Professor Aoife O’Donoghue

Aoife is a Professor of Law at Queen’s University Belfast School of Law and the Academic Director of the Economic and Social Research Council-funded NINE Doctoral Training Programme (DTP) at Queen’s University Belfast, and Deputy Director of NINE DTP.

Aoife’s work encompasses a wide range of public law based research at the local, national, transnational and international law levels. She has undertaken extensive work on Brexit and Northern Ireland including several research reports for the Joint Committee of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission as well as Equality Commission for Northern Ireland. Aoife has led a number of all-island projects such as the Northern/Irish Feminist Judgments Project, the Shared Island Funded Doing Feminist Legal Work Network and the Northern/Ireland Feminist Constitutions project.

Aoife is also a Senior Fellow of the Global Policy Institute at Durham as well as a co-Chair of the Great Britain and Ireland Chapter of ICON*S (International Society of Public Law). Previously, Aoife was a Professor of Law at Durham University as well as Deputy Director of IBRU, Durham’s Centre for Border’s Research. She also worked at the University of Galway. Aoife studied at University College Cork, City University London and received her PhD from the University of Groningen.