Alice Donald
Alice Donald is Senior Research Fellow in the Human Rights and Social Justice Research Institute. She has substantial experience of researching, writing and speaking about human rights issues as they arise both in and outside the UK. Her recent reports have focused on the implementation and future development of human rights legislation in the UK (for the Equality and Human Rights Commission) and on how human rights have been used to develop new conceptions of poverty and new approaches to tackling it (for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation).
Alice was formerly an Associate of Global Partners & Associates. She also has experience of working in and with media and civil society, particularly in South-east Asia. She spent 15 years in the BBC World Service, as a broadcast journalist, journalism trainer and programme editor specialising in East Asian affairs and, latterly, in a senior commissioning role.
Alice has a First Class honours degree in History from Cambridge University and an MSc (with Distinction) in Human Rights from the London School of Economics.
Recent activity: The Changing Face of Human Rights
Contact details:
Tel: 020 7133 5254
Email a.donald@londonmet.ac.uk
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Publications & conference papers
Book chapters
- ‘Limits and achievements of the HRA from the socio-economic point of view: the HRA and Poverty’, in N. Kang-Riou et al. (eds.), Confronting the Human Rights Act, Contemporary themes and perspectives (Routledge, 2012) (with E. Mottershaw)
- ‘Developing a Bill of Rights for the UK: Lessons from overseas’ in I. Leigh and R. Masterman (eds.) The UK’s statutory Bill of Rights: Constitutional and Comparative Perspectives (British Academy, 2012) (forthcoming)
Peer reviewed journal articles
- Book review of Debating Social Rights by Conor Gearty and Virginia Mantouvalou (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2011) in Public Law, 2012, 2: 343-47
- ‘Opinion: A Bill of Rights for the UK? Why the process matters’, European Human Rights Law Review, 2010, 5: 459-464
- ‘Evaluating the Impact of Human Rights Litigation on Policy and Practice: A Case Study of the UK’, Journal of Human Rights Practice, Vol. 1, Issue 3, 2009 (with E. Mottershaw)
Reports
- Equality, human rights and religion or belief in England and Wales, Manchester: Equality and Human Rights Commission, 2012 (forthcoming)
- The UK and the European Court of Human Rights, Manchester: Equality and Human Rights Commission, 2012 (with Philip Leach and Jane Gordon)
- Developing a Bill of Rights for the UK, Manchester: Equality and Human Rights Commission, 2010 (with the assistance of Philip Leach and Andrew Puddephatt)
- Poverty, Inequality and Human Rights: Do human rights frameworks make a difference? York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2009 (with E. Mottershaw)
- Evaluating the impact of selected cases under the Human Rights Act 1998 on public service provision, London: Equality and Human Rights Commission, 2009 (with E. Mottershaw)
- Human rights in Britain since the Human Rights Act 1998: a critical review, London: Equality and Human Rights Commission, 2009 (with Philip Leach and Jenny Watson)
Conference/seminar papers and briefings
- ‘Economic and social rights in the UK – the story so far’, Just Fair seminar (in partnership with the British Institute of Human Rights, the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the University of Essex) on Economic and social rights in the UK: Combating social injustice in an age of austerity, 21 January 2011
- ‘Developing a Bill of Rights for the UK: lessons from overseas’, Durham Human Rights Centre, Tenth Anniversary of the Human Rights Act Symposium, 24-25 September 2010.
- ‘The Human Rights Act and Poverty’, Salford Human Rights Conference, Ten years on: A Multi-perspective Evaluation of the Human Rights Act, 4 June 2010
Blogs and articles
- UK vs. Strasbourg - don’t believe the hype, UK Human Rights Blog, 20 April 2012
- Strasbourg: focus on facts, not fiction, The Times, 19 April 2012 (with Philip Leach and Jane Gordon)
- Austerity opposition needs a coherent narrative: human rights provide one, The Guardian, 25 January 2011
