Finbarr Toesland is a multi-award winning journalist committed to illuminating vital human rights stories and underreported issues. He has reported on war crime allegations in Ukraine for The i paper and openDemocracy, travelled to Berlin’s first LGBTQ refugee centre for NBC News and investigated Europe’s invitation-only conversion therapy conference as part of a cross-border collaborative project.

He has been awarded fellowships from the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity, International Journalists' Programmes (IJP) and the John Schofield Trust. Finbarr also received grants from the Fund for Investigative Journalism, Journalismfund Europe and the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung. He studied at University College London and the University of Cambridge.