
Senior Research Associates
The RLI’s network of senior research associates aims to facilitate collaborative work between established scholars. It also provides a forum for research dissemination to advance the boundaries of their respective fields of study by feeding into national and international policy on the protection of refugees and displaced persons.
Find out how to join the network here.

Amira Y. Badri
Prof. Sociology of Development, Director Social Sciences and Development Research Unit
Ahfad University for Women, Sudan

Dr Céline Bauloz
Senior Migration Research Officer at IOM and Senior Fellow at the Global Migration Centre

Dr Cathryn Costello
Associate Professor of International Human Rights and Refugee Law, Oxford University

Professor Heaven Crawley
Professor at Coventry University’s Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations

Miriam Cullen
Associate Professor of Public Law and Sustainability, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law

Dr Alice Edwards
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Charles Shane Ellison
Clinical Professor of Law/Supervising Attorney, Immigrant Rights Clinic, Duke University School of Law

Dr Michelle Foster
Director of the International Refugee Law Research Programme at Melbourne Law School

Prof David FitzGerald
Professor of Sociology, and Co-Director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California San Diego

Prof Geoff Gilbert
Professor of Law in the School of Law and Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex

Dr Lucy Hovil
Managing Editor of the Intl Journal of Transitional Justice, and Deployable Civilian Expert for the UK Government’s Stabilisation Unit

Prof Satvinder Juss
Director of the MA Course in International Peace & Security at King’s College London

Linda Kirk
Tutor: Protecting Human Rights, Refugees and Displaced Persons in International Law
Associate Professor at UNSW Law in Sydney; Senior Member Administrative App

Prof. Hélène Lambert
Professor of International Law at the University of Westminster, Professor of Law at University of Woollongong

Prof. Jane McAdam
Scientia Professor of Law and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW

Kirsten Mcconnachie
Associate Dean (Postgraduate Research, Faculty of Social Science) and Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, University of East Anglia

Prof. Stephen Meili
Director of the University of Minnesota Law School’s Immigration and Human Rights Clinic

Dr Bríd Ní Ghráinne
Assistant Professor, School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University, Ireland
Senior Researcher at the Judicial Studies Institute, Masaryk University, Czech

Prof. Naohiko Omata
Associate Professor, Refugee Studies Centre, Department of International Development, University of Oxford

Prof. Andrea Pacheco Pacifico
Associate Professor of International Relations/Law, Paraiba State
University

Vicki Squire
Professor of International Politics at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick

Dr. Almamy Sylla
Senior Lecturer at the Université des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines de Bamako (ULSHB), Mali

Dr Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi
Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair in EU Migration Law and Governance at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University and the Maastricht Centre for European Law

Dr. Agnes Woolley
Lecturer in Transnational Literature and Migration Cultures at Birkbeck, University of London

Matthew Zagor
Associate Professor at Australian National University, Director of Law Reform and Social Justice (ANU)

Dr. Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler
Associate Professor in International Refugee Law
at the University of Reading