Aoife GRIFFIN
- Senior Academic Assistant, EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies Department
Aoife Griffin (IE) is Senior Academic Assistant in the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies, which she joined in August 2022. She is also a PhD researcher at Maastricht University. Her research focuses on the EU’s rule of law promotion in states of the Western Balkans and Associated Trio, with a focus on anti-corruption.
She holds an MA in European Interdisciplinary Studies, with a major in the EU and its Neighbours from the College of Europe at Natolin (2022, Éliane Vogel-Polsky promotion), an MA in European Studies, majoring in EU External Relations and Globalisation (2021, KU Leuven) and a BA degree in History and Politics (2020, University College Cork).
Fields of interest: EU enlargement, Associated Trio, the Western Balkans, promotion of democracy, human rights and the rule of law and minority issues, nationalism and identity politics in the EU and its neighbourhood.