The talk examined the incorporation of an indigenously developed AI facial recognition software-enabled image search function in everyday policing in Kerala, Southwest India.
A delegation from Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs) will be in Cambridge for a special event at King’s College Chapel on 26th November 2025.
The Centre of Governance and Human Rights’ Academic Freedoms Research Network, supported by CRASSH, will advance three projects related to banned book collections.
The Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CGHR) is an outward focused multi-disciplinary research endeavour strongly committed to advancing thought and practice within areas of critical importance to global justice and human well-being in the twenty-first century.
CGHR is co-directed by Professor Ella McPherson, Associate Professor of the Sociology of New Media and Digital Technology at the Department of Sociology, and Professor Sharath Srinivasan, David and Elaine Potter Professor of International Politics at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS).
The Centre’s mission is to be widely valued as a dynamic, innovative and collaborative research network with proven expertise, producing high quality scholarly outputs. As such, the Centre is particularly interested in building bridges between the academy, policymakers and practitioners, and does so through core research themes as well as through innovative spin-out projects.
CGHR’s research under this theme uses a historicised approach to the relationship between communication technology and politics to interrogate how authority, power and political contestation are changing in a digital age. Motivating these enquiries is a strong normative purpose: learning recent and past experience, how can we radically rethink civic action and democratic popular sovereignty in our technological present and future?
On Friday, 3 June 2025, Ella and Sharath convened the first Connections event of the ‘Humanities, Social Sciences and AI’ Transversal Theme: a Lego Serious Play workshop.
Professor Srinivasan’s recently published chapter, in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Assembly that he co-edits, re-centres the place of assembly in political theory.
CGHR’s Global Experiences of Algorithmic Governance theme draws attention to lived realities around the world of algorithmic governance, to how agency and discretion manifest in algorithmic systems, and to how people talk back to algorithmic domination.
The talk examined the incorporation of an indigenously developed AI facial recognition software-enabled image search function in everyday policing in Kerala, Southwest India.
A new paper co-written by CGHR Postdoctoral Scholar, Ashwin Varghese, and Aishwarya Rajeev, has been published in The Economic and Labour Relations Review.
Our Postdoctoral Scholar Dr Aswhin Varghese was invited to present at the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology in Rabat, Morocco from 6th – 11th July 2025.
Violence, Conflict and Peacebuilding is one of the core areas of research interest at CGHR. The Centre serves as a meeting place for a multi-disciplinary group of researchers at Cambridge working on topics connected to this theme. A strong area of core research deals with the politics of peace processes and negotiations.
A delegation from Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs) will be in Cambridge for a special event at King’s College Chapel on 26th November 2025.
Sharath is interviewed by FRANCE 24 to discuss the latest developments in Sudan’s El-Fasher after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized the city.
After nearly two years of civil war, has the brutal conflict reached a turning point?
CGHR’s Human Rights in the Digital Age theme addresses the emergent and rapidly evolving changes wrought to human rights practices and norms by the use of digital technologies.
On Friday, 3 June 2025, Ella and Sharath convened the first Connections event of the ‘Humanities, Social Sciences and AI’ Transversal Theme: a Lego Serious Play workshop.
On Wednesday, 26 February 2025 we had the great pleasure of welcoming Fred Abrahams remotely for our third Practitioner Series talk.
On 12 February 2025, CGHR had the great pleasure of inviting Dr Matthew Gillett to give the second of this year’s CGHR Practitioner Series talks.
12/11/2025
Room SG2, Alison Richard Building
