
- ‘5 Degrees of Change: ‘‘We are trying to shoehorn climate action into an energy framework that prioritises profit”’, Interviewed by Daniel Murray at the Sunday Business Post Podcast, 18April 2021.
- ‘A Just Transition with Sinéad Mercier’ – Echo Chamber Podcast Episode 357, September 25th 2020
- Interviewed by Oisín Mistéil for TG4 Documentary Go mBeirimid Beo, aired Christmas 2024.
- Panellist at Field Day’s Seamus Deane Annual Lecture 2024 with Special Guest Amitav Gosh, Playhouse Derry. Organised with Queen’s University Belfast. See video of lecture here. Coverage of event in the Irish Times and Derry Journal.
- Panellist at TULCA Arts Festival event Disappearing Acts | Julie Morrissy, 9 November 2024.
- Speaker on two panels at EARTH RISING festival, 21 September 2024. Interviewing Dr. Nadine El-Enany on ‘Race Law and the Air We Breathe’ and Panellist on ‘Designing with Living Systems’ with architects BothAnd Group and Donal Lally. Earth Rising is the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s (IMMA) flagship festival focused on the Earth crisis.
- Speaker at Sunday Business Post Energy Transition Summit, 26th September 2024. PANEL DISCUSSION: Energy Infrastructure: Creating a transition-ready network: Construction, connection and management. Speaker profile here. Sunday Business Post coverage of the event here. Quote: Mercier emphasised the importance of committing to an objective and sticking to it when you wanted people to be on the same page. “You can’t be oxymoronic in your approach,” she said. “A choice has to be made; you can’t have the demand for renewables increase alongside the demands for fossil fuels. One action has to be taken by the state, and they have to choose one.”
- Speaker at Rethinking Growth Conference, Towards a Wellbeing Economy for Ireland: June 25 – 26 2024, Trinity College Dublin Business School. Plenary session “Decolonizing the Social Imaginary: how can we ‘do’ economics in the Fifth Province?”. Facilitated by Prof. John Barry (QUB) and Dr. Sharae Deckard (UCD), Dr. Mark Garavan (ATU), Sinead Mercier (UCD), Dr. Amy Strecker (UCD).
- January 2024 panellist at The Ditch event. Analysis – State Failures: Siding with North against South, with Colonisers against the Colonised, The Ditch. Included in special publication State Failures alongside Caelainn Hogan, Daniel Finn and Frank McDonald.
- Interviewed for RTÉ/TG4 Documentary Na Féilte Tine (The Fire Festivals), a four-part series exploring the four indigenous Irish festivals of Samhain, Imbolg, Bealtaine and Lúnasa.
- Margaretha Haughwout (Colgate University) and Sinéad Mercier (UCD PROPERTY [IN]JUSTICE), Re-Enchantment: Environmental Law and Ruderal Ecologies, NCAD | The Digital Hub co-hosted TURNING GROUND Talks Series 2022, National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Link: https://irishtechnews.ie/digital-hub-ncad-collaborate-with-turning-ground/
- Sinéad Mercier and Donal O’Kelly: How to be a Good Ancestor? As part of the Metabolic time / Am meitibileach public programme, Project Arts Centre, Dublin. Link: https://projectartscentre.ie/event/sinead-mercier-and-donal-okelly-how-to-be-a-good-ancestor/