Dr Saphia Fleury

Saphia Fleury worked for the NGO Amnesty International for 15 years before joining the University of Hull to conduct research into climate migration as a Research Fellow. She has a keen interest in human rights law, refugee issues and environmental change. Saphia is also an Expert Reviewer for the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Recent publications include:

Fleury, S. (2026) ‘Written Evidence to the Business and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export Controls Inquiry, Critical Minerals', UK Parliament, https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/164050/html/

Smith, J., Dankyi, S., Beltran-Alvarez, P., Fleury, S. (2025) ‘Towards heat health plans in Sub-saharan Africa: case study – Nigeria’, Perspectives in Public Health (Journal article), https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17579139251371988

Fleury S (2024) "Political or environmental refugees? Re-examining the flight of the Vietnamese boat people, 1975-1995", SciPost (Journal article), https://scipost.org/submissions/scipost_202412_00012v1/

Fleury, S. (2024) ‘Written evidence to the Public Accounts Committee submitted by Dr Saphia Fleury to the Inquiry on Asylum Accommodation and UK-Rwanda partnership’, UK Parliament (Written evidence), https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/129338/pdf/

Fleury, S. (2023) "Applying the ‘useable past’ to the protection of climate migrants: child displacement from Vietnam and Montserrat" (PhD thesis), https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4311824



Fleury, S. (2023) "Policy briefing: Protecting environmental migrants through human rights-based relocation schemes" (Policy briefing), https://www.hull.ac.uk/research/institutes/wilberforce/docs/policy-briefing-climate-migration-relocation-saphia-fleury.pdf

Fleury, S. (2022) ‘Written evidence submission by Saphia Fleury for the Parliamentary Inquiry on Defence and Climate Change’, UK Parliament (Written evidence), https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/108725/pdf/

Fleury, S. (2022) ‘Written evidence by Saphia Fleury (ASU0015) to the Human Rights Joint Committee inquiry on Human Rights of Asylum Seekers in the UK’, UK Parliament (Written evidence), https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/114229/html/

Fleury, S (2022) “Researcher Delivers Climate Change Recommendations in Parliament” (Blog post), https://www.hull.ac.uk/research/institutes/wilberforce/researcher-delivers-climate-change-recommendations

Fleury, S., O’Connell, C., Witt, F. & Machie, A. (2021) “Towards a holistic approach to contemporary slavery and climate change”, Anti-Slavery International (Report) https://www.antislavery.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ASI_ConferenceReport_Final.pdf

Fleury, S. (2021) “The impact of Covid-19 on child carers in the UK: Written evidence to the Inquiry on Children’s Rights in the Covid-19 Pandemic”, UK Parliament (Written evidence).