Viola Shahini is a postdoctoral researcher at the ULB’s Institut d’Etudes
Européennes (IEE), contributing to the ARC project – “Social Rights in the European Union
(1960-2020): From Market to Social Citizenship and Back?”. Between 2021 and
2023 she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Milan, conducting research within
the EUROSHIP project – “Closing Gaps in Social Citizenship: New Tools to Foster Social
Resilience in Europe”. She holds a PhD in Political Studies from the University of Milan. Her
main areas of interest include European social governance, social and labour market policy
development and change, qualitative research methods, the interplay between domestic
political dynamics and international influence.