Giada Lagana

Dr Giada is a Research Assistant at the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD), School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. She was also recently awarded a Simone Veil Fellowship at LMU-Munich for her research on EU peace-building. She has previously worked at the Wales Governance Centre on the ESRC ‘Between Two Unions’ project with Professor Daniel Wincott, examining the impact of the United Kingdom’s (UK) withdrawal from the European Union (EU) on the UK’s internal constitutional and intergovernmental arrangements. She has published the book The European Union and the Northern Ireland Peace Process (Palgrave McMillan). Giada started out as an historian, completing her undergraduate studies in modern and contemporary history at the University of Pavia (Italy). She then obtained an MA in international relations and history, under the joint supervision of Didier Poton (Université de La Rochelle) and Michel Catala (Université de Nantes).