Nicola Browne

Nicola has been a social justice activist for many years. She has worked in academia, and NGOs on issues including refugee and asylum rights, penal law and the death penalty, and economic and social rights. She was a founder staff member of the ground-breaking Participation and the Practice of Rights organisation in Belfast, including seven years as the Director (Policy). Nicola has a strong commitment to grassroots and people-powered campaigning work and has supported groups from the most economically deprived communities to design and win campaigns to make real change for those living in social housing and for people using mental health services.

Nicola is a Senior Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity at the London School of Economics and a Fellow with The Social Change Initiative’s Leadership for Social Justice and Peace in Northern Ireland programme.

She holds both an LLB (Hons) degree from the University of Dundee and an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Nottingham.

Nicola tweets at @nicolajbrowne