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Emma Lennhammer is a doctoral researcher in human rights studies at Lund University and a member of the National Graduate School of Historical Studies. She is currently a visiting researcher at the University of Groningen (Chair Group Contemporary History), the Netherlands (2023-2024).

Emma's research concerns the spatio-temporalities of international human rights law, focusing particularly on economic, social, and cultural rights. Her PhD project, Time and Its Subjects in the Human Rights Imaginary, explores subjecthood of human rights in relation to the temporal dimensions of the United Nations International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. It includes a case study on the indigenous Sámi people in Norway, Sweden, and Finland.

Emma has previously studied at Lund University (BA Human Rights), Uppsala University (MA Human Rights, MA Religion in Peace and Conflict), and the University of Bristol (LLM International Human Rights Law).