This module prepares the student for an empirical research study by consolidating and extending knowledge on human rights and socio-legal issues developed in previous modules.  

Keywords: Research, methodologies, qualitative data, socio-legal, primary research, secondary research, human rights, inter-professional practice.

Module aims:

A Socio-legal, rights-based study is an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of law, human rights and social policy issues and the relationships between these and wider society. Theoretical, clinical and empirical work is included, and perspectives and methodologies are drawn from the social sciences as well as humanities.

The specific aims of this module are:

 

  • Analyse the key concepts and their intersections in the construction of Social Human Rights and their manifestations in public discourses, law policies and social work ;
  • Understand the interdisciplinary nature of socio-legal inquiry;
  • Design and conduct research relevant to rights based social work; 
  • Develop a capacity for analytic, synthetic and independent thinking.