Current Graduate Fellow
Dr Éadaoin O’Brien is a Graduate Fellow with the Human Rights Consortium at the School of Advanced Study, University of London where she contributes to the organisation of the HRC Programme of Events and undertakes research on a variety of topics in international human rights and international criminal law. Éadaoin also works on follow-up exercises to HRC events and has co-authored (with Par Engstrom and David Cantor) the HRC policy report 'In the Shadow of the ICC: Colombia and international criminal justice'.
Éadaoin completed a PhD in International Human Rights Law at the Irish Centre for Human Rights in 2011, under the supervision of Professor Ray Murphy. Éadaoin holds a BA in Anthropology and Sociology (National University of Ireland Maynooth), an LLM in International Human Rights Law (Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland Galway) and an MSc in Human Identification (Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification, University of Dundee). She has undertaken human rights field work and research in a number of locations, including in Ireland, Belarus, Spain, Rwanda, Tanzania and the West Bank. Éadaoin’s current research interests are on the nexus between international law and the forensic sciences; the use of forensic evidence in international criminal trials; medico-legal documentation of human rights abuses; enforced disappearance; and armed conflict and memorialisation.
Éadaoin previously held a Doctoral Fellowship at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, at the National University of Ireland Galway (2007-2008), is a former Government of Ireland Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences Postgraduate Scholar (2008-2010) and a former lecturer on the MA in Public Advocacy and Activism at the National University of Ireland Galway.
