Funded PhD Studentship in Brunel Law School
Brunel Law School is offering three PhD studentships to start in the academic year of 2023/24. The studentship is for a period of 3 years (36 months) preferably starting on 1st January 2024 or at a mutually agreed time after that. The successful applicant will receive payment of UK/home tuition fees. The studentship is open to UK/EU applicants only; International applicants will not be considered for these bursaries.
Eligibility
The studentship is awarded based on outstanding academic merit.
Candidates should have an undergraduate degree (first or upper second class) in a relevant subject. A Master’s degree is an advantage but not essential, preferably at distinction level or equivalent.
How to apply
How to apply
If you wish to apply, please email the following to Dr Mohammad Nayyeri at Mohammad.Nayyeri@brunel.ac.uk no later than 7 December 2023.
- Your up to date CV
- A one A4 page personal statement setting out why you are a suitable candidate (i.e. your skills and experience)
- A research proposal explaining your proposed area of research. Your proposal should be a minimum of 3500 words (excluding references) and no more than 5000 words.
- Your degree transcripts and/or certificates
- Names and contact details for two academic referees.
Interviews (online) will take place in the week commencing 11 December 2023, exact date and times to be confirmed.
Any offer will be subject to a successful application to our PhD degree programme. If you are offered a place you will need to complete an online application via the following website, meeting the University academic entry requirements and being offered a place on the course:
Further information
If you have any questions, please contact Department PGR Programme Director: Dr Patricia Hobbs by email at patricia.hobbs@brunel.ac.uk.
Mohammad Nayyeri - Dr Mohammad Nayyeri is a Lecturer in Law in the Public and International Law Division at Brunel Law School.
Mohammad gained his PhD in Law in 2020 at King’s College London. His thesis focused on the role of international legal practice in theorising human rights and engaged with general legal theories and contemporary philosophical approaches to human rights.
Having previously studied law in Iran up to PhD level and qualified as Attorney at Law, he was awarded a Chevening Scholarship from the British Council and studied an LLM in Human Rights at Birkbeck, University of London. He also obtained a Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) at the University of Westminster.
Before joining Brunel, Mohammad worked as Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent and held visiting positions at the London School of Economics (LSE) and King’s College London where he taught a range of classes on public law, EU law, property law and jurisprudence. He also worked as Legal Advisor and Senior Associate at the University of Essex Human Rights in Iran Unit.
More recently, Mohammad held fellowships at the Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN) and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg.
Mohammad has extensive experience of working with NGOs and has had conduct of cases and representations before international bodies and mechanisms including the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, and national bodies including National Contact Points (NCPs) in business and human rights cases.
Mohammad has been accepted by various judicial authorities including the UK’s Courts and tribunals as an independent legal expert able to give opinion on legal issues and conditions relating to Iranian law and in asylum and immigration cases. He is also recognised and listed as a country expert by the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA).
Mohammad has also been instructed as an independent expert by leading law firms across the UK, Canada, US, Australia, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands and produced numerous expert reports which he has presented to various courts, most recently regarding the recognition and enforcement of a major arbitral award before the Hague Court of Appeal and the High Court in London.