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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 6d

Dr Tamsin Paige giving a fascinating talk at MLS on 'Fines Do Not Make for Fine Law'.

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Dr Anna Nelson @annanelson95.bsky.social · 16d

People often express concerns that birth doulas are entirely unregulated, but the reality is a little more nuanced - as @bevclough.bsky.social & I unpack here: birthdoulas.mmu.ac.uk/2025/09/22/b...

Birth Doulas and Regulation: A Socio-Legal Approach - Birth doulas

One of the claims which is often made by those expressing their concerns about birth doulas is that doulas are ‘unregulated’. The purpose of this post is not to provide […]

birthdoulas.mmu.ac.uk

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Bev Clough @bevclough.bsky.social · Sep 2

Sharing our surveys for birth doulas and for healthcare professionals (both broadly defined) for a project with @annanelson95.bsky.social on birth doulas and medical law. Please share widely!

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Dr Anna Nelson @annanelson95.bsky.social · Sep 2

Surveys are now live - link are in the thread!

Bev Clough @bevclough.bsky.social · Sep 2

Sharing our surveys for birth doulas and for healthcare professionals (both broadly defined) for a project with @annanelson95.bsky.social on birth doulas and medical law. Please share widely!

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Bev Clough @bevclough.bsky.social · Sep 2

Sharing our surveys for birth doulas and for healthcare professionals (both broadly defined) for a project with @annanelson95.bsky.social on birth doulas and medical law. Please share widely!

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Bev Clough @bevclough.bsky.social · Jul 16

Great to see our research bulletin for Spring/Summer 📚

Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · Jul 16

⚠️Manchester Law School's Research Bulletin for Spring/Summer 2025 is finally out! Click this link to see all of the great work done by colleagues: drive.google.com/file/d/1PeOD...

#lawschool #researchlaw #bulletin #mmu #ManMetProud

MLS Research Bulletin Spring_Summer 2025.pdf

drive.google.com

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · Jul 10

🚨 New Book Alert! 🌍📘
Ash Murphy’s Climate Change at the UN Security Council: Protecting Pacific and Caribbean Island States is out now with Routledge (2025).

A vital read on climate, security & small island states. Available here: www.routledge.com/Climate-Chan...

Climate Change at the UN Security Council: Protecting Pacific and Caribbean Island States

This book examines the operation of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to better understand the motivating factors that underpin its activation of Article 39. Arguing that climate change shoul...

www.routledge.com

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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · Jul 8

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨🚨🚨

The United Nations is calling for the UK Government to stop the Universal Credit (PIP) Bill because it will 'deepen the signs of regression' in disabled people's human rights.

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Bev Clough @bevclough.bsky.social · Jul 8

Always a highlight of the year! So lovely to spend time writing with colleagues

Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · Jul 8

Day two of the Business and Law Faculty Writing Retreat.
Huge thanks to Prof Gary Warnaby for organising such an inspiring event! We are also grateful to Prof Dominic Medway for his insightful talk on sustaining a research career through enthusiasm and collaboration.

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · Jun 10

🚨New from Dr. Zainab Naqvi (MMU Law): 'Colourism and Law in the UK: A Story of Colonial Indifference?'
Published in Frontiers in Sociology (June 2025)
Available here: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
This powerful piece argues that UK law remains blind to colourism.
#colourism #race&law

Frontiers | Colourism and law in the UK: a story of colonial indifference?

In this paper I explore legal and judicial responses toward skin tone and colourism in the UK. I argue that despite incidents involving colourism coming befo...

www.frontiersin.org

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Dr Anna Nelson @annanelson95.bsky.social · Jun 5

Despite my best efforts, we are back here… if anyone is looking for a socio-legal / medical law researcher do let me know!

Particularly interested in all things #childbirth, #obstetricviolence #reproductivetechnology and #consent but absolutely not fussy at this stage 📚

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Bev Clough @bevclough.bsky.social · May 15

This was such a wonderful session! Blown away by the brilliant research my colleagues are doing, and the engaged and reflective questions from the audience ❤️

Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · May 15

This morning's panel on 'Reimagining rights and identities: Critical perspectives on social justice' at the Faculty of Business and Law Research Conference 2025

Dr Jen Neller @jenneller.bsky.social
Dr Caroline Redhead
Dr Hasret Cetinkaya
Sam Morgan, PhD Candidate @sammorgn97.bsky.social

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · May 15

1) You can read @senthorun.bsky.social book open access here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...

The book argues:

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · May 15

This morning's panel on 'Reimagining rights and identities: Critical perspectives on social justice' at the Faculty of Business and Law Research Conference 2025

Dr Jen Neller @jenneller.bsky.social
Dr Caroline Redhead
Dr Hasret Cetinkaya
Sam Morgan, PhD Candidate @sammorgn97.bsky.social

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Bev Clough @bevclough.bsky.social · May 14

Margot Brazier was the Editor of Medical Law Review from 2004-2011. In 2012, a special issue was published to recognise her extraordinary contribution to the field. Following Margot's untimely death in March, this is available free-to-view until the end of May academic.oup.com/medlaw/issue...

Volume 20 Issue 1 | Medical Law Review | Oxford Academic

Publishes articles of international interest providing thorough analyses and comment on topical issues fundamental to the expanding area of medical law. In addition, commentary sections provide in dep...

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · May 13

Huge congratulations to @senthorun.bsky.social on the publication of his new book! We’re so proud and can’t wait to celebrate the launch at Manchester Law School!
📗 #academicbook #LGBTrights #law&emotions

Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · May 13

My book is published! It’s a critical take on how emotions shape conflicts about LGBT rights and repair in equality law, gender recognition, bans on conversion practices, and sex education in schools. You can download it free via @edinburghup.bsky.social: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...

Author wearing a rainbow dyed t-shirt takes a photo of them showing off their book, The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law.

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Dr Alex Murray @ahemurray.bsky.social · May 7

I am doing a survey to gather people’s experiences of receiving Personal Independence Payment (PIP) or Adult Disability Payment
(ADP) to highlight the impact that disability benefits can have on the wellbeing of disabled people.

forms.office.com/e/7Kda0UzP6G

The image shows a research flyer with information about the study. The survey with all the details can be found via this link https://forms.office.com/e/7Kda0UzP6G

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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · May 2

SURVEY: Women’s Budget Group (a feminist economics think tank) and Sisters of Frida (a Disabled women and non-binary people’s collective)

The impact of the Government’s proposed reforms to disability benefits announced in March 2025.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

SURVEY: The impact of the Government’s proposed reforms to disability benefits announced in March 2025

A Women’s Budget Group and Sisters of Frida research collaboration This project The Women’s Budget Group (a feminist economics think tank) and Sisters of Frida (a Disabled women and non-binary people’...

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Bev Clough @bevclough.bsky.social · May 1

Oh thanks for this, Lucy!

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Dr Anna Nelson @annanelson95.bsky.social · May 1

This @britishacademy.bsky.social / @leverhulme.ac.uk project on #doulas officially starts today: looking forward to getting past the ethics approval stage and on to the fun bits!

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Dr Anna Nelson @annanelson95.bsky.social · Mar 13

Delighted that @bevclough.bsky.social & I have received a BA/Leverhulme Small Grant for our project ‘Birth Doulas as a Liminal Actor With/in Medical Law: Identifying Regulatory & Conceptual Tensions’. We’ve been plotting this project for over 2 years & are so excited to bring it to life!

A white hand with pink painted nails holds up a notebook against a dark purple wall, opened at the front page. The handwritten text on this page reads: ‘BA/Lev Small Grant. Doulas as Liminal Actors. 2025-2026.

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Bev Clough @bevclough.bsky.social · Apr 15

New paper out in symposium on the UNCRPD: Next Generation Thinking.

My paper 'Temporal Disruptions in the UNCRPD: An Untimely Future for Legal Capacity' brings a critical disability lens to the temporalities and ableist foundations of legal frameworks academic.oup.com/hrlr/article...

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Natalija Atas @atasnatalija.bsky.social · Apr 16

🚨Some very exciting news! A new event alert!

📌 Against All Odds: Class and Resistance in the Arts
📆 Tuesday 27th of May
⏰6-8pm
📍Unity Theatre, Liverpool

Join us at this a dynamic and thought-provoking event!

For more information and to register, please visit 👇

www.pran.org.uk/events/again...

Against All Odds: Class and Resistance in the Arts — Poverty Research & Advocacy Network

For the second year running, PRAN is thrilled to partner with Writing on the Wall for WoWFEST, Liverpool’s annual literary festival. Join us for a powerful panel on class, creativity, and resistance i...

www.pran.org.uk

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Bev Clough @bevclough.bsky.social · Apr 15

New paper out in symposium on the UNCRPD: Next Generation Thinking.

My paper 'Temporal Disruptions in the UNCRPD: An Untimely Future for Legal Capacity' brings a critical disability lens to the temporalities and ableist foundations of legal frameworks academic.oup.com/hrlr/article...

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Dr Danielle Watson @danielledoeslaw.bsky.social · Apr 15

My article is finally out in the Human Rights Law Review (part of a symposium on Next-Generation Thinking on the CRPD) where I argue that the CRPD is a queer document!

'The CRPD is Here and queer! A lesson in queering human rights law' academic.oup.com/hrlr/article...

The CRPD is Here and queer! A lesson in queering human rights law

Abstract. This article argues that the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is a queer document. The Convention tackles the issues

academic.oup.com

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Bev Clough @bevclough.bsky.social · Apr 15

Ah fab it would be great if you can make it! Are you presenting?

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