The Leader’s Aura: Paolo Gerbaudo launches CTRP Seminar Series
Dr Paolo Gerbaudo delivered a fascinating talk for the first event in our Communication Technology and Radical Politics Series
Critical and collaborative praxis research for justice and solidarity
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CGHR’s DVC Students Support Amnesty International Report on Iran’s 2022 Woman Life Freedom Uprising
CGHR’s DVC students have contributed towards Amnesty International’s new landmark report on crimes against humanity during the Woman Life Freedom uprising in 2022.
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, 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. It is particularly interested in building bridges between the academy, policymakers and practitioners, and does so through core research themes and through innovative spin-out projects.
Communication Technology and Contentious Politics
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?
The Leader’s Aura: Paolo Gerbaudo launches CTRP Seminar Series
Dr Paolo Gerbaudo delivered a fascinating talk for the first event in our Communication Technology and Radical Politics Series
Bonnie Honig in Conversation: Public Things in the Age of Platforms.
18/11/2026
Seminar Room, Department of Sociology
Global Experiences of Algorithmic Governance
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.
Algorithmic Governance and Postcoloniality
In this paper, Dr Ashwin Varghese reads algorithmic governance through a postcolonial lens to understand the hierarchies it creates and what algorithmic transformation means for the postcolonial world.
Violence, Conflict and Peacebuilding
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.
“The Sudans” Book Talk with Alex de Waal and Willow Berridge
04/11/2026
SG2, Alison Richard Building
The new geopolitics of eastern Africa: Emerging regional responses
The latest seminar in the BIEA’s “Eastern Africa in the World” series considers the new geopolitics of eastern Africa and the emerging regional responses.
Human Rights in the Digital Age
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.
28/01/26
Ella and Albert participate in Geneva roundtable on United Nations Guiding Principles
The roundtable evaluated whether the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) remain fit for addressing current and emerging challenges.
21/01/26
Albert on unlawful NYPD surveillance practices
In an interview with Al Jazeera, Albert Fox Cahn discussed the privacy violations in New York Police Department’s surveillance practices.
25/06/25
Humanities, Social Sciences and AI – Transversal Theme: a Lego Serious Play workshop
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.
Students at CGHR
DVC Michaelmas Report: Right to Protests in Türkiye
In this termly report, our newest investigators reflect on their first months with the team, offering a practical insight into the group’s investigative workflow in action.
CGHR Student Group Michaelmas 2025 Update
This term, the CGHR Student Group has been preparing for upcoming events and opportunities for students interested in the centre’s work.
DVC Michaelmas 2025 Update
In Michaelmas term, the DVC hit the ground running with a project focused on the repression of protests in Türkiye.
Events @ CGHR
“The Sudans” Book Talk with Alex de Waal and Willow Berridge
04/11/2026
SG2, Alison Richard Building
Bonnie Honig in Conversation: Public Things in the Age of Platforms.
18/11/2026
Seminar Room, Department of Sociology