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Dr. Simon Robins is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR) at the University of York's School of Law. He combines academic research with a consulting practice focusing on evaluation and program support with international agencies, including the UN and NGOs, with an emphasis on states emerging from conflict and violence. His work spans Nepal, Tunisia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia, with a particular focus on humanitarian protection, human rights, and transitional justice.
Dr. Robins' research centers on addressing legacies of violence after conflict through critical perspectives on transitional justice, emphasizing emancipatory approaches driven by victims. He has pioneered work on ambiguous loss in non-Western contexts, particularly examining families of the disappeared in Nepal, and has significantly expanded this research to analyze dead and missing migrants at the EU's southern border. His approach sees knowledge production and activism as inseparable, utilizing innovative participatory methods that center victims' experiences and needs while challenging conventional transitional justice paradigms.
His scholarly output demonstrates consistent evolution from foundational work on families of the missing toward increasingly sophisticated analyses of victim-centered transitional justice, ambiguous loss, and the governance of bodies at borders. Recent publications reveal growing emphasis on Tunisia's transitional justice process, collective reparations, and the intersection of migration and human rights, while maintaining his core commitment to centering victims' voices in both theory and practice.
Dr. Robins is actively involved with the Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York and has contributed to the ESRC Transformative Justice in Tunisia and Egypt project. His collaborative work with Paul Gready, including co-editing 'Transitional Justice in Tunisia: Innovations, Continuities, Challenges' (2022), has been influential in advancing critical perspectives on transitional justice practice globally. His consulting practice provides practical application of his research, creating a productive feedback loop between academic work and real-world human rights programming.
