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Dr. Cathriona Russell

Assistant Professor (School of Religion)
      
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Dr. Cathriona Russell

Assistant Professor (School of Religion)

 Cathriona.Russell@tcd.ie

 


After completing a BAgrSC (1988) and MAgrSC in Horticultural Science (1990), at University College Dublin, I worked in environmental monitoring, as a plant nursery operative, as a garden centre manager and later with a landscape team. Returning to full-time studies in 1996, supported by a TCD Foundation Scholarship I completed a BA in Religions in Theology. A PhD followed (2006) funded by a research grant from the then Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) and a Broad Curriculum Studentship (teaching ethics to Medical Students at TCD). Alongside teaching at TCD, I was Director of the Masters in Ecology and Religion at All Hallows College, DCU for three years (2010-2013) and taught distance-learning students theology and ethics at the Priory Institute, Tallaght (2007-2010). I have been taking tour groups to the Chester Beatty Library for more than 20 years, having been first introduced to the collection's Biblical Papyri, among other treasures, through my studies at TCD.
  Agricultural Ethics   Animal Ethics   Biodiversity & Inequality   Bioethics   Demographics and Environment   Development and Capability Theory   Environmental Ethics   Environmental Hermeneutics   Ethics in Science & Technology   Medical Ethics   Narrative Theology   Philosophy of Gardens   Research Ethics and Governance   Theological Cosmology & Anthropology   Theological Ethics   Theological Hermeneutics   Urban Cosmology   Urban Environments
Project Title
 Environmental Hermeneutics
From
2024
To
2027
Summary
Funding for teaching Masters Students, Ordinands in the Church of Ireland, in 'Science-Engaged Theology'.
Funding Agency
ECLASproject.org
Project Type
PG and UG Curriculum Development

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
French Medium Basic Basic
Irish Basic Basic Basic
Details Date From Date To
Laudato Sí Working Group of the Irish Catholic Bishops 2022 Ongoing
Chair, Irish Branch, European Society for Catholic Theology 2026 2027
Vice-Chair, Irish Branch, European Society for Catholic Theology 2025 2026
Capability and Catholic Social Teaching Colloquium (Invited), 2013 2020
Theological Reference Group (Invited), Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) 2013 2019
St James's Hospital &Adelaide & Meath National Children's Hospital (Tallaght) Research Ethics Committee 2009 2010
Society for Study of Christian Ethics (UK) 2011 2019
Treasurer Irish Theological Association 2010 2013
Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church Network 2019 Ongoing
Chester Beatty Library Volunteer Tour-Guide 2000 2015
Human Dignity and a Cosmology of Habitability in, editor(s)Power, Maria (ed) , Human Dignity across the Islamic and Christian Traditions, Oxford, 2027, [Russell Cathriona], Notes: [In collaboration with the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice], Book Chapter, SUBMITTED
Russell, Cathriona, At Home in a Just and Habitable World: Grounded Cosmopolitanisms, Religious Studies and Theology, 2027, Notes: [Out for peer-review], Journal Article, SUBMITTED
Cathriona Russell, Mapping Theologies of Care for Creation: economics, ethics, encounter, Creation, Methodologies in Care for Creation, Online September 2026, 29th September 2026, edited by Kovács, Gusztáv and Ryan, Fáinche , 1, (1), 2026, Conference Output, ACCEPTED
Russell, Cathriona, Doing Justice, practicing hospitality: revisiting migration policy, Search: A Church of Ireland Journal, 48, (3), 2025, p186 - 194, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Sedmak, Clemens, Enacting Integral Human Development, Horizons: The Journal of the College Theological Society, 51, (2), 2024, p428 - 430, Review Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Integral Ecology: Autonomy, the Common Inheritance of the Earth and Creation Theology in, editor(s)Severine Deneulin and Clemens Sedmak , Integral Human Development: Catholic Social Teaching and the Capability Approach, Notre Dame, Notre Dame Press, 2023, pp170 - 186, [Russell, Cathriona], Notes: [Kellog Institute Series on Democracy and Development], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Russell, Cathriona , Technology and Integral Ecology, New Blackfriars, February, 2022, p220 - 233, Notes: [DOI:10.1111/nbfr.12719], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Russell, Cathriona , Liturgy and Urban Ecology: Vital Connections, Doctrine & Life, 72, (7), 2022, p35 - 42, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Russell, Cathriona, Care, Coercion and Dignity at the End of Life, Studies in Christian Ethics , 32, (1), 2018, p36 - 45, Notes: [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0953946818807463], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Cathriona Russell, Creation: an invitation to share God's love, Search: A Church of Ireland Journal , (Summer), 2018, 91 - 99, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
  

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Cathriona Russell, 'Resilience and Equity: Healthcare in a Changing Climate', Medical & Health Humanities, Trinity Long Room Hub, TLRH, 2025, -, Broadcast, PUBLISHED
Cathriona Russell, 'The Intelligibility of Hope in a World of Emerging Technologies', Beyond the Dark Clouds Podcast, Episode 17, (Beyond the Dark Clouds), Leads Trinity University, 2024, -, Broadcast, PUBLISHED
Cathriona Russell, Creation, the common inheritance of the biosphere, and the commodification of the proximal sky, Creation, Transformation, Theology, Osnabrück University, Germany, 25-28 August, 2021, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Russell, Cathriona, The Common Inheritance of the Earth: an undertaking of mutuality, Elemental Bioethics: International Academy for Bioethical Enquiry, Maynooth, Ireland, July 14th-18th, 2019, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Cathriona Russell, Not having babies won't save the planet, Suas Magazine, IV, 2019, p17-18 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Roisin McAuley, 'Everyday Ethics: World Population', BBC Ulster, 2017, -, Broadcast, PUBLISHED
Russell, Cathriona, Realities are Greater than Ideas: Laudato Si' and Environmental Ethics, Living Laudato Si' Society of African Missions Summer School, Dromantine, Co Down, June 2016, 2016, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Russell, Cathriona, Creation, Capability and Care for our Common Home, Ecology, the Bible and Ethics, Trinity College Dublin, March, 2016, 2016, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Russell, Cathriona, Urban Sustainability, Capability and Laudato Si', Capability and Catholic Social Teaching Colloquium, Ghent, Belgium, August, 2015, 2015, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Russell, Cathriona, Approaches to Reading Laudato Si', Laudato Si': Presentation Sisters Ceist Seminar, Milltown Park, Dublin, September 2015, 2015, Conference Paper, PRESENTED

  


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Award Date
Broad Curriculum Studentship, TCD (PG) 2003-06
Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Scholarship 2000-3
Trinity College Postgraduate Grant 2000
Foundation Scholarship 1998
Church Formularies Prize and Ryan Prize for Systematic Theology 1998
Bishop Forster's Divinity Premium, Theological 1998
Newport White Prize for Greek Texts 1997
Carson Biblical Prize 1997
1983 Prize in Biblical Greek 1997 & 1998
Environmental ethics and hermeneutics, research ethics, biomedical ethics, development ethics, science and religion, cosmologies and creation theologies.