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Daniel Cloney is a Senior Project Research Fellow at Regent's Park College, University of Oxford, and holds affiliations with New College. His work focuses on international human rights, particularly security of defenders, digital rights, and freedom of religion or belief. He supports the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief through research and project management. Cloney holds a first-class BA in International Relations from Dublin City University and an MSt in International Human Rights Law from New College (2020), where he received the inaugural Professor Christof Heyns Memorial Prize.
Research interests include critical security frameworks, LGBTIQ+ rights, intersectional discrimination analysis, and nonviolent jurisprudence. His scholarship bridges legal theory with pragmatic advocacy strategies, emphasizing digital age challenges faced by human rights defenders. Recent outputs explore digital rights in environmental advocacy and evolving judicial responses to gender-based discrimination.
Awarded the Heyns Prize for academic excellence, Cloney has no listed grants but demonstrates strong collaborative research through co-authored works. No formal advisees are documented. His professional trajectory reflects deep engagement with both academic research and applied human rights practice, particularly through publications like the Holistic Security manual for defenders.
