The Human Rights Consortium has invited a number of academics working on human rights to become Associate Fellows of the Consortium.
NAME AND AFFILIATION |
RESEARCH INTERESTS |
| Dr. Tawhida Ahmed, University of Reading | Minority rights; international human rights; European Union Law; international organisations. |
| Dr. Pilar Domingo, Overseas Development Institute | Accountability, rule of law, and justice sector reform; rights-based citizenship and legal empowerment for vulnerable groups through rights claims; transitional justice issues, and democratization, institution-building and state reform. Her region of expertise is Latin America, with a special interest in Bolivia. |
| Dr Rachel Ibreck | Human Rights in Africa; the politics of memory and commemoration in Rwanda; transitional justice; conflict and civil resistance. |
| Dr. Éadaoin O'Brien, University of Essex | The history of political philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including debates about the nature of rights; contemporary political philosophy, including the relations of rights and powers; women's rights. |
| Professor Susan James, Birkbeck College | The use of the forensic sciences in the protection of human rights; mass grave exhumations and the use of forensic evidence in international criminal trials; enforced disappearances; genocide, armed conflict and memorialisation; transitional justice; anthropology and human rights; science, society and the law |
| Dr Malayna Raftopoulos | Research interests include tourism studies, development and globalisation, environmental sustainability and community participation |
| Professor Philippe Sands, Professor of Law, University College London | Public international law, the settlement of international disputes (including arbitration), and environmental and natural resources law. |
| Professor Heather Widdows, University of Birmingham | Global ethics; moral theory; virtue ethics; Iris Murdoch; bioethics, global bioethics and public health and health policy; genetics, reproduction, commodification and international research and governance; communication across value-frameworks and belief systems, including issues about the possibility and desirability of global ethics and issues of moral neo-colonialism and multiculturalism; women's rights and reproductive rights; the application of moral theory to policy and practice |
| Dr. Alexandra Xanthaki, Brunel University | Minority and indigenous rights; international human rights; public international law; aspects of European law; discrimination law |