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.
Dr. Caroline Abu Sa'Da
Director of the Research Unit of MSF Switzerland
Prof. Deborah E. Anker
Director of the Harvard Law School Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program
Dr. Roland Bank
UNHCR
Céline Bauloz
Senior Migration Research Officer at IOM and Senior Fellow at the Global Migration Centre
Bruce Burson
New Zealand Immigration and Protection Tribunal
Dr. Jeff Crisp
Expert analyst on refugee, migration and humanitarian issues
Dr. Cathryn Costello
Associate Professor of International Human Rights and Refugee Law, Oxford University
Prof. Heaven Crawley
Professor at Coventry University’s Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations
Jean-François Durieux
Expert analyst
Dr. Alice Edwards
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Prof. Terje Einarsen
Professor in law at University of Bergen
Dr. Michelle Foster
Director of the International Refugee Law Research Programme at Melbourne Law School
Dr. Maria-Teresa Gil-Bazo
Senior Lecturer at Newcastle Law School
Prof. Geoff Gilbert
Professor of Law in the School of Law and Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex
Dr. Mariaguilia Giuffré
Senior Lecturer in Law at Edge Hill University
Prof. Elspeth Guild
Jean Monnet Professor ad personam at Queen Mary, University of London
Prof. Colin Harvey
Professor of Human Rights Law in the School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast
Dr. Lucy Hovil
Managing Editor of the Intl Journal of Transitional Justice, and Deployable Civilian Expert for the UK Government’s Stabilisation Unit
Prof. Kate Jastram
Director of Policy & Advocacy, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies
Martin Jones
Lecturer in international human rights law at the University of York
Prof. Satvinder Juss
Director of the MA Course in International Peace & Security at King’s College London
Prof. Susan Kneebone
Professorial Fellow and Associate, Asian Law Centre, University of Melbourne
Prof. Hélène Lambert
Professor of International Law at the University of Westminster, Professor of Law at University of Woollongong
Dr. Katy Long
Independent Researcher
Prof. Jane McAdam
Scientia Professor of Law and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW
Prof. Pene Mathew
Dean of Auckland Law School
Prof. Stephen Meili
Director of the University of Minnesota Law School’s Immigration and Human Rights Clinic
Prof. Jennifer Moore
Professor of Law, University of New Mexico
Dr. Violeta Moreno-Lax
Associate Professor in Law, Queen Mary University of London
Dr. Bríd Ní Ghráinne
Assistant Professor, School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University, Ireland
Prof. Naohiko Omata
Associate Professor, Refugee Studies Centre, Department of International Development, University of Oxford
Prof. Jaya Ramji-Nogales
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor at Temple University
Prof. Philip Schrag
Director of Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Legal Studies
Dr. James C. Simeon
Associate Professor, York University Canada
Dr. Dallal Stevens
Associate Professor of Law at the University of Warwick
Dr. Vladislava Stoyanova
Ragnar Söderberg Associate Senior Lecturer Lund University, Sweden
Dr. Evangelina (Lilian) Tsourdi
Departmental Lecturer of International Human Rights and Refugee Law, Oxford University
Matthew Zagor
Associate Professor at Australian National University
New Senior Research Associates (not alphabetised)
Dr. Ralph Wilde
Faculty of Laws at University College London
Dr. Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler
Associate Professor in International Refugee Law
at the University of Reading
Brian Gorlick
International jurist and consultant
Dr. Aaron Petty
Appellate Immigration Judge (US), & Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois
Dr. Almamy Sylla
Senior Lecturer at the Université des Lettres et des
Sciences Humaines de Bamako (ULSHB), Mali
Miriam Cullen
Associate Professor of Public Law and Sustainability, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law
Dr. Agnes Woolley
Lecturer in Transnational Literature and Migration Cultures at Birkbeck, University of London
Prof. Andrea Pacheco Pacifico
Associate Professor of International Relations/Law, Paraiba State
University
Amira Y. Badri
Prof. Sociology of Development, Director Social Sciences and Development Research Unit
Ahfad University for Women, Sudan