Sean Whittaker has been appointed as a research assistant within the School of Social Sciences. A graduate of the University of Dundee's LLB in Scots Law and LLM in Environmental Law programmes, Sean was conferred with his PhD in Law at University College Cork and has published his work in Transnational Environmental Law. The title of Sean’s thesis is: Legal Transplants and Regimes Governing Access to Environmental Information in England and Wales, the United States and China. 

Sean is working with Professor Colin Reid and Dr Jonathan Mendel in an Economic and Social Research Council funded project to evaluate the impact of the access to environmental information regime in Scotland through examining its use in practice. Titled "Uncovering the Environment: The Use of Public Access to Environmental Information", the project seeks to analyse how successfully how the right has met its intended aims and is being conducted in collaboration with the Scottish Information Commissioner, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and Scottish National Heritage. More information about the project can be found at https://sites.dundee.ac.uk/envinfo/.