Courses

Starting from the 40th cycle, the activities within the PhD program shall be quantified in training credits (CFU/ECTS).

At the end of the programme, PhD students have to acquire 180 CFU/ECTS, comprising mandatory teaching activities (no less than 12 CFU/ECTS) and other Related and Supplementary Activities (no less than 10 CFU/ECTS).

By the end of the PhD course, students must have successfully completed a minimum of 60 hours of mandatory teaching activities. Additionally, PhD students have to attend extra classes relevant to their research project, subject to agreement with their supervisors. These activities, including lectures, seminars, and classes, are integral components of the PhD experience, alongside conducting individual and supervised research, drafting the final dissertation, publishing in academic journals, and actively engaging within the doctorate’s international community and civil society.

The list below outlines the mandatory training activities for each cycle. Moreover, PhD students partecipate in all the Human Rights Centre’s activities that are accessible on the Conferences and Seminars page.

The Phd Programme is involved in the organisation of the annual international human rights research conference, coordinated by the Human Rights Centre “Antonio Papisca” and the UNESCO Chair "Human Rights, Democracy and Peace".

2025

Argentina: focus on economic system and Human Rights
Francesco Vigliarolo, 26/05/2025

Cities of Migration. Understanding the diversity of urban diversities in Europe
Asya Pisarevskya, 20/05/2025

Is the Justice Cascade Over?
Kathryn Sikkink, 15/05/2025

Frontiers in Business & Human rights

• Income and Labour Inequality, 14/05/2025
• Income Distribution. The impact of technological change, 12/05/2025
• Income Distribution. The role of education, 07/05/2025
  Gianfranco Tusset   
   
• The size of gender Gap: methodology and empirical evidence
  Donata Favaro, 23/04/2025 "

Addressing structural human rights violations: research ideas from an International Organisation’s perspective
Stefano Montanari, 15/04/2025

Human Rights for PhD Researchers
Svetlana Chetaikina, 04/02/25 - 11/02/25 - 18/02/25 - 04/03/25 - 18/03/25 - 8/04/25

Frontiers in Inclusion and Psychological growth

• Gender issues in psychological research (second part)
  Laura Nota, Maria Cristina Ginevra, Chiara Annovazzi, 09/05/2025
• Gender issues in psychological research (first part)
  Laura Nota, Chiara Annovazzi, 06/05/2025
• A Psychosocial Palliative Care and Human Rights Framework to Health: From Policy to Practice (second part)
  Laura Nota, Ciro Di Vincenzo, 16/04/2025
• A Psychosocial Palliative Care and Human Rights Framework to Health: From Policy to Practice (first part)
  Maria Cristina Ginevra, Ciro Di Vincenzo, 10/04/2025
• Inclusion and Social sustainability
  Maria Cristina Ginevra, 27/02/2025

Research questions 

• Diving deep into research
  Sara Tonini, 9-10/01/2025

2024

Bibliographical research and Reference management 

• Zotero
  Elisa Rubino, 17/12/24
• Library 101
  Michele Visentin, 9/12/24
   

Frontiers in Business & Human rights

• Introduction to quantitative research and social indicators, 13/11/24
• Survey data, 20/11/24
• Social indicators and policy indicators, 27/11/24
• Quantitative research techniques to identify drivers, 4/12/24
• Setting up your own research project, 11/12/24
  Thomas Bassetti

The Effects of Illiberal Turns on Civil Society
Aratò Cristina, Sara Pennicino, June 24, 2024

The Rights to development in context
Nsongurua J. Udombana, May 27, 2024

The challenge of work inclusion of migrants and refugees"
Maria Cristina Ginevra, May 8, 2024

Human rights background in Africa - focus on Kenya
Giuseppe Caramazza, May 6, 2024

Inclusive training in higher education
Sara Santilli, April 19, 2024

Research questions
Sara Tonini, April 17-18, 2024

The impact of technological change
Gianfranco Tusset, March 26, 2024

The role of education
Gianfranco Tusset, March 25, 2024

Towards a definition of exploitation for social purposes
Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, March 11, 2024

2023

Il processo di pace in Colombia: a che punto siamo?
Jairo Agudelo, November 29, 2023

Summer School on Democracy
September 11-15, 2023

Vernacularisation of human rights: Lessons learned in in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Vincenzo Pasquantonio, PhD candidate, May 31, 2023

Decent work: Definitions and researches
Jenny Marcionetti, May 25, 2023

Local human rights institutions: achievements and challenges in New Orleans,Louisiana.
Vincenzo Pasquantonio, PhD candidate, May 24, 2023

“Strategic Human Right Litigation – Understanding and Maximizing Impact”, by
Helen Duffy. Book review
Stefano Trevisan, May 16, 2023

The 2023 Law clinic on business & human rights in partnership with NYU: lessons learned
Stefano Trevisan, May 10, 2023

Crisis política en Perú: análisis de sus causas entre modelo económico vigente y la observancia de Derechos Humanos
UNESCO ULNP, April 18, 2023

Three women belonging to the Mothers of 'False Positives' (MAFAPO), a Colombian Human Rights Collective that makes memory about the crimes against humanity committed by the Colombian army in the framework of the armed conflict.
Carlos Gutierrez, April, 13, 2023

The Elusive Search for a Social Licence to invest
Koen de Feyter, March 29, 2023

Unravelling Peoples' rights
Koen de Feyter, March 22, 2023

Critiques of the Human Rights Approach to development
Koen de Feyter, March 15, 2023

The Revival of the Right to Development
Koen de Feyter, March 8, 2023

Discrimination and the unintended effects of legal changes (abortion legalization, affirmative action) Stéphane Mechoulan, February 20, 2023

Building a career management skills framework: A dialogue between researchers, practitioners, citizens, and policy makers
Laurent Sovet, February 13, 2023

Dignity and pain in end-of-life 
Ines Testoni, January 12-18, 2023

Setting the researce question 
Sara Tonini, January 10-11, 2023

2022

Gender issues in psychological research
Chiara Annovazzi, Elisabetta Camussi, December 15, 2022

Decent and dignified work: A vocational psychology perspective
Jonas Masdonati, December 13, 2022

Restorative justice in community environment
Gian Luigi Lepri, November 30, 2022

Insights from field research on microfinance for social change
Bharat Singh Thapa, November 28, 2022

Improving inclusive attitudes and behaviors
Maria Cristina Ginevra, November 16, 2022

Inclusion and social sustainability
Sara Santilli, November 4, 2022

Summer School September 12-16, 2022
Innovation and data-driven research in human rights studies. Facts, myths, challenges.
Gabriella Salviulo, Paolo De Stefani, Laura Nota, Damien Short, Arrigo Opocher, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, Nicoletta Zappile, Barbara Maculan, Cinzia Bragagnolo, Sara Santilli, Francesca Cimino, Andrea Signori, Maria Castiglioni.

Sustainable Business in Nepal with reference to Mithila Arts
Bhoj Raj Aryal, June 17, 2022

Graz – Padova Joint Interdisciplinary Phd Workshop
Paolo De Stefan, May 20, 2022

Ethnic vote in Bolivia: Cohesion, disintegration and crisis
Guillermo Guzman, May 17, 2022

War in Ukraine: the international law scenario and the the ICC investigations
Stefano Trevisan, Paolo De Stefani, Alberto Lanzavecchia, Sara Pennicino March 31, 2022

War in Ukraine: An open source-based conflict analysis workshop 
Leone Hadavi, March 28, 2022

Human Rights and Climate Change: What fruitful Relationship?
Elena Pariotti, March 25, 2022

Webinar online on religious freedom
Siniša zrinšcak, Olga Breskaya, Giuseppe Giordan; March 24, 2022

Individual Complaint Mechanism of the UN Human Rights Committee: Process and Effectiveness (Case Study of Nepal)
Paolo De Stefani, Kapil Aryal; March 7, 2022

"Let's build the walls". New meaning of solidarity and humanity?
Magdalena Ratajczak, March 4, 2022

The right to life and health during the covid pandemic
Roberto De vogli, February 18, 2022

Freedom of Religion in post-secular Australia
Adam Possamai, February 7, 2022

Sociology of religious freedom. What we know and how we know it.
Giuseppe Giordan, Olga Breskaya; January 28, 2022

The Concept, Development and Discourse of Human Rights-A Chinese Perspective
Yang Songcai, January 24, 2022

Nepal's Human Rights Obligation and Situation: Emerging Vulnerabilities
Paolo De Stefani, Kapil Aryal; January 10, 2022