Trish Morgan is an academic and a digital media artist. She is an assistant professor in the School of Communications at Dublin City University where she researches the systemic aspects of environmental crisis, and the communication of environmental issues. She approaches her work through interdisciplinary perspectives from geography and communications, and through theory and practice.
Research Interests
Her key research interest is in the nature/society relationship, analysing this through political economy, (urban) political ecology, human geography and environmental geography perspectives. Her systemic approach to this acknowledges environmental crisis as connected to planetary boundaries and safe operating limits for society. She is interested in the urgency of communicating transition towards sustainability through novel communication approaches, doing this through traditional research, along with a multimedia practice that uses sound, photography, video and augmented reality.
Research Highlights
Key research highlights include two EPA-funded research projects on the communication of environmental issues. The project Sensing our world: How digital media cultural practices can contribute to changing social norms around consumption (2020) focuses on the role of novel forms of communicating environmental data. This follows on from a previous EPA-funded research project, titled Going Green Digitally? Environmental Crisis, Consumption Patterns and the Evolving Role of Media (2017). This project centres on mainstream media and their role in sustainability and behaviour change around consumption.