Our Committee
Our Committee

Research Committee

The Middlesex University Dubai Research Committee

The Middlesex University Dubai Research Committee aims to develop and foster research that reflects faculty interests and aspirations, to support student research, to promote the growing research culture of the Campus, and to establish innovative research projects with stakeholders.

Responsibilities of committee members include monitoring and reviewing research-related policies and procedures, raising awareness of research opportunities, supporting colleagues to publish research findings, managing the weekly research seminar series, overseeing research ethics on campus, and championing departmental and university-wide MDX Research Conferences.

Meet the Research Committee

Dr Daphne Demetriou

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ROLE:

Senior Lecturer

Campus Programme Coordinator – Postgraduate Law and Politics

SCHOOL:

School of Law and Politics

CONTACT:

+971 (0)4 375 7151

EMAIL:

[email protected]

Biography

Dr Daphne Demetriou is the campus programme coordinator for all postgraduate Law and Politics programmes at Middlesex University Dubai. She holds a PhD in Law from Middlesex University London (UK), an LLM in Public International Law from University College London (UK) and an LLB from the University of Kent (UK). She also completed the Legal Practice Course (LPC).

Daphne’s learning and teaching interests cover International Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law and Public Law.

Qualifications
  • PhD Law, Middlesex University, London, UK
  • LL.M in Public International Law, UCL, London, UK
  • LPC, The College of Law, London, UK
  • LLB, University of Kent, UK
  • PG Certificate in Higher Education 
Research
Research Interests
  • Public International Law
  • International Human Rights Law
  • International Criminal Law
  • Human Trafficking and Slavery
Selected publications:

Demetriou, D. ‘‘Tied Visas’ and Inadequate Labour Protections: A formula for abuse and exploitation of migrant domestic workers in the United Kingdom’, Anti-Trafficking Review, Issue 5, 2015, pp. 69–88, www.antitraffickingreview.org

Demetriou, D. “The Mens Rea of Human Trafficking - The Case of Migrant Domestic Workers, International Criminal Justice Review, 2018, http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1057567718788931 (Issue and volume pending)

Kyriazi T. and Demetriou, D. ‘Mixed Migration Flows into Europe: Discharging State Anti-Trafficking Obligations Through the Proper Identification of Trafficking Victims' (2020) International Journal of Sustainable Society, Vol.12 No.1, pp.76 - 92.

Demetriou, D. ‘Assessing Human Trafficking: The Slavery Nexus and its impact on Migrant Domestic Workers’ in Bulla, D. (eds) Why Slavery Endures: Its Past, Present and Future (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020)

Other:
Online articles:

Tied Visas’ and Inadequate Labour Protections: A formula for abuse and exploitation of migrant domestic workers in the United Kingdom, Thomson Reuters Foundationhttp://news.trust.org/item/20151103095627-n1kjy/

‘Taking no prisoners’: The UK’s stance on ECtHR judgments in relation to prisoners’ voting rights, March 30th, 2015, An International Law Blog, https://aninternationallawblog.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/taking-no-prisoners-the-uks-stance-on-ecthr-judgments-in-relation-to-prisoners-voting-rights/

Modern Slavery Bill: Cleaning up the mess of the UK government’s restrictive immigration regime for migrant domestic workers, January 19th, 2015, An International Law Blog, https://aninternationallawblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/19/modern-slavery-bill-cleaning-up-the-mess-of-the-uk-governments-restrictive-immigration-regime-for-migrant-domestic-workers-2/

‘Varnava and Others’ and ‘Xenides-Arestis group’ cases: Just Satisfaction or Just the Status Quo? The Effectiveness of the Committee of Ministers’ Current Execution Mechanisms, November 3rd, 2014, An International Law Blog, https://aninternationallawblog.wordpress.com/2014/11/03/varnava-and-others-and-xenides-arestis-group-cases-just-satisfaction-or-just-the-status-quo-the-effectiveness-of-the-committee-of-ministers-current-execution-mechanisms/

Editor:
  • Guest editor of Special Issue of the International Journal of Sustainable Society
  • Guest editor to International Journal of Sustainable Systems Science.
Conferences:
  • ERPBSS 2018: Panel on Humanitarian Work, Dubai, UAE, January 2018
  • Inter-Disciplinary.Net Conference ‘Slavery: Past, Present and Future- 2nd Global Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2016
  • UN OHCHR/GAATW Launch Event of the Anti-Trafficking Review Issue 5: ‘Forced Labour and Human Trafficking’, Bangkok, Thailand, September 2015