UCD’s Environmental Humanities research theme brings together researchers and students at all career stages working across every School in UCD’s College of Arts and Humanities, whose research engages with the complex relationships between people, culture and the environment. 

Our research spans creative practice, literature, history, cultural policy, visual culture, place, heritage, language and other humanities approaches to urgent environmental questions. We are interested not only in how environmental change is represented and understood, but also in how it is experienced, negotiated and imagined in everyday life; and how critical forms of environmental humanities inquiry can ignite alternate ways of being, seeing, and engaging with the world.

Environmental challenges are complex and interconnected. Addressing them requires dialogue across disciplines, methodologies and forms of knowledge. The Environmental Humanities provides a space for that dialogue: connecting researchers within the College with colleagues across UCD, external partners, policymakers, creative practitioners and communities.