Ainoa Cabada Rey

Dr Ainoa Cabada Rey

Postgraduate Research Fellow

School of Social Sciences

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

Dr Ainoa Cabada is a Galician-born Australian researcher who has a particular interest in the role that sovereignty plays in human rights as a result of state dominance. Her academic background is in philosophy and international law, and has undertaken her PhD thesis from the areas of politics and international relations.

Her PhD dissertation entitled "Toward a Preventative Protection Regime: the UN Charter, the Refugee Convention and the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine" provides an argument for the establishment of a preventative protection regime grounded in the normative principles of these three frameworks. She argues that the current international refugee protection regime articulates a narrow and reactive approach to protection and suggests that protection ought to be also preventative.

Alongside her own research, Ainoa has contributed to research related to:

• refugee narratives;
• academic advocacy;
• security, externalisation and EU policy;
• the impacts of COVID-19 to the refugee protection regime;
• the use of medical knowledge to inform refugee migration policy outcomes, and
• youth justice and justice reinvestment.

Additionally, Ainoa has demonstrated effective leadership in the management of projects but also in their design. Throughout her career, she coordinated several projects in a wide range of topics including anti-racism, human rights, Indigenous rights, criminal justice and justice reinvestment, democracy and education. While working at Reconciliation South Australia, the Generation of Change program that she coordinated was nominated as a finalist for the 'Racism. It Stops With Me' Award by the Australian Human Rights Commission in 2017 and 2018.

Ainoa's research interests are in human rights, international security, sovereignty, the responsibility to protect, and refugee migration.

  • Appointments
    Date Position Institution name
    2023 - 2024 Research Assistant University of Adelaide
    2023 - 2023 Research Assistant Stretton Institute - University of Adelaide
    2023 - 2023 Senior Policy Officer RMIT University
    2021 - 2022 Research Assistant University of Melbourne
    2021 - 2021 Research Assistant University of New South Wales, Canberra
    2018 - 2020 Project Coordinator and Research Officer University of Adelaide
    2016 - 2019 Project Officer Reconciliation South Australia

  • Language Competencies
    Language Competency
    French Can read, write, speak and understand spoken
    Galician Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
    Spanish; Castilian Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review

  • Education
    Date Institution name Country Title
    2020 - 2024 The University of Adelaide Australia Doctor of Philosophy
    2014 - 2015 University of Valencia Spain Master of Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice
    2009 - 2014 University of Santiago de Compostela Spain Bachelor of Philosophy

  • Research Interests
    Human Rights and Justice Issues International Relations Political Philosophy Political Theory Strategic, Defence & Security Studies Migration, asylum and refugee law

  • Journals
    Year Citation
    2024 Cabada, A., & Murray, P. (2024). The role of academics as refugee policy advocates: lessons from Australia. Policy Studies, 1-25.
    DOI

  • Book Chapters
    Year Citation
    2022 Cabada, A. (2022). COVID-19 and the Sovereign Backlash to Refugee Rights. In M. Matera, C. Loughnan, & T. Tubakovic (Eds.), Anthology: The Impact of the Pandemic on Border (Im)Mobility (pp. 15-19). https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/4370640/Anthology_Final.pdf: The University of Melbourne.

  • Report for External Bodies
    Year Citation
    2017 Cabada Rey, A. (2017). 20 Years On South Australia's Implementation of Bringing Them Home.

  • Theses
    Year Citation
    2015 Cabada Rey, A. (2015). The Influence of the Margin of Appreciation Doctrine on the Concept of Sovereignty. (Master's Thesis).
    2014 Cabada Rey, A. (2014). Ecology: Attitude of Commitment, Conflict and Renewal from Philosophy. (Undergraduate Dissertation).

  • Internet Publications
    Year Citation
    2024 Cabada Rey, A., & Murray, P. (2024). Academics as Refugee Policy Advocates in Australia. Asylum Insight.

Ainoa's PhD research was supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Stipend Scholarship.

Lecturer and Course Coordinator:
Code Title Year
POLIS 7113 Terrorism and Global Politics 2024
POLIS 2013 Terrorism and Global Politics 2024
POLIS 3002 International Security 2024
POLIS 7001 Fundamentals of Public Policy 2023
 
Tutor:
Code Title Year
POLIS 3002 International Security 2022
POLIS 1102 Introduction to Global Politics 2021
POLIS 2013 Terrorism and Global Politics 2021
POLIS 1102 Introduction to Global Politics 2020
 
Marker:
Code Title Year
POLIS 3002 International Security 2024
POLIS 3002 International Security 2022
POLIS 1102 Introduction to Global Politics 2021
POLIS 2013 Terrorism and Global Politics 2021
POLIS 1102 Introduction to Global Politics 2020
POLIS 3002 International Security 2020
 
Guest Lectures:
Code Title Year
POLIS 1102 20 Years since R2P 2021
POLIS 1102 Fifteen Years since R2P 2020
  • Position: Postgraduate Research Fellow
  • Email: ainoa.cabada@adelaide.edu.au
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Napier, floor 3
  • Org Unit: Politics and International Relations (POLIR)
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