Erika Jimenez

Erika Jimenez is a Research Fellow at the School of Law and Centre for Children's Rights at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), with a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship focusing on Golani youth perspectives and human rights discourse in occupied territories. She holds a PhD from QUB and previously worked at the Rights Lab, University of Nottingham, researching modern slavery. Her work emphasizes amplifying marginalized voices through participatory research methods.

Research Interests: Human rights, Palestinian and Golani youth studies, decolonial theory, children’s rights, and educational policy. Her monograph Rethinking Human Rights (2024) explores Palestinian youth’s intersection of school-based human rights education and lived experiences of injustice.

Awards:

• Highly Commended PDC postdoc awards 2024 (Citizenship and Outreach)
• Highly commended postdoc awards 2022 (Research)

Grants & Collaborations: Nuffield-funded project on minority ethnic education in Northern Ireland (2021). Active in interdisciplinary collaborations on topics like epistemic justice in curricula and strategic communication on human rights.

Media Engagement: Provided expert commentary on Palestinian youth perspectives and the Druze community in the Golan Heights.