The School of Law has a strong tradition of vibrant Postdoctoral research. In addition to academic staff, Postdoctoral Research Fellows form an important part of our research environment. Postdoctoral Research Fellows have been supported by competitive funding awards including UKRI ESRC, Leverhulme, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship funding. The School has significant expertise in support and mentoring for Postdoctoral Research Fellows, and Fellows enjoy a full role in the research culture of the School.

Support for Postdoctoral Research in the School sits alongside broader institutional support from the University’s Postdoctoral Development Centre. In line with commitment to the Researcher Development Concordat, the Postdoctoral Development Centre helps Postdoctoral Fellows to progress their careers and promote a supportive culture and positive Postdoctoral experience at Queen’s University Belfast.

The School welcomes enquiries from prospective applicants to Postdoctoral Fellowship schemes. Please see further information on the School’s thematic areas of research expertise.

Meet the Research Fellows at QUB Law 

At Queen’s University Belfast’s School of Law, we are proud to have four excellent research fellows who contribute much to the vibrancy of daily academic life and our research culture.

 We are deeply committed to playing our part in nurturing our post-doctoral students through the research fellow and early research career process. We aim to progress our fellows’ careers by providing a supportive culture which contributes to a positive post-doctoral experience. In this piece, we want to reflect upon the research and roles our fellows have undertaken

Dr Erika Jimenez

We are delighted to welcome Dr Erika Jimenez to the School of Law. Erika joined our law school as a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in May 2023 and is being mentored by Professor Colin Harvey. Her research project aims to explore Golani youth's perspectives on the forgotten occupation and the usefulness of human rights discourse in their struggle against it. Erika is committed to conducting research that amplifies voices that are often silenced, delegitimised, or marginalised in society and academia. Previously, Erika has researched education experiences among minority ethnic and migrant groups in Northern Ireland as a research fellow in the social sciences at QUB. Her PhD explored Palestinian youth’s views and experiences of human rights in the occupied West Bank. Her prodigious output also includes a study on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on victims and survivors of modern slavery and those of risk of exploitation in the UK, USA, and Afghanistan. She undertook this research as a Research Fellow at the Rights Lab, University of Nottingham. She is also interested in decolonial approaches to human rights, children's rights, childhood, and research. This has led her to conduct research alongside research advisory groups of minority populations such as Palestinian youth, refugees, and survivors of modern slavery.