Biography

Clare Fox-Ruhs is a Part-time Assistant Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. She has an academic background in law (LL.B Trinity College Dublin) and a doctorate in Social Policy from the University of Oxford. She has broad experience working in the fields of human rights and equality, asylum and immigration, criminal justice, and children’s rights in both the governmental and non-governmental sectors in the UK and Ireland.

Clare’s academic interests lie in the areas of comparative welfare states and the dynamics of social and public policy-making (respective roles of ideas, interests and institutions). Most recently, she has been engaged in comparative research on European laws and policies in relation to irregular migrants, as part of the EU Horizon PRIME project (Protecting Irregular Migrants in Europe). She co-led the development of a new database (IRMIGRIGHT) and associated set of indicators of the social and labour rights of irregular migrants in 28 European countries.