Professor Janine Natalya Clark

Birmingham Law School
Professor of Transitional Justice and International Criminal Law

Contact details

Telephone: 0121 414 6316
Email: j.n.clark@bham.ac.uk

Address: Birmingham Law School
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Janine Natalya Clark joined Birmingham Law School in October 2014. She was promoted to Reader in 2016 and promoted to Professor in 2018. Her research interests include transitional justice, armed conflict, resilience, social-ecological systems, posthumanism, new materialism and disability.

Janine has four research monographs and one co-edited book. Her most recent book – Resilience, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and Transitional Justice: A Social-Ecological Framing – resulted from a research project funded by the European Research Council (grant number 724518). Janine’s interdisciplinary work has also been published in a wide range of peer-reviewed journals, including The International Journal of Transitional Justice, International Affairs, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, The British Journal of Sociology, Environmental Sociology and Qualitative Research.

Janine has recently been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2024-2025), to work on a project entitled ‘Rethinking Transitional Justice: The Significance of More-than-Human Worlds’.

Staff details
Policy information

Qualifications

LLB (Bristol)
MA (Leeds)
PhD (Nottingham)

Biography

Professor Clark received her PhD from the University of Nottingham in 2006 and subsequently spent three years in the International Politics department at Aberystwyth University as an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow respectively. Before joining Birmingham Law School in October 2014, she held Lecturer positions in the Post-War Reconstruction and Development Unit at the University of York (2009-2010), the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen’s University in Belfast (2010-2011) and in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield (2011-2014). She was promoted to Chair in 2018.

Postgraduate supervision

Professor Clark is interested in supervising research in the following areas:

Transitional justice
Resilience
Genocide
Armed conflict
Posthumanism
Reconciliation

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Research

In 2017, Janine was awarded a five-year European Research Council Consolidator Grant. Most recently, in March 2024, she was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to work on a project entitled ‘Rethinking Transitional Justice: The Significance of More-than-Human Worlds’. The aim of the project, which focuses on Ukraine as a case study and draws on posthumanist scholarship, is to rethink and expand the field of transitional justice in ways that acknowledge the suffering and agency of more-than-human worlds in situations of war and armed conflict.