PhD conferring
Dr Sean Whittaker, School of Law and UCC Centre for Law and the Environment, was conferred with the PhD in Law on 15 June 2018.
The title of Sean鈥檚 thesis is: Legal Transplants and Regimes Governing Access to Environmental Information in England and Wales, the United States and China.
Sean鈥檚 doctoral research was funded by an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship. Dr 脕ine Ryall supervised the research project.
Sean鈥檚 work has been published in international, peer reviewed journals, most notably in Transnational Environmental Law: 鈥溾�� (2017) 6(3) Transnational Environmental Law 506.
Sean is currently working in a postdoctoral position in the School of Social Sciences at the 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Dundee, where he is engaged in an Economic and Social Research Council funded project led by Professor Colin Reid and Dr Jonathan Mendel.
The project, , evaluates the impact of the access to environmental information regime in Scotland through examining its use in practice. The project examines how successfully the right has met its intended aims and is being conducted in collaboration with the Scottish Information Commissioner, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and Scottish National Heritage.