We are delighted to offer a warm welcome to our Visiting Fellows for Hilary Term 2026.
This term, our fellows are:
Desislava Dimitrova
Desislava Dmitrova is a graduate in Law (Universidad de Málaga, 2021), Master´s in Law (Universidad de Málaga, 2023) and Master´s in Diplomacy and International Relations (Diplomacy School of Spain, 2025). She is currently a PhD candidate in International Public Law and Constitutional Law and an attorney of the Bar Association of Málaga. She has been a trainee at the Constitutional Court of Spain for a period of a year and a half from November 2023 until May 2025. Read more
Maria Flinder Stierna
Maria Flinder Stierna is an economist and a scholar within the humanitarian-development nexus, publishing primarily on the socio-economic lives of refugees and those hosting them in East Africa. In her PhD (2023–), she studies food systems in refugee-hosting contexts in the same region, as part of the ECOFOOD project. She is funded by the Norwegian Research Council. Her professional background spans, e.g., the University of Oxford, UN agencies, and the Tanzanian government (through ODI). Read more
Harry Legg
Harry Legg is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. His thesis examines the lives of Germans of Jewish descent who did not identify as Jewish. In particular, he focuses on how they responded to being classified as ‘Jewish’ by the Nazis, from 1933 to 1945. Using over 400 cases, Legg examines how decades of life outside the Jewish community, often without Jewish friends, drastically altered their experiences after 1933. Read more
Alice Neikirk
Dr. Alice Neikirk is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Newcastle’s School of Law and Justice. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the Australian National University and brings a strong interdisciplinary perspective to her research. Her research focuses on how people understand and interact with legal frameworks and institutions. She is particularly interested in the ways that legal design with communities from migration backgrounds can support informed decision making. Read more
Anne K. Schlüter
Anne K. Schlüter is a researcher and PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Münster, Germany. Her doctoral project investigates the practice of credibility assessment in asylum claims based on religious conversion, drawing on ethnographic and qualitative methods. It contributes to ongoing debates on refugee status determination processes, law and religion, and the extra-legal factors that shape judicial decision-making. Her broader research interests include social differentiation theory and the sociology of law, religion, and knowledge. Read more