Aideen Foley
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Dr Aideen Foley joined the Department of Geography in 2015. Prior to joining Birkbeck, she was a Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research, and a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher with the FP7-funded GREENCYCLESII Initial Training Network on biosphere-climate interactions. She was also a guest researcher at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
Her research sits at the intersection between science and society, with an emphasis on how diverse climate and environmental data inform decision-making at local scales. She is particularly interested in environmental issues and decision-making in small islands. Her research has appeared in journals such as International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, International Journal of Climatology, Progress in Physical Geography, and WIREs Climate Change.
Highlights
View talks from 'Researching resilience in islands', a web conference organised as part of the SUNRISE project.
Learn more about the SUNRISE project (Situated UNderstandings of Resilience in Island Societies and Environments).
Watch a recent talk for the Archipelagic and Island States Forum event The Scholars Space: Innovative Response to Climate Change in Island and Small States.
Visit my personal website here.
Qualifications
- PhD in Geography, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 2011
- BSc in Applied Mathematics and Experimental Physics, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 2007
Administrative responsibilities
- Director of Education, Department of Geography
Professional activities
Associate Editor - Island Studies Journal
Honours and awards
- Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Birkbeck, University of London, May 2022
- OSUN-CLASP Fellowship, Open Society University Network Center for Liberal Arts and Sciences Pedagogy, October 2022
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Research
Research
Research interests
- Climate adaptation and resilience
- Climate change impacts and small islands
- Environmental education
- Climate model evaluation
- Historical climate data
Research projects
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Teaching
Convenes the following modules:
- Environment and Policy (Level 7)
- Living with Climate Change (Level 6)
Teaches on the following modules:
- Climate Change (Level 7)
- Environmental Processes (Level 5)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Foley, Aideen and Brinklow, L. and Corbett, J. and Kelman, I. and Klöck, 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) Understanding ‘islandness’. Annals of the American Association of Geographers ISSN 2469-4452. (In Press)
- Foley, Aideen (2022) Extreme weather, climate variability and childhood: A historical analogue from the Orkney Islands (1903-1919). 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) Small Island Developing States in a post-pandemic world: challenges and opportunities for climate action. WIREs Climate Change 13 (3), pp. e769. ISSN 1757-7780.
- Blenkinsop, S. and Foley, Aideen and Schneider, N. and Willis, J. and Fowler, H.J. and Sisodiya, S.M. (2021) Carbon emission savings and short-term health care impacts from telemedicine: An evaluation in epilepsy. Epilepsia 62 (11), pp. 2732-2740. ISSN 1528-1167.
- Walshe, R. and Foley, Aideen (2021) Learning from the archives of island jurisdictions: why and how island history should inform disaster risk reduction and climate action. Small States & Territories 4 (2), pp. 205-230. ISSN 2616-8006.
- 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) Climate change and epilepsy: insights from clinical and basic science studies. Epilepsy & Behavior 116 (107791), ISSN 1525-5050.
- Foley, Aideen (2021) Connecting climate models to community needs. Geography 106 (3), pp. 143-147. ISSN 0016-7487.
- Foley, Aideen and Kelman, I. (2020) Precipitation responses to ENSO and IOD in the Maldives: Implications of large-scale modes of climate variability in weather-related preparedness. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 50 (101726), ISSN 2212-4209.
- 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) Climate change and epilepsy: time to take action. Epilepsia Open 4 (4), pp. 524-536. ISSN 2470-9239.
- Foley, Aideen (2019) Long-term trends in large-scale circulation behaviour and wind storms for North Atlantic islands: a multi-data analysis using ERA-20C and meteorological station data. Climatic Change 155, pp. 323-338. ISSN 0165-0009.
- 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) System complexity and policy integration challenges: the Brazilian Energy- Water-Food Nexus. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews 105, pp. 230-243. ISSN 1364-0321.
- Foley, Aideen and Kelman, I. (2018) EURO-CORDEX regional climate model simulation of precipitation on Scottish islands (1971-2000): Model performance and implications for decision-making in topographically complex regions. International Journal of Climatology 38 (2), pp. 1087-1095. ISSN 0899-8418.
- Foley, Aideen M. (2018) Climate impact assessment and ‘islandness’: Challenges and opportunities of knowledge production and decision-making for Small Island Developing States. 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) Climate model emulation in an integrated assessment framework: a case study for mitigation policies in the electricity sector. 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) Quantifying the global carbon cycle response to volcanic stratospheric aerosol radiative forcing using Earth System Models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 119 (1), pp. 101-111. ISSN 2169-897X.
Book Section
- Foley, Aideen (2021) States of ‘Knowing’: uncertainty, ambiguity and risk in SIDS climate change impacts. 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) The impact of connectivity on information channel use in Tonga during Cyclone Gita: challenges and opportunities for disaster risk reduction in island peripheries. 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 Does the spatial layout of variable renewable energy capacity matter? - A quantitative study of its influence on variability characteristics of the EU-aggregated power output. Whole Systems Energy Modelling Consortium Annual Conference 2016, Cambridge, UK
Editorial
- Foley, Aideen and Moncada, S. (2021) Guest editorial introduction: critical reflections on governance and 'resilience' in small island contexts. Small States & Territories 4 (2), pp. 199-204. Islands & Small States Institute of the University of Malta. ISSN 2616-8006.