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ESRC Funded PhD Studentship: GNHRE and Cardiff School of Law and Politics

Cardiff UniThe GNHRE is delighted to announce this project, based at Cardiff School of Law and Politics, in partnership with the GNHRE. The successful candidate will become part of a lively, well-supported and stimulating postgraduate community, working on a project with immense practical implications. The candidate will have unrivalled access to the GNHRE network, and extensive contact with the Mary Robinson Foundation: Climate Justice and with Incredible Edible Bristol. The policy relevant nature of the work and the networking opportunities built into the project offer a unique set of potential career prospects.

The project focus is on empirical analysis of grassroots engagements with climate justice. The first phase of the project involves a theoretical enquiry into the ontological and epistemic foundations underlying law and ‘participatory’ governance. The second phase involves working alongside community-facing organisations.

For information contact GrearA1@cardiff.ac.uk

Anna Grear

By Anna Grear

Anna’s work focuses largely upon questions related to law’s construction of the human being and the human relationship with the world, broadly conceived. Her scholarship calls on insights from a range of disciplines despite being firmly located within a combination of critical legal theory and jurisprudence. She has a particular interest in the themes of legal subjectivity and vulnerability, locating these themes in relation to contemporary globalisation and to a central concern with the implications of the materiality of the living order – including the theme of embodiment. Her monograph on international human rights, published in 2010, was described as ‘marking a new start towards understanding the ontology of human rights.’

Anna was nominated for the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Scholarship Prize 2012 and shortlisted for the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Senior Scholar Prize in 2018. She was Dahrendorf Visiting Fellow 2013 at the Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics. She is a member of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Theme 3: Challenges of Social Inclusion. Anna is also Invited Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Law and Theory, University of Westminster, UK; Visiting Research Fellow at Bristol Law School, UK and a Global Affiliate of the Vulnerability and Human Condition Initiative at Emory University, USA. She has held visiting positions at the University of Oxford, the University of Keele, the University of Waikato and at Emory University.

Anna’s publications list can be viewed at her Google Scholar profile page.