Dr Katriona McGlade is a Fellow at Ecologic Institute. Her expertise is on climate change adaptation, social justice and processes for collaborative knowledge production. Katriona is a native English speaker and is fluent in German, Spanish, French and Catalan. 

Katriona's research has a strong focus on equity and justice in environmental policy and knowledge systems in both research and practice. Her PhD, completed in 2026, focused on the justice dimensions of coastal climate adaptation policy and in 2025 she developed a framework to assess the social justice dimensions of heat-health adaptation plans as part of the ACCREU project. 

Since joining Ecologic Institute in 2010, Katriona has conducted studies on a range of justice-related topics including the gender dimensions of coastal adaptation, access and benefit sharing of genetic resources, intellectual property rights and poverty reduction, maladaptive water resource management, as well as the links between biodiversity and wellbeing. 

Katriona has developed different methodologies to centre participatory and recognition justice and has extensive experience in the design, monitoring and evaluation of stakeholder-centred approaches through projects such as Shaping Resilient Cities (REACHOUT), Co-designing the Assessment of Climate Change Costs (COACCH), Bottom-up Climate Adaptation Strategies Towards a Sustainable Europe (BASE) and Resilience-Increasing Strategies for Coasts – toolKIT (RISC-KIT). Katriona currently leads co-creation activities in the Horizon Europe project ACCREU. 

Alongside her work at Ecologic Institute, Katriona was part of the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report as a contributing author to the work on Gender, Climate Justice and Transformative Pathways. She is an active member of several climate and environmental justice networks and is the co-developer of the card-based game Climate Justice Conversations.