Dr. Aurora Trif

Aurora Trif is an Associate Professor in International Employment Relations & People Management at Dublin City University Business School.

Aurora is interested in Comparative European employment relations, non-standard (flexible) work, workplace mental health, and trust between social partners. Over the last decade, Aurora has contributed to five international research projects. She was the Principal Investigator for an EU-funded project focused on the strategies of social partners to address precarious work in nine Central-Eastern European countries and Greece (2014-2016). This project focused on developments in five sectors, namely construction, healthcare, retail, metal and temporary agency work. She was an invited speaker at events organised by the European Parliament and the European Commission in 2016. Her work is published in leading academic journals, including Human Relations, the British Journal of Industrial Relations, and the European Journal of Industrial Relations. In 2017, her paper entitled ‘Romania - collective bargaining institutions under attack’ has become the most-cited article in Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research (Ranking: 2015 SJR Score: 0.802 | 7/46 Industrial Relations (Scopus®). She joined the Transfer Editorial Committee in 2026.

Aurora is a member of the Irish Industrial Relations Association and the CRANET international HRM network.  Between 2021 and 2025, she served as an academic expert on the Advisory Committee for Industrial Relations and Social Dialogue at the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound).