WiRL is convened by:
Dr Christel Querton Christel is a Wallscourt Fellow in Law at UWE Bristol and has worked for over ten years in the field of refugee, immigration and human rights law.
Her research explores international refugee law, armed conflicts and gender. Christel previously practised as an asylum, immigration and human rights barrister and worked with the Women’s Project at Asylum Aid as Legal Policy Officer (2010-2012) and then as Advisory Committee member (2012-2019).
Dr Moira Dustin. Moira is module convenor and tutor on Gender and Group Identities in the Refugee Context, part of the MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is Lecturer in the School of Law, Politics and Sociology at the University of Sussex, where from 2016 to 2020, she was the UK lead on the European Research Council project, SOGICA - Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Claims of Asylum: A European human rights challenge.
She is now Co-Investigator on the ESRC project, Negotiating Queer Identities Following Forced Migration. Moira was also an Advisory Committee member of the Women’s Project at Asylum Aid and previously worked at the British Refugee Council.
Nicola Robbins ([email protected]) is WiRL’s Research Assistant. Nicola holds a MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies. She is Deputy Chair of Kent Refugee Action Network (KRAN), a charity that works with separated young people who are seeking asylum or have recently been granted refugee status in Kent, UK.
Nicola brings over 15 years of experience working in communications-focused roles and has managed diverse stakeholders.
