Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the field of
- Radical/revolutionary green politics
- Post-growth political economy
- Political strategy and green/energy transformations
Public outreach & key achievements
- ‘Characterising and Catalysing Transitions’ – CCT – which looked at the socio-technicial transition to a low carbon energy economy in the Republic of Ireland
- @CCTransitions
- Developing the field of green political theory and political economy
- Opening out new areas of conceptual and policy-relevant issues in relation to low carbon energy transitions (including divestment and a ‘just transition’)
- Providing normative and empirical evidence for moving beyond GDP measured orthodox economic growth.
- Co-founder - Climate Justice Universities Ireland
- Founding co-chair, Belfast Climate Commission
Research students
| PhD Title | Doomed to Resist: From Just Transition to the Insurgent Interregnum |
| Name | Dr. Damian McIlroy |
| Years of Study | 2019 - 2024 |
| Country | Ireland |
| PhD Title | Revolutionary Green Republicanism: Anti-Capitalist Politics for the Planetary Crisis |
| Name | Dr. Calum McGeown |
| Years of Study | 2020 - 2024 |
| Country | Ireland |
| PhD Title | Caring democracy in a degrowth world: An ecofeminist-republican analysis |
| Name | Dr. Jaeim Park |
| Years of Study | 2020 - 2023 |
| Country | South Korea |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD Title | The Road Not Taken: 'Triple Transformation' towards Sustainable Peace in Northern Ireland |
| Name | Dr. Juneseo Hwang |
| Years of Study | 2020 - 2023 |
| Current Position | Research Associate, Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies "Futures of Sustainability", University of Hamburg |
| PhD Title | Measuring the transition: Developing an ecological economic indicator framework for a post-growth future |
| Name | Dr. Séan Fearon |
| Years of Study | 2019 - 2023 |
| Country | Ireland |
| Current Position | Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB), Barcelona |
| PhD Title | The politics of misrecognition: an insider analysis of political loyalism and its "place in the peace" |
| Name | Dr. Sophie Long |
| Years of Study | 2015 - 2018 |
| Country | UK |
| Current Position | Sustainable Future Coordinator, Joseph Rowntreee Charitable Trust |
Discover More
- Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science
- School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics
- Politics and International Studies
- Director, Centre for Sustainability, Equality and Climate Action
- Associate member, Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice
- Academia webpage: https://qub.academia.edu/JohnBarry
- ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John_Barry
- ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6543-7698