About

I am a Doctoral Researcher in Politics and International Relations at the University of Glasgow within the College of Social Sciences Graduate School. My work broadly focuses on humanitarian assistance, religious actors and human displacement. My PhD investigates the work of the Roman Catholic Church and of Catholic NGOs in asssisting forcibly displaced people. It probes into questions related to the role of religion in contemporary politics. Focusing on the multilevel nature of the Church in politics, I study the responses to forced migration as analytical lenses to map the multifaceted network of Catholic actors at play. I completed seven months of data collection with fieldwork in Rome and in the Vatican City State; as well as semi-structured interviews and meetings with relevant stakeholders, I spent five months conducting participant observation at the headquarters of one global Catholic humanitarian organisation. I hold a MPhil in International Peace Studies from Trinity College Dublin where I was the recipient of the Irish School of Ecumenics Scholarship and of the James Haire Memorial Prize for best coursework. In 2019, I graduated with a First Class BA with Honours in International Politics and Languages (with Distinction in spoken French) from the University of Stirling. I have worked as Research Assistant for the University of Aberdeen on Public Policy and Scottish Politics. In 2018, I studied at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (SciencesPo) in France where I conducted research on the protection of Human Rights in French-speaking Europe with on-field analyses both in Paris and in Geneva (Switzerland), as Stevenson Exchange Scholar. Following on from this research, I was offered a Williamson Travel Scholarship to further my academic investigations in the Human Rights field through a comparative study of Italian and French integration practices for refugees and asylum seekers.

Research Interests

Civil Society, Institutions, International Relations, Latin America, Migration, Policy Analysis, Religion, Immigration, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Asylum, NGOs, Refugee

Current/Upcoming Events

Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Religion and Politics
• Knowledge Politics and Policies
• Migration and Ethnicity
• Teaching and Learning Politics
• Southern European Politics
• International Relations