Dr Lauren Dempster is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law and Fellow of the Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. She is Theme Lead for the School of Law’s Transitional Justice research cluster, Co-director of QUB Human Rights Centre, and an active member of QUB's Institute for Criminology and Criminal Justice. 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. Her second monograph, Green Transitional Justice, co-authored with Dr Rachel Killean (University of Sydney) was awarded the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand's Book Prize 2025. Lauren currently holds an AHRC Research, Development and Engagement Fellowship for her research on Forensic Scientists and Knowledge Production in Transitional Justice.

Crimes of the Powerful (LLM)

International Criminal and Transitional Justice (UG)

Transitional Justice (LLM)

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