Master in Environmental Law (2004) and European Doctorate in Law (2007), with Extraordinary Prize to the Doctoral Thesis. Member of the Research Group on Environmental Law, Citizenship and Sustainability of the Centre for Environmental Law Studies of Tarragona (CEDAT) of the URV, associated with the Centre de Recherche en Droit Public of the Université de Montréal (Canada) and the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law. In 2022, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow in the CLIMOVE Project (Climate Migration from a Gender Perspective), (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020) no. 101031252.

Legal expert on climate change and refugees for the United Nations Network on Migration, the South American Network on Environmental Migration, the Catalan Commission for Refugee Aid, the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment, and Expert Member of the United Nations Harmony with Nature Platform. Academic Director of the Spanish Platform on Climate Displacement and Migration and member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL). Her main fields of research are climate migration, rights of nature, climate justice, ecofeminism, human rights and environmental defenders.

One of Dartmouth’s first productions – The End of the Line (2009) - pioneered this genre of filmmaking. Recent films have included Josh Appignanesi’s My Extinction (2023), Edinburgh Film Festival selected Women Behind the Wheel (2022) and Bank Job (2021), which premiered at Hot Docs. Last year Dartmouth won the Big Screen Award for best documentary campaign of the year.

Christopher Hird is a former chair of the Sheffield DocFest, was the founding chair of Doc Society and served for six years as a trustee of the Grierson Trust. He is currently the chair of the Ethical Journalism Network and Picture People and is a trustee of the Wincott Foundation.

In addition to filing numerous briefs with regional and international courts to advance the dual analysis of law and science, Kelly is curating a 10-part series with Open Global Rights, “Overturning 1.5°C: Calling for the Science Turn in Rights-Based Climate Litigation” in collaboration with climate experts, litigators, scholars, and leaders around the globe. Recently, she co-authored an editorial, Verein KlimaSeniorinnen, Carême, and Duarte Agostinho: How Science Can Save Humanity in Strasbourg Observers and “Securing the Legal Right to a Healthy Atmosphere and Stable Climate for the Benefit of All Present and Future Generations” to be published in Legal Actions for Future Generations.

Previously, Kelly worked at WITNESS, an international human rights organization, where she developed a strategic communication plan which included co-directing, producing, and distributing a series of ten short films written by Our Children Trust’s youth plaintiffs titled, Stories of TRUST: Calling for Climate Recovery. Following this campaign Kelly served on Our Children’s Trust Board from 2015-2021.

Some of her other publications include “The Case for Climate Visuals in the Courtroom” in Litigating the Climate Emergency: How Human Rights, Courts, and Legal Mobilization Can Bolster Climate Action in Cambridge Press (2023) and ”The Role of Mobile Technology in Documenting International Crimes: The Affaire Castro et Kizito in the Democratic Republic of Congo” in the Journal of International Criminal Justice (2021). She also authored two ground-breaking practical guides: the Video as Evidence Field Guide and Video as Evidence: Environmental Defense Guide for WITNESS (2015 and 2023).

Kelly serves on the Advisory Board at the Berkeley Human Rights Center. She received her JD from the University of Oregon School of Law, MFA in Science and Natural History Filmmaking from Montana State University, and BS from Drake University.

In between these appointments, he held the position of Rector and Professor of Human Rights at the Riga Graduate School of Law from 2009-2016. George obtained his Ph.D. as well as an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto, Canada, and holds the degree of Cand. Mag. in Social Anthropology and History of Ideas from Aarhus University, Denmark.

Among his main research interests are issues related to the history and philosophy of human rights, human rights diplomacy, human rights and development cooperation, health and human rights, international medical ethics, and ethics for human rights professionals. He is one of the joint editors of a Global Campus publication on music and human rights. A key focus of his teaching is to equip students to effectively engage with expressions of human rights scepticism.

At EngageMedia, a non-profit focused on digital rights, open tech and video for change in the Asia-Pacific, Egbert managed and co-edited the Video for Change Impact Toolkit, a guide for practitioners and activist to design and evaluate impact and create strategic outreach campaigns for their films.

After nearly two decades in Indonesia and Australia, where he was an anthropology lecturer and PhD candidate at the University of Newcastle, he recently moved back to Amsterdam. Here, Egbert currently works as an ethnographic researcher at the Free University, investigating the potential of hope-driven social interventions in times of radical uncertainty and climate change.