Trish Morgan
Dr.
Trish Morgan is an assistant professor in the School of Communications at Dublin City University. Her research is concerned with the systemic aspects of environmental crisis, and the communication of these multiple environmental issues. She approaches the communication of environmental issues through an interdisciplinary perspective from the domains of geography and communications, and through theory and practice-based approaches.
Her key research interest is in analysing the nature/society relationship through political economy, (urban) political ecology, human geography and environmental geography perspectives. This research takes a systemic approach by acknowledging environmental crisis as connected to nine 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.
She has completed (as PI) two EPA-funded research projects concerning the communication of environmental matters and the role of communications in behaviour change towards sustainability. She has most recently completed the project Sensing our world: How digital media cultural practices can contribute to changing social norms around consumption (2020). This project focused 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 centred on mainstream media and their role in fostering discourse and behaviour change around consumption practices and ecological sustainability.
Her recent creative works include 5km from home, stereo ORTF sound art work in response to COVID-19 in Ireland (available at https://soundcloud.com/eco-sound-art/5km-from-home) and The Miracle of the One Thing, a 12-track ecological sound art work with accompanying video (available at https://soundcloud.com/eco-sound-art/sets/the-miracle-of-the-one-thing).
Her key research interest is in analysing the nature/society relationship through political economy, (urban) political ecology, human geography and environmental geography perspectives. This research takes a systemic approach by acknowledging environmental crisis as connected to nine 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.
She has completed (as PI) two EPA-funded research projects concerning the communication of environmental matters and the role of communications in behaviour change towards sustainability. She has most recently completed the project Sensing our world: How digital media cultural practices can contribute to changing social norms around consumption (2020). This project focused 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 centred on mainstream media and their role in fostering discourse and behaviour change around consumption practices and ecological sustainability.
Her recent creative works include 5km from home, stereo ORTF sound art work in response to COVID-19 in Ireland (available at https://soundcloud.com/eco-sound-art/5km-from-home) and The Miracle of the One Thing, a 12-track ecological sound art work with accompanying video (available at https://soundcloud.com/eco-sound-art/sets/the-miracle-of-the-one-thing).
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 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 . | |
| 2019 | 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). [DOI] | |
| 2019 | (2019) 'The techno-finance fix: A critical analysis of international and regional environmental policy documents and their implications for planning'. Progress in Planning, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2018 | 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 . [DOI] | |
| 2017 | (2017) 'Alienated Nature, Reified Culture: Understanding the Limits to Climate Change Responses under Existing Socio-ecological Formations'. Political Economy of Communication, . | |
| 2015 | Morgan, Trish (2015) 'Growing Ourselves to Death? Economic and Ecological crises, the Growth of Waste, and the Role of the Media and Cultural Industries'. 8 (1):68-81. | |
| 2015 | (2015) 'Growing Ourselves to Death? Economic and Ecological crises, the Growth of Waste, and the Role of the Media and Cultural Industries'. Human Geography, . | |
| 2014 | Morgan, Trish (2014) 'Adorno and the political economy of communication'. 1 (2). | |
| 2014 | (2014) 'Adorno and the political economy of communication'. The Political Economy of Communication, . | |
| 2013 | Morgan, T. (2013) 'Sharing, hacking, helping: Towards an understanding of digital aesthetics through a survey of digital art practices in Ireland'. Journal of Media Practice, 14 . [Link] [DOI] |
Conference Contribution
Published Report
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Trish Morgan (2020) Sensing Our World: How Digital Cultural Practices Can Contribute to Changing Social Norms Around Consumption. Environmental Protection Agency of Ireland, . [Link] | |
| 2017 | Trish Morgan (2017) Going Green Digitally? Environmental crisis, consumption patterns, and the evolving role of media. Environmental Protection Agency of Ireland, . [Link] |
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Research Interests
Trish’s principal research interests are strongly interdisciplinary. Her key research interest is in analysing the nature/society relationship through political economy, (urban) political ecology, human geography and environmental geography perspectives. This research takes a systemic approach by acknowledging environmental crisis as connected to nine 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 and multimedia practice-based research.
Trish would welcome enquiries from postgraduate students interested in pursuing traditional or practice-based research in the above areas.
Trish would welcome enquiries from postgraduate students interested in pursuing traditional or practice-based research in the above areas.