Professor Janine Natalya Clark

Birmingham Law School
Professor of Transitional Justice and International Criminal Law

Contact details

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 SociologyEnvironmental 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’.

Qualifications

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

Biography

Janine 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 * War and armed conflict * Environmental impacts of war * Posthumanism


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Research

Transitional justice

The Russia-Ukraine war

Resilience

Social-ecological systems

Posthumanism

Soundscape ecology

Multi-sensory research methods

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Clark, JN 2025, 'Environmental harms and entangled lifeworlds in the Russia-Ukraine war: A relational reframing of transitional justice', Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2025.2533716

Clark, JN 2025, 'Exploring the environmental impacts of war through sound and listening: A study of the Russia-Ukraine war', Environmental Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2025.2510416

Clark, JN 2025, 'The environmental impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war: Challenging anthropocentric approaches to transitional justice', Social and Legal Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639251360212

Clark, JN 2025, 'Thinking and writing with more-than-human worlds: Some animal perspectives on the Russia-Ukraine war ', Environmental Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2025.2596609

Clark, JN 2025, 'Thinking with edges – and at the edges: some retrospective reflections on fieldwork and missed connections', Qualitative Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941251331457

Clark, JN 2025, 'Transitional justice and memory-building: Acknowledging the importance of more-than-human worlds', Memory Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980251372515

Clark, JN 2025, 'Transitional justice and the significance of more-than-human worlds: Some reflections from the Russia-Ukraine war ', Journal of Human Rights Practice.

Clark, JN 2025, 'War, ontology and bodies: Beyond human-centred approaches', Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2024.2445984

Clark, JN 2025, 'War, relationality and social-ecological systems: An analysis of human-bird interactions', Environmental Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2024.2447416

Clark, JN 2025, 'Whose testimony? Thinking about other-than-human witnesses in transitional justice ', International Journal of Transitional Justice. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijaf003

Clark, JN 2024, 'New directions for resilience research: The significance of volume and verticality', Geoforum, vol. 157, 104160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104160

Clark, JN 2024, 'Post-traumatic growth, resilience and social-ecological synergies: Some reflections from a study on conflict-related sexual violence', Social Sciences, vol. 13, no. 2, 104. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13020104

Clark, JN 2024, 'Resilience as a "concept at work" in the war in Ukraine: Exploring its international and domestic significance', Review of International Studies. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210524000305

Clark, JN 2024, 'Storytelling and listening in transitional justice processes: Addressing the marginalisation of more-than-human worlds', Social and Legal Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639241289877

Chapter

Clark, JN 2025, Overcoming dis/ability barriers in field research. in D Hammett & N Holmes (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Field Research. 1st edn, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003404903-19

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Expertise

Education and Sensitization in the Fight against Sexual Violence in Conflict: Tackling Prejudice and Social Stigma in Bosnia-Herzegovina

  • Sexual violence in conflict
  • International criminal courts
  • Transitional justice