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Dr. Claire Pierson is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Liverpool since September 2017, previously holding positions at Manchester Metropolitan University and Ulster University. Her career bridges academia and practice through prior work with the Atlantic Philanthropies, Institute for Conflict Research (Belfast), and Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (Jerusalem). She co-founded the Reproductive Health Law and Policy Advisory Group, establishing herself as a key voice in reproductive justice scholarship.
Her research centers on the UN women, peace and security agenda, conflict transformation, and reproductive rights activism, with regional expertise in Northern Ireland, Malta, Philippines, and South Africa. She examines how institutional frameworks, workplace policies, and post-conflict dynamics shape reproductive justice, particularly focusing on abortion access and gendered power structures in legislative processes.
Recent publications (2022-2025) reveal a cohesive trajectory examining reproductive rights through political and intersectional lenses, increasingly incorporating global perspectives from emergency contexts and cross-national workplace policies. Her work demonstrates methodological diversity spanning qualitative analysis of legislative processes, healthcare professional interviews, and community-led intervention frameworks.
Research projects and grants:
- Co-investigator on 'Tackling Girls and Young Women’s Reproductive Health through a Reproductive Justice Framework in the Philippines and South Africa'
- Lead researcher for Irish trade union-funded project 'Abortion as a workplace issue on the island of Ireland'
- Principal Investigator for Wellcome Trust project 'Development of community-led approaches to support sexual and reproductive health among survivors of trafficking in Uganda and Sierra Leone' (Dec 2020-Nov 2021)
- Researcher for Ulster University project 'Tackling Girls and Young Women’s Reproductive Health through a Reproductive Justice Framework' (Oct 2017-Apr 2018)
