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Read more at: CGHR Practitioner Series Lent 2023

CGHR Practitioner Series Lent 2023

Wednesday, 25 January, 2023 - 11:00

CGHR runs a Practitioner Series each year in Lent term, Jan to March, which often features rights activists, aid practitioners and journalists etc. Our speakers relate stories about their own experience — how they came to work in the field that they are in — with details about what the work itself involves. The session...


Read more at: The CGHR Student Group

The CGHR Student Group

20 February 2023

CGHR Student Group 2023 This year, the Student Group has focused on its resurgence after the Covid-19 pandemic’s detrimental impacts on student participation. Our efforts have zeroed in on outreach, sustaining existing events, and proposing new projects for CGHR’s evolution. Anusha, Abii-Tah, and Marcus from the Student...


Read more at: Practitioner Series: Lawfare- Human Rights Litigation with Jason McCue

Practitioner Series: Lawfare- Human Rights Litigation with Jason McCue

20 February 2023

On Wednesday, 25 January 2023, CGHR had its first Practitioner Series of the year with Jason McCue. Jason is an esteemed human rights lawyer, voted U.K. Law Society’s lawyer of the year in 2010, who specialises in state, private, hybrid and civil society lawfare (the use of law to gain strategic advantages). Hosted by...


Read more at: Updates from our Postdoctoral Scholar!

Updates from our Postdoctoral Scholar!

20 February 2023

CGHR Postdoctoral Scholar Last term was a very productive one for our Postdoctoral Scholar Sebastián Lehuedé! In November, he attended the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference in Dublin, where he received the Best Dissertation Award (photo) for his doctoral thesis on decolonial approaches to data...


Read more at: Latest from the Digital Verification Corps (DVC)

Latest from the Digital Verification Corps (DVC)

20 February 2023

The DVC Last term, the Digital Verification Corps contributed to a new research project led by Amnesty International's Evidence Lab. The team verified hundreds of videos of police brutality from across Europe and the Middle East as part of wider research focussed on the 'militarisation of protest'. This follows on from the...


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CGHR Co-Director Dr Sharath Srinivasan appointed as judge for the Generative AI Skills Challenge

14 August 2023

data.org, with support from Microsoft, is launching the Generative AI Skills Challenge and CGHR Co-Director Dr Sharath Srinivasan , alongside other prominent industry experts on social sector skill development and the impact of new technologies, such as generative AI, have been appointed to the international panel of...

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