Emilia SALMINEN

Bio

Emilia Salminen is a Ph.D candidate in Political Science and a teaching assistant at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). She is affilitated with CEVIPOL and IEE. In her research, she focuses on EU legitimisation and LGBTIQ+ rights. She graduated in 2022 with a Master’s Degree in Social Sciences. For her Master’s thesis, she conducted qualitative research on LGBTIQ rights contestation in the European Union. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in European Studies from Maastricht University.

CV

• Since October 2023: Teaching Assistand and Ph.D Candidate Université libre de Bruxelles (Cevipol, IEE)
   
• February 2023 – October 2023: European Parliament’s Intergroup on LGBTI Rights - Intern
   
• The LGBTI Intergroup is the largest of the European Parliament’s 27 Intergroups. The five priorities are freedom of movement of LGBTIQ people, monitoring European Commission, combatting discrimination in the EU, securing transgender and intersex rights and monitoring human rights in the work of the EU.
   
• May 2022 – January 2023: Young Educators Pink Talks Co-Host – Volunteer
   
• May 2022 – June 2022: Una Europa – Una.Together DEI Project Volunteer
   
• Una Europa is an alliance of 11 leading European research universities. Una.Together is an international and interdisciplinary online project to create solutions to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) across European research universities.
   
• June 2020 – July 2020: Helsinki EU Office – Junior Project Officer
   
• Helsinki EU Office represents Finland’s most innovative regions, cities, universities, and research institutions in Brussels.
   
• November 2019 – March 2020: Upper Comprehensive School in Helsinki – On-Call Substitute Teacher

Areas of research

• European politics and institutions, media and communication, narratives, gender and LGBTIQ+ studies
   
• AXIS: Identités, sociétés, pouvoirs en comparaison. Pour une approche qualitative des systèmes politiques

Teaching

Introduction to Research Methods in Political Science

Methodological Approaches of Political Issues (focus on LGBTIQ+ issues)

International Political Economy

Research

Emilia Salminen's thesis focuses on researching the different European legitimization narratives and how LGBTIQ+ issues are used within these larger European narratives.