Migration, Asylum and Law

Dr Ermioni Xanthopoulou Ermioni is a Senior Lecturer in law and Director of Research for Brunel Law School . She is currently teaching EU, migration and refugee law. Her research focuses on (EU) criminal, migration, and asylum law, as well as human rights. Ermioni was granted the Athena Swan Research Award 2022-2023 to conduct her individual research project on externalising trends of asylum law. Together with Dr. Nayyeri, they published evidence that the government's asylum policy was unlauful. Ermioni also participated in ITFLOWS, a three-year long research project funded by European Commission's Horizon 2020, as a member of the BUL team assessing human rights challenges posed by technological tools predicting migration. Moreober, she is the author of 'The European Arrest Warrant in a context of distrust: Is the Court taking rights seriously?'. European Law Journal, pp. 218 - 233. ISSN: 1351-5993 She is also the author of 'Fundamental Rights and Mutual Trust in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: A Role for Proportionality?' published with Hart Publishing in 2020 and of several other publications. Her article, 'Mutual Trust and Rights in EU Criminal and Asylum Law: Three Phases of Evolution and the Unchartered Territory beyond Blind Trust', was awarded the 2017 Common Market Law Review Prize for young academics. Ermioni conducted her doctoral research at King's College London (2012-2017) with a scholarship from the Centre of European Law. Crime, security, migration, asylum, human rights. EU area of freedom security and justice, EU Criminal law, EU asylum and migration law, EU human rights and constitutional law. Publications E Xanthopoulou 'The European Arrest Warrant in a context of distrust: Is the Court taking rights seriously?' (2023) European Law Journal E Xanthopoulou & M Nayyeri 'Written evidence on human rights of asylum seekers' (2022) Parliament Human Rights Joint Committee E Xanthopoulou, ‘Mapping the EU’s Externalisation Devices: Repulsion, Emergency and Neo-coloniality’ (2023) (under peer-review with European Journal of Migration and Law) Ermioni is the author of 2018) 'Mutual trust and rights in EU criminal and asylum law: Three phases of evolution and the uncharted territory beyond blind trust'. Common Market Law Review, 55 (2). pp. 489 - 509. ISSN: 0165-0750 that won the prize for Young Academics in 2017 by the journal. She is also the author of Fundamental Rights and Mutual Recognition in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: A Role for Proportionality (Hart, forthcoming) ‘International Fight against Impunity and EU Counter-Terrorism Law: The Case of Foreign Terrorist Fighters’ co-authored with T. Konstadinides (peer-reviewed chapter for the edited book by Dr. Montaldo and Dr. Marin, The Fight Against Impunity in EU Law 2020, Hart Publishing) ‘Legal Uncertainty, Distrust and Injustice in Brexit Asylum Cooperation’ (peer-reviewed chapter for the edited book by Ahmed and Fahey, On Brexit: Law, Justice and Injustices 2020, Edgar) ‘The quest for proportionality for European Arrest Warrant and fundamental rights protection in a mutual recognition environment’ (2015) New Journal of European Criminal Law32-52 Other "Mutual Trust and Fundamental Rights in the Dublin System: A Role for Proportionality?" Odysseus Blog (2021) 'From mutual trust to mutual distrust in the EU’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice' REAL Blog (2021) 'Brexit spells sliding safeguarding duties' (2019) Britain must commit to upholding civil liberties if the EU is to agree on security co-operation after Brexit (The Conversation, 2018) Radu judgment: A lost opportunity and a story of how the mutual trust obsession shelved human rights (KSLR EU Law Blog, 2013) European Union Law Migrant, State and the Law Refugee Policy and Practice

Dr Mohammad Nayyeri Dr Mohammad Nayyeri is a Lecturer in Law in the Public and International Law Division at Brunel Law School. Mohammad gained his PhD in Law in 2020 at King’s College London. His thesis focused on the role of international legal practice in theorising human rights and engaged with general legal theories and contemporary philosophical approaches to human rights. Having previously studied law in Iran up to PhD level and qualified as Attorney at Law, he was awarded a Chevening Scholarship from the British Council and studied an LLM in Human Rights at Birkbeck, University of London. He also obtained a Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) at the University of Westminster. Before joining Brunel, Mohammad worked as Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent and held visiting positions at the London School of Economics (LSE) and King’s College London where he taught a range of classes on public law, EU law, property law and jurisprudence. He also worked as Legal Advisor and Senior Associate at the University of Essex Human Rights in Iran Unit. More recently, Mohammad held fellowships at the Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN) and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. Mohammad has extensive experience of working with NGOs and has had conduct of cases and representations before international bodies and mechanisms including the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, and national bodies including National Contact Points (NCPs) in business and human rights cases. Mohammad has been accepted by various judicial authorities including the UK’s Courts and tribunals as an independent legal expert able to give opinion on legal issues and conditions relating to Iranian law and in asylum and immigration cases. He is also recognised and listed as a country expert by the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA). Mohammad has also been instructed as an independent expert by leading law firms across the UK, Canada, US, Australia, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands and produced numerous expert reports which he has presented to various courts, most recently regarding the recognition and enforcement of a major arbitral award before the Hague Court of Appeal and the High Court in London. Mohammad's research interests particularly concern human rights law and philosophy, international law, constitutional law, comparative law, and jurisprudence. Jurisprudence and Legal Theory Human Rights Theory International Human Rights Law Immigration and Asylum Law Business and Human Rights Law of the European Union Public Law Islamic Law Comparative Law Contract Law Public Law European Union Law International Law Business and Human Rights The Migrant, the State and the Law

Professor Alexandra Xanthaki Alexandra is a leading expert on indigenous rights in international law. AMong her several publications, her monograph Indigenous Rights and United Nations Standards: Self-determination, Culture and Land (Cambridge University Press) is considered a reference source on the topic. In 2011 Alexandra co-edited Reflections on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Hart) and most recently, in 2017, Indigenous Peoples' Cultural Heritage (Martinus Nijhoff/ Brill). Her work has been cited repeatedly in United Nations documents and she has given keynote speeches around the world, including the Arctic Centre, Rovaniemi; the KL Bar, Malaysia; Trento, Italy; and London. She has worked closely with the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Issues, the ILO. Currently she is working with Minority Rights Group International on the rights of the Latin American community in the 7sisters re-development in Haringey, London. She has taught civil servants, indigenous leaders and activities in Vietnam, Pretoria, Kyiv, and London. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (University of London). Before she joined Brunel university, Alexandra taught in Keele and Liverpool. She has received the STAR award for her teaching and stduent support. She is a member of the Human Rights Faculty of the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford and has been an external examiner in several law departments, currently at Birkbeck. Since October 2015, Alexandra leads the Athens Refugee Project, where she takes Brunel law students to Athens to volunteer in migrant and refugee sites, provide assistance and learn more on the refugee crisis in Europe from discussions with state authoriites, NGOs and IGOs. She has found invaluable partners in Maria Voutsinou from the Greek Ombudsman for Human Rights and Kenneth Hansen from Faros ('The Lighthouse'), an NGO on unaccompanied minors. Brunel University has received a congratulatory letter from the Greek state for this project. In 2017, Alexandra organised a series of academic multi-disciplinary events on Migrant and Refugee Rights in London (with IALS) and Athens. Qualifications: LLB (Athens); LLM (QUB); PhD (Keele); Lawyer (Athens Bar) International Human Rights; International Minority Rights Student Support As the Director of Research, I am responsible for the strategic direction of the School in relation to staff research activity and research student matters.

Dr Katalin Halasz Katalin is a body scholar working across film, video art, installation, performance, cross-dressing and curation to inquire into her research interests of affect/emotion, senses/embodiment, racialization/whiteness, gender, belonging, migration and nationalism. She joined Brunel University as a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in 2021. Her Leverhulme research project is on 'Affective whiteness: racializing Hungarian national identity '. As part of this research, she has produced the video installation on racial discomfort You Are Invited, which was presented at the Pratt Institute in NYC and at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa; and the short essay film on national belonging The bell rings. After finishing her PhD in Visual Sociology, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Politics of Patents ERC funded research project at Goldsmiths, University of London. She held teaching positions at City and Goldsmiths universities. Before her academic career, Katalin worked in the antiracist movement (European Network Against Racism, Action for Race Equality and The Runnymede Trust), and developed her art practice. Katalin has staged a number of participatory and multimedia performances in Brazil, Bolivia, Denmark, Germany, South Africa, the USA and the UK and curated the exhibitions Visualising Affect and The Future of Art is Urban – Artistic Research Practices and Methods in Social Sciences. More on her artful sociological research can be found on her website: katalinhalasz.com Katalin is on the Board of the International Visual Sociology Association and on the Editorial Board of Qualitative Research. Race, whiteness, and gender Affect, senses, and embodiment Migration Belonging Nationalism Feminism and antiracism Arts-based and creative methodologies

Professor Nicola Ansell Since I arrived at Brunel in 1999, my interests have focused on social and cultural change in the lives of young people in the Global South (particularly southern Africa). I have researched the impacts of AIDS on young people’s migration; how education sectors are adjusting to the needs of AIDS-affected young people; and the impacts of AIDS on young people’s current livelihoods and future food security. Recently, I have completed two research projects. The first examines the impacts of social cash transfers (for instance old age pensions and child grants) on generational relations in Malawi and Lesotho. The second investigates links between education and aspiration in remote rural areas of Lesotho, Laos and India. I have also authored a book on Children, youth and development (second edition published 2016) and launched an MA programme on Children, Youth and International Development. Social and cultural change in the lives of young people in the Global South (particularly in southern Africa); politics and impacts of global policy agendas (particularly in the areas of education, children’s rights and social protection); geographies of youth and childhood; scalar politics; participatory research. Teaching Responsibilities: Programme convenor: MA Children, Youth and International Development Module convenor: Understanding Childhood and Youth (PG) Researching Children, Childhood and Youth (PG) Applied Learning for Children, Youth and International Development (PG) Dissertation, Children, Youth and International Development (PG)

Dr Anna Tuckett Dr. Anna Tuckett received her PhD from the London School of Economics in 2014. She specialises in political and legal anthropology, with a specific focus on migration in Italy and the UK. Anna is particularly interested in how people experience and manage the state, law and bureaucracy in their everyday lives. Her book, Rules, Paper, Status: Migrants and Precarious Bureaucracy in Contemporary Italy (2018), published by Stanford University Press was awarded the 2019 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology. It examines the ways in which immigration laws and policies work on the ground in one of Europe’s biggest receiving countries. It analyses the complex processes of inclusion and exclusion that are produced through encounters with immigration law as migrants attempt to obtain legal status, renew permits and be reunited with family members. Anna's work offers new insights into established anthropological debates concerning the state, brokerage, subjectivity and ethics through the lens of a high-profile contemporary social issue, while also providing unique perspectives on debates around legality, illegality and integration. Anna’s most recent research was conducted in London as part of a collaborative ESRC-funded project entitled ‘An ethnography of advice: between market, society and the declining welfare state’. Exploring the emergence of unofficial and unregulated citizenship test schools in London, Anna's study examines the lived realities of integration policies within a wider context of austerity measures and state reconfiguration. Prior to joining Brunel, Anna held teaching and research positions at LSE.

Dr Diana Suleimenova I am a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Brunel University London. I am a member the Modelling & Simulation Group and the Computer Science for Social Good research groups. My​​ research concentrates on agent-based modelling, forced displacement prediction, and verification, validation and uncertainty quantification (VVUQ) of multiscale applications deployed on emerging exascale platforms. I worked as a Research Fellow in Multiscale Migration Prediction for the Horizon 2020 projects, namely Verified Exascale Computing for Multiscale Applications (VECMA), HPC and Big Data Technologies for Global Systems (HiDALGO) and IT tools and methods for managing migration FLOWS (ITFLOWS). Currently, I am a Knowledge Exchange coordinator for the Software Environment for Actionable and VVUQ-evaluated Applications (SEAVEA), which aims to develop an exascale-ready toolkit for VVUQ techniques in application to various domains. I am interested in predicting and forecasting forced displacement movements using an agent-based modelling. Modelling and Simulation, Agent-based Modelling, Forced Displacement Prediction, Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification Currently, I am the module leader for a second-year CS2007 ICTs in Society module. It is a core module for the Business Computing degree. Moreover, I am a tutor for first-year undergraduate students (CS1701 Group Project Lectures and Tutorials module). I also supervise the CS3072-CS3605 Final year projects and MSc dissertations (CS5500) in Computer Science.

Dr Maria Kastrinou Maria Kastrinou is a social anthropologist with fieldwork experience in South-Eastern Mediterranean, specifically in Syria, Greece, Lebanon and in the Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights. Her research critically interrogates the politics of religion, sect, state and statelessness, the political and cultural lives of refugees, and the political economy of conflict and resistance. Her monograph Power, Sect and State in Syria (I.B. Tauris 2016) is the first ethnography of the Druze minority in Syria, and one of only a handful of anthropological works about Syria. She has been engaged with projects on sectarianism, statelessness and refugees in the Middle East and she is currently working on the Druze Heritage Foundation funded research project ‘Lives across divides: Ethnographic stories from the Golan Heights.’ Experimenting between anthropology and theatre, together with Hannah Knoerk and Johannes Birringer, they formed the Hotspot Collective and created, produced and performed ‘The Price of Water’ – a political play about refugees, capitalism and the Hotspot critically engaging with Kastrinou's ethnographic work in Greece and the Middle East. I convene the second year undergraduate module Political and Economic Issues in Anthropology. I am contributing to Making the Social (convened by Gareth Dale) and teach on Global London (convened by Inge Dornan). In the past, I have convened or taught the following modules: Classical Anthropological Theory; Introduction to Social Anthropology; Anthropology, Objects and Images; Anthropological Perspectives on War and Humanitarian Assistance; Practising Anthropology 1; Ethnographic Research Methods; Ethnographic Encounters.

Dr Anita Howarth Anita Howarth's research interests lie at the intersection of media/journalism and social justice issues, with a particular focus on how interactions of different political actors legitimize or challenge, resist or disrupt dominant perspectives. The nature of the research focus has led Anita to interdisciplinary research that draws on media/journalism studies, political thought and policy studies as well as sociology. She is currently writing a monograph entitled Britain's Manufactured Migrant Crisis: A Visual Politics, that is due to be published by Taylor & Francis in late 2025 and as part of the primary analysis Anita has developed a new methodology to deal with uncertainties over what images are manipulated, reappropriated and recycled and which are not. The methodology underpins the research on a range of themes including: The performative politics of cruelty under the Conservative Government Challenging dominant narratives through cartoons and animation The visual strategies of the radical right. Other research themes include Political, media and public struggles over food whether it be GMOs, contamination and hunger/food banks. British policy and media responses to contemporary refugee crises home and overseas (including at Calais) Fake news, reappropriated images and hoax websites. Prior to entering academia, Anita worked as a journalist on the business press, online news sites and financial desk of a national newspaper Political communication Food communication Risk communication · Humanitarian communication, migration and refugees · The politics and communication of food · Digital technologies in university classrooms · Environmental communication, journalism and risk Year 1 module: Foundations of research Year 3 module: Journalism in the Digital Age PG Module: Ethics PG Module: International Institutions

Dr Elena Abrusci Elena joined Brunel in 2021 as Lecturer in Law. Prior to that, she worked as a Policy Advisor on Digital Regulation at the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and as a Senior Research Officer at the University of Essex on the ESRC-funded 'The Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project'. Elena has also extensively worked on modern slavery and human trafficking at the Rights Lab of the University of Nottingham and at Walk Free Foundation, contributing to the 2017, 2018 and 2019 editions of the Global Slavery Index. She acted as a consultant for several UN agencies (including WHO, UNESCO and OHCHR), tech companies and governments. Elena has an interdisciplinary background in law and politics and her research focuses on regional human rights systems and the impact of AI and technology on human rights. She holds a PhD in Law from the University of Nottingham, a Master in International Relations and Law from the University of Florence and Sciences-Po Paris, a postgraduate diploma in Politics from Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa) and an undergraduate degree in Politics and International Relations from the University of Pisa. Her PhD thesis explored the issues of judicial convergence and fragmentation in International Human Rights Law, looking at the case-law of the African, European and Inter-American human rights court and has been published as a monograph by Cambridge University Press in December 2022. Elena's research interests include: regional human rights systems, their institutional settings and case-law; the impact of emerging technologies and artificial intelligence on human rights, online content moderation with a specific focus on disinformation/misinformation and online hate speech; digital regulation and AI governance. International Human Rights Law Regional Human Rights Systems Digital Regulation and Governance Human Rights & Technology Hate speech and freedom of expression online LX3072 - International Human Rights Law (module convenor) LX1032 - Public Law LX2081 - European Union Law LX3608 - Law, Science and Technology PP3665 - Parliamentary Studies

Professor Joana Vassilopoulou Dr Vassilopoulou is a Professor in EDI & HRM and the Divisional Lead of the Organisations and People Department at Brunel Business School, Brunel University London. Her research focuses on equality, diversity & inclusion, gender, migration, AI & diversity and precarious work from a critical and international comparative perspective. She has been part of grants in the field of diversity and inclusion with a total value of over £2.5 million, such as for the OECD, the European Academy of Management (EURAM), EU Horizon2020 and EU Erasmus+. She is the Co-Founder of the Centre for Inclusion at Work (CEFI), in Athens, Greece: Joana Vassilopoulou has an established academic and professional record in the field of diversity and inclusion, is frequently invited to deliver talks and has organised and hosted the international Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) conference twice. Joana was an editor at the Work, Employment and Society (WES) Journal from 2020 to 2024 and from 2015 to 2020, she served as an Associate Editor of the European Management Review (EMR). She was a board member of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) and the UK National Representative of EURAM. She has published over 50 publications in edited collections and journals such as Human Resource Management Journal, Work, Employment and Society, European Journal of Industrial Relations, International Business Review and the International Journal of Human Resource Management. She is an associated faculty member at the Erasmus Centre for Women and Organisations, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam/Netherlands, and she has held visiting Professorships at Dauphine University, Paris /France, MCI Innsbruck (Austria), and the University of Wuppertal (Germany). Dr Vassilopoulou is the recipient of a visiting scholarship at Sydney University’s business school (2017), the winner of the Transnational Best Paper Award at the American Academy of Management conference (2012), and the recipient of the University of East Anglia’s Norwich Business School Diversity and Equality in Careers and Employment Research PhD scholarship (2007-2010). She has a PhD from Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia and her Social Science/Sociology degree from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Equality, diversity & inclusion, gender, migration, AI & diversity and precarious work, from a critical and international comparative perspective. Research group(s) Human Resource Management and Organization Behaviour Research Group (HRMOB) Dr Vassilopoulou's research focuses on equality, diversity & inclusion, gender, migration, AI & diversity and precarious work, from a critical and international comparative perspective.. MG3018 Gender in Organisations MB5527 Leading People and Managing Organisations

Professor Nigar Hashimzade I joined Brunel in December 2019. My research interests are in applied microeconomic theory. Recently, my research has focussed on various issues in taxation and tax administration. I am a Research Fellow at the Tax Administration Research Centre and a member of CESifo Research Network. Before Brunel I held positions at Durham, Reading, and Exeter. My previous academic career was in theoretical physics. Applied Microeconomic Theory; Public Economics

Dr Derek Groen I am a Lecturer in Simulation and Modelling at Brunel University. I'm also an Emeritus Fellow for the EPSRC-funded 2020 Science Network, a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, and a Visiting Lecturer at the Centre for Computational Science at University College London. I completed an MSc in Grid Computing at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in 2006, and a PhD in Computational Astrophysics both at the UvA and Leiden University in November 2010. After my PhD I worked as a post-doctoral researcher on EU projects about distributed multiscale computing (MAPPER) and high-performance computing towards the Exascale (CRESTA). I received a 1-year position as a Fellow of 2020 Science in January 2015, and funded myself for two months through an EPSRC eCSE to work on new approaches for domain decomposition. I joined Brunel University in September 2015 to become a Lecturer and I currently collaborate in the EU ComPat project about multiscale computing towards the Exascale. I have published >20 peer-reviewed journal papers in venues such as IEEE Computer, IEEE CiSE, Journal of Computational Science, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A., Physics Review E., the Astrophysical Journal and eLife. In addition, I was second author of the first ever feature article in Advanced Materials, which was on multiscale modelling of clay-polymer nanocomposites and received news coverage from the Daily Telegraph and the BBC. I currently run Science Hackathons to efficiently establish new interdisciplinary collaborations. I am an interdisciplinary researcher who focuses primarily on multiscale modelling and high-performance computing, but takes along some of the major challenges that surround these topics. These include performance modelling and optimization, distributed computing, new approaches for code coupling, and techniques to make intensive computational research easier and more efficient. In terms of applications, I currently model bloodflow in cerebral arteries (using lattice-Boltzmann), and self-assembly processes in layered materials (using molecular dynamics methods). I have worked with a number of other models before (e.g., dark matter simulations to resolve structure formation in the universe), and I am likely to pick up new applications as I proceed with my career. 2015/2016 – Service Oriented Architectures (Msc module) 2015/2016 – Data Visualization (Msc module)

Dr Alireza Jahani Working as a Research Fellow in Coupled Agent-based Modelling at Computer Science Department, Brunel University London, UK. Before joining Brunel University London, He was the Deputy of Technical and Information Services and Assistant Professor at Faculty of Information Technology, Mehralborz University (MAU), Iran. Machine Learning Knowledge Management Supply Chain Analytics Agent-Based Modelling Multi-Agent Systems

Dr Matilde Rosina Dr Matilde Rosina is Lecturer in Global Challenges at Brunel University London and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics. An expert on international migration trends and politics, Matilde obtained her PhD from King's College London, winning the King's Outstanding Thesis Prize. Her research has been featured in leading journals including the Journal of Common Market Studies, Policy Studies, and Mediterranean Politics. She is the author of 'The criminalisation of irregular migration in Europe' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). Matilde's work lies at the intersection of international migration, public policy, and international relations. Specifically, she interested in the governance of irregular migration, with a focus on deterrence, the criminalisation of migration, and the relationship between migration, foreign policy and international relations. Matilde was previously the Deputy Head of the Centre for Italian Politics at King's College London, of which she remains an affiliate. Migration and migration policy EU politics Security International relations International political economy Matilde is the Social Cohesion Pathway Lead for the Global Challenges degree. She teaches the following courses: GC1703 Introduction to Social Cohesion GC2703 Movements and Technologies GC3704 Violence, Challenges and Communities

Dr Matteo Pazzona Personal Website: Economics of Crime, Economics of Conflict, Labor Economics, Political Economy and Economic History. Economics of Crime, Economics of Conflict, Labor Economics, Political Economy and Economic History.

Dr Katja Sarmiento-Mirwaldt I completed my PhD in 2007 with the support of the ESRC and the University of Essex. I then joined the European Policies Research Centre at the University of Strathclyde to pursue an ESRC-funded post-doctoral and research fellowship. Having worked as a Research Officer at the London School of Economics for two years, I joined the department in August 2012. My research interests cover several aspects of contemporary European politics and policy. First, I am interested in the regional and spatial dimensions of European politics, including citizen relations across national borders, cross-border cooperation and regional development policy. Second, I have a broad interest in the way that politicians justify and communicate their ideas about political institutions and practices in party manifestos or parliamentary debates. Third, I am working on a collaborative research project that examines perceptions of politicians' ethical conduct in Britain, France and Germany. I have a special interest in Polish, German and French politics but am also interested in broader political developments in post-communist Europe. My research has been funded by the ESRC, the British Academy, the Polish-German Science Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Comparative European politics (especially Polish, German and French politics) Borders and cross-border cooperation Political communication Corruption perceptions Undergraduate Programmes Module convenor Research Design and Qualitative Methods in Politics (Yr 1) European Union Politics: Problems and Prospects (Yr 3)

Professor Maria Tsouroufli I am Professor of Education at the College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences. Previously I worked as Reader in Women and Gender at the University of Wolverhampton. My research is concerned with social justice with a particular focus on gender inequalities in education and professions. I am a transnational feminist academic and my applied social research aims to advance theorizations of gender and gender equality in the Global South. My intersectional study of identities is underpinned by post-structuralist and decolonial approaches and is centred around 4 themes with violence as a cross-cutting theme: educational policy inlcuding medical educational policy, decolonization of international partnerships; emotionality of difference and disembodiment of EDI discourses in HE; internationalization and academic migration; and critiques of white mainstream feminism. My research and teaching interests are in gender, intersectionality, identities and inequalities, particularly in relation to teacher, academic and medical professionals. My formation, research and employment has spanned health and medical sociology, organisation studies, education and gender and women's studies. My international and interdisciplinary research has been informed mainly by feminist post-structuralist approaches to education and medical education policy, power and resistance. I have led and have been involved in internally and externally funded research projects conducted in Britain, Europe and Australia employing a variety of methodologies (ethnography, narratology) and methods (quantitative/qualitative and mixed-method) on a wider range of equality and diversity issues. Social Justice with a focus on gender inequalities in education and professions: International and interdisciplinary perspectives, Gender-based violence in schools and on campus, Women in STEMM careers, Athena Swan, Widening Participation, Professional and Student Identities: Intersectional approaches, Narratology, Feminist Post-Structuralist Research Approaches EdD/PhD teaching and research supervision MA teaching, marking, and research supervision BA dissertation supervision and marking

Professor Javaid Rehman Professor Javaid Rehman Javaid Rehman is a Professor of Law at Brunel University London. He was formerly a Professor of Law at the Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster University (2002 - 2005) and lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the Law School University of Leeds (1996 - 2002). Professor Rehman is the former Head of Brunel Law School (2009 - 2013), Senior Manager, Member of Brunel Senate (2009 - 2013) and the founding Director of the Centre for Security, Media and Human Rights, interdisciplinary Brunel University Research Centre (2008 - 2015). In July 2018, Professor Rehman was elected by the United Nations Human Rights Council as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Between 2019-2021, he acted as a member of the Coordination Committee of the Special Procedures United Nations Human Rights Office. Professor Rehman has a distinguished academic career with considerable achievements: he has over 180 publications, which includes 20 authored, co-authored and edited books. His magnum opus, International Human Rights Law (longman, 2010, pp. 1020) is regarded as one of the most authoritative and comprehmensive analysis of the subject. His other books include Unravelling Religious Moralities (Hart Publishing 2022), Rule of Law, Freedom of Expression and Islamic Law (co-authored, Hart Publishing, 2018), Islamic State Practices, International Law and the Threat from Terrorism (Hart Publishing, 2005) and Terrorism and International Law (Co-editor, Oxford University Press, 2011). Professor Rehman has published in several of the leading academic journals including the Human Rights Quarterly, the German Yearbook of International Law, Irish Studies in International Affairs, Journal of Conflict and Security Law, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, International Journal of Law, Family and Policy, Fordham International Law Journal etc. Several of his publications have been translated into various languages including German, Japanese, French, Persian, Arabic and Urdu. Professor Rehman is the General Coordinating Editor and Editor-in-Chief of the Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Brill) and Routledge's Islamic Law in Context Series and Comparative Constitutionalism in Muslim Majority States. He was previously the editor of the Asian Yearbook of International Law and the Journal of Islamic States Practices in International Law. Professor Rehman has supervised 25 doctoral candidates and has examined over 150 doctoral candidates in various jurisdictions. Professor Rehman has been a visiting Professor and external examiner at various leading institutions including Emory University (USA), International Islamic University (Malaysia), Oxford University, Belfast and Manchester University (UK). Amongst his over 200 public lecturers, Professor Rehman has addressed the senior judiciary in the UK, the Supreme Court of Pakistan and high-level policy makers and engaged with parliamentarians, diplomats and senior public officials including in the UK, USA, Sweden, Maldives and Malaysia. Professor Rehman has had a considerable impact in developing law, and the reform of law, policy and practice. In 2010, during Pope Benedict VXI's visit to the UK, Professor Rehman was invited to have an audience with the Pope and he was awarded the Papal medal in recognition for his services for developing the inter-faith dialogue and work on freedom of religion or belief. Professor Rehman was recognised as a 'world famous jurist' (2013) by the International Bar Association (IBA) and between 2008-2011, he served as member of IBA's Taskforce on International Terrorism. In 2015, Professor Rehman was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) as 'leading high profile UK and global authority on Islamic law and international terrorism [and] Muslim Family law'. Between 2008-2018, Professor Rehman served as the Rapporteur (and Co-Rapporteur) of the International Law Association's Islamic Law and International Law Committee. In 2020 Professor Rehman received Special Commendation from Brunel University in Brunel University's First Research Impact Award. Professor Rehman has received substantial research grants and funding for knowledge transfer: examples include funding from the European Commission under the 7th Framework Cooperation Programme during 2008-2010 as consortium partner for Euros:643.000.00 and as a member of the consortium of Ulster University (2003 - ), Law School Academics, with a grant of £4 Million for establishment of the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University. Professor Rehman was a member of Arts and Humanities Research Council (2017- 2020) and has been assessor, inter alia, for the European Commission, Economic and Social Research Council and the British Academy (2018-2019). International law International human rights law Public law Terrorism Muslim Constitutionalism. Public law; International human rights law; Islamic law. Student Support Director Enterprise and External Partnerships

Dr Isobel Renzulli Dr Renzulli joined Brunel University as a lecturer in law in September 2018. Previously she was a lecturer in law at the University of Greenwich. She has also taught as a visiting lecturer at King's College London, the Open University, and the University of Reading. She completed her PhD at the University of Bristol with an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) scholarship for her research on ‘Challenges to prevention of torture in crisis situations. The case of Sudan’. Dr Renzulli has experience of working with governmental and non governmental organisations.Prior to entering academia Dr Renzulli worked in different capacities with human rights non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the UK and Africa, and as a human rights officer at the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva (Switzerland). Main research interests are in the Human Rights Law, Public Law, International Human Rights Law, Public International Law. Dr Renzulli is interested in particular in the theory and the practice of human rights mechanisms and bodies and the role of national, regional and international institutions with a human rights mandate. Her current research focuses on the conceptual, normative and legal frameworks for the prevention of torture and its implementation, the interaction between international human rights law and penal systems, the impact and influence of human rights law on the protection of prisoners and offenders in the criminal justice system more generally. International Human Rights Law, Regional Human Rights Systems, Public law, Criminal Justice Systems UG- Criminal Justice System UG- Public Law PG -Theory and Practice of International Human Rights Law PG -Business and Human Rights PG- Foundations of International Human Rights Law

Dr Yohai Hakak Dr Yohai Hakak joined Brunel in September 2014. Dr. Hakak's practice experience is in mental health social work. His areas of research interests are migration, embodiment, parenting, risk-perception, youth, religion, gender and mental health and the connection of these areas with social work. Dr Hakak published in these areas numerous articles. His last manuscript titled Haredi Masculinities between the Yeshiva, the Army, Work and Politics: The Sage, the Warrior and the Entrepreneur was an ethnographic study of Jewish Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox) young men in Israel. It was published by Brill in 2016. The outcomes of Yohai’s academic work included also several award-winning documentary films. Yohai is interested in supervising students in the following areas and in relation to social work: Migration Embodiment Religious minorities Masculine identities Mental health Risk and its perception Mixed couples Yohai's current areas of research interest are: Embodiment in Academic and Professional Practice | Brunel University London The migration of professionals Mixed families Religious minorities Mental health State power

Dr Solon Solomon Dr Solon Solomon is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Division of Public & International Law at Brunel University London, having established and serving as co-Director of the BUL International Law Group and heading the BUL Emerging Law Voices interview series on the Brunel Law School YouTube channel and on Spotify. Former Member of the Knesset Legal Department on international and constitutional issues and holder of the George Weber Award from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he has held visiting positions in a number of academic institutions including King's College London, Humboldt zu Berlin, Tel Aviv University and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He is currently co-convenor of the International Law Section in the Society of Legal Scholars, covering the United Kingdom and Ireland and serves as mentor for new international lawyers in the realms of the mentorship program established by the American Society of International Law. Dr Solomon's research lies on the interdisciplinarity between psychology and international law. In 2024, his award-winning film 'Migrating Fears', discussing the feelings around migration and encompassing interviews with UK politicians, refugees, psychologists and legal experts, premiered in London. Solomon is the author of The Justiciability of International Disputes (WLP, 2009) cited before the Permanent Court of Arbitration and co-editor of the volume Applying International Humanitarian Law in Judicial and Quasi-Judicial Bodies: International and Domestic Aspects (TMC Asser Press, 2014), presented in a special event in The Hague by the then serving judges Sir Christopher Greenwood and Silvia Fernandez de Gurmendi, the British judge to the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court's President. His research has appeared in a number of journals including the Journal of International Dispute Settlement, the Journal of Conflict & Security Law, the Chinese Journal of International Law, the Nordic Journal of International Law and the German Law Journal. He has rendered lectures and talks in various academic venues, most notably at the University of Cambridge, the Harvard Law School, the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University. He sits on the Editorial Board of the Military Law and the Law of War Review, published under the auspices of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War. Dr Solomon holds a PhD from King’s College London Dickson Poon School of Law, an LLM in Public International Law from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a First-Class Honors Bachelor of Laws from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has extensive media presence, with his views hosted in outlets such as The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The BBC, Newsweek Magazine, The Times, The Financial Times, The Globe & Mail,The Straits Times and Haaretz. www.migratingfears.com Dr Solomon's research interest focuses on how the human rights discourse and particularly socio-economic rights and the right to mental health, can interact with disciplines beyond the legal world, such as psychology and psychiatry. On this account, Dr Solon Solomon is currently researching on the legal assessment of civilian war trauma and the repercussions for the warfare rhetoric and for the laws of war existing framework. Research areas include the interrelation between psychology and human rights law, international humanitarian law, international criminal law and refugee law

Dr Rohini Rai I am a sociologist of race & ethnicity, and am a Lecturer in the Sociology of Race at the Department of Social and Political Sciences in Brunel. My areas of research and teaching interest include 'race', ethnicity and racialization; global racisms; postcolonial and decolonial theories; Global South urbanisms; and the Himalaya and North East India. I completed my PhD from the University of Manchester in 2019. My PhD thesis titled, 'Northeastern Delhi: 'Race', space and identity in a postcolonial, globalising city' explores and examines racialization and racism in contemporary India, in relation to ethnic and indigenous minorities who are migrants from India's Northeastern and Himalayan borderlands in the city of Delhi. Prior to joining Brunel in December 2021, I was a Research Associate at the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE), University of Manchester, of which I am still an associate member. At CoDE, I was a part of an ESRC-funded research project exploring ethnic inequalties in UK Higher Education, where my research particularly focussed on the current 'Decolonial turn' in the disciplines of British history and geography. I welcome supervising/tutoring students who are interested in similar topics. 'race', ethnicity and racialization; global racisms; postcolonial and decolonial theories; Global South urbanisms; and the Himalaya and North East India. I currently teach the following modules: Racism, Identity and Difference. Becoming a Critical Scholar (Skills II).

Dr Billur Ozgul I joined the School of Social and Political Sciences as a Lecturer in August 2019, where I have since taught students across communication, journalism, sociology, and political communication programs. Prior to that, I was a Lecturer in Politics in the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University. My research interests lie in the fields of media and politics with a particular focus on digital media, political participation and the Middle East. Having completed my PhD in Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London, I undertook research in a broad range of fields, such as the role of information communication technologies (ICTs) in periods of protest, comparative political analysis of digitally mediated movements, and social, political and cultural impact of ICTs. My first monograph, Leading protests in the digital age: Youth activism in Egypt and Syria, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019. Since 2012, I have had an established record of working as a researcher on multi-disciplinary research projects with Royal Holloway, Open University and Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. I have also experience working with industry, carried out social media research with the BBC World Service and British Council exploring how social media users around the world responded to their programmes (For further information please see: I work on the British Academy project on vaccine-hesitant minority communities and investigate social, cultural, and political factors underlying vaccine hesitant beliefs and ideas amongst minoritised communities in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (US). For further information please see: Comparative Analysis of Alternative Media Organisations Comparative Political Analysis of Digitally Mediated Movements The Role of ICTs and Emotions in Periods of Protests Social, Political and Cultural Impact of ICTs L4 Digital Media Landscape (Convenor) L5 Journalism, Politics and Power (Convenor) L6 Media, Social Movements and Change (Convenor) L7 Political Communication (Convenor) L7 Researching Social and Political Sciences (Convenor) L7 Strategic communication L6 Journalism and Sociology/Communication Dissertation Convenor

Dr Hauke Riesch I am a sociologist of science with a particular interest in science communication, risk and environmental science and interdisciplinary relations between sociology and philosophy of science. After completing a PhD on scientists' views on philosophy of science at University College London, I worked as a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge on the public understanding of risk and energy policy, and more recently at Imperial College London on public understanding of environmental change. I have been working at Brunel since 2012. Qualifications: BSc Physics & Philosophy (King's College London) MSc Philosophy & History of Science (King's College London) PhD Science & Technology Studies (University College London) My research interests centre around the sociology of science, in particular science communication, risk and the environment, popular science writing and occasionally, philosophy of science. Sociology of science Public understanding of science Risk and environment Philosophy of science Undergraduate Programmes Module convenor SO1701: Researching Culture and Society (Methods I) SO1704: Exploring Identity and Power (Methods II) CO2028: Research in Practice SO2605: Apocalypse! Crisis and Society

Dr Ayushman Bhagat I am a political geographer with a research focus on the spatial politics of anti-slavery and migration control. My interest in contemporary anti-slavery abolitionist movement emerged from my long-term consultancy work with the International Labour Organization (ILO), where I assisted multiple anti-trafficking/slavery programmes in various locations in India. This experience helped me to identify a disconnect between the migration, labour, and anti-trafficking/slavery policies and practices, and the voices of people on the move who are oppressed, exploited, and rendered rightless due to such protectionist policies and practices. To address this gap, I conducted Participatory Action Research at a post-disaster Himalayan site in Nepal and engaged in border ethnography spanning across four countries during my doctoral research in the Department of Geography at Durham University. Subsequently, I pursued a post-doctoral fellowship at TraffLab within the Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel-Aviv University. I have taught a range of human geography modules at all levels, at both Durham University and Edge Hill University. Politics of Anti-Trafficking, Modern Slavery and Migration Control Mobility, Borders, Carceral Protectionism, Stigma, Escape Abandonment, Desertion and Strandedness 'Modern Slavery' Funding Landscape Migrant Workers' Death My work is rooted in my policy and grassroots experiences and problematises the implications of restrictive migration policies and practices, with a particular emphasis on the spatialisation of state power and non-state actors, and the autonomy of migrants. My conceptual endeavours thus far have focused on the co-constitution of migrant workers' diverse mobility practices and restrictive policies and practices in the Global South. This has involved exploring issues related to borders, mobilities, place-based stigma, carceral protectionism, internal detention and deportation in the emigration regime, as well as exploitation, entrapment and abandonment experienced by citizens in their labour relations. I prioritise participatory praxis as a guiding principle in my research, teaching, and advocacy efforts.