Jocelyn Bell

Biography

Jocelyn is an experienced ethnographer and social science researcher. She is currently pursuing her PhD in both the Department of Sociology and the Department of Life Sciences. She has previously studied the modern slavery, the right to health for Indigenous women, and cultural heritage in Norway. Her publication "Rights, Repatriation, and the Return: The Sami" was published in the edited volume Countering Modernity: Coopereative Models from Indigenous Peoples. Her current research centers on the ecological grief experienced by the Sami people in the wake of climate change and the green transition. This research is supported by the Leverhulme Sustainable Transitions Doctoral Training Program. The interdisciplinary PhD program reflects her background in anthropology, life sciences, and human rights law. Jocelyn has previously dedicated her time to projects at the World Health Organisation and Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State University, during her LLM and BSc respectively.

Qualifications

• MA Anthropology Southern Methodist University (2023)

• LLM Human Rights University of Nottingham (2020)

• BSc Anthropology, minor Biology Texas State University (2018)

Thesis