Rebecca Thorburn Stern

Professor of Public International Law. My main research areas include human rights, particularly children's rights, migration law, and the relationship between international law and domestic law. Co-founder of the GL/UMIN network on migration law. From 2022 to 2024, I served as the Research Director for the Uppsala Forum for Democracy, Peace, and Justice. 2024 to 2027, I am a Visiting Professor of Human Rights at Lund University, and also affiliated with the Institute for Futures Studies.

Please see the CV attached.

Ongoing research projects (selected)

Status and stability. An examination of the importance of time in Swedish asylum and citizenship legislation. Funded by the Swedish Research Council 2024-2027. For more information, please visit https://www.iffs.se/en/research/research-projects/status-and-stability/

Treated Like a Child: Children and Age Discrimination Law in Sweden and the UK

Funded by the Ragnar Söderberg Foundation. 2020-2023.

Is there consistency in evaluation of sexual orientation and gender identity refugee cases?

Funded by Forte.2021-2025. For more information, see https://kultgeog.uu.se/forskning/forskningsprojekt/cares/

Medical evidence in asylum procedures

Funded by Nordforsk (2021-2025). For more information, see https://www.nordforsk.org/sv/projects/nordic-refugee-determination-advancing-data-science-migration-law-nordasil.

GAPS - De-centring the Study of Migrant Returns and Readmission Policies in Europe and Beyond

Funded through Horizon-Europe (2023-2026).

Previous research projects (selected):

The Convention on the Rights of the Child as domestic law: does it make a difference for children seeking asylum? Funded by the Ragnar Söderberg Foundation (2016-2022).

- Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child - how is this adressed and explained by State parties and the CRC Committee? Partly financed by the Stockholm Centre for the Rights of the Child, Stockholm University. (2015-2017)

- Is it for real? Testing the genuine nature of a conviction or orientation in the context of the asylum process. Funded by the European Refugee Fund and the Swedish Migration Agency. (2013-2015)

- Overlapping protection or conflicting rules? A study of the concept of subsidiary protection in the context of Swedish law, EU law and international law. Funded by the Swedish Research Council. (2010-2012)

- What does it take to be granted protection and which protection ground should be selected? Funded by the European Refugee Fund and the Swedish Migration Agency. (2010-2011).