracy, and gender and race in energy and climate. She has held academic positions at Northeastern University, the University of Vermont, and Clark University, and was a Climate Justice Fellow at Harvard-Radcliffe. Prof. Stephens is the author of Climate Justice and the University: Shaping a Hopeful Future for All (2024) and Diversifying Power (2020). www.jenniecstephens.com
