Vera Wriedt is a PhD researcher at the Hertie School’s Centre for Fundamental Rights with a focus on borders, expulsions and human rights, as well as postcolonial and feminist theories. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University, a Master of Laws in Human Rights from Birkbeck University of London and a Master of Arts for Research in Social Sciences from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Before starting her PhD, Vera worked in the Migration Programme of the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR). She was also a lecturer at Freie Universität Berlin teaching seminars on human rights and migration. Vera’s research has been supported by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, Birkbeck’s School of Law, the Hertie School and the Heinrich Böll Foundation, among others. She is part of the Network for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies (Kritnet).
Main supervisor: Prof. Cathryn Costello, PhD
