Aims and interests

Our cluster engages in contemporary questions of human rights and social justice, centering the people impacted by politics and policies.

We address the relationship between practice, theory and empirical analysis of human rights both locally and globally. We encourage research that is informed by human rights and social justice to pursue impactful and politically transformative outputs and practices. Members of the cluster have received funding from major UK funding bodies, have acted as consultants to policy-making bodies and have helped to inform policy and practice in their field.

Our research focuses on:

• Forced labour, modern slavery and human trafficking
• Decolonial research practices
• Reproductive justice, abortion rights and access
• Adoption practices and inequalities
• Refugee journeys and border practices
• International political economy and the politics of the Middle East
• Safeguarding and risk in research.