Alumni

LSE provides valuable services to alumni, and we at the Centre are very pleased to keep in touch with former MSc Human Rights students.

MSc Human Rights annual alumni dinner

The 2008 MSc Human Rights alumni dinner took place on 1 May, following a very special lecture by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, on ‘Religious belief and human rights’.

Alumni benefits

LSE Alumni can enjoy the following benefits free of charge:

Receive the award-winning LSE Magazine and newsletter
Access the main benefits and services through our LSE For You portal
Order your Alumni Library card and gain access to the BLPES
Use the alumni professional mentoring network
Use the alumni email directory and find friends
Free subscription to the termly LSE Events listings leaflet (on request)
Discounts in London, at the SU and on LSE courses
Free access to the Language Centre
Alumni Reunions and Events programmes
Update your personal details

To update your details and join the LSE Alumni Network, see Updating your details

Careers advice

Looking for careers advice?

You are entitled to use the LSE Careers Service for up to one year after you graduate. If you would like more information about the service, as well as availability at careers events please visit the Information for Alumni section on the Careers Service website.

LSE Library

Need access to the LSE Library?

You can continue to access the library after you graduate, free of charge. You will continue to have borrowing rights, as well as access to the course collection on request. Guest PCs on the first floor are available to you so that you may access the wealth of electronic resources within the library. See Services for LSE alumni from the Library, IT Services and Alumni Relations on the Library website.

What the Centre can do for you

We hope to enable alumni to maintain contact with each other and would therefore encourage you to register with the Alumni Office. When you update your details with the Alumni Relations team we will be kept informed of the best way to contact you, so that we can let you know about future alumni events.

We held our 3rd annual alumni dinner in May 2007, following a lecture given by Richard Goldstone (former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda). Alumni from each year of the MSc Human Rights joined Centre staff past and present and our special guests for an evening of good food and wine. We are planning a very special event for May 2008, more information on which will be sent to alumni early in the year.

Alumni are of course welcome at all our public events. Details of future events can be found on the site, and are usually un-ticketed and free to attend. We also provide online articles and transcripts that you may find of interest, including transcripts of past public events where available, and articles written by Centre staff. In this way we hope to bring the Centre's activities to a global public community. If you would like to receive updates of these events, please register your contact details with the Centre to join our mailing list.

If you have published an article or a book, tell us about it. We would be delighted to provide details on these web pages in support of your contribution to the study of human rights.

What you can do for the Centre

Tell us what you are doing now. What organisation do you work for? What projects have you been involved in? Have you gone on to further education, perhaps a PhD? Send us a short profile and a picture. If you are happy for us to post this on the web we can support a growing network of alumni keen to know more about what class mates and other alumni are now doing. As you will know, the programme is not vocational but we know that the MSc can be used as a platform into varied career paths, and your experiences will also help inform future students who are keen to explore the possibilities that may develop from an MSc in Human Rights. If you are happy for us to use your profile, then please get in touch with the MSc Human Rights Administrator, Sara Ulfsparre at s.ulfsparre@lse.ac.uk.

Graduate destinations

The LSE is building a database of alumni destinations to which you can contribute. This again enables future students who are considering applying to the Human Rights programme to consider whether the course is right for them. What have you gained from the programme and studying at the LSE? Would you recommend the programme to a friend? If you would, then why not recommend it to a stranger - they may be part of your alumni network one day. Click here for more information on graduate destinations.

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