DrSilvia Gagliardi

Silvia Gagliardi works as a Senior Research and Analysis Adviser/Deputy Team Leader in a European Research Council-funded project on the 'Foundations of Institutional Authority' (FIAT), in the Sutherland School of Law at University College Dublin (UCD). She holds a Doctorate in Human Rights (2018) from the Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, University of Galway, Ireland. Her research examines women’s rights and gender, gender-based violence and hate crimes, intersectional discrimination, and gender and populism. She is also interested in decolonial feminism and feminist legal theory.

Prior to joining UCD, Silvia worked for ten years for various international organisations and NGOs, including the Organization for Security and Co-operation(OSCE)/Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (Poland); Trocaire (Ireland); the Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (Tunisia and Lebanon); three OSCE’s field operations (Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina and North Macedonia); the Human Solidarity Group (Sri Lanka); and Amnesty International (USA). Silvia was a focal point for the Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) in different organisations and currently lectures in this area and gender-based violence in international law at UCD Centre for Humanitarian Action. She is also rostered as a ‘Gender and SGBV Adviser’ in both Irish Aid Rapid Response and CANADEM Rosters, as a ‘Gender Consultant’ for UN FAO, and as a ‘Human Rights Officer’ for UN OHCHR.