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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 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
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 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
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 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
Honorary 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
Professor Klaus McDonald-Maier
Professor,
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Research interests:
Embedded Systems and System-on-Chip (SoC) design, development support and technology to increase performance and reliability; Advanced computer architectures offering vast processing power for robotics, image processing and other real-time critical applications; Application of AI for real world problems and robot control; Cybersecurity
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
Visiting Fellow,
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 Fitra Cahaya
Honorary Lecturer,
Essex Business School
Research interests:
Sustainability reporting; Accounting and governance in developing countries; Disclosure practices in developing countries; Corporate governance
Professor Nicolas Forsans
Professor,
EBS - Business and Management
Visiting Fellow,
Essex Business School
Dr Md Shahidul Islam
Lecturer,
EBS - Accounting and Finance
Research interests:
Corporate political connection; Corporate environmental and sustainability performance; Stakeholder accountability and violation; Financial distress and bankruptcy
Dr Malte Jauch
Lecturer,
EBS - Business and Management
Research interests:
Social Justice; Working Time Regulation; Free Time; Gendered Division of Labour; Inequality
Dr Rama Kummitha
Senior Lecturer,
EBS - Business and Management
Dr Manuela Nocker
Senior Lecturer,
EBS - Business and Management
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
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
Teresa Torres
Senior Lecturer,
School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
Hispanic Cinema; Language and culture
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Professor Shohini Chaudhuri
Professor,
School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
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,
School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
Research interests:
playwriting; eighteenth-century drama and literature
Dr Annecy Lax
Dean of Partnerships (Education) and Senior Lecturer (R),
School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
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,
School of Language, Literature, and Media (SLLaM)
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 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
Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Professor Renos Papadopoulos
Professor,
Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Emeritus Professor,
Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Research interests:
Involuntary dislocation (forced migration), trauma and refugees; Working with survivors of violence (torture) and disasters; Psychosocial humanitarian interventions; Psychosocial perspectives on Human Rights; The interface between Analytical Psychology and systems, family therapy, and culture; Epistemology of therapeutic endeavours; Academic and professional interface with Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
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
Professor Andrew Canessa
Professor,
Department of Sociology and Criminology
Emeritus 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
Head of Department - Professor (R),
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
Professor,
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
Emeritus Professor,
Department of Sociology and Criminology
Research interests:
Indigenous Peoples; Human Rights; Ethnic Studies; Colonialism; American Studies; Environmental Issues; Arts and Literature
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Digital Systems and Services Librarian,
Library and Cultural Services
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Knowledge Exchange Manager,
Research and Enterprise Office
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Kai Yin Low
Research Development Manager,
Research and Enterprise Office
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