DrDarragh Golden

Darragh Golden Is currently an Ad Astra Assistant Professor in Employment Relations at the UCD College of Business and works in the Human Resource Management and Employment Relations Subject Area.

Darragh is the the author of "Labour Euroscepticism: Italian and Irish Unions’ Changing Preferences Towards the EU" (2024, ECPR Press), which traces the genesis of EU politics in the Irish and Italian labour movements across time. He is also the co-author of "Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency" (2024, Cambridge University Press) and his work is published in the British Journal of Industrial Relations, European Journal of Industrial Relations and the Journal of Common Market Studies. Darragh also co-edited "Labour and Transnational Action in Times of Crisis" (2015, Rowman & Littlefield).

Before joining as an Ad Astra Assistant Professor, Darragh was a post-doctoral fellow (2017-22) in an ERC-funded project entitled "Labour Politics and the EU's New Economic Governance Regime (https://www.erc-europeanunions.eu/) at UCD. He was also a researcher at the Work Research Institute, Oslo Metropolitan University (2016-17) and Centre for Advanced Study at The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo (2013-14). Darragh was the recipient of the Irish Research Council 'Government of Ireland' scholarship (2010-2013) and the 'Yggdrasil' international scholarship from the Norwegian Research Council.