Overview
The Essex Human Rights Summer School will resume in 2023, covering a range of research methods and skills necessary for successful human rights practice and professional development. In addition to modules covering a diverse range of research methods, the curriculum includes sessions on advocacy, organisational management, coping strategies and practitioner case studies.
The programme includes sessions that address growing challenges faced by human rights professionals and highlights opportunities to overcome them. The Summer School curriculum is designed to build the capacity of both mid-career human rights professionals and postgraduate students to be successful human rights defenders and researchers.
Programme Structure
Courses included:
Maximising Impact: Working with International Monitors
Working with HR Defenders
Building Resilience for Human Rights Work
Working in Repressive States
Psychoanalysis of Groups and Organisations
Governance of Human Rights NGOs
Campaigning and Theory of Change
Strategic Communications and Framing
International Advocacy: Multilateral and Transnational
Litigation
Experiments in Social Science Research
Quantitative Methods: Databases, Survey-based and Standards-based Indicators
Quantitative Methods: Statistics, Indicators and Human Rights
Use of Qualitative Data Methods
Research Design: Legal and Qualitative Single Case Study
Round Table on Professional Challenges: Participant Perspectives
Operational Challenges and Opportunities: A Field Perspective
Key Debates and Challenges in Human Rights Promotion
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 10 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- StartingApplication deadline not specified.
Language
Delivered
Disciplines
Sociology Public Law View 37 other Short Courses in Public Law in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
It is an ideal course for postgraduate students, academics, lawyers and human rights professionals working in NGOs, government and international organisations.
Technological requirements
We will conduct sessions via the video conferencing software Zoom. Participants must have access to appropriate computing facilities as well as a reliable internet connection to enable full participation in the online sessions.
Tuition Fee
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International
900 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 900 GBP for the full programme during 10 days. -
National
900 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 900 GBP for the full programme during 10 days.