MPhil Human Rights

University of Sussex

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, Reparations and Anti-Colonial Justice, and participate in the research-in-progress seminars and other events. Our areas of expertise and supervision include: 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. For an MPhil, your work is an independent piece of research but in less depth than for a PhD. You’ll graduate with the degree title Master of Philosophy. You might be able to change to a PhD while you study for an MPhil.

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