Current PhD students
The Centre for Applied Human Rights has PhD students conducting research in a variety of fields.
Sherif Azer
- Egypt
- Cyberactivists in Egypt as human rights defenders, their vernacularization of international human rights law and the role this played in the 2011 Revolution
Lucrezia Canzutti
- Italy
- Vietnamese non-citizens in Cambodia
Ian Foxley
- UK
- Whistleblowers, human rights defenders and truth/post-truth
- UK
- Memory, transitional justice, and social control in East Asia
- Hong Kong
- Conceptualizing and Implementing a Rights-Based Approach to Address Food Insecurity at City Level in Developed Countries – A Pilot Trial in York
Marynka Marquez
- United States
- Human rights cities in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Tamsin Mitchell
- UK
- The effectiveness of protection mechanisms for journalists and human rights defenders at risk in Latin America
Laura Muñoz López
- Spain
- How land grabs in developing countries affect the land rights of local people
Jens Poessel
- Germany
- Access to Justice and Non-Judicial Mechanisms of Cooperation and Coordination in Zambia: Challenges and Opportunities.
- United Kingdom
- Architectures of poverty and inequality.
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.