Position: Director, Parliamentary Internship Programme. Lecturer in European Studies
Email: mmalone@ipa.ie
Telephone: 00 353 1 240 3600 / 32 16 310 430
Margaret is a graduate of the University of Limerick. She holds a First Class Honours degree in European Studies and was awarded the ‘Distinguished Performance Medal for First Place Overall in the College of Humanities’. Margaret subsequently completed her MA (Hons) in European Integration and Public Administration. She was awarded a PhD for her research work on the European Parliament.
Margaret teaches the EU Governance module on the Institute’s Doctorate in Governance Programme. She teaches the European Studies component of the MA in Public Management. Margaret also supervises dissertation theses at Masters and Doctoral level.
Margaret is Director of the IPA’s Parliamentary Internship Programme for US students and teaches the European Studies component of its Irish Politics & Society course.
Margaret prepares the Institute’s Annual Review of Developments in the EU published in the IPA’s journal, Administration.
Margaret has undertaken consultancy work for the Irish government producing research on lobbying in developed countries. She has published numerous articles on EU affairs in Administration. Her main areas of specialization include:
- European Union Governance
- The principle of Subsidiarity and the role of national parliaments in the EU
- Regulation of lobbyists and the issue of transparency in the EU
- Constitutional development in the EU
- Institutional reform in the EU
- Enlargement of the EU
- European Citizenship and National Identity
- Parliamentary reform in Ireland in a European context