Human Rights, Society and Justice Research Group

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The Human Rights, Society and Justice research group brings together a dynamic and diverse body of researchers across the intersecting disciplines of politics, criminology, sociology and law.

The group focuses on non-governmental organisations’ practice; development, environmental justice and rights; restorative justice; labour and employment rights; political participation, activism and protest; neo-liberalism; gender and women's rights.

The group also engages in critical criminological research in diverse, yet connected, areas: postcolonial and decolonial perspectives on criminal justice; gender, policing and the politics of protection; the role of law and society in constructing gender and sexual identities, and victimization; and species justice and green criminology.

Together with the Centre for Human Rights, Solidarity and Practice, the group runs (jointly with the Centre for Research in Communities, Identities and Difference and from 2021 in partnership with the Department of Global Studies and the Center for Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Studies at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, US) an annual Human Rights Festival open to the wider public.

Staff members of this group collaborate closely with Kingston Race and Equalities Council.

The group is home to several PhD and postdoctoral researchers who are carrying out research within the field.

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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

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Kingston University
River House
53–57 High Street
Kingston upon Thames
KT1 1LQ