Knowledge Bytes Online PhD in Human Rights Admission 2024-25, Check Eligibility, Result, Entrance Exams

ONLINE PHD IN HUMAN RIGHTS

Our PhD in Human Rights is radically interdisciplinary, spanning the social sciences and humanities. As a doctoral researcher, you’ll have the opportunity to undertake research in human rights beyond a narrow legal approach. You’ll:

Be co-supervised by faculty with expertise in a wide range of areas, from social sciences to the humanities and to law

Benefit from our strong international networks for research and collaboration

Be a part of the doctoral and the early career researcher community affiliated with the Sussex Rights and Justice Research Centres, and participate in the research-in-progress seminars and other events of the Centre.

AREAS OF STUDY

Our areas of expertise and supervision include:

• Human rights in international politics and global political economy, including foreign policy
• Social movements, including labour, religious, indigenous, anti-colonial and rebel politics
• Poverty, exploitation and dispossessions
• Racism, colonialism, anti-colonial mobilizations’ and anti-racism
• Gender and sexuality
• Race, indigeneity and the ethnicity
• Migration, asylum and refugeehood
• Historical and contemporary forms of violence, including genocide and the ethnic cleansing
• Issues of identity and difference
• Globalization, development and climate change
• Regional and global governance, as well as the international and non-governmental organizations
• Theories and philosophies of human rights, including of protection, obligation, responsibility and remedy
• Theories and histories of the human and subjects of the rights
• Business and human rights, including corruption and corporate obligations
• Transitional and reparative justices
• Ethical theories of human rights
• Rule of law and the post-conflict reconstruction. 

HOW TO APPLY

If you’d like to join us as research candidates, there are two main routes:

• Browse funded projects in this subject area
• Browse our potential supervisors and propose your own research project.

Find out how to apply for the PhD at Sussex

Full-time and part-time study

Choose to work on your research full-time or part-time, to fit around your work and personal life. For details about the part-time study.

TOP UNIVERSITIES:

• University of Calcutta 
• Andhra University, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar College of Law 
• Chandigarh University
• Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University
• NIIMS University
• Jodhpur National University

How to get admission to a good college for pursuing a PhD in Human Rights?

To get a chance to pursue your PhD in Human Rights from a good college a student must concentrate on the following points:-

For getting admission to a top college a student must secure good marks in the entrance exam conducted by that particular university.

You must also get good marks on your Master’s degree and M.Phil degree. A minimum of 55% of marks is required to appear for the entrance exam.

Start preparing for the entrance examination a considerable amount of time before the date of examination.

In all the universities, along with the entrance exam, viva voice or the personal interview is also conducted.

Try to collect all the information of that college like the teaching faculty and curriculum where you wish to pursue your course.

Choose that particular college where placement opportunities are very good.

Books for PhD in  the Human Rights course

Important Books and names of authors for the PhD in Human Rights course are:-