Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in:
- Victim participation in transitional justice
- Victims’ rights in criminal and international criminal courts
- Conflict-related environmental harm
- International criminal law, environmental crime and/or ecocide
- Conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence
- Anti-carceral responses to sexual and gender-based violence
Public outreach & key achievements
- Interviewed for and quoted in: The BBC https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201105-what-is-ecocide; ABC Radio https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/ecocide:-making-environmental-damage-an-international-crime/13047838; Newstalk https://www.newstalk.com/podcasts/highlights-from-talking-history/the-khmer-rouge
- Editorial Board Member for the International Journal of Human Rights
- My monograph Victims, Atrocity and International Criminal Justice: Lessons from Cambodia, and co-edited collection Sexual Violence on Trial: Local and Comparative Perspectives, are available from Routledge https://www.routledge.com/
Research students
| PhD area |
A new hybrid court in Kosovo: What justice for victims of international crimes? Views from below |
| Name | Carine Placzek |
| PhD area |
A contested city: East Jerusalem and a just co-existence from below |
| Name | Sonia Najjar |
| PhD area | The treatment of femal 'terrorist' fighters in international law |
| Name | Sylvia Farkasovska |
| PhD area | Sexual violence within armed groups in the Colombian conflict: Criminalisation and victimhood |
| Name | Daniela Suarez Vargas |
| PhD area | An appraisal of the fairness in trials of the international crimes tribunal, Bangladesh |
| Name | Tahsin Khan |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD area | Reparations for conflict-related sexual violence: Taking a medico-legal approach |
| Name | Dr Sunneva Gilmore |
| Years of study | PhD awarded 2021 |
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- Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
- School of Law
- Human Rights Centre
- The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice
- QUB Gender Network
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.