Staff Profile

Salvatore Barillà is a Research Associate at the Centre for Rural Economy, working on EU funded projects GRASSCEILING and SafeHabitus.

He completed his PhD in Politics at the School of Social and Political Science of the University of Edinburgh. His PhD research investigated the EU and China in the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement, focusing on the role of ideas in international trade. In particular, it focused on the role of economic and legalistic beliefs in the EU and China's trade officials' approaches to the WTO dispute settlement.

He obtained a combined Bachelor and master’s degree in Law at LUISS University (Rome) and a double master’s degree in European Studies at LUISS University and in International Relations at China Foreign Affairs University (Beijing). He is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AdvanceHE). He has served as a reviewer for Oxford University Press (OUP). 

He is interested in International Political Economy, International Trade and Investment Law, sustainability and agriculture, mental health, and EU-China studies.

Salvatore's research lies at the intersection of international political economy, sustainability and agriculture, mental health, European and Chinese studies, and international law.

In GRASSCEILING Salvatore researches gender norms in European institutions, being responsible for the benchmarking of EU policies (e.g. Green Deal, European Common and Agricultural Policy, etc.), as well as the analysis of European and member states' legal frameworks and their compliance with gender norms in agriculture and farming. In SafeHabitus he researches the impact of mental health in farming.

His PhD research examined the approaches of European and Chinese officials (DG Trade and MOFCOM) in the WTO DSM. He investigated economic and legalistic ideas as drivers of policy action in international trade dispute settlement.

• Articles

  • Barillà SFP. EU-China trade and investment relations and Covid-19: old struggles or new challenges?. Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies 2021, 13(2), 42-53.
  • Barillà, SFP, Pellicanò, A. The treatment of irregular migrants during COVID-19: A comparative analysis of Italian and Portuguese responses. Public Policy Studies 2020, 4 (28)(7).