Elke Evrard

Short Bio

Dr. Elke Evrard is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Human Rights Centre. She holds a Master of Science in Comparative & International Politics and a Master of Arts in European Studies from the University of Leuven, and a PhD in Law from Ghent University. Before joining the Human Rights Centre, Elke held a position as Senior Research Manager for a global market research company.

Elke takes part to the ERC funded Justice Visions project, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Tine Destrooper. Her work focuses on the nexus of expressive justice theories, victim participation, outreach, and discursive memory making in post-conflict transitional justice processes, with a particular interest in interdisciplinary and mixed method approaches. She is Managing Editor at the Journal of Human Rights Practice, and co-lecturer of the course ‘Transitional Justice and Human Rights’ at the Faculty of Law & Criminology of Ghent University.