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Dr Aideen Foley

Positions held:
  • Reader in Environment and Society, School of Social Sciences
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  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    Environmental change requires not only technical solutions but new ways of knowing, learning and relating to place. My research examines how place-based knowledge, lived experience and learning shape responses to environmental change.

    Working with island and coastal communities, I explore how people navigate uncertainty, build resilience and imagine alternative futures in changing environments. Alongside this, my work in eco-pedagogy and higher education investigates how we cultivate the knowledge and capacities needed for more sustainable futures.

    My research sits at the intersection of human and environmental geography, combining expertise in spatial analysis, GIS and environmental data with qualitative and participatory approaches. This interdisciplinary perspective enables me to examine environmental change as both a biophysical process and a lived social reality.

    Highlights

    • r I co-authored for The State of SIDS Report 2026.

    • 听(Situated UNderstandings of Resilience in Island Societies and Environments).

    • (Advancing Resilience and Innovation for a Sustainable Environment).

    • Visit my personal website听.

    • Watch the environment webinar series.

    Honours and awards

    • Vice-Chancellor鈥檚 Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning 糖心logo入口, University of London, May 2022
    • OSUN-CLASP Fellowship , October 2022
  • Research

    Research

    Research interests

    • Climate adaptation and resilience
    • Coastal and island communities
    • Environmental learning and eco-pedagogy

    Research overview

    My research explores how place-based knowledge, lived experience and learning shape climate adaptation and environmental futures, especially in coastal and island communities. I combine spatial analysis, environmental data and participatory research to understand how environmental change is experienced, interpreted and responded to in place.

    Research projects

    Abstract

    UK coasts provide recreation, transportation, commerce, natural beauty, and food for coastal communities and as such hold diverse meanings and values for their stakeholders and communities. The ARISE (Advancing Resilience and Innovation for a Sustainable Environment) Initiative aims to help build resilience through developing stronger relationships between people, their location, and their environment. It is designed to propose, develop, and evaluate an intervention framework to practically address complex coastal challenges

    Abstract

    The听Situated UNderstanding of Resilience in Island Societies and Environments (SUNRISE) project consists of an听international team of researchers looking at the impact of climate change as well as听coping and adaptation strategies in diverse island communities.听The overarching aim of the SUNRISE project is to identify individual听priorities as well as common challenges, and explore opportunities to share solutions across different island communities.听

    Outcomes
    • Online conference '' 16-18 November 2020.
    • 听颈苍听Small States and Territories journal (November 2021).
    • 听on UK Small Island Developing States Strategy submitted to the听International Development Committee (July 2023).
    • For a list of publications and more, visit the .

    听

    IDEA: Initiating Dialogue on Eco-Anxiety

    Abstract

    IDEA seeks to听identify interactions between eco-anxiety and research culture, and foster dialogue on managing eco-anxiety within research, benefiting the well-being of all involved: researchers, participants, and institution.听

  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Teaching

    Teaching modules

    • Climate Impacts and Resilient Communities
    • Climate and Society: past, present and future
    • Environment and Policy
  • Publications

    Publications

    Article

    • Foley, Aideen and Butler, Toby and Mineshima-Lowe, Dale (2026) . Case Studies in the Environment ISSN 2473-9510. (In Press)
    • Foley, Aideen and Mineshima-Lowe, Dale (2025) . Times Higher Education ISSN 0049-3929.
    • Vittorini, S. and Sasaki, M. and AbdelMegeed, M. and Foley, Aideen (2025) . Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education ISSN 0159-6306.
    • AbdelMegeed, M. and Vittorini, S. and Foley, Aideen and Sasaki, M. (2025) . Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education ISSN 0159-6306.
    • Vittorini, S. and Sasaki, M. and Foley, Aideen and AbdelMegeed, M. (2025) . Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education pp. 1-5. ISSN 0159-6306.
    • Sasaki, M. and Foley, Aideen and Vittorini, S. and AbdelMegeed, M. (2025) . Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education pp. 1-9. ISSN 0159-6306.
    • Foley, Aideen and AbdelMegeed, M. and Sasaki, M. and Vittorini, S. (2025) . Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education ISSN 0159-6306.
    • Foley, Aideen (2025) . Transformative Dialogues: Teaching and Learning Journal 18 (4), ISSN 1918-0853.
    • Foley, Aideen (2024) . Cultural Geographies ISSN 1474-4740.
    • Foley, Aideen and Brinklow, L. and Corbett, J. and Kelman, I. and Kl枚ck, C. and Moncada, S. and Mycoo, M. and Nunn, P. and Pugh, J. and Robinson, S.-A. and Tandrayen-Ragoobur, V. and Walshe, R. (2023) . Annals of the American Association of Geographers ISSN 2469-4452.
    • Foley, Aideen (2022) . Island Studies Journal 17 (1), pp. 177-201. ISSN 1715-2593.
    • Foley, Aideen and Moncada, S. and Mycoo, M. and Nunn, P. and Tandrayen-Ragoobur, V. and Evans, C. (2022) . WIREs Climate Change 13 (3), pp. e769. ISSN 1757-7780.
    • Gulcebi, M. and Bartolini, E. and Lee, O. and Panagiotis Lisgaras, C. and Onat, F. and Mifsud, J. and Striano, P. and Vezzani, A. and Hildebrand, M.S. and Jimenez-Jimenez, D. and Junck, L. and Lewis-Smith, D. and Scheffer, I.E. and Thijs, R.D. and Zuberi, S.M. and Blenkinsop, S. and Fowler, H.J. and Foley, Aideen and Sisodiya, S.M. (2021) . Epilepsy & Behavior 116 (107791), ISSN 1525-5050.
    • Walshe, R. and Foley, Aideen (2021) . Small States & Territories 4 (2), pp. 205-230. ISSN 2616-8006.
    • Blenkinsop, S. and Foley, Aideen and Schneider, N. and Willis, J. and Fowler, H.J. and Sisodiya, S.M. (2021) . Epilepsia 62 (11), pp. 2732-2740. ISSN 1528-1167.
    • Foley, Aideen (2021) . Geography 106 (3), pp. 143-147. ISSN 0016-7487.
    • Foley, Aideen and Kelman, I. (2020) . International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 50 (101726), ISSN 2212-4209.
    • Mercure, J.-F. and Paim, M.A. and Bocquillon, P. and Lindner, S. and Salas, P. and Martinelli, P. and Berchin, I.I. and de Andrade Guerra, J.B.S.O and Derani, C. and de Albuquerque Junior, C.L. and Ribeiro, J.M.P. and Knobloch, F. and Pollitt, H. and Edwards, N.R. and Holden, P.B. and Foley, Aideen and Schaphoff, S. and Faraco, R.A. and Vinuales, J.E. (2019) . Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews 105, pp. 230-243. ISSN 1364-0321.
    • Foley, Aideen (2019) . Climatic Change 155, pp. 323-338. ISSN 0165-0009.
    • Sisodiya, S.M. and Fowler, H.J. and Lake, I. and Nanji, R.O. and Gawel, K. and Esguerra, C.V. and Newton, C. and Foley, Aideen (2019) . Epilepsia Open 4 (4), pp. 524-536. ISSN 2470-9239.
    • Foley, Aideen and Kelman, I. (2018) . International Journal of Climatology 38 (2), pp. 1087-1095. ISSN 0899-8418.
    • Foley, Aideen M. (2018) . International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management 10 (2), pp. 289-302. ISSN 1756-8692.
    • Foley, Aideen and Holden, P.B. and Edwards, N.R. and Mercure, J.-F. and Salas, P. and Pollitt, H. and Chewpreecha, U. (2016) . Earth System Dynamics 7 (1), pp. 119-132. ISSN 2190-4987.
    • Foley, Aideen and Willeit, M. and Brovkin, V. and Feulner, G. and Friend, A. D. (2013) . Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 119 (1), pp. 101-111. ISSN 2169-897X.

    Book section

    • Stratford, E. and Baldacchino, G. and McMahon, E. and Baruah, M. and Confait, M. and Ellsmoor, J. and Farbotko, C. and Foley, Aideen and Harwood, A. and Hnaraki, M. and Pugh, J. (2023) . In: Stratford, E. and Baldacchino, G. and McMahon, E. (eds.) Rethinking Island Methodologies. Rowman & Littlefield International. pp. 113-132. ISBN 9781538165195.
    • Foley, Aideen (2021) . In: Moncada, S. and Briguglio, L. and Bambrick, H. and Kelman, I. and Iorns, C. and Nurse, L. (eds.) Small Island Developing States: Vulnerability and Resilience Under Climate Change. Springer. pp. 13-34. ISBN 9783030827731.
    • Foley, Aideen (2020) . In: Leal Filho, W. (ed.) Managing Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific Region. Climate Change Management. Springer. pp. 255-271. ISBN 9783030405540.

    Conference item

    • Stromberg, M. and Elsner, Paul and Foley, Aideen . Whole Systems Energy Modelling Consortium Annual Conference 2016, Cambridge, UK

    Editorial

    • Foley, Aideen and Moncada, S. (2021) . Small States & Territories 4 (2), pp. 199-204. Islands & Small States Institute of the University of Malta. ISSN 2616-8006.

    Teaching resource

    • Mineshima-Lowe, Dale and Foley, Aideen and Rodrigues, Sara (2025) .