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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

Start Date

01/01/2019

Initial Projected Completion Date

31/12/2019