Professor Maggie O’Neill, is Director of the Institute for Social Sciences in the 21st Century and UCC Futures: Collective Social Futures at University College Cork. Maggie has a long history of using creative, biographical and participatory action research methods in her research, working with artists and communities to create change. Inspired by walking artists she introduced walking into her research with migrant communities in 2005. Maggie developed the second level module Walking the Anthropocene:Walking as Critical pedagogy with the co-authors of this book.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4616-3388
Dr John Barimo manages the Sustainable Development Solutions Network Ireland based in the Office of Sustainability and Climate Action, University College Cork. He also led the co-creation an open-source pan-disciplinary SDG Toolkit for Teaching and Learning and conducts associated professional development workshops to support academic staff globally. Dr Barimo is an integrative ecologist who guides student learning across the four colleges of UCC including Walking the Anthropocene:Walking as Critical pedagogy. He is also an associate member of the Environmental Research Institute.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0053-2974
Dr Tom Boland is Senior Lecturer in Sociology & Head Of Department of Sociology & Criminology. His disciplinary interests range from anthropology, through cultural studies and genealogy to sociology. His main interests span the labour market, unemployment and welfare policy on the one hand, and the sociology of critique and culture on the other. With Ray Griffin Dr. Tom Boland developed a walk for our annual postgraduate summer school which is included in this collection.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4947-9430
Dr. Ray Griffin is a Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies at South East Technological University (SETU), Ireland. His research focuses primarily on understanding complex organising, employing ethnographic methods to explore the dynamics of power, identity, and institutional change. Dr. Griffin has also led a series of large-scale funded research projects, examining the socio-economic structures shaping contemporary work and unemployment. For this volume, he co-developed a welfare walk with Dr Boland at the Postgraduate summer school.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4580-7310
Professor Kieran Keohane, Professor in the Department of Sociology & Criminology in the School of Society, Politics and Ethics at University College Cork and has taught across the curriculum, at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including to specialized programmes in Nursing, Social Work, Epidemiology & Public Health, Criminology, Anthropology, and Planning & Sustainable Development. Prof. Keohane taught on Walking the Anthropocene:Walking as Critical pedagogy
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2792-5479
Dr Gerard [Ger] Mullally is a Senior Lecturer/ Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology, School of Society, Politics and Ethics, University College Cork (UCC), where he teaches modules on the sociology of community, environment and sustainable development. Ger is a research associate with the Environmental Research Institute (ERI), Institute for Social Sciences in the 21st century (ISS21), and the Centre for Marine and Renewable Energy (MaRIE) all at UCC; and a member of the executive management team of the Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century and UCC Futures: Collective Social Futures. Originally an environmental sociologist, his commitment is to inter- and trans- disciplinary pedagogy and research.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2166-8491
Dr Danielle O'Donovan is an architectural historian and heritage consultant who has worked at heritage sits across Ireland including Nano Nagle Place, Strokestown Park House, 14 Henrietta Street, and Fota House. Danielle teaches architectural history at UCC and contributed to the Walking the Anthropocene: Walking as Critical Pedagogy. Danielle is an advocate for the power of learning in the historic environment and from our rich collections of vernacular heritage. She is the incoming director of Cork Butter Museum. Dr O’Donovan taught on Walking the Anthropocene:Walking as Critical pedagogy.
Dr Amin Sharifi Isaloo, is a lecturer in the Department in Sociology and Criminology, School of Society, Politics and Ethics, University College Cork (UCC), where he teaches modules ‘Race, Ethnicity, Migration and Nationalism’, ‘Sociology of Development and Globalization’, ‘Introduction to Sociology of Religion & Fundamentalism’, ‘Sociology of Religion and Civilization’. Dr Isaloo chairs the ISS21 Research Network on Populism and the rise of the far right. Dr Isaloo taught on Walking the Anthropocene:Walking as Critical pedagogy.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6873-4612
Dr Tom Spalding studied and worked as a mechanical engineer, before becoming a teacher and researcher of design. His research work and publications concentrate on Irish urban design, history and architecture. His PhD was gained from Dublin School of Creative Arts, Technological University Dublin and his thesis title was Intersections: Quotidian Design and Modernism(s) in Cork City, 1922-1969. He now teaches in the Department of Media Communications in the Munster Technological University, Cork.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-5225
Dr Katharina Swirak, is a senior lecturer in Criminology and Sociology in the Department of Sociology & Criminology, University College Cork. She is director of the Inside/Out Program a pioneering prison/university education partnership where second level students are taught alongside incarcerated men in Cork Prison-life changing for both groups. Dr Swirak taught on Walking the Anthropocene:Walking as Critical pedagogy.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0428-2984
