Ezgi Tascioglu

Biography

Ezgi Taşcıoğlu joined Keele Law School as a Lecturer in January 2019. Her primary research interests lie in socio-legal studies, intellectual disability, mental and legal capacity, and the regulation of sex, gender and sexuality. She holds a BA in Cultural Studies from Sabancı University (Turkey), an MA from the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Basque Country), and a PhD in Law and Society from the University of Milan (Italy). Following her PhD, she was a Research Fellow at Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham (UK).

Research and scholarship

Ezgi’s research ranges across the fields of socio-legal studies, law in everyday life, and social and cognitive justice, and takes an interdisciplinary approach to socio-legal research at the intersections of law, social sciences and the humanities. She is the author of a number of peer-reviewed articles and chapters in edited collections, and the co-editor of Supporting Legal Capacity in Socio-Legal Context (2022, Hart).

Between 2022 and 2026, Ezgi was Principal Investigator of “In Search of Legal Capacity: Law, Guardianship, and Supported Decision-Making in Intellectually Disabled People’s Lives in Turkey”, funded by an ESRC New Investigator Grant. The project examined the right to legal capacity of intellectually disabled people in Turkey, bringing together the perspectives of intellectually disabled people, families, lawyers and medical professionals. To see the outputs of the project, please visit the project website.

Ezgi is a member of ESRC Peer Review College and of the Editorial Board Collective of Feminist Review.

PhD Supervision

Ezgi is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in the areas of socio-legal studies, gender and sexuality, and intellectual disability and legal capacity, as well as those with a regional interest in Turkey, the Middle East and the global South more broadly.

Ongoing:

• Andy MacKay-Astley, ESRC NWSSDTP CASE +3 Studentship (Lead supervisor with Dr Laura Pritchard-Jones)
• Debbie Foss, ESRC NWSSDTP +2 Studentship (Co-supervisor with Dr Laura Pritchard-Jones)
• Julie Bertolini (Co-supervisor with Dr Abigail Pearson)
• Rhiannon Frost (Co-supervisor with Dr Abigail Pearson)

Teaching

At undergraduate level, Ezgi is Module Leader for Disability Law and the Dissertation (Double) modules.

She also teaches across the School’s postgraduate taught programmes, including the MA in Law and Society, MA in Safeguarding Adults: Law, Policy and Practice, and LLM in International Law.

Ezgi was the Programme Director of the LLM in Law and Society between 2019–2024.

She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Collaborations and grants awards

• 2022-26: Principal Investigator, ESRC New Investigator Grant ES/W003945/1 (£233,340)
• 2014: Juan Celaya Grant on Globalisation and Law, awarded by the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law
• 2013: Residence Grant, awarded by the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law
• 2011-2014: Renato Treves Doctoral Grant, awarded by the University of Milan