معرفی
Dr Elaine Webster is a Reader in Law at the University of Strathclyde, part of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She leads the PgCert/PgDip/LLM Human Rights Law program and serves as Senior Academic Mentor for the Strathclyde Centre for Doctoral Training in Human Rights-based Decision Making. She previously held roles such as Associate Dean for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and currently chairs the University's Race Equality Steering Group. Her professional engagements include membership in the Scottish Government's Core Working Group on Human Rights Implementation and the Scottish Human Rights Commission's Research Advisory Group.
Dr Webster's research focuses on human rights law interpretation, particularly the prohibition of torture and inhuman treatment, environmental governance, and human dignity. She has authored a monograph on Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights and contributed to projects like the UKRI-funded One Ocean Hub. Her work emphasizes participatory and arts-based research methods, including theatre-based approaches.
Her teaching spans undergraduate and postgraduate human rights law and public law, including module leadership for Human Rights Law in Theory and Practice and European Human Rights Law on the LLM program.
Key projects include the 'Human Dignity' and Local Engagement with International Human Rights Law (2020–2021), the One Ocean Hub (2019–2024), and the DESNEHRA project on nurse education (2019–2022). She has also been involved in policy initiatives, including advising on Scotland's Human Rights Bill and contributing to the National Taskforce on Human Rights Leadership.
