Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in:
- Business and human rights
- OECD Guidelines on Multinational Enterprises (particularly NCPs)
- Remedy (as related to corporations and international law, access and enforcement)
- Corporate governance
- Corporate social responsibility
Public outreach & key achievements
- Member of NI Business and Human Rights Forum
- Member of NI Sports and Human Rights Group
- Member of UK Business and Human Rights Network
- Member of Global Business and Human Rights Scholars Network
- Member of Global Business and Human Rights Teachers’ Forum
Research students
| PhD area |
Legal implications of cross border data collection and usage within autonomouse vehicles: Selling safety for privacy? |
| Name | Jordan Leinster |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD area | Denial and acknowledgement in CSR reporting discourse: a BHR perspective on corporate harm-related rhetoric |
| Name | Dr Samantha Hopkins |
| Years of study | PhD awarded 2022 |
| PhD area |
The limits to the horizontal effect of human rights in UK law |
| Name | Dr Uchenna Aneto |
| Years of study | PhD awarded 2020 |
| PhD area |
Legitimacy, role and the corporate takeover of a disease: A reading of breast cancer cause-marketing campaigns and their influence on the social roles of stakeholders' |
| Name | Dr Clare Patton |
| Years of study | PhD awarded 2018 |
| Current Position | Lecturer, QUB School of Law |
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