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Dr Alice Diver

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Dr Alice Diver

School of Law

My work focuses mainly on human rights issues within family and child law. I am particularly interested in adoption law and policy, child protection, kinship care, closed birth records, vetoes on contact and information release, and the right to origin (i.e. accessing original ancestries and authentic identities) especially across borders and cultures. I am also interested in works of literature relevant to the study of law/legal theory e.g. by Beckett, Steinbeck, Mary Shelley, Godden, the Brontës. 

 

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  • a.diver@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 5122
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Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in:

  • Adoption law and policy
  • Child protection
  • Adoptee rights
  • Surrogacy
  • Gamete donation; the changing nature of 'the triad'
  • The rights of the child
  • Models for kinship care/alternatives to adoption
  • The right to origin/identity
  • Law and literature

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Public outreach & key achievements

  • Trustee with Kinship Care NI [2014-2020]
  • Trustee with CASCAIDr (England) [2020 – present] – Social care law advice charity
  • Key note speaker at KOROOT’s Adoption Truths Day [Seoul, Korea, Sept 2020] and at KAARN’s {Korean Adoptee Adoption Research Network} inaugural seminar series [The Right to Origin] Jan 2021 https://kaarn.org/onewebmedia/The%20Right%20to%20Origin.pdf

Research students

PhD area Breaking Down Barriers: Analysing the Scope of Therapeutic Jurisprudence to Promote Access to Justice for Older Female Victims of Domestic Abuse in Northern Ireland
Name Carolyn McDowell

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  • Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
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  • Centre for European and Transnational Legal Studies 
  • Human Rights Centre

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.


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