Human rights research cluster

We think human rights, international law and European law are among the most stimulating and topical research areas within our discipline.

Research specialisms
- We adopt critical theoretical, historical and comparative socio-legal approaches to our research which covers:
  - migrant, refugee, and asylum law and racism
  - the European Convention on Human Rights
  - the European Charter of Fundamental Rights
  - human rights in the former Soviet Union and Latin America
  - imprisonment
  - international criminal law
  - parents' and children’s rights.
Members
- Monish Bhatia
- Bill Bowring (international law, minority rights)
- Fred Cowell (international criminal law)
- Costas Douzinas (human rights and politics)
- Başak Ertür (human rights, history and philosophy)
- Michelle Everson (European Charter of Human Rights)
- Helen Fair
- Oscar Guardiola-Rivera (human rights in Latin America)
- Catherine Heard
- Jessica Jacobson
- Renata Salecl (human rights and philosophy)
- Sappho Xenakis (international human rights regime, compliance and enforcement, imprisonment)
Postgraduate Research Student members
- Livia Berecz
- Jo Blackwell
- James Godfrey
- Tina Hartland-Swann
- Becka Hudson (imprisonment, rights and health)
- Shailesh Kumar
- Mercedes Malcomson
- David Thomas (critical theory, humanities and social research/activism)
- Thanawat Thomas
recent externally funded research projects
- A human rights approach to prison management: handbook for prison staff (Helen Fair, Andrew Coyle)

Research specialisms