Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in:
- Reparations
- Transitional justice
- Victims’ rights
- Land, housing and displacement
Public outreach & key achievements
- Principal Investigator on the AHRC funded project Reparations, Responsibility and Victimhood in Transitional Societies
- Lead on amici to international courts
- Author on reports on a range of issues including displacement in Northern Ireland, reparations in Uganda, South Sudan, Nepal, and the Colombian Special Jurisdiction for Peace
- Author of Justice for Victims before the International Criminal Court, Routledge (2014)
- Co-editor of the Research Handbook on Transitional Justice, Elgar (2017)
Research students
PhD area |
Reparations for conflict-related sexual violence victims: A culturally context-specific way forward |
Name | Siofra Corr |
PhD area |
The responsibility to protect: The 'new' humanitarian intervention? |
Name | Sian Fisher |
PhD area |
Transitional justice and state accountability for atrocity crimes: Judicialising guarantees of non-recurrence |
Name | Nikhil Narayan |
PhD area | Sexual violence within armed groups in the Colombian conflict: Criminalisation and victimhood |
Name | Daniela Suarez Vargas |
Alumni: Where are they now
PhD area |
Women's experience of incarceration: Gender, power and coping strategies in Chinese female prisons |
Name | Dr Ao Zhang |
Years of study | PhD awarded 2018 |
PhD area | Between cultural violence and symbolic reparations: The risk and utility of Irish Republican reparative memorials |
Name |
Dr Padriag Quinn |
Years of study |
PhD awarded 2022 |
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- Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
- School of Law
- Human Rights Centre
- Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice
- The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice
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