Barry is a Research Fellow at St Edmund’s College and the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS). His research interests include: the implications of Brexit for Ireland, the politics of European integration and the future of work. Barry holds a PhD from POLIS and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Oxford, Harvard University and the Polytechnic University of Turin.
In 2021-2022 Barry will hold a prestigious Max Weber postdoctoral fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, where he will undertake research into the state of European social democracy. Barry has worked previously at Dáil Éireann (the Irish parliament), at the European Parliament and with a range of leading think-tanks.
