Essex Human Rights Summer School

About

The Essex Human Rights Summer School will be held virtually in 2026, with the course being delivered in an online live, interactive format, split over two weeks, from 22 June - 3 July. Sessions will run from Monday to Friday, 1pm to 4.30pm BST.

Learn from leading academics and experienced practitioners who are renowned in the human rights field and study a wide range of specialist topics:

- Research Design: Qualitative Methods
- Quantitative Methods: Statistics, Indicators and Human Rights
- Measuring the Unmeasurable: Tracking Success in Interventions to Promote Religious Freedom
- Interviewing Survivors with Special Needs
- Strategic Communications and Framing
- Operational Challenges and Opportunities: A Field Perspective
- Maximising Impact in Working with UN Mechanisms
- Trauma and Building Resilience for Human Rights Work
- Litigation
- Transitional Justice: Law and Practice
- AI Governance
- Environmental Rights
- Human Rights Amidst Culture Wars
- Anti-Gender Campaigns and Human Rights
- Monitoring and Responding to Hate Crimes amidst Polarisation: the UK Experience
- Countering Disinformation
- Fostering Social Cohesion in the Digital Age: the Future of Public Spaces
- The Far Right and Hate
- Practical Approaches to Building Societal Cohesion

Register for this course on the course website - https://www.essex.ac.uk/short-courses/human-rights-summer-school

Course leader

Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

Target group

It is an ideal course for postgraduate students, academics, lawyers and human rights professionals working in NGOs, government and international organisations.

Course aim

Participants will acquire knowledge in human rights research methods as well as a range of practical skills vital for professional development.

Fee info