
Research Affiliates
RLI Research Affiliates
The RLI Research Affiliates network provides a forum for doctoral students and researchers working on refugee law topics to engage with other researchers in academic exchanges relating to research and developments in the field. The Research Affiliate scheme is open to any researcher registered on a programme of doctorate on a relevant topic at the time of application.
Find out how to join the network here.

Dr. Michal Agmon-Gonnen
Presiding Judge in the Israeli Federal District Court, affiliate Professor at Tel Aviv University and Visiting Professor in Practice at LSE Law School

Jan-Phillip Graf
Research associate and PhD candidate at the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV) at Ruhr University Bochum

Asher Hirsch
Senior Policy Officer with the Refugee Council of Australia
& a PhD candidate at Monash University in Law Faculty

Aleksandra Jolkina
Researcher in European and comparative migration and asylum law, re:constitution fellow

Matt Oliver Kinsella
PhD candidate at the School of Advanced Study and
International Refugee Rights Initiative Uganda

Dr. Nicholas Maple
Lecturer in Refugee Studies; Module Convenor of An Introduction to Forced Migration Studies on the RLI MA Programme

Dr. Elizabeth Mavropoulou
Visiting Lecturer University of Westminster and Programme Manager, Human Rights at Sea

Dr Aphrodite Papachristodoulou
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow - Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, University of Galway

Dr. Annick Pijnenburg
Assistant Professor in International and European Law at Radboud University Nijmegen

Chiara Scissa
PhD candidate in Law at the Institute of Law, Politics and Development, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa

Dr. Dana Schmalz
Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg

Christina Velentza
Policy advisor, attorney at law and legal adviser with the Athens Bar Association

Dr. Janna Wessels
Assistant Professor of Migration Law at the Amsterdam Center for Migration and Refugee Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Hannah Zaruchas
PhD candidate and research fellow at the doctoral training group 'Dynamic Integration' at Humboldt University Berlin

Cristina Zamora-Gómez
PhD candidate in Public International Law and International Relations, University of Seville