2022 EPA-Irish Research Council Scholarship awards

The EPA, in partnership with the Irish Research Council (IRC) provides funding annually for scholarships. This page lists the 2022 EPA-Irish Research Council Scholarship awards.

Lead OrganisationApplicantProject Title
National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) Ciara Wall Machine-learning-techniques towards understanding and predicting physical drivers and impact of climate-change at catchment-scale in Ireland
Maynooth University (MU) Csaba Horvath Storylines for a Climate Resilient Ireland
University College Cork (UCC) Julia Le Maitre Opportunities and barriers for citizen participation in the energy transition: Onshore wind-energy policy in Ireland
University College Dublin (UCD) Stephen Wall The potential of the New-European-Bauhaus to promote a just low-carbon-transition as a desirable-goal in Irish-towns
University College Cork (UCC) Chris Moran Investigating the nature of the value-action gap among ‘conscious’ consumers in environmental food behaviours
Maynooth University (MU) Gillian Collins New Cobalt based selenides as electrocatalysts for water splitting and fuel cell applications
National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) Cherrelle Johnson Bioplastics: An Evaluation of Sustainability
Maynooth University (MU) Meshack Obebo Moranga Natural colonisation of forest on post-industrial peatlands – implications for ecosystem services
University College Dublin (UCD) Lydia Thompson Protecting Bumblebees: How Agri-Environmental Schemes and Grassland Restoration Differ in Their Protection of Bumblebee Species