Advancing Human Rights in China
IDCR Director along with Professor Rhona Smith from Northumbria University and Professor Bill Simmons from Arizona Stae University were in Oslo 1-3 November as part of the culmination of a 16 month project on human rights research methods training in China.
The project concentrated on multi-disciplinary research training for 14 Chinese academics from different disciplines who selected a wide variety of topics to research. The projects ranged from villagers affected by water pollution to occupational disease in Shanghai to an assessment of an anti-trafficking programme, and each project focused on the best way to research complex and significant problems in human rights.
Research training took place in Shanghai in April 2009, Shantou in November 2009 and on-line throughout 2010, with the final meeting in Oslo. The focus on method allowed the scholars to choose their own topics and narrow their research questions in ways that made them possible to complete within the timeframe of the project.
The project was funded by the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights through its China Programme and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law through its China Cooperation Programme.
