Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in:
- Health law
- Medical law
- European law and global law and standards
- Public health
- New health technologies
- Biomedical research
- Clinical trials
- Equitable access to research findings and new medicines and vaccines
- Comparative health law
- Comparative medical law
- Risk regulation
- Bioethics
- Biopolitics
- Epistemic injustice
Public outreach & key achievements
- Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Northern/Ireland Health Law and Ethics Network
- Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Interest Group on Supranational Biolaw of the European Association of Health Law
- Member of the Advisory Board for RESCEU
- Member of the Advisory Board for Everyday Cyborgs 2.0: Law’s Boundary-work and Alternative Legal Futures
Research students
| PhD area | What is the impact of Brexit in terms of divergence of the enforcement of data privacy laws in the UK and the EU, using Ireland as a comparator? |
|---|---|
| Name | Ardi Kolah |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD area | Beware the benefit scroungers: The coalition's welfare reform policies in the UK as a social control mechanism applied to disabled people |
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| Name | Dr Ivanka Antova |
| Years of study | PhD awarded 2018 |
| Current Position | Research Officer, Human Rights Consortium |
| PhD area | Holism, solidarity and domopolitics: The EU as a rights actor in its approach to the migrant crisis |
| Name | Dr Rachael Dickson |
| Years of study | PhD awarded 2017 |
| Current Position | Research Fellow, Birmingham Law School |
Discover More
- Centre for European and Transnational Legal Studies
- Health and Human Rights Unit
- Human Rights Centre
- The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice
- Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
- School of Law
Get ahead: tips on how to prepare your application to study for a PhD at QUB Law
Read our guidance on the steps in our PhD applications process and how to present your research proposal.
Interested in a postdoctoral fellowship at QUB Law?
If you have already completed a PhD or are about to do so, and you are looking for a mentor for a postdoctoral fellowship in one of my areas of expertise, please get in touch via email. The School of Law has a strong track record in supporting able candidates who are working towards fellowship applications to funders such as the British Academy, EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie scheme, ESRC NINE and the Leverhulme Trust.