Human Rights Centre
Members
Our Human Rights Centre members are from across the University (Essex Law School to the Department of Sociology and Criminology), facilitating interdisciplinary research and teaching.
Essex Law School
Dr Katya Al Khateeb
Senior Research Officer, Essex Law School
Research interests:
Human Rights Law; International Humanitarian Law (IHL); Law & Culture (including art & literature)
Penelope Brearey-Horne
Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School
Research interests:
Medical Law; Healthcare Law and Human Rights; The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 and the NHS; Maternity services
Judith Bueno De Mesquita
Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School
Research interests:
Health and human rights; Economic, social and cultural rights; Climate change; International development and human rights; Poverty and human rights
Dr Koldo Casla
Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School
Research interests:
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; Critique of Human Rights; Spanish Politics; UK Politics; International Relations and Human Rights; Activism, social movements and human rights
Dr Antonio Coco
Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School
Research interests:
Public International Law; International Criminal Law; International Law applicable to Information and Communication Technologies, and in Cyberspace; International Humanitarian Law
Dr Aoife Duffy
Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School
Research interests:
Interdisciplinary Human Rights Scholarship
Dr Sophie Duroy
Lecturer, Essex Law School
Research interests:
Intelligence and Security; Public International Law; Human Rights; Social Science Approaches to International Law
Professor Carla Ferstman
Director of the Human Rights Centre - Professor (R), Essex Law School - Human Rights Centre
Research interests:
Public International Law; Human Rights Law; International Criminal Law
Elizabeth Fisher-Frank
Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School
Dr Tom Flynn
Lecturer, Essex Law School
Research interests:
UK, European and international constitutional law, theory and history; Constitutional pluralism; European and international human rights law; Administrative law
Dr Giulia Gentile
Lecturer, Essex Law School
Professor Geoff Gilbert
Professor, Essex Law School
Research interests:
International Refugee Law; Extradition Law; International Criminal Law; International Humanitarian Law; International Human Rights Law; International Minority Rights Law; Acute Crises and Displacement
Dr Matthew Gillett
Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School
Research interests:
Environmental Law; International Criminal Law; Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism; Space Law; International Human Rights Law; Public International Law
Lee Hansen
Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School
Research interests:
Human Rights in Consumer Law and Practice; LGBT+ Rights; Social Welfare Law; Pedagogy of Clinical Legal Education; Unfair Contract Terms
Julie Hannah
Lecturer, Essex Law School
Professor Karen Hulme
Professor, Essex Law School
Research interests:
Laws of armed conflict; Environmental law; Human rights and the environment
Dr Marija Jovanovic
Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School
Dr Jessica Lawrence
Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School
Research interests:
Public International Trade Law; Governmentality; International Investment Law; EU Internal Market Law; Critical Theory; International Economic Law; Business and Human Rights; Trade and Environment; Investment and Environment; Investment and Human Rights; Trade and Human Rights; Critical Approaches to International Law; EU Trade and Investment Policy
Professor Andrew Le Sueur
Professor, Essex Law School
Research interests:
The constitutional role of the judiciary; Administrative law and justice; Tiny legal systems (serving populations of fewer than 100,000); Human Rights in the British Crown Dependencies; Nineteenth Century English constitutional and justice system; Constitutional and Administrative Justice Initiative
Dr Ebba Lekvall
Lecturer, Essex Law School
Research interests:
Transitional Justice; Reparation; International Criminal Law; International Human Rights Law; Indigenous rights
Dr Marina Lostal
Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School
Professor Noam Lubell
Professor, Essex Law School
Research interests:
International Humanitarian Law / Law of Armed Conflict; Conduct of Hostilities; Military Occupation; New Military and Law Enforcement Technologies, including Cyber Operations, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Human Enhancement; The Use of Force by States; Self-Defence; the UN Collective Security Framework; Counter-Terrorism.
Professor Lorna McGregor
Professor, Essex Law School - Human Rights Centre
Professor Sabine Michalowski
Professor, Essex Law School
Research interests:
Medical Law; Business and human rights; Transitional Justice, with a particular focus on the Colombian peace process, socio-economic dimensions of TJ and the inclusion of economic actors in TJ processes; Health Care Law and Human Rights
Colin Moore
Lecturer, Essex Law School
Research interests:
Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility
Dr Niall O'Connor
Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School
Research interests:
Employment Law; Fundamental Rights; European Union Law; Brexit Law
Dr Charilaos Nikolaidis
Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School
Research interests:
Human Rights law; Equality law; Judicial Reasoning; Law and Politics; European Union law; Law and Literature
Dr Patricia Palacios Zuloaga
Lecturer, Essex Law School
Research interests:
International Human Rights Law; Inter-American Human Rights Law; Women's Rights; Transitional Justice; International Adjudication in Human Rights; Discrimination; International Criminal Law; Sexual and Reproductive Rights; LGBTIQ+ Rights
Professor Ahmed Shaheed
Professor, Essex Law School
Dr Nathanael Tilahun
Senior Lecturer in International Law, Essex Law School
Dr Tuba Turan
Lecturer, Essex Law School
Dr Stephen Turner
Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School
Research interests:
Global Environmental Governance; Human Rights and the Environment; International Environmental Law; Corporate Responsibility; International Trade / Investment and the Environment; Climate Change Law; Banking / Finance / Insurance and the Environment; Constitutional Environmental Rights
Dr Meagan Wong
Lecturer, Essex Law School
Research interests:
International Criminal Law; The Law on the Use of Force; International Law of the Sea; International Environmental Law; Law of Treaties; State responsibility; International dispute settlement; International Institutional Law; Public International Law; International watercourses law
Dr Nikos Vogiatzis
Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School
Dr Anil Yilmaz Vastardis
Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School
Research interests:
Business and human rights; International Investment Law; Settlement of international disputes; Corporate law; International investment and human rights; International investment law, environmental protection and climate change
Zhenbin Zuo
Lecturer, Essex Law School
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
Department of Government
Dr Zorzeta Bakaki
Senior Lecturer, Department of Government
Research interests:
International Relations; International cooperation; Environmental politics; The quantitative and qualitative analysis of conflict management and resolution
Professor Paul Bou-Habib
Professor, Department of Government
Research interests:
contemporary theories of distributive justice; the just distribution of resources between age groups; the role of the concept of dignity in normative political theory
Dr James Christensen
Senior Lecturer, Department of Government
Research interests:
Analytic political theory; Global justice; Trade justice; The ethics of the arms trade
Professor Faten Ghosn
Head of Department - Professor (R), Department of Government
Essex Business School
Dr Pasi Ahonen
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing
Research interests:
Management of diversity and difference in organisations; History, memory and temporality in and of organisations; Leadership, power and ways of leading; Organisations, the media and representation and mediatisation of organisations
Professor Peter Bloom
Professor, EBS - Management and Marketing
Dr Fitra Cahaya
Lecturer, EBS - Accounting
Research interests:
Sustainability reporting; Accounting and governance in developing countries; Disclosure practices in developing countries; Corporate governance
Dr Osamuyimen Egbon
Lecturer, EBS - Accounting
Research interests:
Social/Environmental/Sustainability Reporting; Accounting in the public interest; Accountability of multinational corporations in emerging economies; Corporate-community relations; Sustainable development goals; Public sector accountability in developing economies; Water accounting
Professor Nicolas Forsans
Professor, EBS - Management and Marketing
Dr Md Shahidul Islam
Lecturer, EBS - Accounting
Research interests:
Corporate political connection; Corporate environmental and sustainability performance; Stakeholder accountability and violation; Financial distress and bankruptcy
Dr Malte Jauch
Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing
Research interests:
Social Justice; Working Time Regulation; Free Time; Gendered Division of Labour; Inequality
Dr Rama Kummitha
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)
Dr Manuela Nocker
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)
Research interests:
Critical approaches to project work, particularly project teams; Organisational ethnography; The narrative and poetic approaches in organisational analysis; Identity construction and the management of identity; Ethics, social responsibility and sustainability; Collaboration and learning; Strategy-as-practice; Organisational innovation
Dr Camila Vergara
Senior Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing
Department of Economics
Professor Rossella Argenziano
Professor, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Microeconomic Theory; Game Theory; Industrial Organization; Decision Theory
Professor Friederike Mengel
Professor, Department of Economics
Research interests:
(Evolutionary) Game Theory; Learning and Categorization; Models of (Bounded) Rationality; Social Networks; Behavioural and Experimental Economics; Family and health economics
Department of Language and Linguistics
Professor Enam Al-Wer
Professor, Department of Language and Linguistics
Research interests:
Variation and change (with special interest in Modern Arabic Dialects); Dialect/language contact; Dialectology and dialect geography; Formation of New Dialects; Gender differentiation in language; Language maintenance/shift; Multilingualism and code-switching
Teresa Torres
Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics
Research interests:
Hispanic Cinema; Language and culture
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Professor Shohini Chaudhuri
Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
Research interests:
notions of world cinema, intercultural and transnational cinema; film and human rights; gender and feminist theory; film theory and affect
Professor Elizabeth Kuti
Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
Research interests:
playwriting; eighteenth-century drama and literature
Dr Annecy Lax
Dean of Partnerships (Education) and Senior Lecturer (R), Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies
Dr Matthew Burch
Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies
Research interests:
Matt works on issues at the intersection of phenomenology; action theory; and research in the cognitive and social sciences.
Dr William Carruthers
Lecturer, School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies
Research interests:
History of heritage; History of museums; History of archaeology; History of anthropology; Politics and ethics of archaeology and heritage; History of the field sciences; The field sciences, imperialism and colonialism; History, politics, and practice of archives; Dams and dispossession; Middle East history
Professor Fatima El Issawi
Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
Research interests:
Media and Democratization; Arab Media; Journalistic Practices and Models; Media Systems; Media in Transitions; Media Policy
Dr Lorna Finlayson
Lecturer, School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies
Professor Fabian Freyenhagen
Professor, School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies
Research interests:
Theory, history and practice of autonomy; Frankfurt School (especially Adorno); Ethics (particularly critique of Kant's and Kantian ethics); Political Philosophy
Dr Steven Gormley
Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies
Research interests:
Research Interests
Professor Sean Kelley
Professor, School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies
Research interests:
New World slavery; The transatlantic slave trade; Africans in the Americas; Transnational mercantile networks and connections; Maritime history; Testimony, autobiography, and narrative in African and Atlantic history; Global and transnational approaches to history
Dr Matt Lodder
Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies
Research interests:
tattooing and body modification in their historical and theoretical contexts; lowbrow, outsider, countercultural, kitsch and erotic art & visual culture; the visual and cultural contexts of sex and sadomasochism, including pornography; internet and digital art; methodologies of art historical and visual culture study
Professor Wayne Martin
Professor, School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies
Research interests:
Philosophy of Psychiatry; Phenomenology (esp Hume, Husserl, Heidegger, Th Lipps, L&oslashgstrup); Kant and post-Kantian idealism (esp Fichte); The history and philosophy of logic; Philosophy and painting; Self-Consciousness; Autonomy and the Regulation of Care; Political Philosophy; Will, Agency and Contract
Professor Lucy Noakes
Professor, School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies
Research interests:
I am a social and cultural historian of modern warfare
Dr Joerg Schaub
Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies
Research interests:
Social and Political Philosophy (focus on democratic ethical life, justice, reconciliation, politics, methodology; German authors from the 18th Century to the present esp. Hegel and Honneth); Frankfurt School and Contemporary Critical Theory; Aesthetics (Aesthetic Recognition, Aesthetic and Politics, Aesthetics and Freedom, Hegel, Schiller), History/Theory of Art
Dr Xun Zhou
Reader, School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies
Research interests:
Race and Ethnicity in East Asia; Social History of Drugs; Visual History, Southeast and East Asia; Social and Political History of Modern China; History of Public Health and Medicine in 20th century China; Food and Foodways; Global Environmental History; History of Religion in Modern East Asia; Global Public Health
School of Health and Social Care
Dr Simone Coetzee
Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests:
Participatory action research and critical ethnography; Organisational case study &ndash sustainable health and social care; Third sector health and social care involvement; Social enterprises; People with learning disabilities; Occupational science; Food growing as a tool for community development and individual wellbeing; Permaculture as a working approach to promote occupational, social and environmental justice; The Occupational Experience of People with Different Abilities in a Horticultural Social Enterprise
Professor Anuj Kapilashrami
Professor, School of Health and Social Care
Professor Ewen Speed
Professor, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests:
Governance and citizenship in context of health and healthcare; Neoliberalism, the third sector and health care provision; Discourse analysis, interpretive policy analysis
Department of Sociology and Criminology
Dr James Allen-Robertson
Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Research interests:
Digital Cultures; Tech Culture; Science and Technology Studies; Computational Social Science; Far-right radicalisation; Tech culture elites; Fascism
Professor Andrew Canessa
Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Research interests:
Indigenous studies; Latin America, especially the Andes; Gender and sexualities; Ethnic and racial identities; Bolivia, especially indigenous peoples; Gibraltar
Professor Eamonn Carrabine
Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Research interests:
Crime and the Media; Cultural and Social Geography; Popular Music and Sociological Thinking; Punishment and Human Rights; Sociology of Imprisonment; Visual Sociology; Youth Culture
Dr Isabel Crowhurst
Reader, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Research interests:
Gender and sexuality; Sex work and sex industry studies; Fiscal sociology and critical taxation studies; Comparative methods and psycho-social methodologies; Crime and marginalisation; Criminology and Social Exclusion; Intimacy and Personal Life
Professor Neli Demireva
Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Research interests:
social cohesion; multiculturalism and civic integration; crime and neighbourhood effects; job search and labour market inclusion
Dr Carlos Gigoux Gramegna
Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Research interests:
Human Rights; Indigenous Peoples; Sustainable Development; Social Movements; Refugees
Dr Katerina Hadjimatheou
Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Research interests:
police and tech ethics, digital policing, surveillance, security, criminal records, domestic abuse, vulnerabilities,, and human trafficking; Domestic abuse
Professor Sandya Hewamanne
Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Research interests:
Gender and Sexuality; Economic and Feminist Anthropology (and Sociology); Development; Human Rights; Medical Anthropology; South Asia
Professor Anuj Kapilashrami
Professor, School of Health and Social Care
Professor Renee Luthra
Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Research interests:
International Migration; Social Stratification
Professor Linsey McGoey
Head of Department - Professor (R), Department of Sociology and Criminology
Research interests:
Social theories of knowledge and ignorance; Economic sociology; Global health governance; Human rights-based approaches to health and development; Sociology of religion
Professor Róisín Ryan-Flood
Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Research interests:
Gender, sexuality and citizenship, with particular reference to kinship, assisted reproduction and migration; feminist epistemology; research methodology; ESRC funded project about Sexuality, 'Citizenship and migration: the Irish Queer Diaspora in London'
Professor Colin Samson
Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Research interests:
Indigenous Peoples; Human Rights; Ethnic Studies; Colonialism; American Studies; Environmental Issues; Arts and Literature
Research and Enterprise
Ville Karhusaari
Knowledge Exchange Manager, Research and Enterprise Office
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Knowledge exchange - consultancy, contract research, Knowledge Transfer Partnerships and collaboration with external organisations; Engaging with business, public sector and not-for-profit organisations; Internal and external funding to support the commercialisation of your research and expertise; Executive Education, CPD & short courses; Accessing Essex academic expertise, knowledge and funding mechanisms to support research, innovation & development of your organisation
Kai Yin Low
Research Development Manager, Research and Enterprise Office
