LSE Human Rights Visiting Fellowship Scheme

Our Visiting Fellowship programme enables human rights academics, researchers and practitioners to spend a period of time conducting research at LSE Human Rights within the Department of Sociology. Academic visitors (Visiting Fellows, Senior Fellows and Professors) may be on sabbatical leave from their normal employment, or sponsored directly by other organisations. They may be embarking on post-doctoral research, undertaking a mid-career break, or pursuing an opportunity for late-career reflection and writing.

Academic visitors are expected to play an active part in the intellectual life of LSE Human Rights through giving guest seminars and allowing doctoral and MSc students engaged in work of relevance to consult them.

Prospective applicants should present a clear and realisable plan in relation to the research objectives to be met during their fellowship. Applicants who are interested in engaging in an established project at LSE Human Rights must make a clear case regarding how their presence and work will complement the project. 

Applications will first be considered by the Sociology Department Research Committee.  Applications accepted at this stage will then be nominated to a central LSE committee, who make the final decision regarding LSE Visiting Fellowships. For more information about the department's application procedure, and to apply, please see Academic Visitors.

See details of current visitors affiliated to LSE Human Rights: People.