Catherine Briddick

Catherine Briddick is the Andrew W. Mellon Associate Professor of International Human Rights and Refugee Law and a fellow of St Antony’s College.  

Catherine is a scholar of human rights and refugee law whose research explores the relationships between discrimination, persecution, and protection. Her work, published in leading academic journals including ICLQ, the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law and the International Journal of Refugee Law, cuts across subjects and regimes, including UK immigration and public law, non-discrimination and equality law, European Union law, and public international law. Catherine’s monograph, Violence against Women and Regimes of Exception: Undoing Discrimination in Migration Law was published by OUP in 2025. 

Catherine’s research has been cited by the Court of Justice of the European Union, New Zealand’s Immigration and Protection Tribunal, and the UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children. The UNHCR and the Council of Europe have also invited her to write on key refugee rights issues.

Catherine holds an LLM from the LSE and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. Catherine is also a barrister (currently non-practicing). Before coming to academia, she represented individuals before courts and tribunals and then delivered and managed legal advice services in the not-for-profit sector. 

Catherine is a member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Refugee Law and on the Board of Trustees of Women for Refugee Women. She is also a Research Associate of the Refugee Law Initiative and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Catherine welcomes applications from doctoral candidates pursuing research in international and regional refugee and migration law, as well as the human rights of refugees and migrants. She is especially interested in projects that adopt feminist methodologies or gendered approaches to these fields.