Georgia Stanley

Georgia Stanley is a second-year PhD researcher at Ulster University’s School of Law. She studied Law (Single Honours) at Queen’s University Belfast from 2017 – 2020 before obtaining her Master’s degree in Gender, Conflict, and Human Rights Law with Distinction at Ulster University’s Transitional Justice Institute (2020 – 2021).

Georgia’s PhD thesis centres around the idea of ‘The Second Rape’ through an investigative analysis of rape myth discourses in courtroom and media rape trial narratives. Her doctoral research employs a theoretical feminist framework and critical discourse analysis of rape trial transcripts complemented by an analysis of media reports on rape, to examine the courtroom and newsroom as discursive sites of juridogenic harm through the implicit and explicit rape mythologies that are deftly woven into the legal fabric of defence counsel arguments to ultimately create a victim-blaming narrative of rape scaffolded by rape myths and stereotypes.

Georgia is involved in various academic and research activities both within and outside Ulster, including co-organising and hosting a conference at Queen’s on Law, Gender, and Feminism in June 2023.

She is the PhD representative for Ulster’s School of Law and is currently working with representatives from other Irish universities to organise an all-Ireland PhD Law conference.