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Linda Hogan

Professor of Ecumenics, School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies

Professor Linda Hogan is an ethicist with extensive experience in research and teaching in pluralist and multi-religious contexts. Her primary research interests lie in the fields of inter-cultural and inter-religious ethics, social and political ethics, human rights and gender.

In addition to her academic role, Professor Linda Hogan was Vice-Provost/Chief Academic Officer and Deputy President at Trinity College Dublin (2011-16) and Head of Irish School of Ecumenics (2006-2010).

She has received a number of international professional honors including election to the Royal Irish Academy 2023, the award of an Honorary Doctorate by Regis College, University of Toronto, 2022, and election to the International Women's Forum 2016. Recent national roles include appointment as Chair of the Expert Committee of the Creating Our Future Campaign, 2021 and her appointment as an Irish Representative to the UNESCO Intergovernmental Meeting of Experts which negotiated the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Paris 2021.

Recent publications include `Justifying Human Rights: Plural Foundations, Embedded Universalism" in Michael Krennerick, et al (eds.) "The Freedom of Human Rights: Subjects, Institutional Guarantees, Democracy" Wochenschau Verlag, 2023, and `Human Rights and the Vulnerabilities of Gender in a Climate Emergency', in Hilda Koster & Celia Deane-Drummond, (eds.) "In Solidarity with the Earth: A Multi-Disciplinary Theological Engagement with Gender, Mining and Toxic Contamination", Bloomsbury, 2022. She is the author of 3 monographs Keeping Faith with Human Rights, Georgetown University Press, 2015, Confronting the Truth, Conscience in the Catholic Tradition, Paulist Press, 2000 and From Women's Experience to Feminist Theology, Sheffield Academic Press 1995, reissued Bloomsbury Academic 2016, as well as numerous edited volumes. Professor Hogan has delivered keynote lectures and led expert seminars across the globe, including at the universities of Georgetown, Washington DC, Melbourne, Oxford, Sydney, and Vienna.

She delivered the Newman Lecture at the University of Oxford 2021, and the United Nations 70th Anniversary UN Declaration of Human Rights Lecture RIKK, University of Iceland in 2018. She has been a member of the Irish Council for Bioethics and has been a Board member of the Coombe Hospital, Science Gallery and Chair of the Board of the Marino Institute of Education.

She has worked on a consultancy basis for a number of national and international organisations, focusing on developing ethical infrastructures.

Patrick Prendergast

Research Professor, Trinity Centre for Bioengineering

Patrick Prendergast is a Research Professor in Trinity College Dublin, where he was Provost/President from 2011 to 2021. During his term of office he promoted the E3 (Engineering, Environment and Emerging Technologies) Institute and he continues his interest in matters related to the environment with the Environmental Ethics Initiative. He has extensive experience in research and teaching and previously held the role of Professor of Bio-Engineering as described here:

https://www.tcd.ie/research/profiles/?profile=pprender

His time as Provost is described here:

https://www.tcd.ie/provost/biography/former-provosts/

He is currently Chairperson of the Governing Body of South East Technological University, and of the Boards of the Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art and Literature Ireland.

Jomilin John

PhD Candidate, School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies

Jomilin John is a first-year PhD Candidate at the School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies at Trinity College Dublin. Her research focuses on Environmental Ethics, with a specific emphasis on the ethics of consumerism. She holds an MSc in International Politics from Trinity College Dublin and a BA (Hons) in Political Science from the University of Delhi.

Jomilin has extensive experience in climate action, environmental protection, and human rights, having taken on various roles within international organizations, including the United Nations. She is the co-founder of CANIOP, a women-led youth organization based in India, which aims to bridge the gap between human dignity and the climate action movement. As a speaker and delegate at numerous international conferences, including COP27, Jomilin has represented youth voices and driven meaningful dialogue on global issues.

Her work has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the ‘Environmental Stewardship Award’ and the ‘Global Youth Leadership Award', etc., presented by global institutions and forums, honoring her contributions to positive change at a young age.

Amy Taggart

PhD Researcher, School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies

Amy Taggart is a PhD Researcher within the School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies. Her research focuses on the ethics of agriculture and food production in Ireland in the context of climate and biodiversity change. She holds a Master of Laws (LLM) by Research from BPP University Law School, where she conducted research on human rights and immigration, and corporate governance in the context of climate change. She also holds an MA (Hons) in Philosophy from the University of St Andrews, where she was awarded Honorary Lifetime Membership of the University’s Philosophy Society.

Amy has extensive international legal work experience, with a focus on private client law and philanthropy, and has contributed to the creation of complex international policies. In Ireland, she currently manages the operations of the All Island Climate & Biodiversity Research Network (AICBRN), a cross jurisdictional and multi-disciplinary network bringing together researchers within the physical, natural, and social sciences, engineering, arts, and humanities, to address the climate and biodiversity emergencies.

She was awarded a Trinity Research Excellence Award for ‘harnessing our collective expertise for the greater good’, for her support of the creation of the Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water. Amy is committed to facilitating cooperation and promoting mutual understanding through dialogue across the spectrum of religious and cultural life on the island through her association with the Northern Ireland Interfaith Forum.