Aoife is a second year PhD  student in the Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water and the Zoology Department working in the in the Buckley Lab led by Prof Yvonne Buckley. Her research focuses on how existing evidence can be mobilised to support robust, science-based decision-making in biodiversity policy and practice. This includes examining nature-based solutions alongside complementary approaches to address pressing societal challenges, particularly in the areas of climate adaptation and mitigation.

Eleanor is a second year PhD student in the Botany Department currently studying in Dr. Matthew Saunders plant ecophysiology lab. Her research looks at carbon budgets in managed grassland systems on mineral soils in Ireland. Essentially looking at how much carbon dioxide is being released or sequestered and stored in animal agricultural systems in Ireland.