Dr Katie Boyle is Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law. Her research address violations of economic, social and cultural rights. ESC rights relate to issues such as housing, health care, education, employment and social security.
Dr Boyle is currently Principal Investigator leading a UK wide project funded by the Nuffield Foundation (£338,000.00) to examine the accountability gap in access to justice for social rights in each of the UK's jurisdictions.
In 2018 Katie was appointed as an expert on the First Minister’s Advisory Group on Human Rights Leadership. The group's remit was to consider how Scotland can be an international leader in human rights and their recommendations were accepted by the First Minister. Other recent expert appointments include Scotland's UNCRC Incorporation Advisory Group; working with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing on access to justice issues; and apppointment to the Mental Health Justice Advisory Board.
Dr Boyle has worked nationally and internationally on ESC rights during periods of constitutional transition including work funded by the British Academy in Colombia and Brazil. Her work has featured in reporting procedures to the UN and she has worked with national human rights institutions, including most recently with the Scottish Human Rights Commission on a project exploring the incorporation of international human rights law in Scotland. This work was endorsed by the Chair of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Virginia-Bras Gomez,. In 2016 Katie was PI on the ESRC funded project ‘Human Rights in Transition: Impact for the UK in a Changing Europe’.
Prior to joining Stirling Katie qualified as a constitutional lawyer with the Government Legal Service for Scotland before completing a PhD at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Previous appointments include ESRC Research Fellow, Centre for Constitutional Change at the University of Edinburgh and Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Roehampton, London.
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