Latest News
Lacuna Writer in Residence Long-listed for Orwell Prize
It has just been announced that the Centre and Lacuna Magazine's writer in residence, Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi has been long-listed for her work by the prestigious George Orwell Prize for Journalism. If Rebecca wins, it will be the second Orwell Prize for the University of Warwick’s Centre for Human Rights in Practice in three years.
For more detail, including links to Rebecca's articles, see http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/orwell_prize_once/
To see Lacuna's new edition on Justice, Women and the Law which Rebecca has curated see www.lacuna.org.uk
Post-doctoral research position advertised
In association with a new ESRC-funded project on labour standards and EU trade agreements, involving Centre co-director Dr, James Harrison, a two year position as Post-doctoral Research Associate is currently being advertised at the Queen Mary University of London.
The closing date is 16 April 2015. More details are available here: http://www.hr.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/items/150733.html
Watch Protest Summit Live Today or Recording Tomorrow
The Warwick Summit on Protest will take place at 4pm today in Warwick Arts Centre. If you are not registered to attend and you are a Warwick staff or student you can still watch and participate. The event will be simultaneously broadcast through ‘Lecture Capture’ by Warwick Audio-visual Services. Please cut and paste the link below into your web browser:
https://lecturecapture.warwick.ac.uk/ess/echo/presentation/0ea79ea7-e260-4ffa-a9e1-eea2d6a32941
The link will become live 15 minutes before the event begins. You will only be able to see pictures when proceedings formally start. There is a comment box at the bottom of the screen. You can use this to send your comments and questions to the speakers at the event. Your comments will be visible to anyone watching the live stream. We will try to include some of these questions if we can, focusing on those that are different from those being raised by the live audience.
If you cannot watch the event live, we will make a recording available via the Centre website. It will be accessible from 1pm on Friday 13 March (tomorrow) at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/research/centres/chrp/protest/