Dr Aoife Price is an interdisciplinary scholar, educator, activist and leader in disability law and policy. She is particularly interested in child and youth participation, gender, and intersectionality; much of her work has focused on these elements. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher on the TARA Project, which focuses on trauma-informed care and building resilience within the Irish child welfare system.

Before this role, she worked as a Research Associate at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy (CDLP), University of Galway, on a research project focused on political representation and intersectionality. The study funded by the National Disability Authority examined how Ireland’s compliance with Article 29 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) could be better achieved using an intersectional lens. Additionally, she worked as part of a team at Trinity College Dublin that published a pioneering report (2024) that explored the experiences of disabled women who have endured intimate partner violence, funded by Women Aid. She previously worked part-time (while completing her PhD) as a lecturer at University College Cork (2022-2024) and full-time with the European Disability Forum (2019-2022), the Union of Students in Ireland (2017-2019), and the Centre for Effective Services (2016-2017).

Aoife is an active member of the disability community in Ireland. She has worked on and contributed to research and shadow reporting to international human rights bodies. In 2022, she was appointed to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Disability Advisory Committee, the organisation tasked with monitoring Ireland’s implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD).

Her PhD was funded as part of the Disability Advocacy Research in Europe (DARE) Innovative Training Network (ITN) by the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The PhD focused on disabled women’s participation in social movements with a focus on the disability and women’s movement while also examining reasons for the emergence of a disabled women’s movement in European countries. Before her PhD, she graduated with an MSc in Applied Social Research from Trinity College Dublin (2015) and a BA in Politics and International Relations from the University of Limerick.

Connect with Aoife:

aprice@ucc.ie

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aoifeprice/

@aoifeprice.bsky.social

@aoifeprice