Research Associates

Research Associates assist the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy with developing new lines of inquiry, producing the Yearbook on Human Rights and Drug Policy, maintaining the website, and organising seminars and events. Our current Research Associates are:

Emily Crick

Emily studied history at London University and has Masters degrees in South Asian studies and Security and Development. She worked in the international media for ten years including stints at Reuters and NBC News. Emily also spent time working at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies in India.  She spent two years as a research associate at Transform Drugs Policy Foundation and is now a research student at Swansea University analysing the relationship between drugs and international security.

Simon Flacks

Simon is a Research Fellow at the ‘Empowerment Through Human Rights’ college at the University of Vienna, Austria. His PhD topic is: Children, drugs and human rights in the UK. He has an LLM in Human Rights Law (dist.) from Birkbeck College, University of London, and was formerly a child rights officer for the Child Rights Information Network.

Hilde Laeremans

Hilde is currently finalising her LLM in International Human Rights Law at the Irish Centre for Human Rights. Her Masters thesis is on human rights and the war on drugs in Colombia, and she is planning on pursuing a PhD on drug policies and human rights in Latin America. Hilde is a certified legal interpreter and translator.