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

Dr Nikhil Gokani

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Public Health Law; Consumer Protection; Food, Nutrition and Alcohol Labelling; Non-Communicable Diseases Prevention; Health Inequalities; Human Rights; Food, Tobacco, Alcohol, Physical Activity, Air Pollution

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

Prof Paul Hunt

Emeritus Professor, Essex Law School

Research interests: International human rights law; Economic, social and cultural rights; The right to the highest attainable standard of health; Poverty, development and human rights

Dr Marija Jovanovic

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Dr Elif Kuskonmaz

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Human Rights Law; Privacy and Data Protection; Digitisation of Border Controls and Migration Management

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.

Dr Osita Mba

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

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

Dr Erin Pobjie

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: the use of force by States (jus ad bellum); outer space security; victims of aggression; international human rights law; international peace and security law; UN collective security; new and emerging technologies and use of force

Professor Ahmed Shaheed

Professor, Essex Law School

Professor Maurice Sunkin

Professor, Essex Law School

Research interests: ERSC Peer Review College; Director of the UK Administrative Justice Institute; Constitutional and Administrative Justice Initiative

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 Gus Waschefort

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Law of Armed Conflict/International Humanitarian Law; Law and Armed Conflict in Africa; The Law of Non-International Armed Conflict

Professor Lorna Woods

Professor, Essex Law School

Research interests: Media regulation; Internet Law; Surveillance

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 Tara Van Ho

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Business and human rights; International investment law and human rights; Economic, social and cultural rights; Transitional justice; International human rights law; Business and human rights in armed conflict

Dr Nikos Vogiatzis

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Professor Ting Xu

Professor, Essex Law School

Research interests: Property Law; Law and Development; Law and Social Theory; Political Economy

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

Dr Richard Bartle

Visiting Professor, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research interests: Virtual worlds (game worlds, social worlds) all aspects of these; Computer Game design; Computer Games design as an art form; Computer Games and society, especially governance, the law and human rights

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

Dr Zorzeta Bakaki

Senior Lecturer, Department of Government

Research interests: International Relations; The quantitative and qualitative analysis of conflict management and resolution; International cooperation; Environmental politics

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

Professor Moya Lloyd

Professor, Department of Government

Research interests: The politics of the human; The work of Judith Butler; The politics of the body; Agency and resistance; Human Rights

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

Professor Rekha Rao-Nicholson

Professor, EBS - Management and Marketing

Research interests: Strategy in emerging economies and emerging-market MNCs; Management and economics of innovation in developed and developing countries; Economic development and sustainability; M&As - Leadership and performance

Dr Camila Vergara

Senior Lecturer, EBS - Management and Marketing

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

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

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 Maria Cristina Fumagalli

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Caribbean literatures, art and cinema; literature and place; border studies (especially concerning the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic); literature and the environment; migration and literature; human rights and literature; literature and the visual arts; contemporary poetry; literary and filmic rewritings, adaptations, translation and comparative studies; contemporary Caribbean and US relations (especially regarding the Dominican and Haitian Diasporas); the work of Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Junot Diaz, and Edwidge Danticat; postcolonial studies; women writing; Italian cinema and literature

Professor Jeffrey Geiger

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: documentary; media practice and theory (creative practice / PaR); amateur cinema; gender and ethnicity in US literature, film, television; island representations; Oceania and the Pacific in film and photography; postcolonial cinemas

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)

Professor Jonathan Lichtenstein

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Contemporary Theatre Writing, Memoir, Autofiction and Life Writing, Melanie Klein, Trauma

Dr Lisa Blackmore

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies

Research interests: Modernity in Latin America; Visual culture; Space and politics; Memory politics; Human-nature relations; Water, hydraulics, liquid ecologies in the arts; Environmental aesthetics; Photography; Digital culture; Contemporary visual production in Latin America; VENEZUELA RESEARCH NETWORK. With Dr. Penélope Plaza (University of Reading), Dr. Rebecca Jarman (University of Leeds).

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: Ethics and politics of attention (particularly the work of Iris Murdoch); Deconstruction; Deliberative democratic theory;

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 contemporary theories and 19th century German authors); Frankfurt School and Contemporary Critical Theory; Aesthetics

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

Professor Renos Papadopoulos

Professor, Department of 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.

Caroline Bald

Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care

Research interests: Generative AI and Social Work Histories; Brain Injury 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

Professor Nelson Fernandez

Professor, School of Life Sciences

Dr James Allen-Robertson

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Algorithmic Power; Web Scraping; Text Mining; Digital Cultures; Software Studies; Hacker Subcultures; The Dark Web; Science and Technology Studies; Computational Social Science

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; The intersection of sexual and economic citizenship; Fiscal sociology and critical taxation studies; Comparative methods and psycho-social methodologies

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

Prof Lydia Morris

Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Research interests: Sociology of Rights; Cosmopolitanism; Citizenship; Human Rights; Trans-national migration; Asylum; Welfare

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

Jessica Twyman

Curator (Exhibition and Public Programme), Library and Cultural Services - Arts

Caroline Checkley

Digital Systems and Services Librarian, Library and Cultural Services

Ask me about: Library systems and technology; Library search and discovery tools; Digital library and e-resources; Library IT provision and software

Ville Karhusaari

Knowledge Exchange Manager, Research and Enterprise Office

Ask me about: 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