Dr. Rebecca Smyth
Dr. Rebecca Smyth is a lecturer in Law at Birmingham City University. She completed her LLM and PhD in International Human Rights Law at the University of Edinburgh. Dr Smyth specialises in intersectional feminist approaches to international human rights law, particularly abortion access and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHRs). Her research is informed by an interest in the (sometimes productive) tensions arising from historically oppressed groups engaging with the language and mechanisms of human rights.