Theodore Gerard Lynn

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• BBLS, MBS, PhD
• Professor (Full) at Dublin City University

Many territorial and development policies in the European Union recognize that rural mountainous regions suffer from enduring natural and demographic disadvantages. These regions frequently face undesirable, persistent and self-reinforcing challenges, often conceptualized as traps. Through engagement with a panel of experts on mountainous regions,...

Improving bikeability is an urban policy goal that cities are pursuing to reduce their transport-related carbon emissions. To support this goal, this paper introduces BiciZen: a collaborative platform that aims to make cities and regions more bikeable. We describe the lessons learned from the development of this citizen science project. BiciZen is...

The victory of the Spanish national women’s football team at the 2023 FIFA World Cup was marred by the mass-mediated non-consensual kiss on midfielder, Jennifer Hermoso, by Luis Rubiales, then President of the Royal Spanish Football National Federation. The kiss sparked general outrage worldwide and led to the prosecution of Rubiales for sexual ass...

Purpose Automated social media messaging tactics can undermine trust in health institutions and public health advice. As such, we examine automated software programs (ASPs) and social bots in the Twitter anti-vaccine discourse before and after the release of COVID-19 vaccines. Design/methodology/approach We compare two Twitter datasets comprising...

Scientists, research institutions, funding agencies, and policy-makers have all emphasized the need to monitor and prioritize research investments and outputs to support the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Unfortunately, many current and historic research publications, proposals, and grants were not categoriz...

Rural towns have aspirations to participate more fully in the tourism economy, but digital transformation in the tourism sector has been slow. Existing measures of digital tourism are lacking and ignore rural towns; we demonstrate that a top-down measurement intervention, the Digital Tourism Index (DTI), can identify level of digital tourism adopti...

Purpose Despite increasing awareness among fashion consumers about the positive environmental and societal impacts of sustainable fashion as a viable alternative to fast fashion, their actual adoption behavior often diverges. This study aims to empirically investigate consumers’ resistance barriers to sustainable fashion clothing. Design/methodolo...

The Zika virus (ZIKV) has emerged as a significant global health concern, particularly for pregnant women, given the potential complications it poses to the fetus. To effectively combat the disease, geospatial analysis of Zika cases has become increasingly important. By examining the incidence and distribution of Zika cases geographically, valuable...

Historically, literature suggests that a variety of accounting roles will be replaced by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related technologies; however, in recent years there is a growing recognition that accounting can in fact harness AI’s potential to add value to organisations. Commentators have highlighted the need for increased research explor...

Malaria, a life-threatening disease, is preventable and curable. However, the World Health Organization reported alarming statistics for the year 2021, estimating 247 million cases of malaria worldwide, resulting in 619,000 deaths. In Brazil, cases of malaria are concentrated in the region of the Amazon rainforest, known as the Legal Amazon. In res...

Objective To investigate women's perceptions of telemedicine for reproductive health care services, focusing on how perceived benefits and privacy risks influence their intentions to adopt telemedicine and their willingness to disclose personal health information. Study Setting and Design A cross‐sectional survey was conducted. The study applied t...

This article generates new insights into the changing profession of journalism. Empirically, we present the findings of 21 interviews with journalists working in the Irish and UK sports beats on their experiences of online abuse. Conceptually, we address the undertheorising of emotions in journalism by extending the utility and entanglement of emot...

Real or perceived corruption can have a damaging effect on health care services and outcomes. In particular, research suggests perceived corruption had a significant impact on COVID-19 vaccination. Given the role of social media in health communications, identifying and understanding perceived corruption related to vaccines and vaccination is criti...

MARGISTAR is an EU-funded COST Action that brings together 100+ scientists, policymakers, and local stakeholders from 30+ countries to address sustainability and connectivity challenges faced by marginalised mountainous regions. This poster celebrates the initiative and outlines prospective research soon arriving from its international envisioning...

Current market dynamics require organisations to compete in a hypercompetitive environment that is constantly reshaped by digital transformation. At the same time, organisations face growing pressure to implement more sustainable practices in their day-to-day operations and contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This has led to two dis...

Urban areas account for most of the world’s energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, and struggle to cope with the pressure of ever-growing urbanisation and an ageing infrastructure. This issue is likely to become even more prominent in the future due to current trends in population migration that see more people moving from rural to urban...

Digitalisation and environmental sustainability are two of the megatrends impacting industry and society. This open access Pivot is a timely exploration of some of the challenges and prospects related to digital sustainability from two main perspectives: how digital technologies can be used and maintained in a way that is environmentally sustainabl...

The MARGISTAR Vision Workshop (MVW) is designed to be the first of a series of workshops to assist those who live in marginalised mountainous areas to articulate a vision and design actionable pathways for sustaining and developing their community or area. The MVW has been designed to help communities: • Envision potential futures for their comm...

Snakebite envenomations (SBE) are a significant global public health threat due to their morbidity and mortality. This is a neglected public health issue in many tropical and subtropical countries. Brazil is in the top ten countries affected by SBE, with 32,160 cases reported only in 2020, posing a high burden for this population. In this paper, we...

Exploring online criticisms of the ‘take the knee’ protest during ‘Euro 2020’, this article examines how alt- and far-right conspiracies were both constructed and communicated via the social media platform, Twitter. By providing a novel exploration of alt-right conspiracies during an international football tournament, a qualitative thematic analysi...

The term sportswashing has been discussed and analysed within academic circles, as well as the mainstream media. However, the majority of existing research has focused on one-off event-based sportswashing strategies (such as autocratic states hosting major international sports events) rather than longer term investment-based strategies (such as sta...

Although racism in football stadiums has generally decreased over the last two decades, social media has provided a platform for individual fans and the far Right to racially abuse players, clubs and fans in relative safety. In 2022, The Alan Turing Institute released a report which tracked abuse on Twitter towards Premier League players across the...

Objective Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) present significant challenges to global public health, affecting physical and mental well-being and straining healthcare systems and economies. This study aims to enhance the predictive performance of models for congenital syphilis prediction by incorporating additional information obtained during g...

This study investigates the effectiveness of machine learning models in predicting fetal death and identifying significant predictive factors. The study utilized a dataset from the Programa Mãe Coruja Pernambucana (PMCP) that includes socio-demographic, prenatal, maternal, and family health history data. The data underwent pre-processing and was ex...

Snakebite envenomations (SBE) are a significant global public health threat due to their morbidi-ty and mortality. It is a neglected public health issue in many tropical and subtropical countries. Brazil is in the top ten countries affected by SBE, with 32,160 cases reported in Brazil only in 2020, posing a high burden for this population. We descr...

Narratives concerning “Cultural Marxism” – portrayed as a threat to Western society and its values – have been gaining ground largely thanks to their ability to circulate rapidly through online platforms. In recent years, sport has also become a vehicle for spreading such conspiracy theories – with far-reaching consequences for society.

Sport serves as a revealing backdrop for the manifestation of hate speech and discrimination. Culture clashes and global socio-economic power struggles often ignite within the sporting arena and continue to smoulder long afterward. As a result, incidences of hate speech in sport have spread across digital platforms, with social media and online for...

Emerald: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/INTR-03-2022-0165/full/html. Abstract Purpose-Social commerce (s-commerce) provides a community-based platform facilitating customer-to-customer interactions and the development of social experience during shopping activities. While prior research has addressed the role of customer engage...

Purpose Social commerce (s-commerce) offers community-based platforms that facilitate customer-to-customer interactions and the development of customers' social shopping-based experience. While prior research has addressed the role of customer engagement (CE) in boosting s-commerce-based sales and performance, insight into the effect of s-commerce...

Trust is widely regarded as being foundational in workplace relationships. The violation of interpersonal trust results in a range of negative affective, cognitive and behavioural consequences for the injured party. However, research has yet to isolate the specific neural areas and processes activated when different types of interpersonal trust are...

This study examines public policy advocacy by pediatricians and other health professionals in the hashtag community: #putkids1st. The study explores 4321 tweets that feature the hashtag, generated by 1231 unique users largely drawn from the American Association of Pediatricians and its members. The data are used to explore the structural dynamics o...

The Future of Work is a projection of how work, working, workers and the workplace will evolve in the years ahead from the perspective of different actors in society, influenced by technological, socio-economic, political and demographic changes. In addition to defining the Future of Work, this chapter discusses some of the main trends, themes and...

Access to capital is one of the key barriers for deep renovation. This chapter presents the potential advantages and benefits that financial technology (FinTech) solutions such as crowdfunding and blockchain-based solutions such as tokenisation and smart contracts can provide to building owners and construction companies in terms of financing. Futu...

This chapter defines the key elements of the deep renovation life cycle. Investment in deep renovation is driven by various rationales, including societal, economic, environmental, energy security, quality, opportunistic, and catalytic motivations and benefits. At the same time, both deep renovation and digital technology adoption to support deep r...

The world’s extant building stock accounts for a significant portion of worldwide energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. In 2020, buildings and construction accounted for 36% of global final energy consumption and 37% of energy related CO2 emissions. The EU estimates that up to 75% of the EU’s existing building stock has poor energy perfo...

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of new forms of working and new working arrangements largely enabled by technology. The Future of Work is a projection of how work, working, workers and the workplace will evolve in the years ahead from the perspective of different actors in society, influenced by technological, socio-economic, politic...

BACKGROUND The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need for understanding citizen acceptance of health surveillance technologies such as contact tracing (CT) apps. Indeed, the success of these apps requires widespread public acceptance and the alleviation of concerns around privacy, surveillance, and trust. OBJECTIVE This study examines the fact...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the need for understanding citizen acceptance of health surveillance technologies such as contact tracing (CT) apps. Indeed, the success of these apps required widespread public acceptance and the alleviation of concerns around privacy, surveillance, and trust. Objective: This study examines the factor...

The 2019 European Union (EU) Open Data Directive requires that public sector data should be open by design and by default. The EU Digital Economy & Society Index ranked Ireland as second in terms of data maturity amongst the EU Member States. In Ireland, local government is administered by 31 local authorities. In light of the Open Data Directive b...

The European Union Web Accessibility Directive requires public sector bodies in EU Member States to ensure that their websites are accessible to users and, in particular, for people with disabilities, by September 2020. This paper examines the web accessibility of local authority websites in the Republic of Ireland. It provides an evaluation of web...

England's 'shock' exit from the Euro 2016 Football Championship and the UK electorate's decision to (Br)exit from the EU occurred almost simultaneously , providing an interesting lens through which to examine unfolding tensions in the UK and its component identities-all the more so given the presence of two of the three other component countries of...

Streets perform a number of important functions and have a wide range of activities performed in them. There is a small but growing focus on streets as a more generalisable, atomised, and therefore more manageable unit of development and analysis than cities. Despite the public realm being one of the largest physical spaces on streets, the impact a...

After COVID-19, tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death by an infectious disease in the world. This work presents a data set based on data collected from the Brazilian Information System for Notifiable Diseases (SINAN) for the period from January 2001 to April 2020 relating to patients diagnosed with tuberculosis in Brazil. The data from SI...

The convergence of cloud computing, mobile technology and big data technologies are transforming information technology faster than ever before. While there is an established knowledge base of known implementation issues relating to project management, technology, user resistance, organisation/environment and outsourcing, digital technologies intro...

Darknet technologies are a transformative technology , particularly in the context of online social media. This paper explores social media platforms where user anonymity artificially constrains self-disclosure. It proposes a social media platform anonymity continuum that recognises how the emergence and growth of darknet social platforms-and the a...

The rise of online hate speech in sports is a growing concern, with fans, players and officials subject to racist, sexist and homophobic abuse (in addition to many other prejudices) via social media platforms. While hate speech and discrimination have always been problems in sports, the growth of social media has seen them exacerbated exponentially...

Data was collected from the Information System for Notifiable Diseases (from Portuguese, Sistema de Informação de Agravos de Notificação, SINAN-TB) from Brazil, between 2001 and 2019, and contains information about patients who were diagnosed with tuberculosis. We pre-processed the data to build a dataset focusing on the treatment outcomes of tube...

Background: Malaria is curable. Nonetheless, over 229 million cases of malaria were recorded in 2019, along with 409,000 deaths. Although over 42 million Brazilians are at risk of contracting malaria, 99% percent of all malaria cases in Brazil are located in or around the Amazon rainforest. Despite declining cases and deaths, malaria remains a maj...

The objective of this chapter is to alleviate some of the potential and perceived uncertainty and risk associated with social media research using Big Data. We propose a definition-agnostic generalised conceptual framework to illustrate how different elements of SNS relate to each other. We then introduce an enabling workflow, a generalised big dat...

By decoupling network service functions from custom-built hardware, network function virtualization is transforming network service provisioning, making large scale telecommunications more flexible, scalable, and agile. Service function chaining often requires network traffic to flow through a specific sequence of virtual network functions (VNFs) t...

The WHO estimates that vaccine hesitancy contributes to 1.5 million deaths annually which could be avoided if global vaccinations improved. To investigate how vaccination sentiments are perceived on social media, we examine stigma amongst those active in the vaccination discourse on Twitter. Two datasets of English-language tweets published in Dece...

One of the main categories of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are arboviruses, of which Dengue and Chikungunya are the most common. Arboviruses mainly affect tropical countries. Brazil has the largest absolute number of cases in Latin America. This work presents a unified data set with clinical, sociodemographic, and laboratorial data on confirm...

Globalisation, technological advances, liberalisation of financial markets, and changing consumer behaviour are transforming banking profoundly. Under the EU Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2), incumbent banks must open up their data, processes, and business functionalities to customers and third parties including rivals. It is critical to underst...

Purpose The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) introduces significant data protection obligations on all organizations within the European Union (EU) and those transacting with EU citizens. This paper presents the GDPR privacy label and uses two empirical studies to examine the effectiveness of this approach in influencing consumers' privacy...

Public health interventions to counter the COVID-19 pandemic have accelerated and increased digital adoption and use of the Internet for sourcing health information. Unfortunately, there is evidence to suggest that it has also accelerated and increased the spread of false information relating to COVID-19. The consequences of misinformation, disinfo...

Brands have been conceptualized as being made up of three different components: name, logo and slogan (Keller 1993, Dass, Kumar, Kohli, & Thomas, 2014). Slogans are short, memorable phrases that are often used to sign off on advertisements. They characterize a large proportion of brand advertising and are designed to attract consumer attention, cry...

During the last decade, sustainable fashion has attracted increasing attention from policymakers, firms, and consumers. This interest is also reflected in consumer behavior research in this area. Notwithstanding this, there are few systematic literature reviews from a consumer behavior perspective. The purpose of this paper is to systematically rev...

Digital public services refer to the provision of public services using digital technologies wherein the interaction with a public sector organisation is mediated by an IT system. Citizens are constantly demanding higher transparency, efficiency and responsiveness from public organisations. The increasing adoption of digital technologies constitute...

Education plays an essential role in transferring social norms and building human capital. There is widespread enthusiasm for the adoption and integration of digital technologies in education. This digitalisation of education has become a pillar of education policy worldwide, driven by growing optimism that such a policy approach can bestow a wide...

To fully function in a society permeated by digital technologies requires individuals and households to have both the access and skills to use these technologies effectively. Unfortunately, access to digital infrastructure and skills is not equal. This chapter begins with a discussion on the nature of the digital divide and digital literacy. It the...

Digital technologies are an increasingly important part of societies and economies. International benchmarks suggest that countries and cities worldwide are progressing in their digitalisation efforts. Unfortunately, some parts of society and the economy are under-represented in extant measurement frameworks and composite indices and are in danger...

Civil society refers to social institutions outside of the confines of households, the market and the state. Such institutions provide a wide range of facilities and services in communities and society, generate employment, and create significant economic value through direct, indirect and induced expenditure. Notwithstanding this, voluntary, socia...

This chapter provides an overview of the growing body of evidence that now documents the positive impact of infrastructure for digital connectivity, as policymakers seek to harness its potential to drive economic development and improve standards of living. However, significant challenges continue to impede the delivery of comprehensive digital con...

It is well-established that the use of digital technologies can generate clear advantages for enterprises including cost savings, operational efficiency, IT resilience and scalability, easier access to new markets, and market effectiveness, amongst others. However, the adoption and use of digital technologies by rural businesses typically lags urba...

Digital technologies are transforming all aspects of society. While so-called smart city technologies are widely cited as solutions for a wide range of socio-economic challenges, there is a relative paucity of research and discussion on the role and impact of ICTs in towns. The term ‘digital town’ concerns a physical place, the people who interact...

Realising the potential of digital technologies in smaller and rural towns is a significant organisational and management challenge involving a diverse range of stakeholders, who may have conflicting motivations. It requires substantial horizontal integration at a local level to leverage local contextual knowledge and relationships to increase part...

Commercial buildings are a significant consumer of energy worldwide. Logistics facilities, and specifically warehouses, are a common building type which remain under-researched in the demand-side energy forecasting literature. Warehouses have an idiosyncratic profile when compared to other commercial and industrial buildings with a significant reli...

Background Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) primarily affect the poorest populations, often living in remote, rural areas, urban slums or conflict zones. Arboviruses are a significant NTD category spread by mosquitoes. Dengue, Chikungunya, and Zika are three arboviruses that affect a large proportion of the population in Latin and South America....

Commercial buildings are a significant consumer of energy worldwide. Logistics facilities, and specifically warehouses, are a common building type yet under-researched in the demand-side energy forecasting literature. Warehouses have an idiosyncratic profile when compared to other commercial and industrial buildings with a significant reliance on a...

Rural small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) represent a significant proportion of SMEs, are typically micro-enterprises (MSMEs), and face different challenges to their urban peers yet are typically under-represented in research. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated enterprise internet adoption and use however extant reports primarily focus on large...

While information technology is playing a significant transformative role in virtually every industry, within the agriculture sector, family-operated farming enterprises have been slow to adopt IT solutions to manage their operations. This study adopts a sequential mixed-methods research design to examine the pre- and post-adoption phases of farmer...