Opportunities for Students
There are number of ways how students can get involved with the Centre:
- Research with the Centre: every year around November we issue a call to students to express interest with assisting the Centre with various research work. The precise nature of these varies from year to year, according to the work of the Centre and priorities for the given year. Examples of such work in the past include: assisting with background research which feeds into bigger research report for outside international stakeholders; research for making stakeholders submissions to the UPR process; and assisting the Centre with updating the UK NPM Database entries. On average, we have about 20 students working with us during the year.
- Human Rights Law Clinic : the Human Rights Implementation Centre is proud to have the first Law Clinic in the United Kingdom dedicated to work on human rights cases exclusively. Our Clinic is also unique as instead of providing assistance to individuals, we team with international NGOs and provide them with direct assistance in their litigation work before regional and international tribunals. Work with the Clinic is thus an exceptional opportunity to obtain first-hand experience on international human rights litigation. Again, we usually issue a call for interested students to apply around November each year.
- Human Rights Career Advice: the Human Rights Implementation Centre is keen to assist students in their attempts to undertake human rights related careers and to that effect we hold yearly talks about the careers in human rights field and have compiled the advice document with some practical tips.
- Visiting Staff Seminars: the Human Rights Implementation Centre is proud of its Visiting Staff who are renowned experts in their field. We hold Visiting Staff Seminar series, spread across the academic year and we encourage all students to attend these. These are not only opportunities to attend cutting edge talk on topical human rights issues, but also an opportunity to chat informally with the renowned experts in the field after the talk.
- Other Opportunities: from time to time, the Human Rights Implementation Centre receives various opportunities from other organisations which we are happy to pass on to our students. In the past these have included internship opportunities at national and international NGOs as well as teaching placements in Universities abroad.
GET IN TOUCH! Whether you have an idea on other ways how we can involve students in our work or you have a specific research idea that falls within the themes of the Centre- please, do not hesitate to contact us!
Additionally, there are opportunities in the Law School for students such as the following:
- Amicus - there is a branch of Amicus organisation at the University of Bristol which also provides students with particular knowledge in dealing with issues relating to capital trial and punishment in the USA.
- Innocence Network UK (INUK) is run from the Law School which aims to provide a practical response tot he needs of alleged victims of wrongful conviction that have been identified in academic research. INUK's overall aim is to improve the criminal justice system by overturning convictions given to factually innocent people and effecting reforms of the criminal justice system to prevent such wrongful convictions from occurring in the future. There are various opportunities for students to get involved with this work, please see the INUK website.