Doctoral candidate receives research scholarship

Margot Strauss, a doctoral candidate in the Socio-Economic Rights and Administrative Justice Research Project has recently been awarded a full research scholarship by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to conduct research in Finland during October and November of 2012.

Margot will conduct her research stay at the Institute for Human Rights at the Abo Akademi University in Abo/Turku, Finland, from 8 October to 2 December where she will have the opportunity to access the University’s academic resources while she works on her doctoral thesis. Her study focuses on the intersection between poverty, housing rights and planning law.

During this period, she will also be afforded the opportunity to participate in the Intensive Course on the Justiciability of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (12-16 November), which represents one of the legs of the Global School on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and is hosted by the Institute for Human Rights at the Abo Akademi University. Professor Sandra Liebenberg is a faculty member of this course and presents lectures at it annually.

The Global School on Socio-Economic Rights Adjudication is a joint initiative by the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights at the University of Oslo (Norway); the Institute for Human Rights at the Abo Akademi University (Finland); the H.F. Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law at Stellenbosch University (South Africa); the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria (South Africa); the University of Los Andes (Colombia) and the National Judicial Academy (Nepal).

 

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