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Dr Rachel Killean

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Dr Rachel Killean

School of Law

My research centres responses to conflict and violence, victims’ rights and transitional justice. I have an ongoing interest in Cambodia and have conducted collaborative research there exploring reparations for the destruction of cultural property, representations of victimhood, the role of film in environmental advocacy and understandings of ‘human dignity’ in a post-conflict context. I am also interested in criminal justice responses to sexual and gender-based violence and am pursuing an emerging research agenda exploring transitional justice responses to environmental harm.

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  • Rachel.Killean@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 3867
  • @rkillean

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

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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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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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