DrDr Matthew Davis

Senior Lecturer in Law

Faculty of Arts, Business, and Social Sciences

  • Senior Lecturer in Law
    Faculty of Arts, Business, and Social Sciences

BIO

Matthew Davis is a Lecturer in Law and Early Career Researcher at the University of Wolverhampton. Matthew holds a PhD International Law, Human Rights and Criminal Justice from the University of Birmingham.

Dr Davis teaches Nationality, International Migration and Asylum Law and is a Fellow of the Academics Stand Against Poverty Global Justice Program at Yale University.

Dr Davis conducts research on modern slavery and human trafficking from both a crime control perspective and adopts a victim centred approach to assisting and supporting victims of human trafficking and exploitation. Dr Davis has previous experience of working in a safehouse for victims of human trafficking. His work lends himself to suggesting solutions complex issues of identification and detection of more victims in the UK.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Fellow Global Justice Program
    Yale University, New Haven, United States1 Mar 2024

DEGREES

  • PhD Law
    University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom1 Sep 2016 - 30 Jun 2020
  • LLM Masters International Law, Human Rights & Criminal Justice
    University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom1 Sep 2024 - 30 Jun 2016

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review