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The Rights and Justice Festival is a collaboration between the University of Worcester’s Constitutions, Rights and Justice Research Group and The Hive. It will take place on Thursday 11 June and Friday 12 June.

Find out more about the talks happening on Friday 12 June. 

Following on from our inaugural festival in 2025, this year’s festival brings together experts from across the University of Worcester and beyond to talk about a variety of issues relating to rights and justice. There will be interactive talks on topics including the right to education, whether prisons work, can war ever be justified, radical needlework in the 20th century, and trial by jury. All the talks are interactive and open to the public.  

9:30am - Long term prison sentences: should we throw away the key? Susan Jarvis

10:10am - Safer Streets? Exploring the Impact of the Protection from Sex-based Harassment in Public Act by Dr Gill Harrop


10:50am - Comparing the right to education and the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion by Dr Nkem Adeleye 


11:30am - Impunity by Design: Palestine, the UNHRC, and the Architecture of Selective Accountability by Dr. Mikahil Sulaiman Azad

12:10pm - Justice or Mistake? The Reality of Eyewitness Evidence by Jenny Watkins

12:10pm - The "American Paradox": The Constitution, Race, Rights, and the Pursuit of Justice by Dr Wendy Toon
1:00pm - Keynote talk: How Far Can We Defend the Right to Free Speech? by Professor Satvinder Juss

2:00pm - Carrots, Sticks and Change: The voice of men and ethical considerations when engaging involuntary clients in Domestic Abuse Interventions by Dr Beverley Gilbert

2:40pm - Epistemic Injustice and the UK's Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities by Dr Peter Unwin

Find out more about the talks happening on Friday 12 June.