Rumyana was a Departmental Visitor ARC Laureate Fellowship Visiting PhD Student at RegNet in 2012. She begain her PhD research on the United States war on terror in 2010.The title of her thesis is “Extraordinary Rendition as a study of the escape hatches within the existing human rights framework”.Her main interests are in the relationship between human rights, terrorism, counterterrorism and politics, and her research is supervised by Dr Fiona de Londras from the College of Dublin, Ireland.In September 2014 Rumyana took up a full time post at the University of Liverpool Law School as a Lecturer in Law.