Graduate Student, Development Studies and Law
PhD student
Birkbeck College
Thesis Title: Narratives of Human Rights: Universal concepts brought into focus through lenses of life stories
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Mike Jennings
Matthew Weait |
About
Before starting her PhD, Lucy was the HIV Officer for Stigma with the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) based in London. She has supported the rollout of The People Living with HIV Stigma Index in the UK and coordinated the international partnership that guides the rollout of the Index around the world. With IPPF Lucy was also researching and developing advocacy work on HIV and human rights, law and social justice including on issues relating to the criminalisation of HIV transmission.
Lucy has also worked with Panos as the HIV Policy and Programme Officer, with a focus on HIV communication, learning and teaching for social change, pastoralism and communication for development. Lucy was a youth worker and life skills educator with out-of-school young people in Sydney Australia, an adult educator in Mozambique and facilitator of outdoor experiential education in the USA, and a research assistant with the Institute of Development Studies and the Sussex University School of Education.
Lucy has an MA International Education (University of Sussex, 2004), BA History, Psychology and Literautre (Harvard University, 2002), and is currently also completing an LLM Human Rights (Birkbeck College, University of London, in progress).
