Dr Chris O’Connell is a CAROLINE Research Fellow at the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University. His research interests centre on alterative and sustainable models of development and their political realisation.
Chris holds a PhD in Political Science from Dublin City University. His thesis analysed the influence of civil society on the environmental and development policies of leftist presidents in Latin America. His current research is co-funded by the European Commission and the Irish Research Council, and was developed in collaboration with Anti-Slavery International. The project focuses on the relationship between and responses to climate change, environmental degradation and contemporary forms of slavery in Peru and Bolivia.
Chris is committed to engaged research and impact, and has a long history of solidarity action, in particular with communities and movements in Latin America.
