Dr Orla Kelly, Associate Professor in Social Policy, UCD
Dr. Orla Kelly is an assistant professor of Social Policy at the University College Dublin.
Her research focuses on the social drivers and responses to climate change, and she is particularly interested in understanding pathways to sustainable human well-being and eco-social policies.
Dr Kelly is part of the international academic research team investigating the economic, social, and environmental impacts of reduced worktime trials, led by the 4-day Week Global campaign, and she is a founding member of the Worktime Reduction Research Network (WTR-RN).
Kelly holds a PhD in environmental law, an LLM in International Human Rights Law, and an MSc in International Business. She previously worked as a Research Associate (2010-2015) and a Research Fellow (2015-2020) at the FXB Centre for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University.
Her research has been published in academic journals such as Nature Human Behaviour, Social Forces, and Sustainability Science.