MPhil Human Rights in Brighton United Kingdom | University of Sussex

Our Human Rights PhD program takes an innovative interdisciplinary approach, bridging social sciences and humanities disciplines. As a doctoral candidate, you'll explore human rights through diverse perspectives rather than solely legal frameworks. You'll: receive guidance from faculty supervisors with expertise across multiple fields, including social sciences, humanities, and legal studies leverage our extensive global research partnerships join a vibrant community of doctoral and early-career researchers through the Sussex Rights and Justice Research Centre, with access to research seminars and special events. Our supervision covers these key areas: international human rights in political and economic contexts, including policy analysis and social movements (labor, religious, indigenous, anti-colonial, and resistance movements) systemic inequalities including poverty, exploitation, racial injustice, and postcolonial struggles identity studies encompassing gender, sexuality, race, indigeneity, and ethnic relations migration studies, including refugee and asylum seeker rights historical and modern violence, including genocide and ethnic conflict identity politics and cultural differences global challenges like development, climate change, and globalization governance structures at regional and global levels, including NGOs and international organizations philosophical foundations of human rights, including protection frameworks and accountability business ethics in human rights, covering corporate responsibility and anti-corruption justice systems, including transitional justice and post-conflict rebuilding human rights theory and ethical frameworks.