Dr Aisling Parkes

Dr Aisling Parkes, a Senior Lecturer in Law at the School of Law, University College Cork has been consistently and principally engaged in research and teaching in the areas of children’s rights and family law. Her work has always been of an interdisciplinary nature reflected by her academic qualifications in Law (BCL, LLM, PhD), Education (PGCTL 2009, PG Dip TL 2010, MATLHE 2011) and Psychology (MA in Applied Psychology (Coaching Psychology) 2015; BA in Applied Psychology 2020). Aisling also qualified professionally as a Mediator in 2013 (training accredited by the MII).  Aisling has extensive research and teaching experience in the fields of Irish Child and Family Law, and international Children’s Rights. She also has expertise in the fields of International Disability Law, Sports Law and alternative dispute resolution processes from a children’s rights perspective (Mediation). She is Co-director of the Sports law Clinic UCC.

Aisling serves as the Chief Examiner for a LLM course ‘International Rights of the Child’ run by University College London. Aisling’s expertise in children’s rights and family law has also been recognised at European level, with her being invited to act as Independent Expert in Children’s Rights by the Head of the Children’s Rights Division of the Directorate of Human Dignity and Equality of the Council of Europe to be directly involved in the drafting of the Recommendation CM/Rec (2018) 5 of the Committee of Ministers to member States concerning children with imprisoned parents (2019) as well as the accompanying European Draft Explanatory Report to The Recommendation Concerning Children with Imprisoned Parents.