Current PhD students
The Centre for Applied Human Rights has PhD students conducting research in a variety of fields.
Anaïs Brunier
- Monitoring and Learning from Humanitarian Engagement with Religious Leaders - A MEAL for Interdisciplinary and Norms Compliance Analysis?
- Supervised by Professor Ioana Cismas and Dr Mattia Pinto
Brian Frenkel
- Navigating Normative Crossroads: The use of IHL by Human Rights
- Treaty Bodies as a case study of the interaction between human rights and other international legal regimes
- Supervised by Professor Ioana Cismas and Dr Piergiuseppe Parisi
Zaki Kaf Al-Ghazal
- Sovereignty and the Enforcement of Legal Norms in International Criminal Law
- Supervised by Professor Matt Matravers and Dr Piergiuseppe Parisi
- Making sense of the right to food in cities in England: Two qualitative case studies in York and Leeds
- Human rights cities in the United States and the United Kingdom
Jack Mayhew
- What can the campaign against IPP tell us about justice in late capitalism?
- Conducting NATO Operations and Missions in Compliance with International Human Rights Law
- How land grabs in developing countries affect the land rights of local people
- Precarity and the Politics of Time: Doing Care, Reimagining Work and the Community
- Access to Justice and Non-Judicial Mechanisms of Cooperation and Coordination in Zambia: Challenges and Opportunities.
Martha Thickett
- Passing on the Torch: Using the arts to facilitate intergenerational dialogue promoting the transmission of LGBTQ+ cultural knowledge, memory, resilience, and resistance
- Supervised by Professor Sue Westwood and Professor Ioana Cismas
Xiaxin Wang
- Institutional Personhood: Reimagining Legal Personality for Nature Through the Lens of Chinese Environmental Law
- Supervised by Dr Piergiuseppe Parisi and Professor Ioana Cismas

PhD Blog
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Featured alumni profiles
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