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Social justice, conflict and rights research

Our research concerns the dynamics of human rights and social justice with the key focus on conflict settings, coloniality and colonialism.


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Research in this area focuses on conflict, peacebuilding and humanitarianism; human rights in practice; colonialism, coloniality and decolonisation; social Movements, community organising, and social transformation; and labour, gender and markets.

This Department of Social & Policy Sciences research theme focuses on human rights and social justice, paying keen attention to coloniality and colonialism. This research also considers how social transformation can be imagined and delivered across diverse contexts globally.

Our researchers covering this theme are divided into five broad areas.

Conflict, peacebuilding and humanitarianism

We study challenges in conflict-affected or transitional settings, and strategies for peacebuilding and humanitarian response.

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Human rights in practice

We assess the operation and experiences of institutional frameworks intended to protect vulnerable populations, in contexts including asylum, criminal justice, child and youth protection systems.

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Colonialism, coloniality and decolonisation

We explore the legacies and discourses of colonialism and how they are reproduced today in society and social sciences in new forms in new forms of racism, discrimination and inequalities.

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Social movements, community organising, and social transformation

We investigate the role of various social movements - labour, indigenous, women's - in bringing about political, economic, and cultural change at local, national, and global levels.

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Labour, gender and markets

We examine the changing nature of work, precarity and their intersections with gender and market dynamics as well as public policies and social support.

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