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Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I am willing to supervise projects relating to transitional justice, enforced disappearance, and efforts to deal with the past in Northern Ireland.

20162024

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Research Statement

Dr Lauren Dempster is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law and Fellow of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. She is Theme Lead for the School of Law’s Transitional Justice research cluster, a member of the Institute for Criminology and Criminal Justice and QUB Human Rights Centre, and was Director of LawPod – the School of Law’s podcast – for four years. Her teaching includes transitional justice, criminology, and research methods.

Lauren’s research focuses on transitional justice and her research interests include critical approaches to transitional justice, efforts to address the legacy of the past in Northern Ireland, enforced disappearance, the relationship between transitional justice and environmental harm, and victim mobilisation. Lauren’s first monograph, Transitional Justice and the Disappeared of Northern Ireland: Silence, Memory, and the Construction of the Past was published by Routledge in 2019 and shortlisted for the Hart-SLSA Book Prize for Early Career Academics in 2020. Lauren currently holds an AHRC Research, Development and Engagement Fellowship for her research on Forensic Scientists and Knowledge Production in Transitional Justice.

Teaching

International Criminal and Transitional Justice (UG)

Transitional Justice (LLM)

Criminal Justice and Criminology Methods 1 (LLM; module convenor)

Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights (LLM; module convenor)

Rights and Accountability (UG)

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):

  • SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 15 - Life on Land
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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