Raba Ali Al-Hassani

Research Associate

Research Overview

Ruba Ali Al-Hassani is an Interdisciplinary Sociologist and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Lancaster University’s Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion. She is also a Research Consultant with King's College London. Ruba focuses on the study of state-society relations to centre and amplify voices on the ground in public discourse, analysis, and policy. Her research particularly focuses on Iraqi studies, law, transitional justice, crime, social control, and social movements. Ruba is also a contributing writer at Inside Arabia and The New Arab. She co-founded the Canadian Association for Muslim Women in Law. She has taught at York University and Trent University. Ruba holds a B.Sc. in Psychology & Sociology, a M.A. in Criminology, and an LL.M. in transitional justice, as she completes her PhD at Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada.

BRISMES Annual Conference
Participation in conference - Academic

BRISMES Annual Conference
Participation in conference - Academic

Critical Studies of Iraq Junior Scholars Initiative (Event)
Publication peer-review

Recognizing and Counteracting Extractivism in Academia and Research Partnerships Research Workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Mobilizing from the Margins: Meanings, Modes, and Effects of Women and Youth Social Mobilization in the Arab Region Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Between Social and Scholarly Mobilisation in Iraq. A Spring of Feminist Consciousness
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

On the Edge: Post-Conflict Political Generations of Women and Youth Activists in the ‘Second Wave’ of the Arab Spring
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Fennia: international journal of geography (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Middle East Studies Association Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Policy Working Group
Influence on Policy, Practice, Patients & the Public

The Future of Politics in the Middle East
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Sectarianized To Alienation: Religiosity and Belongingness in Iraq
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

SEPAD Annual Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

BRISMES Annual Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

“How Death Outlives War: The Reverberating Impacts of the Post-9/11 Wars on Human Health.” Brown University and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.
Invited talk

2003 - 2023: The Legacy of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
Invited talk

Peace by Storytelling: On Transitional Justice, Literature, and Mobilization
Invited talk

Of Storytelling, Memory, and Mobilization: Iraq’s Tishreen Movement
Invited talk

Of Storytelling, Memory, and Mobilization: Iraq’s Tishreen Movement
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Ethnopolitics (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Of Trauma and Recovery: Implementing Storytelling-Based Restorative Education in Iraq
Consultancy