- Professor of International Relations, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong
Phil Orchard is Professor of International Relations at the University of Wollongong and Co-Director of the UOW Future of Rights Centre. His books include Protecting the Internally Displaced: Rhetoric and Reality (Routledge, 2018) and A Right to Flee: Refugees, States, and the Construction of International Cooperation (Cambridge University Press, 2014) which won the 2016 International Studies Association Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Studies Section Distinguished Book Award. He is the co-editor, with Alexander Betts, of Implementation in World Politics: How Norms Change Practice (Oxford University Press, 2014), with Charles Hunt, of Constructing the Responsibility to Protect: Contestation and Consolidation (Routledge, 2020) and, with Antje Wiener, of Contesting the World: Norm Research in Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2024), and with Antje Wiener and Sassan Gholiagha of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Norms Research in International Relations (Oxford University Press).
Experience
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2018–presentAssociate professor, University of Wollongong
Education
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2008University of British Columbia, PhD
Grants and Contracts
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2020Creating Accountability: Improving Responses to Forced Displacement Crimes
- Role:
- Chief Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Australian Research Council
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2015Improving the International Response to Regime-Induced Displacement
- Role:
- Chief Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Australian Research Council
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- Location: Wollongong, Australia
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