Leadership

Projects, initiatives and resources for empowering voices to lead change in human rights

Applied Research on Human Rights Leadership

Projects I'm working on at the University of York .

A diverse group of young leaders passionately discussing human rights around a table.

Human Rights Leadership: An Action Research Project

This action research project worked with 20 human rights defenders to explore questions of leadership in a human rights setting and to apply emerging insights and lessons in their leadership practice.

Read more about it here and at the UNESCO Human Rights Defender Hub at the Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York

A workshop in progress with engaged attendees and a facilitator guiding a discussion on human rights.

Piloting the ‘Coaching Interview’ for Investigating Reflective Practice

This is an ongoing project to develop and test a new methodological tool with Land and Environmental Defenders. The focus of the project is reflective practice, and how organisations and staff enquire into professional practice such as to improve individual and organisational outcomes, strategise more effectively and resolve conflicts and dilemmas.

Virtue ethics as a framework for leadership practice and development

This conceptual project seeks to understand how virtue ethics might offer a useful framework for investigating qualities of character within the practice of human rights and leadership. It undertakes some core conceptual work on the virtues and leadership that can underpin further empirical study in this area.