Bio
Alex joined the School of Law at Oxford Brookes University in 2020 as a Teaching Fellow in Law. In February 2022, he took up a new role as a Lecturer in Law. In July 2023, Alex was apppointed as a Principal Lecturer in Law and took on Programme Lead responsibilities for several Law programmes including the Final Year Entry Programme and the MC Greece, BCAS and Brickfields partnerships. Alex is currently module leader of the Theory and Critique of Human Rights (LLM) and Contemporary Issues in Human Rights (LLM) modules. Alongside his teaching and administrative responsibilities, Alex is the Research Group Convenor for the Critical Legal Perspectives on Law, Society, Gender and Diversity research group.
Alex holds a PhD in Law from City, University of London for a thesis entitled Queering Refugee Law: A Study of Sexual Diversity in Asylum Policy and Practice in the United Kingdom. Before beginning his doctoral studies, Alex graduated from Birkbeck, University of London with an LLM with Distinction in Constitutional Politics, Law, and Theory and The University of Reading with a first-class LLB in Law. During his LLM, Alex was also awarded the Gilchrist Postgraduate Prize for 'outstanding achievement across all masters programmes' and the LLM in Constitutional Law prize for 'The top graduate on LLM in Constitutional Politics, Law and Theory.'
During his doctoral studies, Alex also held roles as an Associate Lecturer in Law at Royal Holloway, University of London and a Visiting Lecturer and Graduate Teaching Fellow in Law at City, University of London.
Latest Publications
- Powell A, 'Administrative Violence: First Instance Decision-Making in Sexual Diversity Asylum Claims' in Se-Shauna Wheatle, Elizabeth O'Loughlin (ed.), Diverse Voices in Public Law. Bristol University Press (2023) https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/diverse-voices-in-public-law
- Powell, A Developed: Administrative Violence in Sexual Diversity Asylum Claims at the Home Office' in Angela Smith and Drew Dalton (Eds) (ed.), Gender, Sexuality and the UN's SDGs : A Multidisciplinary Approach, Palgrave Macmillan (2023) https://www.sogica.org/database/powell-developed-2023/
- Powell, A. "The place where only gays go: constructions of queer space in the narratives of sexually diverse refugees", (2023) Journal of Place Management and Development, ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JPMD-11-2022-0108