Join the Amnesty International Digital Verification Corps
The University of Cambridge’s branch of the Digital Verification Corps, a collaboration with Amnesty International, is recruiting student volunteers for the 2025-26 academic year.
Critical and collaborative praxis research for justice and solidarity
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Join the CGHR Student Group
The CGHR Student Group is recruiting committee members for the 2025-26 academic year. Be a part of this vibrant, student-led community.
03/10/25
Join the Declarations Human Rights Podcast Team
We are recruiting a brilliant and inclusive new team of volunteers to help produce accessible, critical content about human rights for our global and diverse listenership.
About CGHR
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.
Events
Favel IA: AI Governance and Literacy from the Margins in the Global South
22/10/2025
Room SG2, Alison Richard Building
Gaining autonomy, or risking predictability?: The case of location-based gig work in India
29/10/2025
Room SG2, Alison Richard Building
Students at CGHR
Join the CGHR Student Group
The CGHR Student Group is recruiting committee members for the 2025-26 academic year. Be a part of this vibrant, student-led community.
10/02/24
Provocations: Solidarity Platforms Research Group
With a small team of student research volunteers, CGHR is carrying out Solidarity Platforms Project this term, based on CGHR’s Provocations: Tech Design and Human Rights project.
03/02/24
Updates from the CGHR Student Group
The Student Group are working on a research project assessing the impact of AI technologies on the surveillance and policing of protest groups between 2019 and 2023.