The human impacts of climate change - a journalist's perspective

• (opens in a new window)Sally Hayden in conversation with (opens in a new window)Ronan McDermott (UCD Centre for Humanitarian Action and UCD School of Agriculture & Food Science) and (opens in a new window)Graham Finlay (UCD School of Politics and International Relations)
• 12.00-13.00
• UCD Clinton Auditorium
  
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• Part of UCD Green Week

Sally Hayden is an award-winning journalist and photographer who has covered humanitarian crises and conflicts across Europe, the Middle East and Africa for outlets including CNN, the BBC, the Irish Times, the Guardian, the New York Times, Magnum Photos and more. Her book “My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route” won the 2022 Orwell Prize for Political Writing and was named the An Post Irish Book of the Year.

Sally, a UCD Law alumnus, has recently been appointed as an Adjunct Professor in the Sutherland School of Law and joins us in conversation with Ronan McDermott (UCD Centre for Humanitarian Action and UCD School of Agriculture & Food Science) and Graham Finlay (UCD School of Politics and International Relations)  |to discuss the climate dimension of the human crises she has covered in her international reporting work over the past few years. Sally has reported on Somalia and Niger on drought, malnutrition and famine and this summer will go to Bangladesh to report on climate migration. She will also talk about some of the challenges related to journalism on these topics.