Aurora Trif

Aurora Trif is an Associate Professor in International Employment Relations & HRM at Dublin City University Business School. She specializes in comparative European employment relations, precarious work, and international HRM. Her research has been supported by EU-funded projects and includes a focus on Central and Eastern European labor markets.

Trained at London South Bank University (PhD in Industrial Relations), she held postdoctoral fellowships at the Max Plank Institute (Cologne) and University College Dublin. Notable achievements include her 2017 most-cited article in Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research and her role as Principal Investigator for a 2014-2016 EU project analyzing strategies to address precarious work in nine Central-Eastern European countries and Greece.

• Research interests: Precarious work, comparative industrial relations, workplace partnership
• Key projects: EU-funded Precarious Employment Strategies Project (2014-2016), speaking engagements at European Parliament/Commission events
• Publications: British Journal of Industrial Relations, European Journal of Industrial Relations, Industrial Relations Journal

Trif is a member of the Irish Industrial Relations Association and CRANET international HRM network. Her work addresses transnational labor dynamics, EU social policy, and union revitalization strategies in adverse political contexts.