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.
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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 -
Research Interests
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Journals
Year Citation 2024 Cabada, A., & Murray, P. (2024). The role of academics as refugee policy advocates: lessons from Australia. Policy Studies, 25 pages.
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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 |
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| POLIS 1102 | 20 Years since R2P | 2021 |
| POLIS 1102 | Fifteen Years since R2P | 2020 |
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Committee Memberships
Date Role Committee Institution Country 2016 - 2021 Advisory Board Member Activist Leadership Committee Amnesty International Australia Australia -
Memberships
Date Role Membership Country 2022 - ongoing Member British International Studies Association (BISA) United Kingdom 2022 - ongoing Member European International Studies Association (EISA) Czech Republic 2022 - ongoing Member New Zealand Political Studies Association (NZPSA) New Zealand 2022 - ongoing Member Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) Australia -
Editorial Boards
Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country 2022 - ongoing Editor-In-chief Adelaide Journal of Social Sciences (AJSS) The University of Adelaide Australia -
Presentation
Date Topic Presented at Institution Country 2022 - 2022 "Populist Sovereignty" a Threat to Refugee Rights 2022 Conference New Zealand Political Studies Association The University of Waikato New Zealand 2022 - 2022 "Populist Sovereignty" a Threat to Refugee Rights 2022 APSA Conference: Reimagining an Uncertain Political Future Australian National University Australia
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