Associate Professor at the School of Law and Criminology, Dr Edana Richardson was awarded an IRC New Foundations grant for her project “Sustainability from the Classroom to the Corporate Agenda: Setting the foundations for investor activism through education”.
This grant was co-funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs (Irish Aid) and the Department of Education. In this project, Dr Richardson will explore the intersectionality of law and finance, focusing on sustainability, and the development of student learning, skills, and pedagogy to provide an opportunity to engage with pressing global sustainability issues, and to devise methods for engaging secondary school student in the sustainability debate. This project will seek to build students’ financial literacy, while also exposing them to the sustainability considerations that are likely to continue to shape investment decisions going forwards.