Meet our members

Discover more about our researchers and their interests.

Academic staff

  • Dr Sarah Singh (Director) - Feminist legal theory, criminal law and justice. 
  • Dr Emily Ireland (Deputy Director) - Feminist legal theory, family law, legal history. 
  • Professor Amel Alghrani - Children's rights, health/medical law and ethics. 
  • Dr Rachel Ashman (Management School) - Consumer research and management. 
  • Professor Nicola Barker - Feminist legal theory, family law, European Convention on Human Rights law, constitutional/administrative/public law. 
  • Professor Fiona Beveridge - EU social law, gender equality. 
  • Dr Nicolás Brando - Philosophy of childhood and children's rights; social and political theory; civil and political rights; the capabilities approach.
  • Professor Anna Carline - Feminist legal theory, criminal law and justice, access to justice. 
  • Judith Carter - Statelessness. 
  • Dr Sam Caslin (Department of History) - Gender history, trans history, histories of sexuality. 
  • Dr Firat Cengiz - Competition law and policy, gender equality, democracy, citizen participation to EU governance. 
  • Dr Eleanor Drywood - Children's rights, EU law, immigration law, sports law. 
  • Professor Catherine Durose (Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice, and Place) - Urban governance and public policy. 
  • Professor Bethan Evans (Department of Geography and Planning) - The intersection of feminist, post-structural, queer and crip theory, contributing to work in Human Geography and interdisciplinary fields such as Fat Studies and the Critical Medical Humanities.
  • Professor Marie Fox - Feminist legal theory, health/medical law and ethics. 
  • Dr Danielle Griffiths - Healthcare law, criminal law and criminal justice, family law, feminist/gender theory. 
  • Professor Lydia Hayes - Labour rights. 
  • Professor Deana Heath (Department of History) - History of violence (such as state violence, gendered violence, torture and trauma).
  • Dr Ed Horowicz - Health/medical law and ethics. 
  • Dr Alice Ievins - Criminology, punishment, imprisonment.
  • Dr Katie Johnston - International human rights, constitutional/administrative/public law, international law. 
  • Dr James Organ - Access to justice, social and economic rights, constitutional/administrative/public law, EU law. 
  • Dr Laura Radcliffe (Management School) - Gender diversity, stereotypes and ideal worker norms in organisations.
  • Dr Ellen Reeves - The effectiveness of intervention/protection orders as a response to domestic abuse; the role of police in responding to domestic abuse; the criminalisation of coercive control; the misidentification of women victim-survivors as predominant aggressors; domestic violence disclosure schemes; and LGBTQA+ victim-survivors’ experiences of using the law for domestic abuse.
  • Dr Jennifer Sigafoos - Access to justice, charity law, social and economic rights. 
  • Dr Emma Spruce (Department of Politics) - Feminist and queer theory. 
  • Professor Helen Stalford - Access to justice, Brexit, children's rights, family law, immigration law, international human rights, trafficking and modern slavery. 
  • Dr Sacha Waxman - Criminal law and justice, health/medical law and ethics. 
  • Lucy Yeatman - Family law.
  • Dr Shuai Wei - Gender, law, and crime with an international and comparative perspective. 

Postgraduate researchers

  • Aoife Bowdler - Aoife's working thesis title is 'The Political Economy of Collective Security'.
  • Matilda Clough - Tilly's working thesis title is 'An Investigation into the Charitable Status of Independent Schools'. 
  • Chisomo Kaufulu - Chisomo's working thesis title is 'Fertility regulation and the right of women with disabilities to self-determination and autonomy in Malawi: a critical reflection in the application of the African human rights framework'. 
  • Emily Kearon-Warrilow (Department of History) 
  • Lara Maclachlan - Social inclusion, gender, legal consciousness, access to justice.  
  • Adele Moore - Adele's working thesis title is 'Seizing the Means of Contraception: The Politics and Practices of Contraception in a Pandemic'. 
  • Zanele Nyoni-Wood - Zanele's working thesis title is 'Same-sex Marriage in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Barriers to the Realisation of Marriage Equality'. 
  • Kate Sandford - Kate's working thesis title is 'Young Childfree Women and Surgical Sterilisation: The Forgotten Women in UK Healthcare'. 

Honorary members

 

If you're interested in joining the Feminist Legal Research and Action Network (FRAN), please contact Dr Sarah Singh (Director). 

 

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