Supervisor: Professor Leigh Payne
Societies in transition from conflict and authoritarian rule adopt a range of methods to respond to legacies of violence and atrocity. Yet often marginalised groups, such as LGBTQ+ people, are left out of these processes of transitional justice. Emma researches LGBTQ+ engagement with these processes through participation in rights claiming and challenging current structures of rights and justice.
Emma’s DPhil research focuses on the forms of LGBTQ+ storytelling in the aftermath of conflict, contrasting state-sponsored processes with LGBTQ+ mobilisation in alternative, cultural spaces of storytelling.
Her thesis combines a comparative study of truth commissions which feature testimonies from LGBTQ+ victims, and an in-depth study of the recent Colombian Truth Commission.
Emma's fieldwork is funded by a Study Abroad Studentship from the Leverhulme Trust.
Research Interests: Human Rights, LGBTQ+ movements, Storytelling, Conflict, Transitional Justice
Previous Education: BA English Language and Literature, University of Oxford; MA Conflict Resolution, University of Bradford
