Current PhD students
The Centre for Applied Human Rights has PhD students conducting research in a variety of fields.
- Egypt
- Cyberactivists in Egypt as human rights defenders, their vernacularization of international human rights law and the role this played in the 2011 Revolution
- Italy
- Vietnamese non-citizens in Cambodia
- UK
- Whistleblowers, human rights defenders and truth/post-truth
Rhiannon Griffiths
- UK
- Memory, transitional justice, and social control in East Asia
Cindy Leung
- Hong Kong
- Conceptualizing and Implementing a Rights-Based Approach to Address Food Insecurity at City Level in Developed Countries – A Pilot Trial in York
- United States
- Human rights cities in the United States and the United Kingdom.
- UK
- The effectiveness of protection mechanisms for journalists and human rights defenders at risk in Latin America
- Spain
- How land grabs in developing countries affect the land rights of local people
- Germany
- Access to Justice and Non-Judicial Mechanisms of Cooperation and Coordination in Zambia: Challenges and Opportunities.
Alice Trotter
- United Kingdom
- Architectures of poverty and inequality.
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PhD Blog
Read blogs from our PhD students here.
Featured alumni profiles
Read more about what CAHR's PhD alumni have gone on to do after graduation.