Cindy Leung

LLM Human Rights (The University of Hong Kong)

MA Social Research (The University of York)

Prior to commencing her PhD, Cindy worked in communications and project management roles across the third sector and tertiary education institutions. Currently, alongside her PhD, Cindy works as a Policy Associate at The York Policy Engine and supports various research and policy engagement projects. In addition, Cindy has worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Contemporary Issues in Social and Public Policy module at the School for Business and Society, and the Future of Food module at the York Interdisciplinary Modules.

Cindy is interested in interdisciplinary and applied human rights research, with a particular focus on the implementation of human rights at the local level. For her PhD project, titled ‘Making sense of the right to food in cities in England: Two qualitative case studies in York and Leeds’, Cindy explores the meanings of the right to food as a set of legal norms, as a discourse, and as a form of human rights practices in cities. The doctoral project seeks to contribute empirically and conceptually towards understanding the meaning and relevance of the right to food in city settings, as well as to wider scholarly discussion on cities’ potentialities in engaging with international human rights norms.

Cindy is based at The University of York’s Centre for Applied Human Rights and the York Law School. She is supervised by Professor Ioana Cismas and Professor Paul Gready.