Our members

Professor Andrew Bateman

Professor (R) and Director NIHR Research Design Service, School of Health and Social Care

Professor Carla Ferstman

Professor, Essex Law School

Research interests: Public International Law; Human Rights Law; International Criminal Law

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 Grant

Reader, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

Research interests: British history since 1939; impact of war and conflict on the home front; The cold war and nuclear conflict; Citizenship in Britain

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

Professor Vasilios Ioakimidis

Professor, School of Health and Social Care

Dr Marina Lostal

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Professor Tracey Loughran

Professor, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

Research interests: History of gender; History of psychology and psychoanalysis; History of subjectivity; History of war and trauma; Historiography and historical theory

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

Professor Lucy Noakes

Professor, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

Research interests: I am a social and cultural historian of modern warfare

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.

Dr Brian Phillips

Reader (R), Department of Government

Research interests: Civil conflict; Terrorism; Organised crime

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 Clara Sandoval-Villalba

Professor, Essex Law School

Research interests: Public International Law; International Human Rights Law; Transitional Justice; Legal Theory; Constitutional Law; Business and Human Rights; Reparations

Dr Tuba Turan

Lecturer, Essex Law School

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

Dr Claire Simmons

Visiting Fellow, Essex Law School

Research interests: International Humanitarian Law; International Human Rights Law; International Refugee Law; Military Justice; International Criminal Law

Dr Katya Al Khateeb

Senior Research Officer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Human Rights Law; International Humanitarian Law (IHL); Law & Culture (including art & literature)

Carlos Simoes Ferreira E Penha

Assistant Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: International Humanitarian Law; International Human Rights Law; International Criminal Law; Drug Policy; Indigenous Rights