Dr Rebecca Barlow

Rebecca holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) (2004) and a PhD in International Relations (2009) from Monash University. She also holds a Masters of Teaching (2022) from the University of New England. She has held Senior Research Fellowships with the University of Melbourne's Asia Institute (2010-2014) and Deakin University's Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation (2015-2022).

Rebecca is a published author in the area of universal human rights with Melbourne University Publishing, Routledge, and in a range of academic journals for the social sciences and humanities, including Human Rights Quarterly and Oxford's Journal of Human Rights Practice. She is co-editor with Prof. Shahram Akbarzadeh of Human Rights and Agents of Change in Iran: Towards a Theory of Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

In 2007 Rebecca was one of only four early career researchers selected globally to act as Rapporteur at the Nobel Women's Initiative's first international conference Women Redefining Peace in the Middle East and Beyond (Galway, Ireland). Since 2017 Rebecca has led the design, implementation, and evaluation of cross-cultural leadership courses for women working in faith-based organisations in Indonesia for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. 

Outside academia, Rebecca has worked for the Victorian Local Governance Association, where she played a key role in the production of From Compliance to Culture: A Toolkit for Local Governments to Implement the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities. She has also interned and acted as Consultant for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Gender, Human Rights and Culture Branch, where she worked with a team to implement the United Nations Global Forum of Faith-based Organisations in Population and Development (Istanbul, 2008).