Rebecca Wallace (1)

Professor Rebecca Wallace MA., LL.B., Ph.D. was appointed Emeritus Professor in the School of Health Sciences in February 2017. Previously she was Research Professor in International Human Rights and Justice from December 2012. She has, however been associated with RGU Law School since 2003 when she joined the department as Professor of International Human Rights Law.

Rebecca's principal discipline throughout 41 years in academia has been international law with a particular emphasis on human rights of especially vulnerable groups. Her most recent research activity has been the human rights based approach to health delivery and a consideration of health issues from a legal perspective. She is an established scholar of international renown and has extensive in depth experience of delivering human rights awareness by way of a variety of medium in different fora. Rebecca has a proven track record as Principal Investigator on a number of wide ranging externally funded research projects, as well as a prolific publication output in the relevant subject area. Positions held include research Professor of International Human Rights and Justice at Robert Gordon University; Head of the Law School, Napier University, Edinburgh; and Director of the Centre for the Rural Child at the University of the Highlands and Islands. Rebecca is also a regular reviewer for peer reviewed journals and serves on the editorial boards of several journals. Rebecca was a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College until 2016. She has also been an assessor for the British Academy, the Nuffield Foundation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She sits on the advisory group of the Scottish Human Rights Commission and was a member of the Advisory Group re the establishment of Scotland's National Action Plan. Rebecca has an extensive and well developed network of contacts across the higher education sector throughout the UK and abroad. She is a non practising barrister, a Member of Lincoln's Inn and a retired judge of the First-tier Tribunal (Asylum and Immigration).