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Jesse Pointon

(they/them)

Research Student

School of Law, Politics and Sociology

  • Research Student
    School of Law, Politics and Sociology

BIO

Jesse is a doctoral researcher at the University of Sussex (Criminology). Their PhD project investigates the psychosocial impacts of personal debt on individuals and the family unit, specifically within the digitlaisation of finance. It further examines whether human rights, as a political and moral project, have the capacity to respond to such, attempting to create new imagined frameworks for communities. 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Junior Research Associate
    University of Sussex, Brighton, United KingdomMay 2024 - Sep 2024

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Board member
    Family Justice, Family Justice Young Peoples Board, United KingdomJan 2017 - Sep 2020

DEGREES

  • BA (hons) Criminology
    University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
  • LLM International Human Rights Law
    University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom