人权博士

苏塞克斯的人权超越了狭legal的法律主义方法。您将与专家团队合作，探索人类如何在社会上融入更广泛的过程中：贫困，暴力，认同，全球化，全球治理形式的出现。您将受益于我们强大的国际网络。我们的教职员工已在一系列人权领域和地区背景下进行了咨询。
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 lawbenefit from our strong international networks for research and collaborationbe 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 of the Centre.Areas of studyOur areas of expertise and supervision include:human rights in international politics and global political economy, including foreign policysocial movements, including labour, religious, indigenous, anti-colonial and rebel politicspoverty, exploitation and dispossessionracism, colonialism, anti-colonial mobilisations and anti-racismgender and sexualityrace, indigeneity and ethnicitymigration, asylum and refugeehoodhistorical and contemporary forms of violence, including genocide and ethnic cleansingissues of identity and differenceglobalisation, development and climate changeregional and global governance, as well as international and non-governmental organisationstheories and philosophies of human rights, including of protection, obligation, responsibility and remedytheories and histories of the human and subject of rightsbusiness and human rights, including corruption and corporate obligationstransitional and reparative justiceethical theories of human rightsrule of law and post-conflict reconstruction.You can choose to study for a PhD or an MPhil. PhD and MPhil degrees differ in duration and in the extent of your research work.For a PhD, your research work makes a substantial original contribution to knowledge or understanding in your chosen field.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.