Bríd is an expert in Public International Law, particularly in the areas of Forced Migration and Human Rights. Previously, she was Principal Investigator on the ‘Safe Zones in International Law’ project funded by the Czech Ministry of Education at Masaryk University, Czech Republic. Bríd has published widely in leading journals such as Human Rights Law Review, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Legal Studies, and International Journal of Refugee Law. Her monograph entitled 'Internally Displaced Persons and International Refugee Law' is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
Aside from her post at Maynooth, Bríd is also a Senior Researcher at the Judicial Studies Institute, Masaryk University and the Institute of International Relations, Prague; a Senior Research Affiliate and Lecturer at the Refugee Law Initiative, University of London; and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Reading. She regularly appears in both English and Irish-language media as a commentator in her areas of expertise and has acted as a consultant for the United Nations, the Council of Europe, Greenpeace, and Oxford Analytica. Previously, she was a Lecturer at the University of Sheffield where she won two of the University’s top teaching awards. She has also worked in the Legal Division of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and taught at the Universities of Helsinki, Cyprus, Oxford, and Shandong University China. Bríd holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford; an LLM (Public International Law) from Leiden University; a BCL (International) from NUI Galway; and diplomas in Legal French and Legal Irish from the Law Society of Ireland and NUI Galway, respectively.
Bríd will teach International Human Rights law and International Humanitarian Law at Maynooth. She welcomes potential research students, collaborations, and media enquiries pertaining to any of her research areas.