Victoria Miyandazi.
Law

Victoria Miyandazi

Member since 2023

Occupation: Assistant Professor at University of Nottingham

Through the UK Young Academy, I seek to advance inclusive collaboration, research cultures, and equality-driven work that translates knowledge into meaningful public impact.

Bio

Victoria Miyandazi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham School of Law. Previously, she was the Knight Fellow in Legal and Constitutional Research at the University of St Andrews. She was also a Researcher and Editor at the Oxford Human Rights Hub. She is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya.

She holds Doctor of Philosophy in Law, Master of Philosophy in Law and Bachelor of Civil Law Degrees from the University of Oxford where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. She also holds a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) Degree from Kenyatta University.

Victoria teaches and writes in the areas of Equality Law, Public Law, Property Law, International Law, and Comparative Law. She is the author of Equality in Kenya’s 2010 Constitution: Understanding the Competing and Interrelated Conceptions (Hart Publishing, 2021). She was named one of The Africa Report’s ‘10 African Scholars to Watch’ (2025).

Roles

  • IMAGINE Project Team

Interests

  • Better funding for early career researchers
  • Cross-cultural and international education
  • Cross-sector skill sharing
  • Culture loss
  • EDI process improvements
  • Engaging under-represented audiences
  • Evidence based governance
  • Food security
  • Holistic approach
  • Interdisciplinary research opportunities
  • International engagement
  • International research opportunities access
  • Misinformation and disinformation
  • Open data
  • Research translation
  • Social change
  • Societal impact of research
  • Sustainability
  • Systemic bias
  • Timely information sharing
  • Unconscious bias
  • Water security
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