Alma Ionescu

Alma is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. She is working on the Wellcome-funded project Care in the Courtroom: Trauma-informed Specialist Courts and the Medicalisation of Justice, led by Dr Natalie Kyneswood.

She recently completed her PhD in Global Health at UCL. Her doctoral research explored mental health activism in Uganda, using a social justice lens to contribute to reconceptualisations of the concept of 'care' within Global Mental Health. Her research lies at the intersection of critical mental health, health inequalities, and care ethics.  Previously, she worked as a Research Fellow at UCL, collaborating with disability justice groups to explore lived experiences of eugenics legacies and community approaches towards reparative work as part of the Eugenics Legacies Education Project.

She is interested in understanding experiences of care within various systems and structures, such as legal ones, and how those can be improved.

Alma holds degrees from the London School of Economics (BSc and MSc) and Leiden University (MA).