Dr Ian Turner
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Ian has been at The University of Central Lancashire since 2002, when he joined the then Lancashire Law School from Coventry University as a Lecturer in Law. In his time here, Ian has taught on a number of modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level. When Ian is not teaching, he spends much of his time engaged in academic research and bidding for external funding. Ian is also responsible for supervising several Postgraduate Research (PGR) students on PhD, MPhil and LLM programmes and very much welcomes PGR applications from students in any areas of human rights.
Ian is Reader in Human Rights and Security at UCLan. He is the University’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) Lead for Unit of Assessment (UoA) 18 (Law) and is also the Lead for PGR degrees in the School of Law and Policing.
Ian has been published widely in the areas of human rights, security, counter-terrorism and legal and political theory, particularly on issues relating to the killing, torture and censorship of terror suspects. He has also presented papers at a number of prestigious international conferences in Europe and North America. Ian has taught undergraduate and postgraduate modules in constitutional and administrative law, law and social justice, human rights, criminal law and counter-terrorism. Ian has held various administrative roles in the School of Law and Policing, such as the Course Leader for the LLB Law with Criminology, BA Law and Criminology and BA Human Rights programmes. Before becoming a Course Leader, Ian was the Second Year Tutor on the LLB Law programme.
- PhD (by Published Works), the University of Central Lancashire, 2016
- PGCE in Further, Adult and Higher Education, the University of Wolverhampton, 2000
- LLM by Research, the University of Birmingham, 1999
- BA (Hons) Law, Sheffield Hallam University, 1994
- Human rights and responsibilities
- Civil and political rights
- Social justice
- Social contract theory
- Threats to security from terrorism and violent extremism
- External Examiner, MA in Human Rights, the School of Advanced Study, the University of London
- Senior Reviews Editor, The International Journal of Human Rights
- Editorial Board member, Democracy and Security
- Editorial Board member, Law. Human. Environment.
- Editorial Board member, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism
- Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
- Council Member of Society of Legal Scholars (SLS)
- Member of the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA)
Ian has been published widely in the areas of human rights, security, counter-terrorism and legal and political theory, particularly on issues relating to the killing, torture and censorship of terror suspects. He is especially interested in the social contract theory of the 17th and 18th Centuries, such as the writings of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Samuel Pufendorf and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and its applicability to 21st Century threats to national and international security.
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- Re-imagining African Human Rights Research Network
- The Criminal Justice Partnership
- As part of UCLan's Re-imagining African Human Rights Research Network Ian is involved in a project examining the contemporary identity of human rights in Africa, taking an innovative arts and cultural approach through the medium of story.
- University of Ghent, Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 75: Rethinking and Constructing its Future Together, 2023
- Loyola University, Chicago, Fourteenth Annual Constitutional Law Colloquium, 2023
- WG Hart Legal Workshop, Responding to the Crises – Law, Alternative Economies and Activism, 2022
- Contemporary Extremism: Manifestations and Responses, 2021
- Annual Workshop of the International Association of Constitutional Law Research Group on Constitutional Responses to Terrorism, 2019
- Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, 2019
- Law and Social Transformation Conference, 2019
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