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Research Interests
Professor Kathryn McNeilly's research intersects the areas of international human rights law and international legal theory. Her work undertakes engagements with the theory and operation of international human rights. Kathryn's recent research has explored how ideas of time and temporality can be used as tools to better understand human rights law internationally.
Kathryn is the author of a monograph titled Human Rights and Radical Social Transformation: Futurity, Alterity, Power which was shortlisted for the 2018 Hart-SLSA Early Career Prize. In 2019-20 Kathryn was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to investigate issues of time and materiality in international human rights law monitoring. In 2018 Kathryn was awarded the QUB Vice Chancellor's Early Career Research Prize. This University-wide Prize recognises a scholar whose research demonstrates outstanding significance and excellence in the first 5 years of their career.
Kathryn's work has been presented widely and she has held visiting scholarships at a number of institutions including the University of British Columbia, funded by the County Antrim Grand Jury Bursary, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, and the School of Law at the University of Birmingham.
Kathryn is a contributor to a number of collaborative research initiatives. These include editorship of an international edited collection titled The Times and Temporalities of International Human Rights Law (with Dr Ben Warwick, Hart: 2022).
Kathryn is an Editorial Board Member of leading UK journals Feminist Legal Studies and Human Rights Law Review. She is a member of the Royal Irish Academy's Ethical, Political, Legal and Philosophical Studies Committee and a member of the Peer Review Colleges of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Teaching
Kathryn has taught widely at UG and PGT levels across the areas of Legal Theory, International Human Rights Law, Equity, and Gender and the Law.
Other
Kathryn has most recently undertaken the leadership role of Director of Research in the School of Law.
Her previous leadership roles include Athena SWAN Champion. In 2018 Kathryn led the School of Law's successful application for a Bronze Athena SWAN Award. This national Award recognises the School's commitment to gender equality and addressing of challenges in this area.
Kathryn was awarded the Outstanding Leadership Award for her work in this area at the Queen's Staff Excellence Awards 2018.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
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R2591LAW: Temporality and 'Things' in the Practice of International Human Rights Law
02/04/2019 → 31/08/2020
Project: Research
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Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life By Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm: London/Chicago: Reaktion Books/Chicago University Press, 2023, 248 pp. ISBN 9781789146790 (hardback) £16.95
McNeilly, K., 04 Aug 2023, (Early online date) In: International Journal of Law in Context. p. 1-5 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
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Mapping the tapestry: national and international human rights frameworks in Northern Ireland and Ireland
McNeilly, K. & O'Donoghue, A., 07 Mar 2023, (Early online date) In: Irish Studies in International Affairs. 34, 2, p. 1-29Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Milestone anniversaries: marking time in international human rights law
McNeilly, K., 10 Feb 2023, In: Human Rights Quarterly. 45, 1, p. 109-133Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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‘If only for a day’: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, anniversary commemoration and international human rights law
McNeilly, K., Jun 2023, In: Human Rights Law Review. 23, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Documents and Time in International Human Rights Law Monitoring: Artefacts, Objects, Things
McNeilly, K., 24 Feb 2022, The Times and Temporalities of International Human Rights Law. McNeilly, K. & Warwick, B. (eds.). Hart Publishing, p. 85-102 (Human Rights Law in Perspective).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Prizes
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AHSS Faculty Research Initiatives Fund Award: The Time(s) and Temporality of International Human Rights Law
McNeilly, Kathryn (Recipient), 14 Dec 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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AHSS Faculty Research Initiatives Fund Award: Thinking the Future For Radical Social Change: Interdisciplinary Theory and Practice
McNeilly, Kathryn (Recipient), Stapleton, Paul (Recipient) & O'Rawe, Ricki (Recipient), 03 Aug 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Hart-SLSA Early Career Prize Shortlist
McNeilly, Kathryn (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Leverhulme Research Fellowship 2019-20
McNeilly, Kathryn (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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SLSA Seminar Competition Award
McNeilly, Kathryn (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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QUB-UCD International Law Workshop II
Kathryn McNeilly (Organiser)
03 May 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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SLSA 2023
Kathryn McNeilly (Participant)
04 Apr 2023 → 06 Apr 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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UN UPR Academic Network Workshop
Kathryn McNeilly (Participant)
29 Mar 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Irish Research Council (Publisher)
Kathryn McNeilly (Peer reviewer)
2023Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review
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Invited Speaker: World Trade Institute, University of Bern
Kathryn McNeilly (Invited speaker)
08 Dec 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Press/Media
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The Times and Temporalities of International Human Rights Law
11/03/2022
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
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The Temporal Life of International Human Rights Law: Three Ways to Think it Through
01/05/2020
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
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What Feminism Can Teach Us About Alterity and Law on Mars
29/11/2018
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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What Should Human Rights in the Future Look Like?
31/10/2017
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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What Should Human Rights in the Future Look Like?
02/10/2017
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities