Trish Morgan
Academic and digital practitioner

Research

Trish is an experienced interdisciplinary researcher, with publications in high-impact journals, government and policy research, conference presentations and invited talks. She also has a track record of securing funding for research on communicating environmental issues and data.

Her research interests centre on the analysis of the nature/society relationship and how it is represented and communicated. She investigates these concerns using a combination of theory and practice in digital media, using interdisciplinary insights from geography and communications.

My Research
Research Interests

My main research interests are concerned with the communication and representation of environmental issues. I investigate these concerns using a combination of theory and practice in digital media.

I am a dedicated media studies scholar and practitioner who draws on interdisciplinary insights from geography. My key research lies in continuing my enquiry into environmental issues through these two domains.

I am published in high-impact journals and international conferences. I also have a track record of securing internal and external funding. I have recently secured funding for a desk study that investigates how digital cultural practices can communicate environmental issues in novel ways. 

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles and Reports

Morgan, Trish (2023). Book review – Amy D. Propen, At Home in the Anthropocene. International Journal of Communication, 17 pp. 6884–6886

Morgan, Trish (2022) ‘Environmental Communication at a Time of Planetary Crisis: Five Theoretical and Analytical Resources for Academic Research and Practice’. International Journal of Communication, 16.

Trish Morgan (2020) Sensing Our World: How Digital Cultural Practices Can Contribute to Changing Social Norms Around Consumption. Environmental Protection Agency of Ireland

Morgan, Trish (2020) ‘Challenges and Potentials for Socio-Ecological Transformation: Considering Structural Aspects of Change’ In: Ireland and the Climate Crisis. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Morgan, Trish (2019) ‘Sounding the Unheard River: Reflections on an Ecological Sound Art Praxis as a Response to Ecosystem Distress’. Irish University Review, 49 (1).

Morgan, Trish (2018) ‘The techno-finance fix: A critical analysis of international and regional environmental policy documents and their implications for planning’. Progress in Planning, 119.

Morgan, Trish (2017) Going Green Digitally? Environmental crisis, consumption patterns, and the evolving role of media. Environmental Protection Agency of Ireland

Morgan, Trish (2017) ‘Alienated Nature, Reified Culture: Understanding the Limits to Climate Change Responses under Existing Socio-ecological Formations’. Political Economy of Communication, 5 (1).

Conference Presentations

Trish Morgan (2024) ‘Practice-Based Research at a Time of ‘Epochal’ Environmental Crisis: Reflections on Sound and Mixed Media for Communicating Nature in Ireland’

* Interviewed by Barbara Dignam (DCU School of Theology, Philosophy, and Music) at the Sounds of Dissent symposium, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, April 2024

Trish Morgan (2023) Invited talk titled ‘Praxis and its potentials: communicating research on environmental crisis’ – delivered at the ‘Advancing Research Communication – the role of Humanities in the Digital Era’ conference, Umeå University, Sweden, 12th December 2023.

Trish Morgan (2023) IAMCR 2023 Political Economies of media and communications, the climate crisis, and insights from Greta Thunberg: Lyon, France

Trish Morgan (2023) Conference of Irish Geographers Urban political ecology for resilience in Ireland: a tale of two rivers: Wexford, Ireland

Trish Morgan (2022) Conference of Irish Geographers Topophilia in a woodland geography of the midlands: reflections on mixed-media practice to communicate ‘ordinary’ nature: University of Limerick

Trish Morgan (2021) International Association for Media and Communications Research Digital natures and cultures: communicating environmental issues in novel ways using digital practices: Online

Trish Morgan (2020) Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Debordering policy: strengthening linkages between environmental and cultural policy for communication of environmental data to publics: Online

Trish Morgan (2019) Royal Geographical Society (with IBG Creative sensing, critical making: crafting a geography of hope to engage publics towards sustainable consumption: London

Trish Morgan & Paschal Preston (2019) International Association for Media and Communications Research Economic inequality and ecological crises: pressing and dynamically interlinked threats to the prevailing political and media order: Madrid

Trish Morgan (2019) International Association for Media and Communications Research New media, new practices? The potential to bridge gaps in public understanding of environmental issues through critical digital practices: Madrid

Trish Morgan (2019) Conference of Irish Geographers / EUGEO Sensing our world: how digital cultural practices can contribute to changing social norms around consumption: NUI Galway

Trish Morgan (2018) Building City Dashboards Workshop Sensing our world: Art, data and meaning-making: Maynooth University

Trish Morgan (2018) Royal Geographical Society (with IBG): advancing geography and geographical learning Space and praxis: ecological sound art towards an understanding of sustainability: Cardiff

Trish Morgan (2018) Conference of Irish Geographers Dredging the river: Exploring ecosystem crisis through sound art: Maynooth University