Staff profile

Katie is a PhD Candidate and Deputy Director of the Human Rights and Public Law Centre. She returned to Durham University, where she graduated with a First-Class degree in Law (LLB), after obtaining a Distinction in International Development Law and Human Rights (LLM) at the University of Warwick. Katie was awarded a Durham Law School PhD Studentship and is a previous recipient of the University of Warwick’s Law School LLM Scholarship for Outstanding Students.

She currently convenes an LLM module in Economic and Social Rights at the University of Nottingham and acts as a PhD tutor for secondary school students as part of The Brilliant Club's Scholars Programme. She is also a PhD Coach for first year undergraduates at Durham as part of The Brilliant Club's Join the Dots Programme. She has previously acted as a Part-Time Tutor in Trusts Law and Foundation Fellow at Durham.

Current Research

Katie’s primary research interest is the right to food. Her PhD is a continuation of her LLM dissertation, in which she examined the impact of the intersection of class and race upon child food security prior to, and during, the COVID-19 pandemic. Katie’s thesis similarly explores the systemic inequalities in access to food in the UK, examining the effect of the state’s austerity measures upon racialised minorities, children, women and people with disabilities. She engages with live issues including the commodification of food and the subsequent rise in food banks, particularly amongst the cost of living crisis. Her research proposes a novel means of approaching food insecurity, namely through the incorporation of care ethics within the human rights framework.

Research Groups

Human Rights and Public Law Centre

Centre for Law and Global Justice

Centre for Law and Philosophy

• Care Ethics
• Economic and Social Rights
• International Human Rights Law
• Right to Food

Book review

• Morris, K. (2023). The Right to Food: The Global Campaign to End Hunger by Francis Adams. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Human Rights Review, 24(4), 605-610. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-023-00711-6
• Morris, K. (2023). Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet - and What We Can Do About It. Sociology, 57(3), 707-709. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385221146880
• Morris, K. (2023). The European Union, Emerging Global Business and Human Rights. Modern Law Review, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12824
• Morris, K. (2022). Responsive Human Rights: Vulnerability, Ill-Treatment and the ECtHR. European Human Rights Law Review, 435-436

Conference Paper

• Morris, K. (in press). Food Oppression in the United Kingdom: A study of structural race and income-based health inequalities.
• Morris, K. (in press). Cultural/Consumer Acceptability: An opportunity for the inclusion of marginalised voices in the realisation of the right to food.
• Morris, K. (in press). Young and Hungry: School Meal Policies and Children's Right to Food in the UK and Ireland.
• Morris, K. (in press). Rethinking children's right to food through Tronto's political theory of care.
• Morris, K. (in press). Vulnerability, Care Ethics and Socioeconomic Rights under Article 3 ECHR.
• Morris, K. (2023). Hungry for more than just an education: food insecurity among university students in the UK.
• Morris, K. (2023). 'Right to Food' cities: the role of local governments in the fight against hunger.
• Morris, K. (2022). Faces of Hunger: An Intersectional Approach to Children's Right to Food in the UK.

Journal Article

• Morris, K. (in press). Young and Hungry: School Meal Policies and Children's Right to Food in the UK and Ireland. International Journal of Children's Rights,
• Morris, K. A. (2023). Vulnerability, Care Ethics and the Protection of Socioeconomic Rights via Article 3 ECHR. Human Rights Law Review, 23(4), Article ngad028. https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngad028
• Morris, K. (2023). Food oppression in the United Kingdom: A study of structural race and income-based food access inequalities. Journal of Human Rights, 22(5), 697-711. https://doi.org/10.1080/14754835.2023.2259423
• Morris, K. (2023). Hungry for more than just an education: food insecurity amongst UK university students
• Morris, K. (2022). Faces of Hunger: An Intersectional Approach to Children's Right to Food in the UK. Journal of Law and Society, 49(4), 726-752. https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12397

Other (Digital/Visual Media)

• Morris, K. (2023). The Cost of Eating: Contemporary Challenges to the Realisation of the Right to Food in the UK. [Blog Post]
• Morris, K. (2022). From Master's thesis to journal article: Reflections on my experience publishing with the JLS. [Journal of Law and Society Blog]

Presentation

• Morris, K. (2024, February). A forgotten element of the right to food: redressing the normative gap regarding cultural/consumer acceptability. Paper presented at ESRAN-UKI Winter Workshop 2024, University of Essex