Are you writing your Master’s thesis on an issue pertaining to human rights? Do you have concerns about any problems you may face? Have you wondered how others have overcome challenges in writing their thesis?
Join us for the second session of the second Thesis Talk Series organised by the Student Advisory Board of the Centre for Fundamental Rights.
In this session, two Hertie School alumni who excelled at their theses, will discuss their experiences in researching topics related to human rights. The presentation will be followed by an open discussion.
The aim of the talk is to provide current students the opportunity for an exchange with Hertie alumni about their thesis and their experiences with writing it. By engaging with alumni, who have focussed on a wide variety of human rights issues across geographies and using different methodologies, we hope to inspire current students to engage with human rights issues.
This is an open event for Hertie School students. Prior registration is not required.
Speakers
Daniela Alvarado Rincón holds a Bachelor of Laws from Universidad Nacional de Colombia. At the Hertie School, she studied public policy, majoring in policy analysis. Prior to joining Hertie, she worked for over four years as a researcher and Human Rights advocate in the civil society and public sector. Her interests lie at the interaction between business, economic international law and environmental rights. In her master's thesis she studied the impact of investment disputes on the regulation of Páramos in Colombia. Currently, she works as a Young Professional at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), supporting the Federal Foreign Office´s Latin America and Caribbean Initiative.
Jessica Trollip is a recent Master of International Affairs graduate from the Hertie School. She holds a BSc in Economics and Politics for the University of Bristol. Her academic areas of interest are international security, feminist perspectives and human rights. Her thesis topic was: 'Gender Norms and Institutional Reform: Explaining Variation in Sexual Exploitation and Abuse between United Nations Peacekeeping Missions', which went on to receive the Wolfgang Ischinger Prize.
Moderator
Laura Hamilton is a second year pursuing the Master in International Affairs at the Hertie School. Prior to coming to Hertie School, she graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BA in Global Studies and a BS in Statistics and Analytics. She is primarily interested in the consequences of the climate crisis as they relate to human rights and displacement.
