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Dr. Veronica Fynn Bruey

Director, Global Health Sciences

Veronica Fynn Bruey, PhD

With nearly three decades of research and teaching in some 30 countries, Veronica Fynn Bruey is a multi-award winner and independent academic-activist affiliated with Seattle University School of Law. She holds six academic degrees: a PhD (ANU), an LLB (Honours) (London), LLM (Osgoode), MPH (Nottingham), BA (British Columbia, and BSc (Honours) (Ghana). She has authored five books, several book chapters, and journal articles published by Springer, Routledge, Refugee Survey Quarterly, Artha, and the Canadian Journal of African Studies.

 

Dr. Fynn Bruey has held academic positions at the University of Oxford, the University of Washington, University of Cape Coast, University of London, the Australian National University, Georgetown University, University of Witwatersrand, York University, and the University of British Columbia. She is the Director of Flowers University's Health Sciences Program; faculty affiliate at the Seattle University School of Law; founder/editor-in-chief of the Journal of Internal Displacement; co-editor of Bloombury's Migration Displacement and Development Book Series; co-founder/lead of the Displaced Peoples' Network, founder/lead of the Disrupting Patriarchy and Masculinity in Africa International Research Collaborative; and expert panellist of the International Commission of Missing Children.

 

Currently, she is a co-founder/CEO of Tuki-Tumarankeh, a non-profit focused on global displacement. She is a well sought after global speaker and the most recent recipient of the Law and Society's Stan Wheeler Mentorship Award (2025); the Canadian Association of African Studies' Pius Adesanmi Early Career Research Excellence Award (2024); and the Confederation of Alberta Faculty Association, Edmonton's Distinguished Academic Early Career Award (2023). Dr. Fynn Bruey is an Indigenous Liberian war survivor and a global migrant.

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EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

 

  • PhD in Indigenous Law, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
  • LLB (Hons) in Public Law, University of London, England, UK
  • LLM in Forced Migration Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Canada
  • MPH in Refugee Mental Health, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, UK
  • BA in Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • BSc (Hons) in Zoology and Biochemistry, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

 

 

WORKING EXPERIENCES

 

  • 2011 - Present: Lecturer/Director, Global Health Sciences, Flowers University (Germany), Flowers College London (UK), & Flowers School of Technology and Management (Ghana)
  • 2018 - Present: Faculty Affiliate, Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, WA, USA
  • 2022 - 2025: Assistant Lecturer, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
  • 2021 - 2025: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Legal Studies, Centre for Social Sciences, Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada 
  • 2018 - 2021: Module Convenor and Examiner - MA in Human Rights Programme, School of Advanced Study, University of London, London, United Kingdom
  • 2018 - 2020: Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana
  • 2016 - 2018: Adjunct Professor, Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, WA, USA
  • 2013 - 2014: Sessional Professor/Teaching Assistant, College of Law, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
  • 2011 - 2014: Adjunct Professor, School of Population & Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • 2009 - Present: Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Internal Displacement Seattle, WA, USA                    
  • 2009 - 2010: Teaching Assistant, Division of Sociology, York University, York, ON, Canada

 

 

FELLOWSHIPS

 

Af-Ox Visiting Fellow, 2023 - 2024
Collaborating with Alexander Betts and Catherine Briddick, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development, Oxford University, Oxford, England

 

Fellow, 2023 - 2024
Brasenose College
Africa-Oxford Fellow, Oxford University, England

 

Fellow, 2023 - 2024
Refugee Studies Centre, Department of International Development
Africa-Oxford Fellow, Oxford University, England

 

Fellow, 2022 - 2023
Action Canada, Public Policy Forum, Ottawa, ON, Canada (~CND $30,000)

 

Visiting Research Scholar/Fellow, 2015 - 2016
School of Law, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

            

Visiting Research Scholar / Fellow, 2014
College of Arts and Sciences, William V. S. Tubman University, Maryland, Liberia    

 

Visiting Research Scholar, 2010
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA

 

 

AWARDS

 

  • Stan Wheeler Mentorship Prize for Outstanding Mentorship of Graduate (2025), Professional, or Undergraduate Students Working on Issues of Law and Society, Law and Society Association, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • CAAS Pius Adesanmi Early Career Research Excellence Award (2024), Canadian Association of African Studies, Montreal, QB, Canada    
  • CAFA Distinguished Academic Early Career Award (2023), Confederation of Alberta Faculty Association, Edmonton, AB, Canada
  • International Alumna of the Year (2021), The Australian National University Alumni Award, Canberra, ACT, Australia
  • Excellence in Resiliency (2021), Origo International World Refugee Day Award, Lagos, Nigeria
  • Profiled (2021), World Refugee Day Spotlight Series, World University Service of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada    
  • Travel Award (2019), Department of Sociology, University of Pope John Paul II, Krakow, Poland
  • Conference Award (Declined) (2019), Second Biennial Conference on Law and Society in Africa, Africa Law and Society Association, Cairo, Egypt 
  • Bossy Bite-Size Thesis Award (2017), Gender Institute, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
  • Conference Award (2016), First Africa Law and Society, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Recognition For Africa Awareness (2016), City of Vancouver, Black History Month Proclamation, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • Global Citizenship Award (2010), Alumni Achievement, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • Catherine Parr Traill Award (2010), Newcomer Women Services Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • Graduate Research Fund (2009), York University, North York, ON, Canada
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant Award (2009), York University, North York, ON, Canada
  • Student Centenary Award (2009), Canadian Public Health Association, Toronto, ON, Canada    
  • Volunteer of the Year (Online) (2007), United Nations Volunteer Program, Geneva, Switzerland, United Nations, 
  • Realities of Race/Ending Racism Award (2004). Alma Mater Society, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada    
  • Finalist (2003), Young Women of Distinction Award, YWCA, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • All-Round Star Player (1999), Amalgamated Sports Club, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

 

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