Dr Aisling O’Loghlen
About
Dr. Aisling O’Loghlen is project manager for the EU Horizon 2020 funded project GoGreen Routes, www.gogreenroutes.eu. GoGreenRoutes is a €10.5m EU-funded project sowing the seeds for increased nature-connectedness across Europe, Latin America and China with a multidisciplinary consortium of 40 organizations. Previously Aisling held a post as Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow in Global Challenges based at the Centre for International Development, Northumbria University, Newcastle, where she was Co-Investigator on the ESRC / GCRF Funded project Refugee Youth Volunteering Uganda (RYVU).
Aisling holds a B.A. (Hons) in Geography from University College Cork, an MSc. in Environmental Management from Queens University of Belfast, a Masters of Planning from the University of Manchester and a Ph.D. in Urban Studies from Heriot-Watt University. She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). She has completed internships with the UN-Habitat Somalia Office in Nairobi, the International Development division of the Scottish Government, and a Visiting Fellowship at the Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford University. Her research focused on developing countries, urbanisation, informal settlements and forced migration. Her interests include the development of resilience amongst various vulnerable groups through the use of asset accumulation. Her main body of research has been based in sub-Saharan Africa, mostly Tanzania and Uganda, and she has also worked in Afghanistan.