About

Dr Sarah Wolff is Director of the Centre for European Research and Lecturer in Public Policy at Queen Mary, University of London. She is also Senior Research Associate Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for International Relations (Clingendael) and an expert on Justice and Home Affairs, EU migration and border management policies, in particular in relation to the Middle East and North Africa. Her monograph The Mediterranean Dimension of the European Union’s Internal Security (Palgrave, 2012) builds upon fieldwork in Europe, Morocco, Egypt and Jordan. She received the LISBOAN Research Award 2012 for her book ‘Freedom, Security and Justice after Lisbon and Stockholm’ (Asser, 2012; co-editors F. Goudappel and J. de Zwaan). In 2014/2015 she was a Fulbright-Schuman fellow at the Transatlantic Academy (Washington, DC) and was also awarded a 2014/2015 Leverhulme Research grant for a research on EU Engagement with Islamist political parties in Morocco and Tunisia. Dr Wolff regularly contributes in various media (EU Observer, Le Monde, Today Zaman, Open Democracy, Al-Jazeera, Skynews, etc), blogs at http://sarahwolffeu.wordpress.com/, and tweets @drsarahwolff. Dr Wolff holds a PhD in International Relations (LSE, 2009), an MSc in European Politics and Governance (LSE, 2004) and a BA in Public Administration (Science Po Grenoble, 1999).

Research Interests

Democratisation, European Politics, European Union, Foreign Policy, Institutions, International Relations, Islam, Public Policy, Religion, Immigration, Qualitative, Agenda-Setting, Asylum, Decision Making, Policy-Making

Current/Upcoming Events

Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Mediterranean Politics and Society
• European Union