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Jurgita Bukauskaite

Dr Jurgita Bukauskaite

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Postdoctoral Researcher Fellow

Contact Details:
Email: jurgita.bukauskaite@universityofgalway.ie

Biography

Jurgita is a postdoctoral researcher based at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law and at the Global Women’s Centre, School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway. As part of the United Nations Joint Global Programme on Essential Services for Women and Girls Subject to Violence and in partnership with the Centre for Global Women’s Studies, she conducts research focused on supporting the pilot and implementation of the Global Resource Investment Tool of the Essential Services Package for women and girls subject to gender-based violence (ESP). Jurgita is also a researcher in the EU Horizon multi-institutional and multi-country research project that explores building capacities for excellent research and innovation in democracy and policy through networking, knowledge, and experience transfer. She is a module instructor of Public International Law (LL. B) in the School of Law and Gender and Human Rights (LL. M) in the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the University of Galway.

Jurgita’s research and expertise focus on gender equality, gender-based violence, violence against women, including domestic violence and coercive control, the concept of gender in international human rights law and national legislative frameworks, applied research on gender-based violence and assessing the cost of violence against women and girls.
Her academic experience has been merged with a lengthy practical engagement in domestic violence support and advocacy non-governmental organisation, where she is a Board Member and a Trustee.

Research Interests

Public International Law
Human Rights Law
Gender-based Violence in international and domestic legal frameworks
Violence against Women and Girls
Domestic Violence and Coercive Control
Feminist Legal Theories and Methods
Assessing the Cost of Violence against Women and Girls
Essential Services Package for Women and Girls Subject to Violence
Gender and Democracy
Istanbul Convention

Research Outputs

Publications

2023	Jurgita Bukauskaite, Understanding Domestic Violence as a Gender-based Human Rights Violation (Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group 2023)
Conference Participation/Invited Talks
September 2022	Present Member of the Steering Group for ‘An Exploration of Court Access for Domestic Violence/ Coercive Control in Sligo, Leitrim and West Cavan’ (DVAS)
10 June 2022	Best Practice in Engaged Research and Research Translation in Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Abuse. Presentation: ‘Gendering Domestic Violence Through Law: International and National Perspectives’
11 December 2019	Workshop on ‘Ratification of the Istanbul Convention – how will this impact my work?’ DVAS, Sligo
21-23 November 2019	International Conference entitled ‘Gender Studies and Research 2019: The Centenary Achievements and Perspectives’, Vilnius, Lithuania. Presentation: ‘A Gendered Approach to Defining Domestic Violence? International Law and the Istanbul Convention’
1-4 September 2019	3^rd European Conference on Domestic Violence, Oslo, Norway. Presentation entitled ‘A Gendered Approach to Defining Domestic Violence: Lithuania as a Case Study in the Context of the Istanbul Convention and International Law’
20-22 June 2019	International Conference entitled ‘Towards Gender Equality: Clashes in Law’ Sussex, UK. Presentation: ‘Translating Universal Human Rights Commitments on Gender Equality the Vernacular and in Line with the Istanbul Convention: The Case of Domestic Violence’
5-10 June 2018	International Law and Society Conference, Toronto, Canada, Presentation: ‘Feminist Strategies in Translating Universal Human Rights Commitments on Gender Equality into Vernacular’
September 2017	Society of Legal Scholars Graduate Conference, presented on ‘Violence against Women within Diverse Unities of Law’