SJHR
Social justice and human rights
This cluster brings together academic colleagues in the law school interested and doing work on social justice and human rights broadly.
General areas of research are in socio-legal research approaches, medicolegal research and ethics, public law, disability law, gender equality, sexuality and queer approaches to law, immigration law and asylum, prison reform and resistance, human rights, courts and judges, African law and society, and media and the law.
Current research/grant projects
- 'Everyday Plastics', funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.
- Courts and Judges as Agents of Social Change (2023–26), funded by the British Academy.
- This project is convened by Dr Martha Gayoye as Principal Investigator.
- CLOCK (Community Legal Outreach Collaboration Keele) – conceptualised and convened by Dr Jane Krishnadas, who is also its director and the Director of Legal Outreach in the School.
Cluster members
Dr Martha Gayoye – Cluster Convenor. Areas of research interest are socio-legal approaches to law and public law, gendered constitutionalism, gender and judging, and courts and judges.
Dr Jane Krishnadas – Areas of work: social justice, CLOCK Convenor and Director.
Dr Fabienne Emmerich – Areas of work and interest are in prison reform and resistance.
Dr Ezgi Taşcıoğlu – Areas of work are socio-legal studies, law in everyday life, and social and cognitive justice.
- Past Projects:
- 2022–25: 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.
Dr Abigail Pearson – Areas of work and interest are in disability law. Dr Abigail Pearson is a Trustee of the Research Institute of Disabled Consumers (RiDC).
Current Project: 'Everyday Plastics', funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.
Dr Diane Blenkiron – Areas of interest are in intersectionality theory and the legal profession. Current work is on the experiences of Muslim women in the legal profession.
Dr Laura Higson-Bliss – Areas of research interest and work are in social media and law.
Dr Forough Ramezankhah – Areas of work are in socio-legal research on immigration and asylum law.
Professor Yossi Nehushtan – Areas of research are legal theory, political theory, public law, human rights law, and law and religion.
Professor Anthony Wrigley – Areas of work are end-of-life ethics, genetics and reproductive ethics, bioethics, research ethics involving vulnerable and terminally ill participants, and metaphysics. In 2022, Professor Anthony Wrigley was appointed as a member of the NHS Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Advisory Group.
