Dr Delia Ferri appointed as affiliated researcher on social policy at Dirpolis Institute

Dr Delia Ferri, a lecturer at Maynooth University Department of Law, has been appointed as an affiliated researcher of the Dirpolis Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, Italy.

Dr Ferri, who lectures at Maynooth in EU Law and in International and European Disability Law and Policy, will participate within the research cluster on social policy and rights of persons with disabilities.

The lecturer joined Maynooth University in September 2014 and holds a series of qualifications from the University of Verona and Trinity College Dublin.

Dr Ferri is also a qualified attorney at law, enrolled at Verona Bar since 2008. Before joining Maynooth, she was a research associate at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy of the National University of Ireland Galway and lectured at the Irish Centre for Human Rights.

She has carried out substantial activity as an independent legal consultant for different NGOs, research centres, and international law firms, such as Human European Consultancy B.V in the Netherlands, the Konrad Stiftung Adenauer Foundation in Italy and Germany, the European Foundation Centre in Belgium, and Germann Avocats in Switzerland.