Teaching and talks

Iain Overton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media Studies at SOAS University of London, where he leads the MA in Investigative and Human Rights Journalism.

Before SOAS he taught human rights reporting and investigative journalism at Birkbeck and Edinburgh Napier University, and ran one-day workshops on human rights reporting at the Frontline Club in London.

He has spoken about human rights and investigative journalism at the United Nations, the Oxford Union, Cambridge University, UCL, LSE and Harvard.