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Project Code [2018-SE-FS-4]
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Project title
Borderlands: From collaboration to trandisciplinarity enabling better sustainability research outcomes
Primary Funding Agency
Fulbright Commission of Ireland
Co-Funding Organisation(s)
Environmental Protection Agency
Lead Organisation
University College Cork (UCC)
Lead Applicant
Paul Bolger
Project Abstract
Dr Paul Bolger is manager of the Environmental Research Institute at University College Cork. He holds a PhD in Chemistry and a Master�s in Business Administration, and has worked across academia, industry and government in developing long term research solutions for global sustainability challenges. He is currently Principal Investigator on several research projects on climate change and the circular economy. Paul�s Fulbright scholarship will investigate how interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research is being utilised at sustainability research institutes at Duke University, Cornell University, Colombia University and Arizona State University to achieve more robust and sustainable research outcomes, and to examine the skills needed by researchers for successful transdisciplinary collaboration.
Grant Approved
�11,500.00
Research Hub
Sustainability
Research Theme
Socio-Economic Considerations
Initial Projected Completion Date
31/12/2019