Daniella Lock

Fund for Global Human Rights Postdoctoral Fellow, January 2022 to September 2024

Other affiliations

St Antony's College

Biography

Daniella worked as the postdoctoral fellow at the Bonavero Institute for Human Rights, assisting with the preparation of curriculum materials for the Symposium on Strength and Solidarity alongside her research on executive power and democracy. Her research focused on constraints of executive power, in particular national security-related power, human rights and the ability to politically organise including to protest and campaign.  Before working at the Bonavero Institute, she completed a PhD in human rights law at UCL and an undergraduate degree in philosophy and politics at LSE. Daniella has worked with NGOs, activists and political organisations. These include Liberty, Amnesty International, JUSTICE, Wadzanai, Assistance Association of Political Prisoners (Burma), and the Labour Party. She has also provided evidence to a range of Westminster parliamentary committees. 

Daniella leaves the Institute to work at Kings College London.

Research Interests

Daniella's research focuses on executive power, particularly national security-related power and surveillance, and democratic, constitutional and human rights including those related to protest and political organising.