Senior Lecturer in Law and Human Rights, Sheffield Hallam University
Severyna joined Sheffield Hallam University in 2019 and is Course Leader for the MA and LLM degrees in Applied Human Rights. Her research interests focus on equality, violence against women, specifically domestic abuse and sexual assault, reproductive rights, sexual harassment, and access to justice. Severyna obtained a Masters in International Law with from the School of Oriental and African Studies in 2008, and has worked with NGOs in the UK and India. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education in 2020.
Prior to joining Sheffield Hallam she founded and was the Faculty Co-ordinator of the Human Rights Law and Theory programme for over four years at Jindal Global Law School, India's leading private law school, as ranked by QS World University Subject Rankings 2020. During her time at JGLS, Severyna co-developed a new policy against sexual harassment and was the founding Member-Secretary of the Committee Against Sexual Harassment. She was the Project Manager for a Women's Social Integration project in East London funded by the UK Home Office and European Commission. The project provided service delivery to vulnerable women who were experiencing or re-building their lives after having experienced domestic violence or forced marriage. In India she was a Researcher and Co-ordinator for a UN Women funded project researching access to gender-sensitive, rights-based justice through traditional forms of justice. Severyna also guest lectures on the University of California, Berkeley's comparative equality and discrimination online module delivered to students across the world.
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