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 | The Environment-Conflict Nexus: The Weaknesses of the Transitional Justice Regime and its Consequences for Conflict-Induced Environmental Harm |
Name | Lydia Millar |
Alumni: Where are they now
PhD area | The subversive victim: Victimhood and sexual and gender-based violence inside non-state armed groups in Columbia |
Name | Dr Daniela Suarez Vargas |
Years of study | PhD awarded 2024 |
PhD area | The responsibility to protect and the promise of protecting populations 17 years on |
Name | Dr Sian Fisher |
Years of study | PhD awarded 2023 |
PhD area | Reimagining guarantees of non-recurrence in transitional justice: Lessons from Sri Lanka |
Name | Dr Nikhil Narayan |
Years of study | PhD awarded 2023 |
Current position |
Lecturer, School of Law, Queen's University, Belfast |
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 |
Current Position |
Enquiries Officer, Northern Ireland Civil Service |
Discover More
- 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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