NUAcT PhD Studentship: Childrens Rights in Peace Processes

Award Summary

100% of home fees paid plus an annual stipend equivalent to the National Minimum Doctoral Stipend (£17,688 from Oct 2022) across 3 years.

Overview

Newcastle Law School at Newcastle University invites applicants for a doctoral studentship for research in children’s rights in societies attempting to transition from conflict to peace, broadly construed. The successful candidate will be supervised by Dr Sean Molloy and will join a vibrant research community in the School and Newcastle University. It is anticipated that the successful applicant will be a member of the School’s Lawyering, Rights and Justice research grouping and the University’s Child and Youth NuCore.

While the correlation between children’s rights violations and war is well documented, the relationships that exist between children’s rights and peacebuilding are less understood. The language of children’s rights can be used to advocate for the inclusion of children in the content of peace agreements and children’s rights can serve as the normative, moral, and legal basis for ensuring that children’s views are heard and considered during peace negotiations, peace agreement implementation and peacebuilding more generally. Conversely, processes and mechanisms tasked with dealing with the past and/or building peace can be utilised to ensure that children’s rights are respected, protected, and realised during and after war to peace transitions. Scholars have, for instance, examined children’s rights in the context of transitional justice, restorative justice, and transformative justice. Momentum is building around the salience of children’s rights to peacebuilding processes and the various iterations of this relationship.

Set in this research context, applicants are invited to propose a programme of study towards furthering research on children’s rights in transitioning societies. Potential themes might include:

• Children’s Rights and Peace Agreements
• Children Rights and Peace Negotiations and/or Peace Agreement implementation
• Children’s Peace Activism with a focus on Rights
• The role of Children’s Civil Society Organisations in promoting children’s rights during peace processes
• Children’s Rights and Transitional, Restorative or Transformative Justice
• The role of international and regional organisations, broadly construed, in promoting children’s rights as part of their engagement with peacebuilding processes.

Number of awards: 1

Start date: September 2023

Award duration: 3 years

Sponsor: Newcastle University (NUAcT fellowship)

Supervisors: Dr. Sean Molloy

Eligibility Criteria

A demonstrable interest in children’s rights and peacebuilding is essential, evidenced through undergraduate and masters level qualifications in cognate disciplines, or equivalent experience. The applicant must also have a 2:1 Honours degree and a master’s degree, or international equivalent, in law or a related subject.

The studentship covers fees at the Home rate (UK and EU applicants with pre-settled/settled status and meet the residency criteria). International applicants are welcome to apply but will be required to cover the difference between Home and International fees. International students may be eligible to apply for a Newcastle University Overseas Research Scholarship (NUORS).

Applicants whose first language is not English require an IELTS 7.0 overall (with a minimum of 6.5 in writing, and 6.0 in all other sub-skills).

How to apply

Please see www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/fees-funding/search-funding/?code=law014 for application information.

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