Erika Jiménez

Erika Jiménez is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the School of Law, Queen's University Belfast on a project entitled: Golani youth, human rights and the forgotten occupation. She is currently writing her first book on Palestinian youth’s views and experiences of human rights in the occupied West Bank as part of the Human Rights Law in Perspective (Hart) series. She has worked on other projects including a study that explored the experiences of education among minority ethnic and migrant groups in Northern Ireland. Before that she worked as a Research Fellow at the Rights Lab, University of Nottingham in the area of modern slavery research. Erika is committed to conducting research that amplifies voices and ‘ways of knowing’ that are often side-lined in society and academia. She is also interested in decolonial approaches to human rights, childhood, and research. This has led her to conduct research alongside research advisory groups made up of minoritised populations such as Palestinian youth, refugees and survivors of modern slavery.