This report summarises the one-day workshop entitled 'The Equality and Human Rights Commission: Challenges and Opportunities', which took place in London on June 17 2011. It was convened by Jonathan Breckon, Director of Policy and Public Affairs at the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Dr. Thomas Pegram, a 2011 Visiting Fellow in Human Rights at the Human Rights Consortium (HRC), School of Advanced Study. The purpose of the day was to provide a forum for practitioners and scholars from across disciplines to undertake an appraisal of the EHRC.