Dr Elaine Webster is Programme Leader for the PgCert/PgDip/LLM in Human Rights Law and Senior Academic Mentor for the Strathclyde Centre for Doctoral Training in Human Rights-based Decision Making. Her research focuses on European and international human rights law, particularly how judicial and non-judicial actors interpret rights at various levels, including locally.

She previously served 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. From 2017 to 2023, Elaine was the elected Executive Secretary of the global Association of Human Rights Institutes.

Elaine has contributed to several advisory bodies, including the British Medical Association’s Human Rights Working Group, the Scottish Human Rights Commission’s Research Advisory Group, and the Academic Advisory Panel to the National Taskforce on Human Rights Leadership. She is a member of the Scottish Government’s Core Working Group on Human Rights Implementation.

She has taught at the University of Maastricht and was a European Visiting Fellow at KU Leuven. Her academic interests include participatory and arts-based research, public engagement, and assessment and feedback practices. Elaine speaks fluent French.