Dr Christel Querton

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About me

My research focuses on international refugee law, particularly persons fleeing armed conflicts and refugee women. My work is informed by comparative (mainly within Europe) and feminist methods. My monograph Conflict Refugees was published with Cambridge University Press in 2023 (book launch recording). I have also published in the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, the International and Comparative Law Quarterly and the Refugee Survey Quarterly. My PhD (AHRC funded) compared asylum appeals by Afghan, Iraqi and Syrian nationals in six EU jurisdictions. 

Projects:

I co-convene the Women in Refugee Law (WiRL) Network, aiming to recentre refugee women within refugee law, policy and practice. WiRL organises events and facilitates the exchange of information and resources.

UWE Accelerator Programme (2022-2025): To support academics in their research career and to become future leaders.

UWE Vice-Chancellor Early Career Award (2021-2022): The project aimed to evaluate country guidance issued by the European Union Agency for Asylum. A Panel Discussion in September 2022 included the Agency, UNHCR, the European Council for Refugees and Exiles and academics. See the recording here. The research was published open access in the Refugee Survey Quarterly and in a briefing.

Affiliations/Responsibilities:

Prior to entering academia, I was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2013 (Middle Temple Diplock Scholarship 2012) and practised as an asylum, immigration and human rights barrister from Lamb Building in London. In addition to experience in legal practice, I have strong ties to the charity sector. I was an Advisory Committee member of the Women's Project at Asylum Aid (2012-2019) and a founding Trustee of the Asylum Research Centre Foundation (2016-2020). I previously worked at Asylum Aid (2010-2012) and Wilson Solicitors LLP (2009-2010).

Area of expertise

International Refugee Law, Human Rights Law, Public Law, UK Asylum Law, Judicial Review, Gender, Armed Conflicts

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