This module will consider poverty, depravation, inequality and hardship through the lens of human rights and consider how these rights might assist in the mitigation and/or eradication of poverty.

In exploring this, the module will consider a range of civil and political rights including the right to life and liberty, freedom of expression; freedom of association; economic, and social and cultural rights including the right to food, housing, work and education.

The module will also explore the responsibilities that arise in relation to human rights, including those at a national and international level. Content here will be changeable in order to remain relevant so for example, in the current circumstances, the module might consider the responsibility we have as a nation to offer refuge to those fleeing persecution and our obligations (both moral and legal) in relation to climate change, global poverty and/or discrimination and our human rights and community responsibilities arising in relation to the global pandemic.

The poster presentation will assess all 3 learning outcomes. Students will choose a topic of interest and examine what action could be taken to address the identified issue and how this relates to human rights. The topic that students choose can be in relation to a range of rights and the key will be to explain how these rights can be met in the current context.

The VLE Blackboard will provide a structured framework for the delivery of this module. There is a mix of directed and independent study and a blended learning approach is adopted.

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: (44 hours)
Typically, these sessions will include the following:
Seminars introducing ideas and delivering facts to a group of students
Pre-session activity and preparation
In-session interactive exercises and activities, including simulation-based activity
Tutorials - virtual and face-to-face formative discussions in a one-to-one tutor /student contact session
Module and assessment support

Guided Independent Study: (156 hours)
72 hours - Wider reading and research
50 hours - Completion of formative and summative assessment tasks

This will consist of a combination of reading material, preparation and completion of tasks, [including self-assessment tasks], and contributions to discussion forums by means of the VLE. Reading key texts and researching via the appropriate databases and academic journals. Assessment preparation and completion

1. Demonstrate a critical understanding of key human rights and how principles of human
rights can be used to secure and advance individual rights at a national and international level
1. Knowledge and Understanding

2. Apply the methods and techniques learned to consolidate, extend and apply your
knowledge and understanding of human rights
7. Application

3. Critically evaluate current research, or equivalent advanced scholarship in order to
identify a contemporary topic relevant to the field of study
4. Analysis

Access to PC
Access to Internet

Edmiston, D. (2018) Welfare, Inequality and Social Citizenship: Deprivation and Affluence in Austerity Britain, (1st Ed), Bristol: Policy Press

Heywood, A. 2014, Global politics, (2nd ed), Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. (Martin)

Schweiger, G. & Graf, G. 2015, A Philosophical Examination of Social Justice and Child Poverty, Springer Open, Basingstoke. Website:

Council of Europe: Compass: https://www.coe.int/en/web/compass Activities and ideas

In this module you will consider poverty, depravation, inequality and hardship through the lens of human rights and consider how these rights might assist in the mitigation and/or the eradication of poverty. In exploring this, you will consider a range of civil and political rights including the right to life and liberty, freedom of expression; freedom of association; and economic, social and cultural rights including the right to food, housing, work and education.

You will also explore the responsibilities that arise in relation to human rights, including those at a national and international level. These topics will be changeable in order to remain relevant so for example, in the current circumstances, the module might consider the responsibility we have as a nation to offer refuge to those fleeing persecution and our obligations (both moral and legal) in relation to climate change, global poverty and/or discrimination and our obligations arising in relation to the global pandemic. You will complete this module by designing an academic poster presentation, which you may choose to enter into our GradEx event.