Dr Alison Mawhinney

Lecturer

Contact Details
Email address a.mawhinney@qub.ac.uk
Telephone Direct Line (+44) 028 9097 3475
Room 27.G03, 27 University Square

 Degrees
BA (Hons), Trinity College, University of Dublin
LLM (Distinction), University of Essex
PhD, Queen's University Belfast

Biography
Alison Mawhinney completed her undergraduate studies at Trinity College Dublin where she graduated with a BA (Hons) in Political Science in 1988. She completed a LLM in International Human Rights Law at the University of Essex in 1996 and a PhD at Queen's University Belfast in 2005. Prior to undertaking her PhD studies she worked for a variety of organisations in the field of human rights including the Council of Europe, the OSCE and the UN WFP. She is currently involved in research in the areas of freedom of religion in schools, religious discrimination in employment and the human rights obligations of non-state service providers. She joined the School of Law at Queen's in September 2006.

Teaching

Undergraduate

  • Constitutional Law
  • Human Rights
  • Rights and Accountability


Postgraduate

  • Human Rights
  • Equality and the Law

Research

Freedom of religion, employment and non-discrimination, governance and human rights protection.

Publications

“Freedom of religion in the Irish primary school system: a failure to protect human rights?” 3 (2007) Legal Studies 379

'The Rights of Foreigners in the United Kingdom' (2007) 19 European Review of Public Law 355

”The opt-out clause: imperfect protection for the right to freedom of religion in schools” (2006) 2 Education Law Journal 27

Administration

Careers Officer, 2007 – present