Dr Gillian Wylie

Assistant Professor
Conflict and Dispute Resolution Studies
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland

Biography

Gillian Wylie did her MA and PhD at the University of Aberdeen in the fields of Politics and International Relations. She has been working in TCD since 2001. Her primary research interest lies in the area of human trafficking for sexual and labour exploitation in the context of globalisation. She is also interested in questions of gender as they shape war and peace. She is currently supervising PhD students in the areas of migration ethics; border politics; women, peace and security; feminist peace activism; responding to gender-based violence; gender, peacebuilding and human needs and gendered indicators for the impact of development aid. She is a member of the international editorial board of the Journal of Human Trafficking. Areas of expertise

Research Intrest

Human trafficking International politics Norms in international relations Global civil society Gender, peace and security International Politics  Gender, War and Peace Politics of Peace and Conflict Research Methods

List of Publications
Wylie G. and McRedmond P. (eds) (2010) Human Trafficking in Europe: Character, Causes, Consequences, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.
Ward E. and Wylie G. (2010) Lap Dancing Clubs and Red Light Milieu: A Context for the Sex Trafficking of Women to Ireland in G. Wylie and P. McRedmond (eds.) Human Trafficking in Europe: Character, Causes, Consequences, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan
Coghlan D. and Wylie G. (2011) Defining Trafficking/Denying Justice: Forced Labour in Ireland and the Consequences of Trafficking Discourse in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 37:9, 1513-1526.
Ward E. and Wylie G. (2012) Researching the Nature and Extent of Human Trafficking in Ireland, The Protection Project: Journal of Human Rights and Civil Society, 5: 9-72.
Ward E. and Wylie G. (2014) Reflexivities of Discomfort: Researching the Sex Trade and Sex Trafficking in Ireland, European Journal of Women’s Studies
Wylie G. (2016) The International Politics of Human Trafficking, London: Palgrave.