Denise McCullagh is a Research Fellow in the Sustainability Institute, University College Cork, and lead for the Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Group. Denise is currently co-ordinating, managing and providing input on a range of nationally and internationally funded climate adaptation projects. She specialises in transboundary stakeholder engagement, with a wide range of experience working with local, sectoral and national level decision makers, as well as local community groups, researchers and adaptation practitioners across the island of Ireland. Denise is currently leading engagement and co-creation activities to develop place-based and transboundary partnerships for sustainable climate adaptation action on the Adaptation Hubs, CMAP and TALX2 projects.