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 (2023-2025).

Emma's research concerns the temporalities of international human rights law, focusing particularly on the implementation of some of the United Nations core human rights treaties in Sweden between 1970s to 2020s. Her PhD project, Time and Its Subjects in the Human Rights Imaginary, explores subjecthood of human rights in relation to the temporal dimensions of human rights.

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).