Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements

Patricia Hynes is Senior Research Officer at the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in the UK. Her research interests include forced migration, trafficking, and refugee and asylum policy. She has published internationally including for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and in the Journal of Refugee Studies.

Michele Lamb is Lecturer in Human Rights at the Department of Social Sciences at Roehampton University, United Kingdom, and is the founder of the British Sociological Association's Sociology of Rights Study Group. She has conducted research on human rights in India, for the Scottish Human Rights Commission, and in Northern Ireland, from which she has published journal articles.

Damien Short is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, United Kingdom. His research interests include indigenous people's rights, reconciliation projects, transitional justice and genocide; he is author of Reconciliation and Colonial Power: Indigenous Rights in Australia (Ashgate, 2008), and has published articles in journals including Current Sociology and Citizenship Studies.

Matthew Waites is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. He is author of The Age of Consent: Young People, Sexuality and Citizenship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), and co-editor with Kelly Kollman of 'The Global Politics of LGBT Human Rights', a special issue of Contemporary Politics Vol. 15, no. 1 (March 2009).