Articles by Catherine Forde

September 25, 2025

Towards feminist climate justice in Ireland and the EU

Catherine Forde

The climate crisis is having an alarming impact on Europe – and women and marginalised communities are disproportionately affected. Despite these challenges, Irish and EU climate policy remains largely gender blind. Catherine Forde and Fiona Dukelow consider what impact this has on the development of effective climate change policy

Catherine Forde

Senior Lecturer in Youth and Community Work, University College Cork

Catherine’s research interests are in the areas of community development; ecosocial work; and participatory governance and state-civil society relations.

Teaching and Learning in Ecosocial Work: Concepts, Methods and Practice
Springer Nature, 2024 (lead editor)

She is also lead editor on the special issues Community Development in Social Work Education: Themes for a Changing World (Community Development Journal, October 2021) and Ethics in Youth Work Practice in the Twenty-First Century: Change, Challenge and Opportunity (Ethics and Social Welfare, April 2024).

Catherine is Co-Investigator on the Horizon Europe Intersectional Spaces for Participation: Inclusive, Resilient, Embedded (INSPIRE) Project (2024–2027), she was co-Pxxx Investigator on the research project Feminist Communities for Climate Change (National Women’s Council of Ireland, 2023–2024).

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