Peter Manning

I am a Lecturer in Sociology specialising in human rights, transitional justice and memory studies.

I joined the University of Bath in 2016. I have previously lectured in Sociology at Liverpool Hope University and at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics. I gained my PhD from the the London School of Economics in 2014.

My research explores connections between human rights, transitional justice and memory. My book, Transitional Justice and Memory in Cambodia (2017), considers the different ways that memory is implicated in the ongoing prosecutions at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Routlege, Memory Studies: Global Constellations series). I am Co-Investigator on the AHRC-GCRF Network Plus Award 'Building Inclusive Civil Societies' and also participate as a Co-Investigator on the GW4 network 'Transformative History Education'. 

I am a member of the British Sociological Association and the Historical Dialogues, Justice and Memory network.

I am currently developing new research projects that consider the meaning of religious conversion among perpetrators of atrocity; the trajectories and experiences of post-conflict ex-combatants; and public commissions of inquiry and the ethics of regret.

I am open to supervising research proposals in human rights, transitional justice, and memory studies. I am open especially to work focusing on South East Asia.