Yelyzaveta Monastyrova

Research Fellow in Slavery and War (Concepts and Theories)

Email: Yelyzaveta.Monastyrova@nottingham.ac.uk

Yelyzaveta Monastyrova is a Rights Lab Research Fellow in Slavery and War with the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War, a collaborative centre between the University of Nottingham and King's College London. Her focus in the Leverhulme Centre is on Concepts and Theories: conceptualising and critiquing the nexus of slavery/war through the lenses of political philosophy, legal frameworks, and survivor experience. Yelyzaveta combines legal, international relations and political science approaches to exploitation and conflict. She holds a PhD in Law from the Open University, where she studied legal and policy approaches to domestic human trafficking in the UK, Ukraine and Spain, and an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree in South European Studies from the University of Glasgow. She has also researched and published on the applicability of the human trafficking concept to human rights abuses committed in occupied territories in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Yelyzaveta is a Steering Group member of the Human Trafficking Research Network (currently based at Ulster University) and has engaged with NGOs working on labour rights, widening access and participation, and public diplomacy, in the UK and Ukraine.