Course summary

Our PhD in Human Rights is radically interdisciplinary, spanning the social sciences and humanities. As a doctoral researcher, you’ll have the opportunity to undertake research in human rights beyond a narrow legal approach. You’ll:

• be co-supervised by faculty with expertise in a wide range of areas, from social sciences to humanities and to law

• benefit from our strong international networks for research and collaboration

• be a part of the doctoral and early career researcher community affiliated with the Centre for Rights and Anti-Colonial Justice, and participate in the research-in-progress seminars and other events of the Centre.

• human rights in international politics and global political economy, including foreign policy

• social movements, including labour, religious, indigenous, anti-colonial and rebel politics

• poverty, exploitation and dispossession

• racism, colonialism, anti-colonial mobilisations and anti-racism

• gender and sexuality

• race, indigeneity and ethnicity

• migration, asylum and refugeehood

• historical and contemporary forms of violence, including genocide and ethnic cleansing

• issues of identity and difference

• globalisation, development and climate change

• regional and global governance, as well as international and non-governmental organisations

• theories and philosophies of human rights, including of protection, obligation, responsibility and remedy

• theories and histories of the human and subject of rights

• business and human rights, including corruption and corporate obligations

• transitional and reparative justice

• ethical theories of human rights

• rule of law and post-conflict reconstruction.