About Us

The Human Rights Consortium (HRC) of the School of Advanced Study was established in 2009 to facilitate and promote inter-disciplinary research in human rights nationally and internationally.

The HRC and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies work collaboratively to deliver the cutting-edge teaching and practice-based training within two post-graduate programmes: the MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights, offered on campus; and the MA in Human Rights, offered by distance learning.

As part of the School of Advanced Study, a collection of postgraduate research institutes, the Human Rights Consortium contributes to the training of research students working on human rights. It hosts a number of research projects led by the academics that lecture on the MA programmes. The research projects bring together interdisciplinary expertise from the field to provide a national and international collaborative centre for the support, promotion and dissemination of academic and policy work in human rights. Students benefit from teaching from academics who continually update teaching materials to reflect their current research. The HRC also aims to raise funds in support of human rights research and research support.