The Centre for Criminal Justice Research and Partnerships is a dynamic collaboration of academics from a broad range of disciplines who can respond in a timely and innovative way to the challenges faced by a diverse range of external partners.
\r\nThere are five key project groups:
\r\nEach group is led by a senior academic in the University with a broader team consisting of academics from a variety of disciplines; the Mental Health and Criminal Justice strand, for example, consists of academics from policing, nursing, community health, art design and fashion, law, management, psychology, criminology and social work.
\r\nThe Centre draws on the knowledge of academics across University of Central Lancashire and its partner agencies to deliver evidence-based research, evaluation and advice in all areas of Criminal Justice. Partners include prisons, probation, policing and the third sector. The Centre's strength lies in the multi-disciplinary and collaborative approach to criminal justice.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.764390500000005,"longitude":-2.7086535133159906},{"infrastructure_id":"6","name":"Institute for Conflict, Transition, and Peace Research (ICTPR)","town":"Aberdeen","postcode":"AB24 3FX","tags":["law","political-science","human-rights","gender-sexuality-studies"],"addr1":"University Of Aberdeen","addr2":"Regent Walk","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Institute for Conflict, Transition, and Peace Research at the University of Aberdeen brings together a diverse and interdisciplinary group of scholars and students to develop in-depth theoretical understandings of the concepts and practices of transitions in terms of conflict and peace.
\nBy applying these insights to both the emergence and resolution of conflict, as well as the promotion or prevention of sustainable peace, the Institute provides a unique setting for learning and innovative research-based teaching for undergraduate and post-graduate students alike.
\nThe Institute’s research themes include:
\nThe Institute’s regions of expertise include:
\nThe Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society, and Rule of Law studies life in the world of political concepts. The interdisciplinary Centre examines how political principles function within and beyond the contemporary West. Concepts such as citizenship, civil society, and the rule of law are used as often by policymakers as by scholars. Core to the Centre’s mission is informing academic and public debate on how they are used, and to what effect.
\r\nThe Centre brings together an extraordinary range of researchers, including PhD students, to study these and other political principles, including democracy, human rights and pluralism. The Centre considers how they have been fostered historically, debated philosophically and in politics, fought over by social movements, codified in law, transmitted through education and the media, and lived out in everyday life.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":["Bursaries","Funded fellowships"],"relationships":[],"latitude":57.16452475,"longitude":-2.1018363546621197},{"infrastructure_id":"15","name":"Centre for Commercial Law, Aberdeen","town":"Aberdeen","postcode":"AB24 3FX","tags":["law","policy","development-studies","technology","ethics","media-studies"],"addr1":"University Of Aberdeen","addr2":"Regent Walk","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Research Centre for Commercial Law, launched in 2018, brings together researchers across the broad groups of:
\r\nThe Centre aims to promote multidisciplinary, sustainable and inclusive research and scholarship locally, nationally and internationally across its research pillars. The Centre’s work frequently crosses fields, and this is particularly so regarding Dispute Resolution which is an established research area in its own right but also forms a key part of the others.
\r\nThe Centre serves as a dynamic hub for law academics, legal practitioners, those working in related professions, industry representatives, activists and policymakers, to engage with and support each other’s research interests, ideas, and projects. The Centre, with its staff, PGR and associate members, provides opportunities for synergy and rich engagement, promotes impact generation and knowledge exchange, and contributes to the development of commercial law and practice locally, nationally and internationally through world-leading publications, collaborative research projects, high-profile research activities and events, and public policy and stakeholder engagement. The Centre has strong links with the School’s active PhD research community. Many colleagues within the Centre for Commercial Law are also affiliated with other Research Centres at the University of Aberdeen and beyond, within the UK and internationally, thereby further broadening horizons for collaboration.
\r\nThe Centre works as a coherent whole across its four groups, promoting
\r\nTo achieve these aims, the Centre
\r\nThe vision of the Centre is guided by Aberdeen 2040 and its overall research strategy is reviewed and updated in accordance with School’s research strategy.
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\nThe constitutional landscape of the UK has changed considerably in recent decades as a result of numerous reforms, including devolution to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the introduction of the Human Rights Act 1998. Because of Brexit, this process of constitutional change is set to continue long into the future. The Centre therefore aims to encourage research on and discussion of UK Constitutional Law and the new challenges it may face as the UK prepares to withdraw from the EU.
\nIn an increasingly globalised world, the migration of constitutional ideas is a major factor in the development of constitutional law. Therefore, the Centre also intends to strengthen the comparative approach to constitutional law and encourage international collaboration. In addition, as the Centre brings together expertise in constitutional and public international law, its focus also extends to the internationalisation of constitutional law.
\nThe Centre’s interest on matters of public international law is ambitious. The challenges and topics of research range from matters of international peace and security (such as the regulation of arms trading, the law on the use of force and the role of international and regional organisations in international relations) to that of the governance of foreign direct investment and transboundary water resources. The Centre focuses on the application of international law to the developing world when looking at the law making and implementation aspects of the law and collaborate on multidisciplinary and inter-disciplinary research projects on such aspects of international law.
\nThe Centre promotes:
\nTo achieve these aims, the Centre:
\nAreas of expertise include:
\nThe Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law fosters research excellence in the fields of energy and environmental law, natural resources, investments and sustainable development. The Centre serves as a forum to create a community of collaborative work, research dissemination, research-led teaching, and public policy engagement and knowledge transfer.
\nThe Centre’s research interest lies in regulatory aspects of the oil and gas industry, with a particular focus on new issues, including sustainable development at fostering investments in the energy transition, climate change, technology, natural resources, as well as different methods for adjudicating disputes in the field, and resource management.
\nThe Centre comprises academics, doctoral researchers working on relevant topics in the School of Law, and associate members. It also provides a broad range of study options for professionals who are either already working in the sector, or who are interested in moving into the area, including lawyers, policy makers, academics and government officials. It regularly holds academic events and fosters external collaborations.
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\nThe Centre focuses on the following core areas of security and governance, with particular emphasis on developing challenges and transitional processes:
\nOther areas of interest by this Centre's experts include Climate Change and Environmental Threats; Cyber-Security; Food Security.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":57.16452475,"longitude":-2.1018363546621197},{"infrastructure_id":"22","name":"Scottish Centre for Himalayan Research","town":"Aberdeen","postcode":"AB24 3FX","tags":["history","law","health","political-science","development-studies","environmental-humanities","anthropology-ethnography","religious-studies"],"addr1":"University Of Aberdeen","addr2":"Regent Walk","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Scottish Centre for Himalayan Research unites staff from across Scotland in a collaborative and interdisciplinary area studies centre at the University of Aberdeen.
\nThe Centre includes research staff, research fellows, PhD students and visiting scholars from across the Himalayas.
\nThe Centre's research covers a very wide range of topics. Research projects underway right now include: Tibetan divination, Tantric medicine, 17th century Scots in the Himalayas, plant collecting expeditions in the Solu Khumbu region, and spirit categories in Afghanistan.
\nOther research topics include:
\nFounded on long-standing tradition of excellence in teaching and researching private international law, the Centre for Private International Law of the University of Aberdeen’s Law School was established in 2012. It seeks to promote the development of private international law and to provide platforms for the discussion of current issues on the subject. The Centre advances this mission through high-quality research and publications, teaching across all levels of instruction, and through a busy calendar of events.
\nThe Centre prides itself on a well-established level of involvement in private international law reform. Its past and present members have helped to shape several international legislative initiatives, as well as judicial innovations across the range of EU private international law competence.
\nThe Centre is a research-intensive grouping of private international law specialists drawn from a range of international jurisdictions. Its work contributes to the development of the traditional core of private international law, to the attempts to Europeanise or Globalise aspects of the subject and also to specific contemporary challenges ranging from international surrogacy arrangements to the potential for blockchain technology to contribute to the context of cross-border dispute resolution.
\nThe Centre has an extensive network of Associate Members, and welcomes visiting scholars to exchange ideas on research and teaching and extend further opportunities for collaboration. The Centre also invites guest speakers, whether prominent practitioners or academics, to its events and also to the Law School seminar series.
\nThe objectives of the Centre are:
\nThe York St John University Prison Project provides a continuous weekly programme of arts activity that develops participant's: creativity, self-worth, interpersonal thinking skills, empathy awareness, group problem solving, and rehearsal for life role-playing.
\nIts programmes build on prisoner's existing strengths and potential and encourage positive engagement and creativity, in order to promote meaningful personal change and to support restorative justice. The project enables collaborative arts making to happen outside of the mainstream traditional theatre or educational learning space and looks at life beyond university and the prison walls.
\nIt aims to encourage a positive impact on the culture of the two prisons through its pro-social learning and group work approach, complimenting other reducing reoffending and resettlement activities within the prison.
\nCo-designed with prison staff, the project offers choices of creative arts delivery and presents opportunities for co-evaluation and co-research in order to evidence the impact of the project and the value of the arts in the criminal justice system.
\nThe project encourages undergraduate and postgraduate students to engage with social justice. Members facilitate on and off campus learning and offer an authentic real-life opportunity to students while studying.
\nThe university opens its doors to: women who have been released on temporary licence (ROTL) from the open prison, engaging in resettlement arts, and women post release, are signposted to access staff expertise, student collaboration, campus performance opportunities, technical equipment and library resources.
\nThe partnership project supports emerging student practitioners and artists in skills development within this area of practice, in realising the benefit and value of the arts for social change, gender responsive and trauma informed ways of working and the importance of a university's role in shaping quality arts within the criminal justice system.
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\nEcological justice is the recognition that social justice and environmental issues are tightly intertwined – that the most vulnerable in society suffer the first and worst consequences of climate change and environmental degradation.
\nTherefore, the solutions too need to be intertwined, learning from multiple disciplines, cultures and forms of knowledge.
\nHosted within the Institute for Social Justice, the Group is an energetic, supportive and diverse group of staff and postgraduate researchers, representing all five of the University’s academic schools and several professional services departments.
\nFormed in summer 2021, the group’s initial research emphases are:
\nHosted by the Institute for Social Justice at York St John, this cross-school group is a forum to discuss research and practice from a range of disciplines that locates itself within the Venn diagram of participatory enquiry, action research and democratic methodologies.
\r\nIt is an opportunity to share practice and develop new collaborative research projects that seek to work with people in order to produce impactful research and innovative practice.
\r\nThe research group meets roughly twice a semester, mixing online Teams meetings with in person events.
\r\nThe group welcomes members and prospective doctoral researchers interested in participatory and democratic methodologies and action research.
\r\nThe group’s interests are primarily defined by these methodologies approaches, rather than research theme or disciplinary context. The group aims to be a supportive environment in which to share methodological questions, works in progress, developing ideas and more.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.9653269,"longitude":-1.0806968459195583},{"infrastructure_id":"61","name":"Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies","town":"Birmingham","postcode":"B15 2TT","tags":["art","history","law","cultural-studies","museum-studies","political-science","language","literature","religious-studies","archaeology","diplomacy","classics"],"addr1":"University Of Birmingham","addr2":"Edgbaston","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies is the only research centre in the UK which brings all these subjects together within a single unit. The Centre is located in the department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology, School of History and Cultures, College of Arts and Law at the University of Birmingham.
\r\nThe Centre's staff cover between them a wide range of fields and expertise in respect of both the history and the languages of the East Mediterranean region, including: late Roman and early, middle and late Byzantine history, culture and archaeology, Islamic history of the medieval and modern periods; Turkish and central Asian history from the early medieval to modern period; Balkan, particularly Greek, history up to the present day; international relations, particularly between the Great Powers and Balkan and Near Eastern States from the mid-nineteenth century; and modern Greek literature and culture.
\r\nA common focus to the work of the Centre is provided by a fortnightly General Seminar, which attracts leading international scholars. The Centre also acts as host on a three-year rotating basis to the International Symposium on Byzantine Studies, and regularly hosts the annual Research Colloquium of the Society for Modern Greek Studies.
\r\nThe Centre also edits the bi-annual journal Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, the monograph series Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Monographs, and a series of English translations of Modern Greek writers.
\r\nThe mission of the Centre is:
\r\nThe Centre for Death and Society provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to share their expertise in death, dying and bereavement.
\nThe Centre for Death and Society was established in September 2005 and provides an environment for those interested in death studies to learn from each other and share their research and experience.
\nAt a time of growing interest in and concern for issues of mortality, members aim to be at the heart of the national and international debate and networks – achieved through media engagement and a monthly e-newsletter. Seminars and an annual conference engage researchers, practitioners and the public in exploring contemporary issues. They host the editorial office of the inter-disciplinary journal Mortality.
\nEven in the most affluent society, risks around death remain. A feared, drawn-out dying through stroke, cancer or dementia becomes more likely the more affluent a society becomes. Environmental concerns now render traditional ways to dispose of the dead problematic. Loss and bereavement threaten personal, social and economic wellbeing. Poverty and disadvantage create added risks, including the risk of dying much sooner. All these risks draw heavily on both public and private resources.
\nYet research in both rich and poor countries also shows how practices around death can unite groups, develop communities and mobilise social change. For example, caring for a dying person at home requires yet can also build local social networks; collective provision for a decent funeral established the principle of social welfare in Victorian Britain and is doing so in a number of developing countries today; the anger of grief can motivate social movements for political and policy change.
\nThe Centre for Death and Society undertakes academic research as well as research commissioned by the government, charities and businesses with concern for end-of-life issues.
\nThe Centre also gives independent non-partisan policy advice to government and its departments. They promote co-operation between organisations that deal with end-of-life issues and act as a communication gateway to others working in this field.
\nThe Centre’s areas of expertise are:
\nThe Centre’s membership includes staff from across the University of Bath as well as associates, both internal and external. This enables them to pull together experts from a huge range of subject areas: academics, practitioners, service users and administrators.
\nThe Centre also has an extensive network of associates with expertise in complementary disciplines and professions as well as a community of doctoral students.
\nThe Centre works across many of the research themes of the Department of Social and Policy Sciences and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and a number of their projects also involve themes linked to other faculties.
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\nThe Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance was established in 2012 and has benefited from a large investment in 2016. It brings together more than twenty researchers including staff, PhD and visiting researchers based at Strathclyde Law School and welcomes experts from other disciplines.
\nThe Centre aims to identify and shape emerging areas of legal research in environmental governance with a strong development focus, including through innovative teaching geared towards students' global employability and through collaborations with global practitioners.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":55.8618812,"longitude":-4.241956565778082},{"infrastructure_id":"73","name":"Modern Slavery and Human Rights: Policy and Evidence Centre","town":null,"postcode":null,"tags":["art","law","policy","human-rights"],"addr1":null,"addr2":null,"country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre was created by the investment of public funding to enhance understanding of modern slavery and transform the effectiveness of law and policies designed to address it. With high quality research it commissions at its heart, the Centre brings together academics, policymakers, businesses, civil society, survivors and the public on a scale not seen before in the UK to collaborate on solving this global challenge.
\r\nThe Centre is a consortium of six academic organisations led by the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law and is funded by the Art and Humanities Research Council on behalf of UK Research and Innovation.
\r\nThe Centre's mission is to enhance understanding of modern slavery across the globe and transform the effectiveness of law and policies designed to overcome it.
\r\nThe Centre commissions impartial research to provide innovative, independent, impartial and authoritative insight and analysis on modern slavery. The Centre aims to drive real policy change and have a transformational impact on the understanding of modern slavery and the responses to it.
\r\nThe Centre brings together academics, policymakers, businesses, civil society and the public on a scale not seen before in the UK to solve this global challenge. The Centre builds an inclusive network of networks to facilitate new collaborations capable of generating innovative solutions to modern slavery.
\r\nThe Centre wants a world where people are protected from modern slavery by effective, evidence-based policies. Modern slavery is an issue that affects millions worldwide, yet it is not widely understood or well reflected by existing laws and policies.
\r\nThere is a gap that exists between the high-quality academic research and the world of policymaking and law-making, as well as frontline work with people directly affected by modern slavery.
\r\nThe Centre wants to bring together academics, policymakers, businesses, civil society and people affected by modern slavery and connect research and policymaking to transform the response to modern slavery.
\r\nThe Centre bases its research on four pillars: victim and survivor support and recovery; prevention; product supply chains; and legal enforcement measures.
\r\nTo stay up to date with the centre's ongoing activities and funding opportunities, make sure to join their newsletter: https://www.modernslaverypec.org/signup
\r\nStephen A. Schwarzman Centre
\r\nOxford
\r\nOX2 6AH
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\nActivities include an annual British and Irish Law Education Technology Association conference, organised by a member law school; funding seminars and research projects; allowing members to apply for research funding; providing information on technology in legal developments; supporting relevant academic journals such as The European Journal of Law and Technology and International Review of Law Computers and Technology; making representations on technology and law to policy consultations through the production of written reports and responses; and liaising with other academic and professional organisations.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":54.7023545,"longitude":-3.2765753},{"infrastructure_id":"81","name":"Institute for Social Justice","town":"York","postcode":"YO31 7EX","tags":["law","health","environmental-humanities","social-justice","disability-studies-keyword","education","women-s-studies-keyword","mental-health-keyword","racial-justice-keyword","ecological-justice-keyword"],"addr1":"York St. John University","addr2":"Lord Mayors Walk","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Institute for Social Justice was launched in 2020 to underpin York St John University’s mission ‘to stand up for social justice’.
\r\nIt does so through developing collaborative research and practice that seeks to identify, expose and address some of the inequalities, injustices and challenges facing society today.
\r\nAt its core the Institute seeks to work with people, with partners and with communities in a manner that sees participation, implementation and change as vital parts of its mission.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":["Bursaries","Funded fellowships"],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.9653269,"longitude":-1.0806968459195583},{"infrastructure_id":"88","name":"Living Lab","town":"York","postcode":"YO31 7EX","tags":["history","law","cultural-studies","sustainability"],"addr1":"York St. John University","addr2":"Lord Mayors Walk","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Living Lab is an interdisciplinary network in which university students and staff collaborate with local organisations and policymakers to investigate and tackle real-life local problems.
\nIt is known from previous research at York St John that university students want to get actively involved in ecological and social justice issues, on campus and in the local area.
\nThey want to find out how their particular discipline can contribute to more just and sustainable futures, starting with the university itself. Complex sustainability issues require interdisciplinary solutions, and collaboration between academic departments and professional services like Estates and Catering, so the Living Lab draws on the diverse expertise of a range of university staff.
\nHumanities students bring their understanding of cultural change; science students their ability to monitor problems and innovate solutions; arts students their creative channels for engaging the public with complex challenges. Shared events bring students together to learn from each other and from experts and campaigners, and the 'live brief' of designing solutions helps them develop skills as researchers, advocates and activists.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.9653269,"longitude":-1.0806968459195583},{"infrastructure_id":"90","name":"UCLan Peace and Justice Studies Network","town":"Preston","postcode":"PR1 2HE","tags":["law","criminology","media-studies","science","social-science-keyword"],"addr1":"University Of Central Lancashire","addr2":null,"country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Peace and Justice Studies Network aims to provide a forum for individuals and groups, both within and externally to engage with the study of promoting peace and justice, in all its manifestations. It will engage with ‘hate crime’, and other criminal, discriminatory, or adverse behaviour, but its aim is the promotion of peace and justice.
\nThe Network has been made possible by Higher Education Innovation Funding within the University of Central Lancashire’s School of Law and Social Science. In part, the funding is to enable and promote knowledge transfer between the University and communities.
\nThe aim is to create an environment that attracts and engages with excellent theoretical and ‘real life’ applications of research and practice from academics and practitioners. Recent collaborations, for example, have seen research staff evaluate Restorative Justice and ‘hate crime’ projects within the North West.\nThe Network aims to be interdisciplinary. It offers not only evaluation of existing programmes to promote peace and justice, but also research into potential new programmes. It engages, for example, with the factors leading to anti-social but also discriminatory behaviour in many contexts, and their wide effects: The Network is linked to the University of Central Lancashire's Criminal Justice Partnership, and the researchers within this.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.764390500000005,"longitude":-2.7086535133159906},{"infrastructure_id":"91","name":"Honour Abuse Research Matrix","town":null,"postcode":null,"tags":["law","health","cultural-studies","language","policy","science","psychology"],"addr1":null,"addr2":null,"country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Honour Abuse Research Matrix is a vibrant, multi-disciplinary research network focused on so-called ‘honour’-based abuse, violence and killing, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, and other under-researched and often misunderstood forms of domestic abuse.
\r\nThe purpose of the Honour Abuse Research Matrix is to convene researchers, experts by experience, charities, policymakers, and practitioners from various disciplines and across sectors. The aim is to develop novel and practical ways to understand, explain and respond to family violence and domestic homicide, so that it includes ‘honour’ abuse, forced marriage and female genital mutilation.
\r\nThe Honour Abuse Research Matrix is a dynamic, international knowledge-exchange agency that facilitates meaningful conversations, knowledge acquisition and peer engagement, fostering original research, research-based policy innovation, training, and awareness programmes that put the voice of the survivor at the centre.
\r\nThe Honour Abuse Research Matrix is working with its worldwide membership to build a society that ensures equality and freedom from abuse for all.
\r\nThe Honour Abuse Research Matrix is based at:
\r\nonEvidence Ltd
Cotton Court,
Preston
PR1 3BY
The Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s National Academy was established in 1783 for “the advancement of learning and useful knowledge”.
\nThe Royal Society of Edinburgh's contemporary mission remains the same – the deployment of knowledge for public good.
\nAs Scotland’s National Academy, it uses the combined knowledge of its 1,800-strong Fellowship to provide independent expert advice to policymakers and inspire the next generation of innovative thinkers.
\nThis knowledge contributes to the social and economic wellbeing of Scotland, its people and the nation’s wider contribution to the global community.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":55.9534211,"longitude":-3.196539},{"infrastructure_id":"104","name":"British Academy (BA)","town":"London","postcode":"SW1Y 5AH","tags":["art","history","law","political-science","language","literature","music-sound","linguistics","philosophy","anthropology-ethnography","religious-studies","media-studies","archaeology","classics"],"addr1":"11 Carlton House Terrace","addr2":null,"country":"United Kingdom","description":"The British Academy is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. It mobilises these disciplines to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
\r\nFrom artificial intelligence to climate change, from building prosperity to improving well-being – today’s complex challenges can only be resolved by deepening insight into people, cultures and societies. The British Academy invests in researchers and projects across the UK and overseas, engage the public with fresh thinking and debates, and bring together scholars, government, business and civil society to influence policy for the benefit of everyone.
\r\nThe British Academy distributes funding to support UK and international academic research, career development and wider engagement across the the humanities and social sciences.
\r\nThe British Academy promotes ideas and achievements in the humanities and social sciences through events, talks, videos, podcasts and its annual Summer Showcase.
\r\nThe British Academy provides knowledge, expert insight and space to explore the context, meaning and practicalities of the challenges facing society today.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5065686,"longitude":-0.1311946},{"infrastructure_id":"118","name":"UCL Public Policy","town":"London","postcode":"WC1E 6BT","tags":["law","health","political-science","policy","engineering","social-science-keyword","humanities-keyword","knowledge-mobilisation-keyword"],"addr1":"University College London","addr2":"Gower Street","country":"United Kingdom","description":"UCL Public Policy works across the institution to build engagement and strengthen links between UCL researchers and public policy professionals. Its work creates opportunities for UCL’s world class research to inform public policy.
\r\nUCL boasts many centres of expertise which are highly engaged in the public policy sphere, including transport, health, energy, environment, planning, political science, law and engineering. An essential part of UCL’s ethos is to use its expertise to address the pressing global challenges that humanity faces today and will face in the future.
\r\nAcademic-policy engagement takes a range of forms, from providing research or expertise in person or through written briefings to ensuring that policy is underpinned by good evidence.
\r\nUCL Public Policy is an initiative of the Office of the Vice-Provost (Research, Innovation and Global Engagement). The team aims to maximise the way in which UCL improves public policy, by enabling researchers to inform public policy with evidence by:
\r\nTo stay up to date with UCL Public Policy’s latest, make sure to follow their LinkedIn page.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":["Bursaries"],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.52420305,"longitude":-0.13300072425929543},{"infrastructure_id":"121","name":"Hughes Hall Centre for Climate Engagement","town":"Cambridge","postcode":"CB1 2EW","tags":["law","economics","policy","psychology","finance-keyword","climate-change","governance-keyword"],"addr1":"Hughes Hall","addr2":"Wollaston Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Hughes Hall Centre for Climate Engagement was established to increase awareness of climate change mitigation and adaptation on the boards of private companies and the need for urgent action.
\r\nThe effects of climate change are already reaching key thresholds that will adversely impact upon sustainable development. The need for education and action for climate mitigation, adaptation and finance has never been more urgent; individual citizens, corporations, non-governmental organisations and governments all have a role to play.
\r\nThe Centre’s mission is to encourage academic excellence in climate law, governance and organisational change, and to translate and transfer this knowledge to corporate boards to accelerate the race to net zero emissions and climate resilience.
\r\nThis situation is especially acute within the boardrooms of listed companies where, with few exceptions, board members are not yet engaged sufficiently with the climate agenda. Many boards have not given it the priority that it deserves, and some have not discussed it at all. Although the UK’s share of worldwide emissions is small and reducing, UK business has a global reach through its supply chains and provision of capital and can have a significant impact in tackling climate change.
\r\nA general focus of the Centre is on how levers are best used to get the boards of corporate organisations to accelerate action. The emphasis is on the role of law and regulation, of reporting requirements for corporations, and of how the financial sector including banks and investors can exert influence on corporations. There is a general need for a better understanding of the proper balance between the use of “sticks” and “carrots” as levers; and of techniques of persuasion using insights of marketing and psychology.
\r\nThe research element of the Centre encourages scholarship in law, regulation and governance but also in fields such as psychology, marketing, economics, finance and management. Legal studies could include aspects of company law, such as the fiduciary duties of directors and investors; finance and investment law; consumer protection law; competition law; the role of insurers; regulations that govern the financial reports of companies; and other incentive structures for corporate boards. The Centre also enables PhD and post-doctoral researchers interested in climate change to advance their academic objectives by engaging with the Centre.
\r\nThe Centre seeks to act as an independent and trusted intermediary between Cambridge academia, the corporate and financial communities and government, drawing on a wide range of disciplines alongside climate science and law. The Centre works across the University but in particular with the University’s Cambridge Zero.
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\nWith its multidisciplinary research profile, the centre has the ambition to offer a critical contribution to the research agenda on global challenges and the industrial strategy.
\nResearch and knowledge exchange activities focus on some of the major societal, economic and organisational challenges of today through close collaboration with companies, policy makers, non-governmental organisations, practitioners and the wider public across the globe. A core motivation underpinning the centre’s research is to provide insights into the competing interest of globalisation.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.755223,"longitude":-1.2301040395972822},{"infrastructure_id":"164","name":"Policing and Public Protection Research Institute (IPPPRI)","town":"Cambridge","postcode":"CB1 1PT","tags":["law","criminology","health","human-rights","performance-studies"],"addr1":"Anglia Ruskin University","addr2":"East Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"At IPPPRI (formerly PIER), our vision is improving policing and public protection through partnership in applied research.
\r\nUnderpinning our vision is a set of values that inspire us in all we do:
\r\nInnovation: We will implement new methodologies, research approaches and dissemination mechanisms to address the policing challenges of today and the future.
\r\nCollaboration: To deliver the best outcomes, we will collaborate internally and externally and across different disciplines and different sectors.
\r\nSupport: We will nurture our excellent researchers and make sure they have the time, space and resources to develop their careers.
\r\nPassion: We want to make a difference and will enjoy our work and celebrate our achievements. We will pursue knowledge and understanding and foster creativity.
\r\nImpact: We will be outcome focused and committed to the translation of knowledge into practice and policy.
\r\nIntegrity: We will deal ethically, honestly, and consistently with all those we engage with and will maintain strict standards of scientific and professional rigour.
\r\nExcellence: We will deliver world leading and excellent outputs with international impact.
\r\nOur 2023-2027 Strategic Plan outlines how we will work towards our vision, with focused objectives across our three areas of research:
\r\nYou can stay up to date with IPPPRI's latest on their LinkedIn account.
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\r\nThese research clusters align closely with ARU's priority research areas of: (a) Sustainable futures, (b) Safe and inclusive communities, and (c) Health, performance and wellbeing. Our researchers have engaged in a range of projects promoting the important values of access to justice and inclusion, including in the areas of human rights and vulnerable communities, family law, environmental law, digital law, and the regulation of sports.
\r\nMany of the research projects undertaken by our researchers have strongly interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological design.
\r\nYou can find out more about CAJI members, affiliated doctoral students, and some of our projects by visiting the webpage: https://www.aru.ac.uk/business-and-law/research/centres/centre-for-access-to-justice-and-inclusion
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\nToday, it has become an urgent vision, as the institutions on which it depends to give it life are becoming more systematically undermined, requiring renewed effort to reach wider audiences about the meaning and fundamental importance of the Rule of Law.
\nThe Centre carries out independent, rigorous and high-quality research and analysis of the most significant Rule of Law issues of the day, both in the UK and internationally.
\nIt makes strategic, impartial contributions to policymaking, law making or decision-making in order to defend and advance the Rule of Law, making practical recommendations and proposals based on its research. It holds events such as lectures, conferences, roundtables, seminars, webinars, to stimulate, inform and shape debate about the Rule of Law as a practical concept amongst law makers, policy makers and decision-makers.
\nThe Centre publishes the outcomes of its research and analysis in a variety of forms, such as reports, books, academic journals, blogs, media, social media. It builds Rule of Law capacity in a variety of ways, e.g. by providing training, guidance, expert technical assistance, and cultivating Rule of Law leadership. It contributes to the building and sustaining of a Rule of Law community, both in the UK and internationally.
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\nIts impact team provides an interface between the Rights Lab research programmes and civil society, business and government, and their INSPIRE project elevates survivor-informed research as a key part of knowledge production to help end slavery.
\nThe goal of ending slavery is ambitious. But in the Rights Lab people believe that by working together as part of the global antislavery community, there can be achieved evidence-based strategies for ending slavery by 2030.
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\nThe institute welcomes contact from individuals wishing to undertake study at PhD level in the fields of criminal justice, social care or social policy. It also welcomes contact from agencies and groups embarking on new projects who wish to scope existing knowledge in advance of funding applications or who wish to work in partnership and explore how Institute staff may help with funding applications and/or project evaluations.
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\nThe Institute actively partners with governments, non-governmental organisations, communities, businesses and other organisations to inform policy, practice and public participation at a local, national and international level.
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\nThe Centre was created in order to bring together key academics with established profiles in urban research and analysis at the University of York. Instigated at a time of major social upheaval and crisis that is already impacting upon urban centres and populations globally, The Centre aligns critical urban research with advanced teaching on cities.
\nThe Centre for Urban Research seeks to be a critical observatory, tracking important changes and developments in urban and regional economies, societies and environments in order to identify and examine the issues likely to become key challenges in the near future. A program of frequent events provide forums for diverse communities, policy-makers and academic colleagues to exchange ideas and present developments cutting-edge urban research.
\nThe Centre aims to provide a means whereby academic research and analysis can be applied to promote incisive thinking and action around urban social problems.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.9453903,"longitude":-1.0314592943104675},{"infrastructure_id":"199","name":"Morrell Centre for Legal and Political Philosophy","town":"York","postcode":"YO10 5ZF","tags":["law","cultural-studies","philosophy"],"addr1":"Centre For Applied Human Rights R C S S","addr2":"Yorkshire House","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The University of York has been home to the Morrell Centre for Legal and Political Philosophy, which is generously funded by the C and J B Morrell Trust, since 1980.
\nThe Centre currently organises and funds lectures on Toleration, a day at the Festival of Ideas, and occasional conferences and workshops on issues related to toleration. The Centre organises conferences, an Annual Address, and hosts visiting fellows.
\nThe Centre also has a long history of research into the concept of toleration both historically and in contemporary thought. This has resulted in publications both by members of the Centre and by its alumni.
\nOver the next few years, the intention is to develop the Centre's research on toleration and also to develop the Centre as a source of information and education on issues relating to toleration as they occur in 'real time' (through Twitter, Facebook, The Centre's Blog, and press releases).
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\r\nThe Centre is both genuinely interdisciplinary and committed to practice. The work of the Centre is international in breadth and draws on the University of York’s rich tradition of rigorous and engaged scholarship in the fields of development, post-war reconstruction, public policy, public health, disability rights, gender and women's rights, environmental issues, and refugee law. The Centre has particularly strong links to the Department of Politics and York Law School.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.9453903,"longitude":-1.0314592943104675},{"infrastructure_id":"206","name":"Centre for Housing Policy (CHP)","town":"York","postcode":"YO10 5DD","tags":["law","health","cultural-studies","museum-studies","policy","environmental-humanities"],"addr1":"University Of York","addr2":"Heslington","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Housing Policy is an interdisciplinary research group focused on increasing equality and quality of life in the built environment.
\nEstablished in 1990, the Centre’s research priorities link to University of York research themes that include justice and equality, culture and communication, environmental sustainability and resilience, health and wellbeing and risk, evidence and decision making. Research in housing and environment is one of the main research themes for the School for Business and Society.
\nThe Centre’s research and PhD supervision is characterised by partnership working across the University and beyond; impact-driven research to produces positive social change; an ethos focused on delivering better homes, better communities and better lives; co-productive methods, empowering people through research; and a European and international outlook.
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\nThe primary purpose of the Centre for Migration and Forced Displacement is to create an institutional platform to support and promote Aston academics’ work on migration and forced displacement, in order to foster high-quality research, impact and income generation. Thus, the centre is an agenda-setting research centre, building links with stakeholders in the West Midlands, but also leading national and international discussions on migration research, with a specific focus on critical approaches, ethics, representation and innovative research methods. The focus of the Centre is bringing together cultural and policy impact, through use of alternative forms of presentation of research results (such as exhibitions), briefing reports, evidence submitted to the government enquiries, and development of training programmes for various stakeholders. The Centre is a platform promoting innovative and high-impact research on migration, and as such, is at the forefront of debates rethinking to engage with migration research, and how to support scholars working in these areas. It does therefore also have, as one of its main purposes, the support of PGR students and early career fellows working on migration research.
\nThe Centre’s work is organised around four research themes which reflect the interests and work of its members, and which are also major research areas in the study of migration and forced displacement more broadly. The themes cut across disciplines (politics, international relations, sociology, law and business and management) and across different geographies, applying to local, as well as global concerns:
\nA-GamE (Aston Games in Education) was launched in November 2018 to share best practice in the use of games, experiments and simulations in teaching.
\r\nThe Centre runs regular seminars with internal and external speakers showcasing gamification adoption, design and research.
\r\nAcross the College of Business and Social Sciences games are used in a wide range of disciplines including:
\r\nExamples of games, experiments and simulations used in the Centre's teaching include:
\r\nThe mission of the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics is to improve the delivery of justice through the analysis of language. The Institute studies forensic texts and contexts producing academically rigorous, high impact research using insights and methods from diverse areas of linguistics to improve the delivery of justice.
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\r\n
With stakeholders at the forefront of combating these crimes, the Global South Dialogue on Economic Crimes Network is focused on facilitating practical, innovative, and research-oriented responses to address complex economic crime challenges in the Global South. This initiative comes at a time when illicit financial activities are undercutting the economic growth of Global South countries, thereby hindering their projected development.
The Network’s stakeholder involvement is geared toward engineering and facilitating in-country knowledge and expertise while endeavouring to provide a platform for Global South academics and stakeholders to share their research. Members offer support to early-career researchers in disseminating their research outputs.
In line with its mission, the Global South Dialogue on Economic Crimes Network will project the expertise of leading stakeholders and members who are extensively involved in combating economic and financial crimes across the Global South. The Network believes this would facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue and projects that would improve the Global South’s ability to respond to illicit financial crimes effectively.
The Global South Dialogue on Economic Crimes Network uses the following channels in disseminating research outputs: conferences, webinars, blog posts, academic publications, interviews, and media content. It also shares news about recent economic and financial crime, events, and opportunities.
\r\n
The Network’s events have brought together experts from the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, Transparency International, and leading academics to address economic and financial crime issues.
The Studies in Law and Technology Research Group is an interdisciplinary research group of academics and researchers promoting and setting scholarly agendas at the intersection between law and emerging technologies.
\r\nAs a result of the emergence of new technologies, the legal community encounters several challenging questions. The Studies in Law and Technology Research Group provides an intellectual space where academics and stakeholders can discuss these questions.
\r\nBy combining practice, pedagogy and research, the Studies in Law and Technology Research Group identifies new challenges in the interrelationship between law and technology and develops transferable skills training and curriculum for the next generation.
\r\nThe Studies in Law and Technology Research Group is based at Aston Law School, Aston University, Birmingham, UK. Aston Law School has an established record of excellence in legal education and prepares students for diverse careers in law and other industries.
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\r\nThe Centre for Language and Law’s initial projects use multi-method analyses of written legal material. The projects are establishing a linguistic analysis of legal texts in the context of digital justice, looking specifically at intersectionality. To contextualise this work, the analysis also considers the impact and integrity of evidential statements, identifying features of effective testimony and how this affects ‘justice’. The Centre for Language and Law is also working on term definition research, including a cross-section of areas of law particularly prone to creating social injustices and inequalities such as safeguarding and child protection proceedings, internet regulation and debt collection.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.48619045,"longitude":-1.888468930261664},{"infrastructure_id":"233","name":"Centre for Spoken Interaction in Legal Contexts","town":"Birmingham","postcode":"B4 7ET","tags":["law","health","language","linguistics"],"addr1":"Aston University","addr2":"The Aston Triangle","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The primary research focus of the Centre for Spoken Interaction in Legal Contexts is on investigative interviews in police and other contexts (such as internal or civil investigations), but the Centre's remit encompasses other contexts where spoken interaction is central, such as courtroom interaction, emergency calls, and first response encounters.
\nA key tenet of the Centre's approach is to work closely with practitioners and external organisations, in order to produce genuinely useful research informed by, and grounded in, professional practice.
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\r\nTheir own interests range widely: they encompass Britain, Europe, and the wider world, and they embrace the many different ways in which the discipline of history is now studied. A shared commitment to exploring the early modern world in all its diversity, complexity, and interconnectedness complements the vigour and enthusiasm with which they individually pursue specific problems.
\r\nTheir spirited sense of early modern history finds expression in a dedicated culture of teaching and research: a range of challenging undergraduate courses, a rich and exciting master’s programme, an eclectic and imaginative menu of research seminars, and several collaborative research projects. These activities reflect the ethos of the group. Each of the theme’s members specialises in a particular field, and also contributes to the collective enterprise of early modern history. They warmly welcome postgraduate and undergraduate students in this shared endeavour.
\r\nThe interests of Cambridge’s early modernists range from the mid fifteenth century to the end of the eighteenth century. Many of them focus on one country or region: some concentrate on Britain and Ireland, others on mainland Europe (especially Austro-Hungary, Germany, and Italy), others on the wider world (especially the Atlantic, North America, and the Ottoman Empire). Nevertheless their approaches transect geographical and territorial boundaries. Scholars work on the histories of belief, education, and religion; commerce, culture, and materiality; economy, finance, and society; empire, ethnicity, and migration; gender, poverty, and sexuality; ideas, law, and politics; nature, scholarship, and science; and even of history itself.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.1887792,"longitude":0.12106820544108066},{"infrastructure_id":"261","name":"Centre for Business Research","town":"Cambridge","postcode":"CB2 1AG","tags":["art","history","law","political-science","economics","science","engineering","geography"],"addr1":"Cambridge Judge Business School","addr2":"Old Addenbrookes Site","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Business Research, established in 1994, conducts interdisciplinary, evidence-based research on the determinants of sustainable economic development and growth.
\nThe Centre’s research has pioneered new methods of data collection and analysis of enterprise and innovation, novel approaches to macroeconomic modelling, and original datasets tracking legal and regulatory changes and their economic impact over time. Current projects are examining inequality in cities, the effects of the structural adjustment policies of the International Monetary Fund, macroeconomic projections for the UK economy, social rights and poverty alleviation, law and finance in the BRICS, the role of universities in knowledge exchange, business development in the Cambridge region, and the relationship between contract forms and innovation in construction and infrastructure projects.
\nThe Centre’s areas of specialisation include the construction and analysis of large and complex datasets on small and medium-sized enterprises and innovation, longitudinal analysis of regulatory change affecting business firms, and fieldwork-based studies of corporate governance and organisational practice.
\nThe Centre has made a significant contribution to the development of research methods and theory in the analysis of law and finance. The Centre’s research is disseminated to and used by managers, policy-makers and regulators in numerous countries.
\nIts research draws on expertise in University of Cambridge departments ranging from the Faculties of Economics, Law, and Human, Social and Political Science, the Departments of Geography, Land Economy, Politics and International Studies and Engineering, to Cambridge Judge Business School.
\nThe impact of the Centre’s research on policy and practice has been independently assessed and verified (see for example Economic and Social Research Council’s Impact Case Study News).
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.200073849999995,"longitude":0.12178756264574948},{"infrastructure_id":"262","name":"Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law, Cambridge","town":"Cambridge","postcode":"CB3 9DZ","tags":["law"],"addr1":"University Of Cambridge","addr2":"Faculty Of Law","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law promotes Faculty research on topics that fall within its broad remit. The Centre was formally opened by Lord Mustill at the conclusion of its first conference on 'Shareholder's Rights and Remedies' (held on the 12 April 1997). Since then the Centre has organised numerous major conferences, seminars and other events.
\r\nThe Centre has links with similar institutions in universities around the world, and through the Faculty's Herbert Smith Freehills Visitor Programme, it is able from time to time to invite leading international corporate and securities lawyers to Cambridge.
\r\nThe Centre is a member of Cambridge Finance which coordinates the programmes of research and study in all areas of finance across the University of Cambridge.
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\nThe Centre will run a variety of events including debates and lectures, but the mainstay of its activities will be seminars by visiting academics. Members are interested to hear from researchers working in the field of criminal justice (broadly conceived) who will be passing through Cambridge or have research funds to travel to Cambridge.
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\r\nIt runs a fortnightly seminar series during each term of the academic year, and an annual lecture in Michaelmas term.
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\r\nAcross its twenty-five years of activities, the Centre has provided a platform for research, discussion and dissemination of scholarly work within the broad field of European Legal Studies. These encompass: public and private law analyses of European legal developments, including the impact of European law in national law; comparative European law; the law of the European Union; the instruments of the Council of Europe; and other regional and global legal regimes that interact with European legal sources. The breadth of its field of enquiry is matched by the depth of analysis provided by its members, affiliates, associates, research students and visitors.
\r\nThe mission of the Centre remains unchanged even after the ‘Brexit’ referendum decision. The demand for expertise and knowledge about the many facets of European law is, if anything, heightened following the referendum.
\r\nThe Centre members are active in lending their knowledge and understanding of the consequences of the referendum decision not just to policymakers but also to the media and the public, as well as to the broader academic community.
\r\nThe changing preoccupations of the field of European Legal Studies continues to be reflected in the Centre’s flagship journal: the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies published by Cambridge University Press. Published continually online and annually in print it is an important contribution to European legal scholarship.
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\nThe Centre offers a unique combination of academic, policy and practice-oriented insight into family law issues around the globe.
\nThe work of the membership covers the full range of family law issues, from international child abduction and surrogacy, to marital agreements and financial remedies, marriage, divorce and other adult partnerships, and issues arising in later life and following death.
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\nThe Centre, which replaced the Intellectual Property Unit, brings together a group of legal academics already recognised for their historical and inter-disciplinary, as well as doctrinal, research.
\nDrawing on the resources of Cambridge University, the Centre is ideally positioned to carry out and promote well-informed interdisciplinary work. These aims are furthered through a variety of means: through rigorous academic research, the presence of high-quality visiting researchers, PhD studentships, research fellowships, visitors and conferences.
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\r\nThe Centre aims to provide a framework and forum for critical and constructive thought about the function, content and working of law in the international community, as well as to develop an appreciation of international law as an applied body of rules and principles. A number of individuals associated with the Centre are actively involved in the practical development and application of international law.
\r\nThe Centre is not involved in the formal teaching or supervision of students at the University as this is the responsibility of the Faculty of Law. However, the Centre Director, Deputy Directors and some of the other Fellows of the Centre, in their role as members of the Faculty of Law, are actively involved in teaching and research supervision.
\r\nThe Centre provides regular lectures and events on topical and pressing issues of international law by leading academics and practitioners as well as conducting a number of its own research projects and providing a base for others.
\r\nThe reception of visitors, particularly from overseas, is a key aspect of the Centre’s activity. Visiting academics and PhD candidates are welcomed for periods varying from eight weeks to a year.
\r\nThe Centre's objectives are:
\r\nThe Cambridge Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences advances research and teaching on legal and ethical challenges at the forefront of medicine and the life sciences.
\nRapid and prolific scientific advances, alongside changing attitudes towards health, medical care, family structures and related issues, pose some of the most difficult research questions of today. These include questions about the adequacy of patents to incentivise medical innovation, the nature of informed consent, the allocation of liability for medical wrongs, the scope of privacy rights in electronic health records, the rationing of medical care, the regulation of emerging technologies and the implications of personalised medicine.
\nIn addressing these and many other challenges, the Centre looks beyond the boundaries of medical law as traditionally conceived. Its members specialise not only in medical law and bioethics, but also in areas such as competition law, family law, human rights, public law, information law, international law and intellectual property. In addition, many have training in disciplines other than law (including medicine, economics, history and philosophy) and relevant professional experience (including legal practice, private consultancy and civil service).
\nThe centre’s location in the midst of Europe’s leading biotechnological cluster presents unparalleled opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborations, policy workshops, and conferences aimed at academia, industry, and government. One of the centre’s core aims is to bridge science and law—to complement the world-class biomedical research being conducted at the School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge Science Park, and Cambridge University Health Partners, ensuring that the medical and life sciences develop in responsible and effective ways.
\nAlongside research, the Centre organises undergraduate and graduate courses that allow Cambridge students to study and conduct their own research in medical and life sciences law.
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\nIt is composed of faculty members and research students from the Faculties of Law, Philosophy, History, and Social and Political Sciences. Its principal purpose is to promote research, discussion, and exchanges on various topics within legal and political philosophy. In furtherance of that purpose, the Forum will be undertaking a number of projects, including a major conference every 18-24 months and a public lecture series.
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\nToday a significant number of Faculty members continue to have research interests in these fields and in the area of regulation and regulatory systems. Current work in the Faculty covers a wide range of public law jurisdictions, in addition to the United Kingdom, including the European Union, the common law jurisdictions of the Commonwealth and the United States and extends from constitutional and administrative law and theory (including institutions, civil liberties, human rights, and judicial control) to the regulation of business and utilities.
\nThe main aim of the Centre is to promote research in the area of public law, and to develop into a research centre of national and international reputation. Financial resources permitting, the Centre intends to do this by providing:
\nThese aims are reflected in the events held by the Centre since its formation.
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\r\nThe Group serves to bring together people from within Cambridge and farther afield from different disciplines, including Law, Criminology, POLIS, Sociology, Psychology, Psychiatry, PDN, Biology, Economics, History and Social Anthropology. The Socio-Legal Group provides a focus for those in the University and beyond who are engaged in socio-legal research and supports collaborative, inter-disciplinary work through its various activities, in particular its workshop and book projects.
\r\nThe Group is best known outside Cambridge for its successful series of book projects, which have covered a wide range of issues. These projects are enhanced by contributors and other discussants coming together in a residential seminar across several days to discuss work in progress, providing participants with the benefit of insights from each others’ research.
\r\nThe Group also holds occasional seminars and lectures by visiting speakers on various substantive and methodological topics. Recent events have covered a wide range of issues from family breakdown and co-parenting, criminalisation of HIV transmission, use of forensic science in criminal proceedings, asylum-seekers, health and reproduction, and employment issues. Seminars are open to anyone - from any discipline - interested in socio-legal research. Some of these events are recorded, and available online.
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\nThe Centre has four main activities:
\nCambridge Public Health is an interdisciplinary centre at the University of Cambridge.
\nBased in the School of Technology, the Centre is an umbrella organisation for more than 600 researchers and professionals working on public health issues. Members strive to address public health challenges and improve health and wellbeing in societies.
\nThe Centre has evolved from, and brings together, elements of the earlier Cambridge Institute of Public Health and all of the PublicHealth AT Cambridge Strategic Research Network. Through these earlier entities members have built long-standing relationships with key stakeholders, including the National Health Service and government departments, who continue to be actively involved as partners and through the Centre’s advisory bodies. As the Centre grows and evolves, it aims to further develop its partnerships worldwide to help tackle the pressing public health issues of today.
\nThe Centre activities are supported by the University of Cambridge, charities, research councils and business.
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\r\nThe Centre brings together researchers and expertise from across the academic departments and industry to drive research into the analysis, understanding and use of data science and Artificial Intelligence.
\r\nThe Centre:
\r\nThe Centre for Language and Communication Research has a strong tradition of building theoretical knowledge and applying it to authentic contexts.
\r\nThe Centre’s research favours ‘real world’ challenges and concerns, working collaboratively with beneficiaries to match research to its potential applications. Research beneficiaries have included the legal profession, healthcare, and ethnic minority and socially disadvantaged communities. As such, much of the Centre’s research leads to significant impact on society.
\r\nCardiff University
John Percival Building
Colum Drive
Cardiff
CF10 3EU
The Central and East European Research Centre promote and support research into Central and Eastern Europe at Cardiff University.
\r\nThe Centre engages with the wider world, linking Cardiff-based research on Central and Eastern Europe, including Russia and Ukraine, with public impact and policy.
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Launched in 2005, the Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK has grown to become the leading academic institution for research and teaching about Islam and Muslims in Britain.
\nCardiff has one of the oldest and most diverse Muslim populations in the UK. Some of the earliest mosques were founded in the city in the early 20th century. Today, there are over 45,000 Muslims in Wales, nearly half of whom live in Cardiff itself (2011 UK Census). This makes Cardiff an ideal location for learning more about the history and contemporary situation of Muslim communities in Britain.
\nBased in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion, the Centre has a strong and positive relationship with the local Muslim community. Local Muslims form part of the Centre’s Advisory Group. The Centre aims to be an accessible, vibrant, and inclusive hub of learning about Islam in Cardiff and South Wales, for Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
\nThe Centre has a strong track record of undertaking interdisciplinary research on a wide range of subjects connected to the lives of Muslims in Britain.
\nIn recent years the Centre's research has included work on:
\nThe Centre specialises in qualitative social scientific/anthropological methodology, and emphasise active collaboration with research participants so that the issues of concern to British Muslim communities themselves are addressed. This is evident through doctoral research projects, as well as externally funded work sponsored by academic research councils such as AHRC/ESRC and charities such as BGCI.
\nSince its launch in 2005, the Islam-UK Centre has attracted over £4.6M in research funding from academic research councils, charities, and private donors. The Jameel Scholarship Programme supports MA, PhD and postdoctoral researchers working on a range of topics.
\nWhile many of the Centre’s researchers have been based in the UK, there have also been visiting international scholars from Italy, the USA, and Poland. The Islam-UK Centre is at the cutting edge of research in the emerging field of ‘British Muslim Studies’, and now has an international reputation as the leading centre of excellence for the study of Islam and Muslims in Britain.
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\r\nThe Centre has an extensive research archive of interviews with family members and healthcare professionals and we do research into how decision-making, care and support can be improved. The Centre also offers signposting for families with relatives with prolonged disorders of consciousness and we have translated the research findings into multi-media online resources to support families and healthcare practitioners, and worked with legal experts to improve how the law and the courts deal with end-of-life decision-making.
\r\nThe Centre is independent of any campaigning or political organisations and committed to robust research evidence both in the work that it carries on and in making recommendations for changes to policy and practice.
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\nThe Centre holds regular workshops, seminars and feedback groups throughout the academic year. In addition, it has a broad research programme, with members actively exploring a range of topics around the relations between crime, security and justice.
\nKey areas of research interest include:
\nThe Centre has established links at the local, national and international level.\nEarly projects are exploring the development of local victim surveys as well as research on sexual health, the nighttime economy, and issues around migration, immigration and asylum.
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\nThe Centre brings together members of the School of Law and Politics with expertise in both international and domestic law and provides a forum for the dissemination of research. The Centre members are involved in research-led teaching on the School’s undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
\nThe Aims of the Centre for Human Rights and Public law are:
\nThe Centre for Health and Social Care Law exists to promote research and its dissemination in the field of Health and Social Care Law.
\nThe aims of the centre are:
\nThe Centre also supports the Children’s Social Care Law in Wales website.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.4816546,"longitude":-3.1791934},{"infrastructure_id":"315","name":"Centre for Law and Religion","town":"Cardiff","postcode":"CF10 3AT","tags":["history","law","music-sound","religious-studies","sociology"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Law and Religion brings together a community of scholars and practitioners to undertake interdisciplinary research into religious and state law in a variety of theoretical contexts.
\nThe Centre researches the theory and practice of state law, religious law, and their historical, theological, social, ecumenical and comparative contexts. It works closely with the Ecclesiastical Law Society, and members include academics, legal practitioners, and members of the clergy.
\nThe lives of religious organisations and their members are regulated by a complex system of rules – not only of religious organisations themselves, but by the laws of state.
\nIn the medieval period, the law of the western Christian Church was studied in major European universities, who awarded degrees in Canon Law to their graduates. The English Reformation of the sixteenth century put an end to such study in England and Wales. Nevertheless, religion and canon law have been fundamental to the development of the common law and the civil law traditions, such as in the fields of marriage and family law, criminal law, trusts, contract, and public law.
\nThere has been an increasing interest in the law relating to religion and religious organisations in the UK. There is more legislation affecting religion, such as the protection of religious freedom under the Human Rights Act 1998, and more cases involving religious groups appearing in court. The Centre for Law and Religion contributes to the growing literature on law and religion.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.4816546,"longitude":-3.1791934},{"infrastructure_id":"316","name":"Centre of Law and Society","town":"Cardiff","postcode":"CF10 3AT","tags":["law","medicine","comparative-studies","anthropology-ethnography","ethics","sociology"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre of Law and Society encourages and provides an institutional framework for the support of socio-legal, sociological, theoretical and interdisciplinary research and education.
\nClosely linked to the Journal of Law and Society and its activities, it aims to enable and raise the profile of high quality socio-legal scholarship and education at Cardiff University.
\nThe Centre promotes and encourages innovative research of international quality focusing on socio-legal, empirical and theoretical analysis of legal institutions and processes and the impact of social, political, economic and scientific influences on law, legal professions and legal activities. It will specifically promote sociological and socio-legal methodology including empirical research methods in legal science.
\nThe Centre maintains strong connections with other schools and faculties within the Cardiff University, with other universities and similar research centres in the United Kingdom and internationally.
\nThe Centre's mission is to build on existing research and cooperate with other Centres within the School in particular to address themes in the fields of:
\nThe Centre for Political Theory, based in Cardiff University’s School of Law and Politics, undertakes vibrant and interdisciplinary research spanning a wide range of canonical and cutting edge theory.
\nIts Political Theory Seminars feature works in progress and new research by international and UK-based speakers.
\nThe Political Ecologies Occasional Seminar Series focuses on decolonial, indigenous, black, queer, and interdisciplinary perspectives on political ecology and related topics of the climate, biodiversity, and environmental crises.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.4816546,"longitude":-3.1791934},{"infrastructure_id":"319","name":"Wales Governance Centre","town":"Cardiff","postcode":"CF10 3AX","tags":["law","political-science","policy"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Wales Governance Centre was established in 1999 in response to the creation of the National Assembly for Wales and its related devolved institutions to fully engage with the new system of government.
\nThe Centre is a research unit sponsored and supported by the School of Law and Politics. Over the past ten years it had a number of events and contributed to research on devolved Wales.
\nWith the support and commitment of the University and the vision of its director, the Centre has grown to conduct a range of research, events and projects in political, constitutional and policy themes in Wales.
\nThe Centre supports directly registered PhD students, offer postgraduate courses available for full-time or part-time study, and regularly host visiting students and scholars from UK, European and international institutions.
\nA partnership agreement between the Wales Governance Centre and the Welsh Parliament sees the Centre hold regular public events and lectures at the Pierhead Building in Cardiff Bay. This partnership aims to boost public engagement and participation in active democracy, and also includes the provision of regular training seminars for Members of the Senedd and the institution’s staff.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.4816546,"longitude":-3.1791934},{"infrastructure_id":"321","name":"Centre for Environmental Justice","town":"Cardiff","postcode":"CF10 3AT","tags":["law","political-science","policy","environmental-humanities"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Environmental Law and Policy sits within the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University. The aim of the group is to bring together staff and students that share a concern in environmental degradation and the social conditions of its making. In doing so, the Centre provides a multidisciplinary, multi-stakeholder forum for sharing thoughts and actions to reveal and challenge the social, political and legal relations degrading the planet.
\nThe website, blog and publication page provide an overview of the Centre’s ethos, its members, its events and the Undergraduate and Postgraduate teaching available for students within the School of Law and Politics.
\nThe Centre aims to bring together and carry forward the insights from academic practice to where they can be most socially useful, and as such, welcomes fostering and developing partnerships with all environmental stakeholders, from the Welsh government to the local and international non-governmental organisations community.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.4816546,"longitude":-3.1791934},{"infrastructure_id":"322","name":"Centre for Conflict, Security and Societies","town":"Cardiff","postcode":"CF10 3AT","tags":["history","law","cultural-studies","museum-studies","political-science"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Conflict, Security and Societies promotes the transdisciplinary study of the challenges that international security and conflict pose for global, regional and local communities.
\nThe Centre is dedicated to a pluralist understanding of security and conflict that takes account of the different social, cultural, political, economic, and legal implications of security policies, practices, narratives and effects.
\nThe Centre carries on research into:
\nThe Security, Crime and Intelligence Innovation Institute was established in 2015 (previously recognised as the Crime and Security Research Institute).
\nThe Institute’s expertise spans criminology, computer science, strategic communications and behavioural science. The Institute is especially interested in enabling collaboration across academic disciplines and thought communities. A lot of its work is challenge-led – designing and delivering scientific innovations by engaging with real-world problems. This allows its research to generate impact, while retaining academic prestige.
\nKey examples of this include:
\nThe Institute has a track record of creative, independent and rigorous analysis that provides evidence, insight and understanding. The Institute has repeatedly delivered global impacts across the policy, practice and academic communities.
\nIts research strategy focuses on engaging with the new security challenges and opportunities associated with modern, data driven society. The Institute has three research themes.
\nIn ‘Artificial intelligence for defence’ the Institute explores how new artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are altering the offensive and defensive postures and operating concepts of the military. This research is led by the Institute's Distributed Analytics and Information Science group.
\nIn ‘Disinformation, strategic communications and open sources’, the Institute analyses how information and influence operations are impacting public understanding and political decision-making to shape security, prosperity and democracy. The Disinformation, Strategic Communications and Open Sources Research Group leads this research.
\nFinally, Cardiff University has an international reputation for its research on aspects of the criminal justice system. In ‘‘Crime, violence and policing’ the Violence Research Group is working collaboratively with partners on projects covering innovations in police practice and the association between alcohol and violence.
\nThe Institute has a significant track record of collaborating closely with partners from across industry, government, civil society and academia. The close partnerships of the Institute ensure the work researchers carry out remains current and is of strategic importance to policy and practice.
\nThe Institute is proud to be trusted by governments, police forces and major academic funding bodies around the world to provide research and capability building.
\nIts long-term collaborative relationships include:
\nThe Universities' Police Science Institute, which is part of Cardiff University’s Crime and Security Research Institute, works in partnership with South Wales Police to develop the research evidence base for the art, craft and science of policing.
\nCombining academic rigour with a strong focus upon policy and practice, it has achieved international renown for its innovations in designing, developing and assessing new solutions to policing problems. The Institute's work ranges from 'problem-finding' to 'problem-solving' across the full spectrum of policing.
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\nThese include:
\nThe Group’s key aim is to support the diversity and quality of gender and sexuality research which critically explores how gender and sexuality matters in research, policy, practice, pedagogy and activism. Central to this aim is to contribute to innovations in theoretical, methodological and policy/engagement across the field of gender and sexuality studies.
\nMembership includes undergraduate students, research associates, masters/doctoral students, post-doctoral fellows, academic staff and invited policy-makers and practitioners.
\nCurrent members have carried out research and engagement projects across Wales, the UK and internationally on topics such as:
\nThe Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise and Science is an internationally known, university-wide, research centre specialising in the nature of expertise in science and society.
\nThe Centre draws together researchers from a range of specialisms within science and technology studies including:
\nAt the heart of the Centre is a lively seminar series that meets every other week during term time and attracts local and international speakers. The Centre also has longstanding links with other Schools in the university including Law and Politics; Geography and Planning; English, Communication and Philosophy; Journalism, Media, and Cultural Studies; Physics; and Computer Science. In addition, the Centre maintains links with science, technology and society scholars across Europe, Latin America, and the United States.
\nThe main focus of the Centre's work is developing Studies in Expertise and Experience. This involves case studies of pure and applied sciences; projects investigating public understanding of, and participation in, science; and wider concerns about the role of science in democratic societies. The last focus has been given particular urgency by the rise of populism and a current concern is how to maintain citizens’ interest in the value of science and expertise. One direction is to work out if and how science can serve as one of the checks and balances within pluralist democracies. Many of these topics are addressed at the regular SEESHOP conferences the Centre organises to debate and develop this research agenda.
\nCurrent and recent research projects based in Cardiff have addressed questions about the nature, use, development, and transfer of expertise through topics including:
\nThe Centre welcomes applications from graduate students or others who would be interested in researching in any of these areas or new or related topics.
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\nWhile primarily sociological and social science oriented, the Group’s members also include academic staff, post-doctoral research fellows, doctoral researchers and master’s students from other Academic Schools such as Architecture; English, Communication and Philosophy; Geography and Planning; Healthcare; Journalism; Law and Politics.
\nThe Group’s aims are:
\nAt the Centre for African Studies (CAS) members seek to contribute to collective efforts to centre African voices and theorising in understanding Africa and the contemporary world. The University of Edinburgh has an important and long historical connection with Africa, and CAS is a world leading centre for the study of Africa.
\r\nFounded in 1962, CAS provides interdisciplinary undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and supervision on Africa and international development. Members host a vibrant research community, committed to critical and cutting-edge theoretical and empirical approaches, placing African experiences at the heart of interdisciplinary scholarship.
\r\nCAS is the largest centre of African studies in Europe and regularly appear at the top of UK good university guides. The Centre delivers a range of high-quality masters programmes on campus and online. It runs prestigious PhD programmes that attract students from across the world.
\r\nAlumni of CAS programmes have gone on to a wide range of exciting careers including jobs in academia, non-profit and social enterprise, government, international organizations and beyond.
\r\nResearchers at CAS undertakes cutting-edge interdisciplinary research. CAS scholars are committed to the critical study of a diverse range of topics as well as the pursuit of inclusive, ethical and equitable partnerships. CAS currently host more than 20 research projects, including several large, international collaborative projects.
\r\nThe Centre acts as a cultural hub for Africa in Scotland and in the UK. It supports the highly successful Africa in Motion annual film festival and has close working relationships with the Scottish Parliament and Government and with local NGOs. Moreover, it engages with African communities in Scotland, and it seeks to forge closer relationships between Scotland, the UK, Europe and Africa.
\r\nResearch in the Centre of African Studies is carried out in several core areas/themes:
\r\nArts and Social Change is an interdisciplinary group concerned with the practice of the creative arts and its use in pursuit of social change.\nThe group's membership is drawn from researchers working across Bath Spa University, with diverse interests and a shared commitment to social justice. Creative practitioners, educators, anthropologists, geographers, criminologists and social scientists work in collaboration with international, national and local community and societal partners to enable better understanding of how social change and justice can be facilitated through artistic and creative means.
\nArts and Social Change members span a wide range of disciplines and fields. Members are engaged in research which promotes visibility and representation of diverse individuals, groups, identities, bodies and voices while simultaneously challenging and questioning existing structures around power and representation. The group's researchers seek to negotiate complex territories in the areas of instrumentalism and efficacy by also questioning ethical and methodological practices.
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\r\nGlobal interconnections involve the mobility of capital, people and ideas around the world. These movements increasingly shape social, economic, political and cultural dimensions of everyday life, as well as the organisations and institutions that the group operates within.
\r\nThe Global Citizenship and Identities research group places global citizenship at the forefront of its activities by acknowledging the importance of these global interconnections for its research and vision. Whereas historically the social sciences and humanities have focused on the study of national societies and bounded communities, the group also recognises the increasing salience of transactions across borders through research on migration, employment, international development, religion and ethnicity.
\r\nThe research group brings together staff across disciplinary boundaries who are actively engaged in research at an international level. More specifically, the disciplines represented by the groups’ members include History, Criminology, Geography, Psychology and Sociology.
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\nThe Group aims to direct its output into operational practices and to improve policy decision-making in these areas.
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\nThe Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research undertakes academically-grounded, policy-oriented research on justice, producing work which is independent, objective and of the highest technical quality. The audiences for the Institute's work include academics, policy-makers and their advisers, civil society organisations, criminal justice practitioners, and the wider public. All the Institute's research is informed by concerns with justice, fairness and human rights, and a commitment to bringing about improvements in justice policy and practice.
\nThe Institute's research spans many parts of the justice system, with a particular focus on three broad subject areas including policing and the policed; courts, court users and the judicial process; and prisons and the use of imprisonment.
\nThe Institute also conducts research on such wide-ranging themes as communities, crime and victims of crime; youth justice; drugs, alcohol and criminal justice; rehabilitation and resettlement; and race, ethnicity and gender. The Institute's research deploys a range of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, and it has particular expertise in conducting interviews and focus groups with justice practitioners and with laypeople in contact with the justice system as defendants, prisoners, witnesses, parties and victims.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5074456,"longitude":-0.1277653},{"infrastructure_id":"365","name":"Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality (BiGS)","town":"London","postcode":"WC1E 7HX","tags":["art","history","law","cultural-studies","museum-studies","language","literature","gender-sexuality-studies","philosophy","science"],"addr1":"University Of London","addr2":"Birkbeck College","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Founded in 2008, Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality aims to foster and showcase interdisciplinary collaboration and exchange in gender and sexuality studies. Situated within Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, and currently funded by the Schools of Arts, Law, and Social Sciences, History and Philosophy, Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality brings together scholars working across the college and encourages dialogue with practitioners in the creative industries as well as with non-academic constituencies.
\nBirkbeck has a long history of world-leading research in gender and sexuality, and Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality strives to promote and advance that rich legacy through its activities which typically include a vibrant programme of workshops, screenings, performances, readings, lectures and seminars.
\nHighlights in recent years have included the symposium Bowie at Birkbeck, the Feminist Emergency International Conference, and workshops on gendering austerity. Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality encourages dialogue with practitioners, policy makers, activists and artists and welcome suggestions for collaborations from colleagues across Birkbeck's departments and schools.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.51460495,"longitude":-0.11645249510096556},{"infrastructure_id":"366","name":"Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities (BIH)","town":null,"postcode":null,"tags":["art","history","law","cultural-studies","museum-studies","political-science","philosophy","photography","media-studies"],"addr1":null,"addr2":null,"country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities was established in 2004 to stimulate research, public debate and collaboration among academics and intellectuals on important public issues of today.
\r\nThe Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities continues to support interdisciplinary research and engagement among colleagues across Birkbeck, University of London and beyond, and regularly collaborates with UK-based and international academics, researchers and activists.
\r\nKey to the Institute's mission is the promotion of new ideas and forms of understanding in the humanities and beyond. To facilitate this, the Institute organises and supports lectures, conferences, discussion panels, masterclasses and film screenings. Many of these are free and open to the public.
\r\nThe London Critical Theory Summer School is a major annual event in the calendar of activities for the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. It was established by Professor Costas Douzinas, founder of BIH and a professor in Birkbeck's Department of Law, in 2010.
\r\nSince that time, it has become one of the world's leading summer schools, combining theoretical thought at an advanced critical level with a sense of the political urgency of the times. Now under the directorship of Professor Jacqueline Rose and Professor Esther Leslie, it provides an intensive two-week programme of study for an international group of students and early career academics with acclaimed critical thinkers from around the world. Past tutors have included: Etienne Balibar, Susan Buck-Morss, Drucilla Cornell, Costas Douzinas, Stephen Frosh, David Harvey, Esther Leslie, Laura Mulvey, Jacqueline Rose and Slavoj Žižek. Bursaries are available for international and Birkbeck students.
\r\nThe Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities also provides short-term non-stipendiary fellowships for a small number of scholars from Britain and overseas, who wish to collaborate with colleagues at Birkbeck. These are chosen yearly through an open competition.
\r\nBirkbeck Institute for the Humanities
26 Russell Sq
London WC1B 5DT
United Kingdom
As a member of the Cathedrals Group of Universities, Bishop Grosseteste University is committed to improving the life and educational opportunities of its members and working for the benefit of the wider community. Education and the possibilities it produces for transformation make it, according to the late Nelson Mandela ‘the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world’. Education is a core building block of society and is central to how communities are structured and work now and for the societies and communities built for tomorrow. The ambition of a fair and just society must be all members of that society are given the support needed to ensure everyone has a genuine opportunity to realise their potential; be accorded respect; and valued as an individual of worth within an inclusive system. This is social justice.
\nThe purpose of this research cluster is to:
\nThe Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism is based at Birkbeck, University of London. It is located in the School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy.
\r\nThe Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism is the only university centre in the UK dedicated to the study of antisemitism and one of only two in Europe.
\r\nThe Institute is renowned internationally for the quality of its work and for its independence. Being part of Birkbeck provides the Institute with an unparalleled combination of expertise in the study of antisemitism, racism and religious intolerance in disciplines across the social sciences and humanities and in law. Research is the Institute’s bedrock. It provides the basis for the Institute's innovative teaching, and for effective contributions to policy discussion and public understanding of antisemitism in the UK, in Europe and globally.
\r\nThe Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism's work demonstrates how the study of antisemitism is relevant to everyone who aims to understand the persistence and dynamics of racism in the contemporary world. It is framed by the Institute's conviction that antisemitism is a distinctive form of racism: one element in a family of racisms, all of which stand in the way of developing an open, diverse and democratic society.
\r\nThe Institute produces award-winning research and is at the cutting edge of the field of Antisemitism Studies. The Institute makes academic scholarship accessible to a wide public through events, podcasts, journalism, and the Institute's teaching. Birkbeck’s pioneering educational course on antisemitism disseminates new insights and is sought out by trade unions, political parties and civil society organisations. The Institute has co-curated internationally acclaimed public exhibitions that have challenged and informed and been viewed by more than 115,000 people.
\r\nLocal, national and global organisations use the Institute’s understanding of history and the contemporary world as a clear lens through which they can address current challenges. In these ways and others, the Institute makes a difference in the public sphere, culturally and politically.
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\r\nThe Centre's objective is to encourage the evolution of European law, by promoting policy-makers' use of critical legal methodologies in the development of laws. The Centre's interest is not only in the law of the European Union but also the broader law applying within the European area.
\r\nThe Centre for the Critical Study of European Law's aim to offer and to promote new, sometimes unexpected, perspectives on the role of European law within and beyond the United Kingdom.
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","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":54.7743725,"longitude":-1.5766714},{"infrastructure_id":"398","name":"Centre for Innovation Management Research (CIMR)","town":"London","postcode":"WC1E 7HX","tags":["law","political-science","economics","policy","science","performance-studies","regional-studies-keyword","innovation-keyword","management-keyword","policy-studies-keyword"],"addr1":"University Of London","addr2":"Birkbeck College","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Birkbeck Centre for Innovation Management draws on a variety of academic disciplines across the fields of management, law, economics and science policy, to deliver high quality research and teaching in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship.
\r\nIt is a college-wide research centre of Birkbeck, University of London. Launched in 2008, it undertakes international research focusing on multi-disciplinary academic, industrial and commercial themes relating to the management of innovation. It is a hub for enabling collaborations, teaching and sharing of research, ideas and practice to create impact and facilitate more effective management, commercialisation of innovation and the development of effective policy. The Centre's researchers regularly publish in top quality journals, present at international conferences and undertake consultancy for national and international policy-making bodies and research for influential think tanks.
\r\nIts roles are to:
\r\nSome of the Centre's research is carried out through formally funded research projects, and in interaction with various research networks it hosts or participates in.
\r\nThe current inter-related and inter-disciplinary research themes of the research centre are:
\r\nDurham’s Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) is a home for growing big ideas. IAS supports a broad and inclusive interdisciplinary community from across the full spectrum of Durham academics, where different perspectives are brought together to develop creative approaches to interesting and important problems.
\r\nIAS welcomes world-leading researchers to Durham, providing the time and space to work on projects and build future collaborations. Up to 20 Visiting Fellows per year work individually and collectively, with each other and with Durham colleagues. Visiting Fellows participate in a wide range of events, from public lectures to seminars and workshops.
\r\nEach year focuses on several pioneering, interdisciplinary projects, for which the Institute offers both preliminary and follow-up support. Visiting Fellows participate in a wide range of events, from public lectures to seminars and workshops. The IAS also hosts an Associate Fellowship for Durham colleagues who are engaging with the IAS in forthcoming or recently completed interdisciplinary projects. Through its websites and newsletter, Transformations the Institute connects Durham not only across departments and faculties, but also with a global College of Fellows. Additionally, the Institute offers a top-level forum of public debate, enabling key-decision makers to discuss pressing policy issues with academic experts in an intellectually stimulating and unrestricted manner.
\r\nStay up to date with IAS' latest on LinkedIn.
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","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":54.76589829414011,"longitude":-1.581692743974024},{"infrastructure_id":"433","name":"International Centre for Moral Injury","town":"Durham","postcode":"DH1 3RS","tags":["law","health","anthropology-ethnography","sociology","psychology","mental-health-keyword","military-sciences-keyword","moral-injury-keyword","trauma-keyword","ptsd-keyword"],"addr1":"University Of Durham","addr2":"Department Of Theology","country":"United Kingdom","description":"In the past decade, as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have waned, there has been a significant amount of research done by medical clinicians, ethicists, philosophers, counsellors, clergy, journalists and theologians into the moral impacts on those who served in the conflicts. Yet the work of these scholars alongside the practical work done by pastoral caregivers and clergy who serve to guide people through existential crises remains fragmented.
\r\nAll these activities serve the centre’s ultimate goal of increasing an understanding of the causes and impacts of Moral Injury and facilitating increased care of those suffering from it.
\r\nAs research and understanding has increased our awareness of Moral Injury suffered beyond combat and has extended into areas such as emergency services, healthcare workers and law enforcement personnel, the Centre's work has incorporated these contexts into its orbit as well.
\r\nVision: To deepen understanding of the causes and impacts of Moral Injury internationally and explore, cultivate and share sources of recovery.
\r\nMission: Towards a robust identification, mitigation and repair of Moral Injury through attention to frameworks of meaning and practices of care.
\r\nStrategy: To develop and highlight innovative research, education, resources and practices to foster collaboration, building networks of scholars, clergy and caregivers through cooperative partnerships.
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\nThe centre's research expertise includes: Abortion and foetal harm; Domestic violence and abuse; Infanticide; Obstetric violence; Sex/gender and homicide; Sexual violence and consent; and Terrorism.
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\nHuman rights work undertaken by members of the Centre spans national, regional and international concerns. This work leads not only to the production of world-class publications in the form of monographs, edited collections, and peer-reviewed articles but also research outputs geared towards bringing about public policy change and contributing positively to public debate.
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\nThe Centre's mission is to support the achievement of sustainable development in all its dimensions: environmental, economic, social. The Sustainable Development Goals serve as cross-cutting themes in the members' research projects, policy work and collaborative initiatives, including education and training, gender, health and wellbeing. Members work on various projects and with countries as well as with academic partners.
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\r\nThe Centre believes that law as a discipline in Britain and the Global North has traditionally failed to address questions of race, despite considerable societal interest, instead focusing on questions of equality as confined to the fields of human rights or discrimination law.
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\nThe Marketing and Consumer Research Group's research and teaching has contributed to scholarship beyond its traditional confines. Recent work reflects the group's inclusive approach to research, and focuses on the connections between economic, social, political and cultural life using quantitative, qualitative and interpretive, and mixed research methods. Members explore the implications of contemporary shifts in the digital and cultural economy for organisations, business practice and consumer welfare.
\nThe Group's research themes include:
\nThe School of Law has a sustained interest in critical theory and is recognised as an international hub in critical legal studies, by virtue of current and former Professors Costas Douzinas, Peter Goodrich and Peter Fitzpatrick, recognised pioneers in this field. They introduced post-structuralist theory and psychoanalysis to critical legal studies in the UK and promoted an understanding of law through ethics, aesthetics, politics and post-colonial theory.
\r\nThis cluster has strengthened its theoretical analysis of law through research in: critical race and feminist theory; Frankfurt critical theory; gender; new materialism; queer theory; political economy; political theory and political theology; and sexuality.
\r\nThe Cluster has strengthened its theoretical analysis of law through research in:
\r\nThe Human Rights Research Cluster thinks human rights, international law and European law are among the most stimulating and topical research areas within its discipline.
\nThe Human Rights Research Cluster adopts critical theoretical, historical and comparative socio-legal approaches to its research which covers:
\nThe Law and Humanities Research Cluster cluster is one of the oldest in the School of Law, and draws on literature, rhetoric, interpretation theories, film and media studies, aesthetics and art and offers a sustain commentary on both the limits of law, its institutions and practices and the possibilities of transformation.
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\r\nThe Cluster is actively engaged in research on:
\r\nThe Policy, Practice and Activism Research Cluster is an emerging strand of work within the School of Law, Birkbeck focusing on the development and critique of social policy and practice. The cluster's work is often externally funded, empirical research with an explicit policy or practice focus, and the cluster often also works with activists and grass-roots organisations.
\r\nThe Policy, Practice and Activism Research Cluster's work cross-cuts criminal justice, social welfare, immigration and education spheres of public policy, and the delivery of services and sanctions by public, private and voluntary sector institutions.
\r\nMethodological diversity and innovation are key to the cluster's research activities and can pose a range of ethical challenges. Much of the cluster's research involves active engagement with practitioners and professionals, as well as service users and recipients.
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\r\nThe Centre for Dance Research embraces leading edge research developments including reflexive enquiry into embodied practices, collective and political action, digitisation, cultural value and the expanded choreographic field. In addition, the Centre for Dance Research also seeks to investigate and critique the legal frameworks that can be used to support and empower the sector. The centre's research is both transdisciplinary and impactful.
\r\nThe centre's core research themes are: dance documentation, dissemination and publication; cultural heritage and preservation; choreographic processes and somatic practices; dance digital and software studies; movement, computing and AI; interdisclipinarity and interculturalism; inclusivity and collectivity with a focus on disability in dance; critical discourse and performance philosophy; alternative performance sites and virtual reality; intellectual property and human rights; bodies, health and well-being; and practice research.
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\nCALS members work collaboratively with partner organisations to deliver innovative research and pedagogical opportunities.
\nTheir current areas of work include federalism and intergovernmental relations; the nature of judicial process; the administration of criminal justice; and the US and international human rights obligations. CALS members are supported by a cohort of postgraduate research students.
\nCALS is home to the British Journal of American Legal Studies and the Controversies in American Constitutional Law series published by Routledge.
\nThe Centre also supports the LLB with American Legal Studies pathway for the LLB programme and a student US internship programme that is the largest in the UK.
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\nCHR undertakes advisory roles in the United Nations, the European Union, the Council of Europe, the African Union, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations region. Members provide consultancy services to governments and nongovernmental organisations, and in selected individual cases they draft legal opinions and file legal briefs in domestic courts and in international human rights courts.
\nSince the creation of the CHR in 2014, it has been either the lead implementer or partners on externally funded projects through the European Union’s Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights, and the UK government’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Human Rights and Democracy Program, and five Midlands4Cities studentship provided by the Arts and Humanities Council.
\nThe work from the CHR significantly informs the School of Law’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) submission, in providing key publications, and for contributing to the School’s case studies. CHR has also created high-level human rights simulated exercises, including a UN Security Council “Model United Nations,” to contribute to the School of Law’s submission in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). In its work with international organisations, governments, and nongovernmental organisations, CHR engages effective and efficient processes to further the Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF).
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\nThe Centre aims to foster collective understanding across disciplines and drive creative thinking through harnessing expertise across BCU; providing opportunities for undergraduate and postgraduate students to develop interdisciplinary skills and knowledge; and engaging with a range of professional external partners.
\nLawyers often have need to step outside their legal training and develop an understanding about other disciplines and professions approach the world. For instance, a criminal barrister or Crown Court judge might need to understand the science behind DNA technology or the clinical frameworks used by psychiatrists making mental health diagnoses; a lawyer representing a nurse in a tribunal concerning the quality of patient care will need to be familiar with the ethos of the nurse’s professional code of practice; lawyers working in family court might benefit from the expertise of social and care workers; and government lawyers and legal scholars might be enriched by the perspectives of political scientists and calculations that can be made by statisticians. Equally, there is much other disciplines and professions can learn from how the law and its agents approach the world. In an increasingly interconnected and globalised world, inter-disciplinary working is of great value.
\nThe Centre shares interests with the School of Law’s other research centres, the Centre for American Legal Studies and the Centre for Human Rights.
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\nThe centre's work seeks to benefit local communities through informing policy and practice. The centre works with local partners and stakeholders in a variety of ways, to ensure that its research has real-world application and the potential to elicit lasting change. The centre also seeks to help identify and tackle emerging global issues, working with a network of international partners and collaborators in producing multi-disciplinary research which is at the forefront of current developments in crime-related research.
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\nThe centre's aims are to:
\nThe International Business Law Research Group provides a platform for a broad range of research engaging with multiple national and international aspects of business law.
\r\nThe work undertaken by members of the International Business Law Research Group is multifaceted and takes various approaches to the study of law, including comparative, doctrinal, critical, historical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary perspectives on various UK and international issues of business law.
\r\nThe members’ current areas of expertise and research include artificial intelligence and emerging technologies; competition law; consumer rights and protection; financial services regulation; insolvency law; international arbitration; Islamic law and finance; labour law; and trade law.
\r\nThe work from the IBL Research Group supports the delivery of the Master of Laws (LLM) International Business Law and informs the School of Law’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) submission in providing key publications. The work from the IBL Research Group has been cited by key stakeholders, including the European Commission.
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\r\nThe Centre is a multi-disciplinary hub bringing evidence-based, academic rigour to the regulation of intellectual property. The Centre’s research has become an increasingly important resource to those involved in the legislative process. Evidence-based research for use in policy making is at the heart of Centre’s ethos.
\r\nRecent research that has informed and influenced policy includes the Centre’s studies on orphan works, copyright exemption for parody, open standards, authors’ earnings and copyright term extension. To enhance the impact of its research, the Centre holds annual symposia where the views of policy makers, social scientists and lawyers are presented and discussed.
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\nFrom worldwide outreach projects to award-nominated short films, the centre brings together expertise in the disciplines of Journalism, Media, Law, and the broader social sciences, adopting primarily a psychosocial and practice-based focus.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":50.742091349999995,"longitude":-1.894163982226332},{"infrastructure_id":"522","name":"Institute of Communities and Society","town":"Uxbridge","postcode":"UB8 3PH","tags":["law","cultural-studies","museum-studies"],"addr1":"Brunel University","addr2":"Kingston Lane","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Institute of Communities and Society supports inventive and imaginative research that is truly interdisciplinary.
\r\nThe Institute focus on the social, community and cultural aspects of pressing contemporary issues including migration and movement, social unrest, intersectional inequalities, and institutionalised poverty.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5326092,"longitude":-0.47404989072672915},{"infrastructure_id":"527","name":"Social Justice Research Group, Brunel","town":"Uxbridge","postcode":"UB8 3PH","tags":["art","history","law","health","political-science","anthropology-ethnography","media-studies","science","sociology","data-science"],"addr1":"Brunel University","addr2":"Kingston Lane","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Social Justice Research Group responds directly to the social challenges of modern societies, especially in a post-COVID-19 era of increasing inequalities. Its focus is on a broad social justice agenda which is alert to and critical of inequalities. The Group aims to build a dynamic, truly interdisciplinary grouping that contributes to scholarship and pedagogical innovation at Brunel University London.
\r\nConcepts of social justice are central to understanding challenges such as climate change, poor health and wellbeing and how to respond to them. There are also linkages to the research agenda around the implications of digitalisation, AI, big data and biosciences, as well as in health and social care, where a social justice lens would support new thinking on emerging technologies and practices.
\r\nSocial justice is a useful starting point for addressing global challenges such as:
\r\nThis Group build on existing expertise within disciplines such as law, sociology and anthropology, social work, allied health professions, education, arts and media, history and politics.
\r\nThe Covid-19 pandemic has revealed that entrenched social and economic inequalities are being played out in new ways. The pandemic lends a new urgency to tackling health-related and other inequalities linked to age, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, gender identity, faith affiliation and socio-economic status. A social justice framework provides a strong starting point for learning the lessons of the pandemic and making sense of the social and economic adjustments that are likely to follow.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5326092,"longitude":-0.47404989072672915},{"infrastructure_id":"531","name":"Centre for AI: Social and Digital Innovation","town":"Uxbridge","postcode":"UB8 3PH","tags":["law","health","information-studies","policy","technology","science","ai"],"addr1":"Brunel University","addr2":"Kingston Lane","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for AI: Social and Digital Innovation draws upon Brunel’s experts from multiple disciplines – engineering, health, business, ethics, humanities, law, computer science, sustainability, life sciences – to study how AI technologies are created and implemented to benefit communities, workplaces, households and individuals. It works with partners in academia and industry nationally and internationally.
\r\nIts research creates new knowledge about the development and implementation of AI technologies that is humane, ethical and sustainable. It is challenge-led, addressing ‘real-world’ issues and providing solutions that are theoretically sound and evidence based, enabling policy and decision makers to act.
\r\nThe Centre engages with policy makers in public and industrial bodies, strategic and operational decision makers in organisations in the private and third sectors and members of the public. Centre members lead and participate contemporary deliberations through publications, policy events, seminars and educational programmes.
\r\nThe members of the Centre have expertise in a wide range of sectors including: Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Retail, Finance, Education, Government, Construction, Transport and Logistics, and Entertainment. In addition, they aim to develop research and make innovative advances towards shaping the future of AI.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5326092,"longitude":-0.47404989072672915},{"infrastructure_id":"536","name":"Living Avatars Research Group","town":"Uxbridge","postcode":"UB8 3PH","tags":["law","information-studies","political-science","policy","technology","sociology","game-studies"],"addr1":"Brunel University","addr2":"Kingston Lane","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Living Avatars Research Group aims to build connections between departments, and with external stakeholders, through both initial workshops and pilot studies, and larger empirical work exploring how interdisciplinary perspectives on living avatars can affect and inform digital lives.
\nThe extensive use of avatars, from fantasy digital games to the promises of the Metaverse, has the potential to put in question the established theories of how people engage each other in politics and society. By exploring further boundaries of novelty that accompany technological and digital living, the Group’s research is a valuable resource to inform policy and development frameworks.
\nDo you own your online avatar? If you do, how much of your own online image is yours? Is your avatar part of yourself, or just a representation? Does the use of avatar change the way people behave towards one another? Can an avatar be made ‘legally’ responsible for its actions inflicted on others in a virtual space? Should avatars be independently identifiable by a regulatory body, or be subject to strict identity requirements like Soulbound tokens?\nThe answer to these questions can challenge how people understand themselves, their relationship to others, and their relationship with laws and a regulatory space, or platform.
\nThe already extensive use of avatars across multiple sectors of experience demands an interdisciplinary approach to develop the understanding of avatars’ cognitive, social and political effects. Game studies has extensively explored relationships to avatars in terms of identity and socialisation in digital worlds, and this knowledge and vocabulary can inform how avatars are understood beyond games, in an increasingly digital day-to-day life. To advance this knowledge, psychology, neuroscience, game studies, sociology, and legal and political theory are used to jointly understand how self-projection and projections from others affect the way society is organised and functions.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5326092,"longitude":-0.47404989072672915},{"infrastructure_id":"541","name":"Intelligent Digital Economy and Society (IDEAS) Centre","town":"Uxbridge","postcode":"UB8 3PH","tags":["law","health","information-studies","technology","media-studies","engineering","game-studies"],"addr1":"Brunel University","addr2":"Kingston Lane","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The objective of the Centre is to research into intelligent digital economy and society using AI, data analytics, 6G, media, human-machine interaction, digital games, augmented and virtual reality, digital twins, industrial internet of things, cyber security, data and information fusion etc. providing legal and regulatory compliance solutions and all aspects of Govtech to promote social unity and enhance economic impact.
\nThe advantages gained by IDEAS members are the access to pooled resources and expertise and the creation of interdisciplinary industrial focus groups to develop proposals to develop intelligent autonomous systems for Aerospace, Automotive, Biomedical, Civil, Healthcare, Mechanical, Manufacturing and Network Engineering Industries and core technologies focus groups (e.g. 5G, localisation, Mobile Edge Cloud, AI etc.).
\nThe Digital strategy of the Centre is informed by the Cambridge Wireless industrial focus group and the 4D Integrated Modelling national special interest group for semantic interoperability of devices and information management systems, where members learn about industrial issues in need of innovative thinking, and propose industry focussed solutions routed in excellent cutting-edge research.
\nThe Centre has benefits from the Wireless Network and Communications Lab (that is linked with Brunel Robotics Engineering Lab) and the Cyber Security Lab.
\nIn addition, the Centre is in the process of obtaining a 5G testbed and further improving its existing a radio frequency engineering lab and immersive virtual environments for cyber security incorporating 5G and industrial internet of things.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5326092,"longitude":-0.47404989072672915},{"infrastructure_id":"544","name":"Brunel Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies","town":"Uxbridge","postcode":"UB8 3PH","tags":["history","law","political-science","economics","policy","development-studies","sociology","engineering"],"addr1":"Brunel University","addr2":"Kingston Lane","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Brunel Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies was officially established in November 2003 amidst the very public controversy and furores about intelligence that followed from the invasion of Iraq earlier that year. At a time when the academic study of intelligence in the UK was dominated by historical scholarship, the centre’s team consciously positioned the Centre as a policy-oriented social science enterprise, based in Brunel’s Politics and History Division, that could speak with authority to current and emerging intelligence issues as well as their background and origins.
\nThe Centre was established with a four-fold mandate to: Provide a centre of excellence in research and publication in intelligence and security issues; Develop and deliver a world-class graduate training programme in intelligence and security studies; Pursue and engage in consultancy for the public and private sectors on intelligence-related matters; and contribute to public education and advise on intelligence issues through the news media and other public outreach media.
\nThe Centre’s core team is an interdisciplinary group of political scientists, sociologists and historians based in the Politics and History Division. In 2011, the Centre was reorganised as an Interdisciplinary Research Centre in order to accommodate participation from other Divisions and Colleges. The Centre has since included associate members from the Brunel Law School, Economics and Finance and Engineering and continues to engage on research and teaching activity in collaboration with all of these divisions. One of its strengths is its team of Honourary Research Fellows who are current and former intelligence practitioners who advise on and participate in the Centre’s research and publishing, impact, teaching and overall academic community.
\nThe Centre emphasises impact-oriented research and engagement. Members of the team have contributed to the development of intelligence doctrine and professional practice in the UK, European Union, in Europe, Africa and Southeast Asia. The Centre has also provided two Impact Case Studies for each of the last two iterations of the Research Excellence Framework audit, submitted evidence to Parliamentary committees, advised on the recent Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy and continues to engage with the intelligence profession in key areas.
The Human Rights, Society and Arts research group is a hub for interdisciplinary teaching and research on human rights. It engages with different methods from social sciences and humanities to address cultural, political, economic and social challenges to human rights. The group analyses human rights at different levels, using an interdisciplinary approach to understand, define and criticise social mobilisation, cultural challenges and institutional limitations over conflicting notions of human rights.
\r\nLeading research conducted in the group focuses on the connections between arts and: copyrights, companies, migration, representation, sovereignty, social inequality. Although art needs no justification, there are certainly artistic forms that challenge injustice and regulatory ways of reproducing inequality. These include works on the fields of anthropology, drama, film, social work and law.
\r\nThe group produces leading research on the fields of regional human rights courts, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience and religion. They also focus on global human rights violations such as torture, human traffic, executions, hate speech, minorities rights, memory and truth commissions, genocide, protection of human rights defenders and disappearance of witnesses.
\r\nCultural rights are fundamental for the respect of human dignity, in the diversity of its expressions. The research produced in this stream aims at producing a better understanding of what are the links between native land ownership and cultural rights, their visibility and visuality, and the severity of their violations. It also produces impact in delivering both policy design and legal framework for the implementation of cultural rights that are critical for sustainable peace, equality and development.
\r\nThe Group engages with the “Global, Secure, Connected Communities” interdisciplinary research strategically challenges, and develop research and activities that would consider and possibly impact the following UN Sustainable Development Goals: 1-No Poverty; 5-Gender Equality; 8-Decent Work and Economic Growth; 10-Reduced inequalities; 16-Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
\r\nThe group’s activities include reading groups, roundtables, seminars, conferences, talk-shows and public events, as well as other opportunities for social impact and student and community engagement.
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\r\nIts expertise ranges from international humanitarian law and international criminal law to human rights, international courts, migration and health law.
\r\nThey aim to provide a setting for debate and research in international law, from human rights law to refugee law, the laws of war, international criminal law and dispute resolution, drawing on the research interests of all the public international law School of Law members.
\r\nTheir research initiatives and activities will centre around current developments and debates in international law, and specifically international human rights law and the intersection between human rights violations, humanitarian law and the effectiveness of international courts and tribunals.
\r\nThe group looks at current events surrounding issues of peace, security and justice and investigate the application of international humanitarian law and how international tribunals deal with international humanitarian law violations, including the International Criminal Court.
\r\nThe group seeks to be a part of solutions to current international problems and with members' combined research expertise it aims to develop and establish links with the wider international academic community.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5326092,"longitude":-0.47404989072672915},{"infrastructure_id":"550","name":"Centre for Law, Economics and Finance","town":"Uxbridge","postcode":"UB8 3PH","tags":["law","economics"],"addr1":"Brunel University","addr2":"Kingston Lane","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Law, Economics and Finance brings together experts across several disciplines working together to understand how the interactions between individuals, communities, business and institutions shape socio-economic outcomes, and what can be done to improve these outcomes.
\nIts research focus is on three broad areas: Law and Economics of Financial Regulation; Economic Analysis of Law; and Law and Economics of Public Finance and institutions.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5326092,"longitude":-0.47404989072672915},{"infrastructure_id":"572","name":"Cardiff Law and Global Justice Centre","town":"Cardiff","postcode":"CF10 3AT","tags":["law","development-studies"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Cardiff Law and Global Justice supports a lively research programme, including an international doctoral studies cohort, and delivers teaching on law and development and global justice at postgraduate and masters levels.
\nThe Centre is home to a pathbreaking Transnational Pro-Bono Law Clinic working with human rights law firms and non-governmental organisations in the UK, India and East Africa. It hosts an annual series of conferences and lectures with leading international scholars. With a particular focus on the global south and informed by post and anti-colonial perspectives, the Centre fosters high quality research in law, justice and globalisation.
\nCardiff Law and Global Justice is committed to engagement with southern scholars across the disciplines in this work, bringing their work to prominence among academic and policy circles in the UK and Europe.
\nThe Centre’s work is a major focus for the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff. It collaborates closely with the School’s International Studies Research Unit and its Centre of Law and Society.
\nIt is a founding member of the Law and Development Research Network with national and international partners. The Network runs an annual conference and PhD training workshop. Cardiff Law and Global Justice hosts the book series Law, Global Justice and Development edited with network partners.
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\r\nLUMLP members are drawn from a wide range of academic and research institutions, professional groups, commercial organisations and individuals sharing a common interest in maritime law and policy.
\r\nLUMLP aims to:
\r\nThe Institute for the Study of European Laws (ISEL) provides an expert insight into the latest EU law developments and is proud to house a team of internationally renowned researchers and doctoral researchers.
\nISEL researchers are the authors of leading research and they actively contribute to excellent scholarship, practice, Government and professional activities by making high-level contributions as to the legal, political and economic development of the EU and the relationship of the UK with the EU.
\nISEL researchers also teach across a range of programmes at The City Law School’s undergraduate, postgraduate and professional practice programmes.
\nISEL's aims are:
\nISEL experts specialise in:
\nISEL scholars are interested in interdisciplinary collaborations and welcome opportunities for co-operation with experts in the academy and in practice. ISEL's Visiting Fellows Scheme will be re-opening in 2020, further details will be announced in due course.
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\r\nSuch as:
\r\nIt investigates the impact of disruptive technologies including AI, de-centralization and blockchain.
\r\nThe group also considers the regulatory aspects of digital trade contained in modern international trade agreements, developing policy advice for governments, inter-governmental organizations and other research bodies.
\r\nThe group explores issues in transatlantic and global trade relations concerning data protection, intellectual property and trade in services more broadly.
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\nThe Centre's aim is to drive a progressive agenda for change that is grounded in multi-disciplinary research but also in the experiences of lawyers, police, prosecutors, judges and all those with lived experience of the criminal justice system. The Centre does this through five key frameworks:
\nThe Centre brings together key voices (researchers, practitioners, policy makers campaigners, citizens) from the criminal justice sector and from academia nationally and internationally.
\nThrough cutting edge scholarship the Centre advances national and comparative research investigating the most pressing issues in criminal justice. The Centre's ethos is at once practical and research based – members believe that allowing theory to inform policy and practice is a route to meaningful criminal justice reform.
\nThe Centre organises seminars, workshops, public lectures and conferences to share research findings and promote perspectives that are at once practical and specialist.
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The Minorities and Rights Research Group at the City Law School, City University London, aims to provide a forum for specialised debates on minority groups and other vulnerable persons.
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\nThe limits of, and obstacles to legal reform have been identified in various areas and, for example the potentials of accountability litigation are regularly explored, be it in areas such as universal jurisdiction or business and human rights.
\nIf law is to play a role in the transition to a fairer, more equal world it is clear that the ways, instances and methods for legal intervention require deeply engaged deliberation from all angles and contexts.
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\r\nThe Research Group in Global Corporate Law (RGGCL), based at The City Law School, is an international centre of excellence for research and scholarship, teaching and legal practice dedicated to global issues in corporate and commercial law.
\nThe RGGCL brings together a vibrant network of scholars, researchers and legal professionals whose interests and expertise centre on current and critical issues relating to the operation and evolution of corporate and commercial laws in global markets.
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\r\nSuch analysis will lead to new perspectives on, for example, the nature and uses of corporate power on the global level, the nature of the corporation as a social unit constituted of individual citizens of various nationalities, cultures and classes. It will lead to new perspectives on the effect of the corporate (legal/organisational) form and transnational regulation of corporate matters on individual behaviour, the transnational corporation, global governance, private authority and global class society.
\r\nThe project covers analysing the transnational corporation as an actor in the global political economy and the global economic crises, and the challenges of regulating or governing transnational corporate groups - between global communal, global class and local worker and/or victims' interests.
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\r\nVISION brings together a Consortium of public bodies, universities and third sector organisations and aims to reduce the harms to health caused by violence by improving the data that underpins theory, policy and professional practice.
\r\nThe Consortium brings together academic partners from the Violence and Society Centre at City, University of London, King’s College London, University College London, Lancaster University, University of Bristol, University of Warwick, University of Central Lancashire, and Public Health Wales.
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The Centre for Law, Justice and Society brings together a wide range of interdisciplinary expertise in order to explore the role of law in addressing inequalities, towards a fairer and more just society.
\r\nThe Centre’s activities fall within four broadly defined clusters (criminal law and justice; international law; law, sexuality and gender; and interdisciplinary legal studies) within which the Centre's members are engaged in empirical, doctrinal and theoretically-informed research on some of the most challenging questions of the world today. These include, for example, modern slavery, human trafficking, domestic violence, non-traditional marriages, climate change, the migration crisis, pollution offences, sustainable development, ethical business regulation, law and political economy, corporate social responsibility, international human rights, children’s rights, police powers, mental disorder and criminal responsibility, sentencing and penal policy, organised crime, and law, rights and technology.
\r\nResearchers are currently investigating a variety of novel legal responses to the social implications of the COVID-19 pandemic.
\r\nLaw is a social institution and, from professors to doctoral students, the Centre represents an international community of legal scholars who are committed to the public good and actively seek to promote the ideal of social justice through transformational scholarship.
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\nIts research target areas are: histories and cultures of Black, Asian and racially minoritised peoples in the UK; the concept and practice of institutional racism; denials of justice; the social psychology of racial violence.
\nIts aims include: to curate the Stephen Lawrence archive in collaboration with the University Special Collections as an educational resource for wide-ranging audiences including academic researchers, students of all ages, and the general public; to cultivate inclusive and intergenerational research communities that work collaboratively to develop interdisciplinary research related to the four research target areas; to champion the role of research in creating influence and impact on a local, national and global scale; to serve as a hub for knowledge exchange and partnership between universities and various public bodies and audiences; to harness local knowledge to understand and address social justice issues with a particular emphasis on education; to contribute to De Montfort University’s strategic plan to recruit, develop and retain a more diverse academic research staff who are empowered to become thought leaders in their respective fields.
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\nThe theme has been broadly defined to incorporate a wide range of subject areas. Some clearly defined sub-themes have also been created that give greater clarity, allowing researchers to identify specific areas that their own research might align with. This will help to create vital synergies between researchers across faculties, research centres and institutes but also when building external networks and stakeholders.
\nThe theme incorporates many of the fundamental challenges societies face, locally, nationally and internationally. These challenges are myriad but range from the mitigation of conflict, dealing with the residue of conflict (including refugee flows resulting from armed conflict and/or state collapse), the social impact of environmental degradation, to issues such as equal access to justice, greater democratic participation, social cohesion, and tackling gender and racial inequalities.
\nResearchers should be fully engaged with existing and emerging problems and be seeking to provide solutions or to better understand the complexities of these problems. As a global university, and one with a global outlook, with an international staff and student base, with established national and international partnerships and with strong potential for developing exciting future research projects, De Montford University researchers are well-positioned to address these challenges. Sub-themes are listed below and are illustrative, not exhaustive. They are constantly evolving to respond flexibly to the aforementioned problems and challenges. These are: Trust, social cohesion and stable communities; peacebuilding, reducing violence, conflict mitigation and building sustainable societies; tackling gender and racial inequalities; promoting freedom of the media and a strong civil society; protecting children, women and refugees from exploitation; the rule of law, justice and equal access to justice; equal access to education, opportunities, and democratic participation; combating national and transnational organised crime, financial crime, and corruption; developing and consolidating strong, accountable and transparent institutions and democratic and inclusive political systems; inclusive growth and promoting health equality in the post-pandemic world.
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\nBeyond Data\nThe theme examines how data are changing the epistemic, social, ethical, legal, and economic relations of biomedicine.
\nBeyond Disease\nThe theme examines how developments in biomedicine challenge established ideas about particular diseases and raises questions about what counts as disease and how disease fits within society and culture.
\nBeyond Engagement\nThe theme critically examines different approaches of public engagement with science, biomedicine, and governance.
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\nBeyond Sex\nThe theme explores how and where sexual and reproductive rights and social justice intersect with biomedicine, health and wellbeing by paying attention to bodies, illness, technologies and mobilities.
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\nTo meet current targets for reducing greenhouse emissions, addressing climate change and achieving the sustainable development goals, the global energy system needs to move towards renewable energy at unprecedented pace and scale. It is necessary to increase sources of secure low-carbon energy, reduce fossil fuel use and change energy-use practices in society and industry. However, to be sustainable, decarbonisation must at least avoid increasing the inequalities - and ideally, start to reduce them.
\nApproaching energy as socio-technical helps members to understand solutions fully and from many perspectives.
\nDurham Energy Institute (DEI) works to ensure sustainable and resilient low-carbon energy systems can be developed which meet the needs of different contexts and ensure fair access for everyone.
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\r\nImperial undergraduates have the choice of over 100 different CLCC modules via the Imperial Horizons and I-Explore programmes. Modules are divided into fields of study: Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), Change Makers, I-Explore STEMM, and Languages. We teach 10 modern languages at up to 6 ability levels and support Imperial's students who study abroad for a year. Our Imperial after:hours programme provides adult education to staff, students and the general public, and our Science Communication Unit runs two Master's degrees, preparing graduates for a range of communication careers.
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\nThe University being the official United Nations Global Hub for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal No. 16, its work is particularly interested in promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, providing access to justice for all and building effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
\nWhile situated in the Faculty of Business and Law and within Leicester Castle Business School, the Centre for Research in Accountability, Governance and Sustainability is De Montfort University’s interdisciplinary research centre acting as focal point for collaboration and research initiatives from all faculties of the university that share an interest in issues related to Accountability, Governance or Sustainability.
\nThe Centre takes a broad perspective and welcomes diverse methodologies and research approaches, especially the scientific (empirical and inductive) research methodology.
\nThere are many topics that fall under the remit of the Centre. Traditionally, the centre’s membership has researched on corporate governance, accountability and transparency, ethics and sustainability reporting, Corporate Social Responsibility communication, financial reporting issues including earnings management, management accounting, public sector accounting, corporate disclosures practices, forensic accounting and auditing.
\nMore recently, the Centre has widened its scope to encourage interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research, including on institutional design, including the appropriate incentive structure to achieve collective goals, as well as mechanisms for meaningful accountability, effective and equitable governance. Accountability, governance and sustainability all refer to or aim at achieving the long-term goal of sustainable high performance in fairness.
\nThe Centre has set itself the goal to reach beyond its traditional research areas to study successful institutional designs compatible with SDG 16, such as the East Asian High Growth design and the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative.
\nThe Centre pursues a strategy to raise its international profile through international collaborations and links with policy-makers and stakeholders. It wishes to harness the expertise and enthusiasm of all other research centres in the faculty and university.
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\nThe Institute is primarily based in the School of Applied Social Sciences and its members carry out research on policing, probation, prisons, education and schools, youth work and social work. One of the central goals is the development of excellent practice-based research, which is informed and underpinned by contemporary social science theory and innovative approaches to methodology.
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\nThe Hub's aim is to develop new ways of thinking about the complexity of containment and corrections through the integration of a range of disciplines, approaches and methods. Its vision is to be:
\nAn applied and policy-focused research hub, which aims to inform public debate to reduce criminalisation and society’s dependence on imprisonment and punishment.
\nThe Hub's active research team has extensive experience researching prison and probation settings. Members' expertise is diverse and rich. For example they have established bodies of work in:
\nHub members work closely with the end users of their research and believe that the meaningful policy and practice initiatives are based on quality research with robust theoretical foundations. The Hub has links with a number of other academic research groups and correctional affiliations, both nationally and internationally. It welcomes invitations and opportunities for new collaborations and initiatives. It also welcome applications for postgraduate studies on Brunel's doctoral programme that aligns to the Hub's prisons and probation research.
\nThe Hub also have an established partnership with DMU Local that works closely with prisons in Leicestershire.
\nAs part of the Hub's activities members:
\nRegular meetings are held to discuss scholarly contributions to the field and to assist members with publication projects.
\nThe Hub also supports the work of the Prison Research Network.
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\r\nStaff across the network have established a number of strong partnerships with other academics, government bodies, policy makers, statutory, private and voluntary sector professionals and victim/survivor groups as the result of collaborative research and learning development work at local, regional, European and international levels.
\r\nA very exiting strength of the network is its cross disciplinary nature, which provides new and innovative ways of creating dialogue, investigating and influencing policy and practice.
\r\nThe network’s primary objectives are to facilitate and support staff, students, policy makers, external agencies and the public in addressing issues relating to sexual violence and domestic violence and seeks to achieve this via four core areas of activity which are:
\r\nThe Centre of Construction Law and Dispute Resolution brings together students, academics and professionals from across the industry. The Centre's work helps solve construction issues worldwide, from arbitration to supply chain management.
\nThe Centre's impactful research features directly within the curriculum. That research covers a wide range of areas, all focused on making the world a better place through new models of construction law. Whether it’s improving sustainability or creating better conditions for communities, the Centre's work is generating real results in the industry. The Centre of Construction Law and Dispute Resolution focuses on six key areas:
\nThe Centre for Climate Law and Governance is a leading light for interdisciplinary research about legal and governance approaches to climate change and sustainability within and across countries in the Global North and South, taking into account the specificities of particular sectors and local contexts. The Centre investigates and evaluates legal and regulatory design, decision-making, challenges, and innovation; and how, where and with whom these occur in national, transnational and global contexts.
\r\nEmbracing interdisciplinarity and using a variety of conceptual, theoretical and methodological approaches, the Centre investigates existing and emerging sites of law and governance under four broad research themes: sustainable finance and business; climate litigation and adjudication; transnational energy transitions; environmental justice.
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\nSince its establishment, it has sought to provide leadership in scholarly research in European law, offer academic teaching in specialist areas, and serve the wider community, especially, governments, international organisations, and the practising profession.
\nIt is perceived to be one of the finest centres for the study of European law in the world. Its members are influential in shaping EU law and policy and many of its alumni hold prominent positions throughout Europe.
\nSome forty-five years after its establishment, Centre of European Law remains at the cutting edge of academic research and teaching, and at the forefront of legal developments.
\nThe aims and objectives of the Centre of European Law remain unchanged after the UK withdrawal from the European Union. There is still a need for students, academics and the legal profession to study and learn about EU Law and there is considerable demand for expertise in this area.
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\nThe Centre for International Governance and Dispute Resolution at The Dickson Poon School of Law brings together academics, policymakers and practitioners working in the areas of international law and dispute resolution to help tackle these global challenges.
\nThe Centre provides students with the opportunity to participate in world-leading research and to engage in discussions on the critical issues facing the international community.
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\nThe Transnational Law Institute functions as a catalyst for border-crossing research and teaching collaboration in a wide range of fields - ranging from company law to family law, from human rights to refugee and immigration law, from legal sociology to transnational commercial arbitration. Encompassing legal fields normally associated with public law, transnational law builds bridges between public and private, domestic and international law.
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\r\nThe Centre's goal is to foster interdisciplinary research involving politics, philosophy, and law within King's, while simultaneously bridging the gap between these academic disciplines and public decision-making. The aim is to illuminate the major questions of today through the application of rigorous interdisciplinary thought in politics, philosophy and law.
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\r\nBroadly, the group's research spans three overlapping strands: International Law and War, encompassing aspects of law in relation to security and armed conflict; War and War Crimes, encompassing the relationships between law, war, strategy, ethics and crime; and Transitional (or post-atrocity) Justice, encompassing the range of judicial and non-judicial mechanisms for accountability.
\r\nYou can read WCRG’s blog here.
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\r\nCRASSH’s mission is to promote and support research innovation in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. It equips researchers to design and lead ambitious, interdisciplinary projects that make significant contributions to knowledge and bring effective social change. It champions research that experiments with creative forms of communication, explores inclusive forms of collaboration with a wide range of practitioners and participants, and engages with new publics in the UK and across the world. CRASSH also provides a space in which researchers from many different disciplinary backgrounds come together to think creatively and critically about the ethics and politics of research.
\r\nCRASSH hosts a broad range of research projects and centres as well as postdoctoral researchers working on individual projects. It runs a series of events and initiatives that facilitate connections between researchers across many different disciplines, bringing these together with practitioners and participants from other sectors of society. Its research networks bring together Cambridge postgraduate students, postdocs and established academic staff across a range of disciplines in a varied programme of seminars, reading groups, workshops and other activities that run throughout the year. CRASSH runs several fellowship schemes designed both for early career scholars at Cambridge and for visiting scholars from around the world.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":["Bursaries","Funded fellowships","Unfunded fellowships"],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.210945550000005,"longitude":0.09200497637871279},{"infrastructure_id":"847","name":"Centre for Children and Young People's Participation","town":"Preston","postcode":"PR1 2HE","tags":["art","history","law","health","political-science","policy","film-studies","media-studies","science","performance-studies"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Children and Young People’s Participation, established in 2007, is a research, teaching and networking hub concerned with children and young people’s participation, inclusion and empowerment. It implements a planned programme of research and social action and promote seminars, workshops, conferences and publications.\nMembers focus on bringing about the changes that children and young people seek by building links between children and young people, academics, policymakers and practitioners.
\nThe Centre is directed by and, through the UCLan School of Social Work, Care and Community, together with a board of Associate Directors from the statutory, voluntary and private sectors. These are supported by two research fellows dedicated to the Centre along with twenty-four other staff members who are drawn from across seven schools/sections within UCLan: Social Work Care and Community; Community Health and Midwifery; Sport and Health Sciences; Law; Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching; Community Engagement; Film Media and Performance. Seven of these staff have been recruited this year reflecting growing support for The Centre’s interdisciplinary work.
\nMembers’ expertise spans theories and practices of participatory research, crossing the boundaries of practice engagement and theory building, by working alongside children and young people to support them taking on roles as researchers, advisors and co-creators of knowledge. Subjects include children and young people’s lived and social citizenship, global perspectives on children’s participation and childhood, contemporary practice with children and young people, student involvement in children and young people’s participation, and participatory methods and pedagogy, including a variety of creative techniques for conducting and disseminating engaging research findings to other young people, local decision makers, national government ministers and international academic audiences.
\nThe Centre also has twenty associates (15 academic and five expert consultants). They include colleagues from the four nations of the UK and international colleagues with experience of building a culture of child participation in the global south or locally in the North West. Members also collaborate with fellow academics, participation workers and young people in extensive networks within the UK (particularly England and Wales) and internationally (through Eurochild and through leading roles in ICYRNet and the European Sociological Association childhood research network).
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.7593363,"longitude":-2.6992717},{"infrastructure_id":"854","name":"Global Policy Institute","town":"Durham","postcode":"DH1 3TU","tags":["law","political-science","policy"],"addr1":"School Of Government & International Affairs","addr2":"The Al-Qasimi Building","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Global Policy Institute was founded in 2014 to conduct multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research focused on the scholarship, politics, and policy of pressing global collective action problems. The Institute's network of world-class researchers, practitioners, and policymakers provides international intellectual leadership in the field of global challenges, and multilateral and transborder governance arrangements.
\nThe Institute is hosted in the School of Government and International Affairs and is a joint venture with the Durham Law School.
\nThe Institute's objective is to ensure that Durham University emerges as an important intellectual centre for the academic study, research, and policy developments in the field of international and global collective action problems, and how these are governed. Since globalisation has put many of these issues at the heart of politics and policy-making, Durham would potentially be centre-stage in research and policy issues with global reach.
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\nBy bringing together experts from Northern Universities, Global Policy North will deliver research collaboration and cutting-edge analysis on pressing global collective action problems. To do this, Global Policy North provides a networked platform for Northern academics and practitioners to extend the scope and scale of their research agendas through coordination and collaboration.
\nWith offices at Durham University, Global Policy North will shape new research directions spanning a number of key disciplines - public and private policy making, global politics, international relations, international political economy, and international law. The network's joined-up approach enables a better understanding of policy options and policy innovations in a rapidly changing global context. The network expects this will translate into meaningful impact in academic and policy terms.
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","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":57.16452475,"longitude":-2.1018363546621197},{"infrastructure_id":"872","name":"Centre for Research in Communities, Identities and Difference (CResCID)","town":"Kingston upon Thames","postcode":"KT1 1LQ","tags":["law","criminology","health","political-science","economics","policy","human-rights","development-studies","science","sociology","psychology"],"addr1":null,"addr2":null,"country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Research on Communities, Identities and Difference is a Research Centre located in the School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences at Kingston University.
\r\nIts mission is to produce strategic knowledge relevant to global problems by fostering multi-disciplinary research on social justice and how adversity impacts on individuals and their communities.
\r\nSince 2011, the Centre has established an international reputation for original research and policy-relevant knowledge. It has conducted a strategic programme of multi-disciplinary social scientific research (publication, dissemination, public events, knowledge transfer and user engagement activities), often in conjunction with external stakeholder groups - both academic and non-academic - in the UK and abroad.
\r\nThe Centre facilitates policy, practice, user engagement and academic collaborations within the School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences, which encompasses the departments of Criminology, Politics and Sociology, Economics, Law and Psychology.
\r\nA critical mass of researchers across the five departments of the School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences share a concern with social justice and human and social development; within this remit, the centre's research broadly addresses three inter-related research strands:
\r\nIn line with its overall mission statement, the Centre's aims are:
\r\nHuman–Animal Studies is one of the most rapidly growing international fields of research and scholarship.
\nThe Kingston group brings together sociologists, criminologists and other researchers, including colleagues from other university institutions, all of whom have an existing and developing interest and expertise in the field.
\nMembers of the group have a reputation for delivering high quality, internationally recognised research and publications. Their work aim to examine, understand, and evaluate critically the myriad of complex and multi-dimensional relationships between humans and nonhuman animals (whether they are real or virtual, historical or contemporary, factual or fictional, beneficial or detrimental). The group seeks to enhance the consideration of ecology and the fundamental interconnectedness of all living beings. Much of the research is conducted in collaboration with colleagues at other national and international institutions.
\nAs well, the group is home to PhD and postdoctoral researchers who are carrying out research within the field.
\nThe group is open to anybody with an interest in the field. All are welcome.
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\r\nThe group's research is focused on number of topics related to law and technology, including: aerospace, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, biotechnology, business-tech, cyber law, digital entertainment, e-commerce, employment, environment and climate change, healthcare, information technology, intellectual property, military technology, nano- and neuro- technology, robotics, security, space law, telecommunications, and many more.
\r\nThe Centre for Child and Family Justice Research is co-hosted by the Department of Sociology and the Lancaster Law School. Critical to the Centre’s work is collaboration with a range of national and international policy and practice organisations.
\nThe Centre’s aims are:
\nBringing together academics, practitioners and policy makers, the work of the Centre focuses on the formal operation of family justice systems, but also broader social justice concerns. The Centre’s mission is to progress cutting-edge research that has real-world impacts. Its explicit aims is to improve the lives of children, young people and families.
\nIn partnership with the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage Databank, Cafcass England and Cafcass Cymru, the Centre is progressing a major programme of work to increase the safe and ethical use of controlled data for family justice research. This programme of work is funded by the Nuffield Foundation and is a major stream of activity within the new Nuffield Family Justice Observatory.
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\nThe Lab specialises in speech acoustics and articulation, forensic speech science, speech technology, sociophonetics, bilingualism, and minority languages. The Lab’s research group meets regularly and its facilities are used by staff, undergraduates and postgraduates working on phonetics projects.
\nThe Lab is also affiliated with Soundscape Voice Evidence, which is a private forensic speech science consultancy based in the department.
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\nThe Centre is a collaborative network that provides a platform for interdisciplinary work on the focus Strands of Environmental and Land Law; Healthcare Law; and Technology and Intellectual Property Law. It aims to facilitate cooperation and research amongst specialists in the legal field and from other disciplines to explore issues in Law and Society, focused on these core areas. The Centre is expanding its scope of activities, including seminar hosting and research environment enhancement, including postgraduate researcher support.
\nThe Centre’s research includes four strands:
\nEnvironmental and Land Law\nMembers of the Environment and Land Law Strand have expertise in the following areas: access to the countryside, regulatory theory, planning law, green crimes, national infrastructure developments, climate change, sentimental attachments to land, co-ownership and cohabitation, and leases. This Strand is also concerned with corporate governance for sustainability and corporate social responsibility. Current projects include research-related policy developments in environmental law and sustainable development goals.
\nHealthcare Law\nThe Healthcare Law Strand aims to facilitate and promote scholarship and scientific debate relating to health (broadly interpreted to encompass a diversity of topics including bioethics, mental health and national and international health law and policy). The Strand is committed to supporting collaborative research between academics from a wide range of disciplines, including health economics, history, linguistics, medicine, philosophy, politics, and sociology, as well as law and criminology. It aims to develop projects between multiple academic departments and institutions, as well as with non-academic partners.
\nTechnology and Intellectual Property Law\nMembers of the Technology and Intellectual Property Law Strand have expertise in areas of law including technology policy related to AI, data protection, and competition. Intellectual property research interests cover copyright, patents, and trademarks, alongside perspectives on social and cultural implications. They are especially interested in contemporary developments in this area and interdisciplinary approaches to and collaborations on these subjects.
\nBuilding on its established reputation of the Law School in the areas of international law and human rights and its strong taught and research postgraduate programmes, the Centre for International Law and Human Rights promotes:
\nThe aim of the Research Hub is the minimisation of gambling-related harm through positive measures taken by service providers facilitating online gambling.
\r\nThe members' research focuses on what open banking API developers, banks, lenders, gambling operators and their technology providers can do to minimise harm.
\r\nMembers believe an effective prevention strategy should involve as many stakeholders as possible and develop regulatory standards based on evidence-based research. The fintech and payments industry plays a key role in protecting customers from gambling harm and recent advances in artificial intelligence and data science should be harnessed to better protect online gamblers. Members believe that if such measures are implemented in a transparent way, through industry initiative or regulation, this would significantly reduce the social and economic harms caused by online gambling.
\r\nThe methodology will involve a mix of data science, surveys and in-depth interviews with experts by experience, legal analysis and industry interviews.
\r\nMembers focus on the requirements for open banking APIs used for fraud prevention, anti-money laundering and affordability checks. The aim of members' research is to prevent misuse of open banking data for marketing purposes exploiting financial vulnerabilities of customers. Secondly, they examine the effectiveness of gambling blocks offered by banks and other protective measures taken by banks. Thirdly, they research correlations between particular gambling behaviours and suicide by examining largescale banking data in order to extrapolate suicide prevention measures banks could take. Fourthly, they plan to work with some online gambling service providers to examine the effectiveness of early identification of vulnerable or at risk players. The aim is to identify better datapoints for establishing a reliable risk profile that triggers early interventions (slowing down, limiting deposits/stakes, communication, nudging towards self-exclusion, exclusion). Furthermore, they examine other protective measures taken by the gambling industry, including regular statements on gambling expenditure and losses. Finally, members undertake research on better understanding how gamblers get into debt and how responsible lending standards should be improved to address online gambling risks specifically.
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\nIn the 2021 Research Excellence Framework results this Unit of Assessment significantly increased the volume and quality of submitted centre-hosted research from 2014, coming close to the top 50 Law Schools in terms of research power, and demonstrating examples of world-leading and internationally excellent research, as well as internationally recognised work.\nThe Centre works with researchers and research institutions across the globe, and regularly secure funding from a variety of prestigious sources, including European and British funding streams, such as the Economic and Social Research Council and the British Academy.
\nThe Centre hosts a number of research units which are the backbone of this platform for academic research and public engagement in its multiple forms, as well as doctoral and post-doctoral supervision and mentoring.
\nThe research units are:
\nLiverpool Centre for Advanced Policing Studies’ research agenda is themed around a number of dynamic research clusters which reflect the primary and secondary interests of the Centre's staff.
\nCurrent research activities are themed around the following research clusters:
\nThese research clusters enable researchers to engage in the co-creation of knowledge alongside industry stakeholders. They do this by addressing contemporary issues within policing and broader human security domains. In addition to this, their research initiatives and aspirations enable them to play a strong role in the Research Exercise Framework.
\nThe Centre draws expertise on a number of disciplines, including Policing studies, Criminal justice, Criminology, Law and Psychology.
\nIt also carries out work within the following research areas:
\nIn bringing together leading researchers from these fields, the Centre produces sector-leading research that addresses the needs of modern policing, law enforcement and security.
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\nThe work from the Group draws on the relevant research specialisms across three Faculties (Faculty of Arts, Professional and Social Studies, Faculty of Business and Law, Faculty of Science) and five Schools (Liverpool Screen School, School of Humanities and Social Science, School of Education, Liverpool Business School, School of Sport and Exercise Sciences), bringing together a diverse community of researchers, which helps promote interdisciplinarity.
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\nIn the 2021 research assessment exercise (Research Excellence Framework 2021), 54% of the research submitted by the Communication, Cultural and Media Studies Research Group was rated as world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*) in terms of its originality, significance and rigour, whilst the remaining 46% was rated as internationally or nationally recognised. Furthermore, 33% of the Impact Case Studies submitted for assessment was judged as having outstanding impact (4*) or very considerable impact (3*) in terms of their reach and significance.
\nFor the Research Excellence Framework 2021 cycle, the size and research expertise of each cluster within the Research Group have expanded considerably. The total number of staff submitted to the Research Excellence Framework has increased from 13 in 2013 to 32 in 2020.
\nOver the past few years, the Group has made considerable advances in facilitating and developing multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, international research and collaboration with a wide range of external partners in the UK and around the world. This vibrant and dynamic research environment has resulted in the production of high-quality research outputs with significant impact nationally and internationally, increased generation of external funding and a growing postgraduate research community.
\nA major interdisciplinary collaborative initiative from this Research Group is the East Asian Security and Peace Project, which analyses the role of identity in shaping foreign policy discourse and security relations in East Asia. Funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Science), this project is linked to a £2.3 million research programme based in Sweden, involving a multidisciplinary team of scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Another important interdisciplinary project focuses on Brexit and tourism, which has resulted in a major book publication in 2020. A third project on the writer Malcolm Lowry has raised the profile of Lowry as a writer born on Merseyside. The project has made Lowry’s life and works accessible to new audiences through a wide range of public activities, including guided local walks, illustrated talks, film screenings, a conference, and new artistic commissions.\nSome researchers from the Group are involved with the Liverpool Film Seminar Series.
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\r\nWorking primarily in the global South, IIED has been applying original thinking to sustainable development issues -- linking local priorities to global challenges -- for more than 50 years.
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\r\nThe Academy:
\r\nThe Academy is for:
\r\nSustainNET was established in February 2020 as a network community of individuals at Edge Hill University who are passionate about sustainability. Formed with the support of the Institute for Social Responsibility (ISR), it seeks to advance the sustainability agenda both on campus and in the region on four interconnected fronts, namely research, education, student engagement and local community partnership. Its main aims are to:
\nSustainNET originally developed from the organisation of the ‘Sustainability in the Region’ event held in Ormskirk on 6th November 2019 that brought together around 20 local sustainability-related organisations, Edge Hill University staff and the general public to engage in various knowledge exchange activities.
\nAt the University, SustainNET is a cross-campus venture with representation from Biology, Business, Computer Science, Creative Arts, Education, Geography and Geology, Medicine/Health/Social Care, Psychology, Social Sciences, Sport and Physical Activity, Centre for Learning and Teaching, Careers, Corporate Communications, Facilities Management, Human Resources, International Office, IT Services, Learning Services, Student Services, and the Students Union.
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\nThe Centre is the vehicle to achieve the objective of the Fundación of developing and reinforcing the links between the United Kingdom and Spain. This is done by means of fostering cutting-edge knowledge generation and joint research projects between researchers in the United Kingdom, and at the LSE in particular, on the one hand, and Spain, on the other.
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\r\nOne of the Group's key assets is the breadth and diversity of interests and expertise, including:
\r\nThe Human Rights Consortium Scotland is the civil society network to defend and promote human rights in Scotland.
\r\nThe Consortium has around 170 network member organisations from across civil society. The consortium works together in all sorts of ways, such as by sharing information and insights, projects or research on specific issues, and around influencing policy and law.
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In this time of global disruption, the Centre for Social Justice and Global Responsibility provides a focal point for innovative and critical engagement with social, legal and political responses to the changing landscapes of the twenty-first century.
\nThrough the work of its research groups, the Centre examines key issues of social justice reform in diverse areas such as access to justice, crime, disability, human rights, migration and sustainability. Ultimately, it seeks to challenge otherisation and work to ensure understanding and inclusiveness.
\nThe Centre operates through seven interdisciplinary research groups covering Crime and Justice; Critical Autism/Disability Studies; Education and Social Justice; Law and Access to Justice; Race, Gender and Sexualities; Space, Place and Society; and Sustainability – Policy, Practice and Pedagogy.
\nBuilding on the work of Weeks Centres for Social and Policy Research, and LSBU’s Education Research Centre and drawing on established links to academics, civil society and governments, the Centre seeks to examine critically the sources, nature and impact of social injustice, inequality and exclusion nationally and throughout the world.
\nIts themes are embedded in the research of a diverse group of scholars who are experts in human rights, education, law, criminology, history, international relations, politics, sociology, housing, planning and geography. The diversity of the centre's membership facilitates the production and dissemination of interdisciplinary research, which promotes cross-cultural understanding.
\nResearcher development is an important aspect of the work of the Centre which offers opportunities for participation in writing retreats, research labs for the development of skills in for example bid writing, impact and enterprise, and peer support including mentoring and pre-publication feedback.
\nThe work of the Centre informs the student experience at London South Bank University. Research informed teaching is an aspect of all their courses and students have inclusive access to multi-disciplinary seminars and researcher development opportunities. They have a thriving and growing doctoral community.
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\nSPPP’s vision is to achieve sustainability through research, education, and action. Its purpose is to address the complex real-world challenges by linking research with practical action and to hold policy makers to account for their commitments on the SDGs. Key national and International partnerships and collaborations include;
\nHosted by the Institute for Social Justice, this is a cross-school network focused on the lived experience of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants. It has a particular interest in human rights, qualitative, action research and a compassionate approach to inquiry that informs policy, practice, and pedagogy relating to refugees, asylum seekers and matters relating to migration.
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\r\nIt was established to promote research and education in fields of importance for historians and economists, including the history of economic and social thought, economic history and the application of economic concepts to historical problems. The objective of the Centre is to encourage fundamental research in history, economics, and related disciplines. It also encourages the participation of historians and economists in addressing issues of public importance.
\r\nIn cooperation with its counterpart Centre at Harvard, the Cambridge Centre undertakes research projects and organises workshops, seminars and exchanges of faculty and graduate students. It provides the base for the History Project, and for current research projects on Exchanges of Economic, Legal and Political Ideas; Energy History and Gender Bias in India.
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\r\nWe facilitate close engagement between the arts, humanities and social sciences, biology and medicine. By approaching reproduction collectively and across disciplines, we offer fresh perspectives on broad issues which range from global policies to those which affect individuals, families and populations.
\r\nThe rapid advances we see in reproductive technologies are instigating new legal, biological, medical, ethical and sociological challenges regarding topics such as gene editing, artificial gametes, developmental programming, parenting and family structures. This strategic research initiative will enable us to promote connections between these urgent contemporary challenges and, in the long view offer up critical perspectives and practical solutions.
\r\nWe bring together researchers from all disciplines across Cambridge. We run a busy programme of cross-disciplinary events, as well as supporting researchers through small grants for projects, training and events relating to reproduction. We also facilitate new collaborations, funding applications and projects.
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","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.877732449999996,"longitude":-0.41005165765760376},{"infrastructure_id":"1076","name":"Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics (MCR Linguistics)","town":"Manchester","postcode":"M15 6LL","tags":["law","health","language","literature","linguistics"],"addr1":"Manchester Metropolitan University","addr2":"Humanities Building","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics (MCR Linguistics) is a group of linguistics researchers and educators who take the view that language fundamentally enriches all aspects of life.
\r\nResearchers explore language in public and private social domains such as education, law, health, communication, linguistic landscaping and folk understandings of language in public life. They are committed to producing research that is socially relevant, impactful, rigorous, transformative and applicable to contexts outside academia.
\r\nCentral to the Centre’s research ethos is a commitment to public engagement and knowledge exchange. In so doing, members at the Centre strive to raise awareness about social inequalities enacted through language, provide people with the skills and understanding with which to improve their language-related practices, and contribute to debates around communication more widely. As such, they are committed to promoting social justice and better communication between individuals, communities and within society at large.
\r\nThe Centre’s research aims to push disciplinary boundaries and widen the scope of relevance in the complex understanding of language. Members work across multiple levels: individual, community, classroom-based, regional, national, trans-national and international.
\r\nThe Centre’s teaching is informed by, and informs, its research activities. Researchers work to offer research-intensive taught programmes where students across all levels of study are encouraged to contribute to the Centre's research culture that values puzzling about language and challenging linguistic oppression.
\r\nStudents play a central role in contributing to the Centre's research culture. Through non-traditional assignments that encourage empirical research and the use of innovative methodological tools, members produce an educational arrangement where learning about language takes places in multiple directions and at multiple levels. In addition, the Centre supervises a wide range of doctoral students who continue to enrich the understanding of language and linguistics in local, national and global contexts.
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\nCentre’s members believe young people should have the opportunity to participate meaningfully in decisions that affect them. MCYS employs participatory approaches to engage with young people across a range of contemporary and historical issues.\nAs an interdisciplinary research centre, the MCYS team brings together academics and practitioners from a range of disciplines, including Sociology, History, Criminology, Linguistics, Politics, English and Classics. They use their expertise in participatory and creative methodologies to explore areas such as:
\nIn addition to collaborating with young people and their communities, MCYS works with agencies and organisations across the public, private and voluntary sectors, both in the UK and internationally. The Centre welcomes opportunities to work with third sector organisations, government bodies, the education sector, universities, professional societies, non-departmental public bodies, and advocacy groups.
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\nMembers specialise in evaluating policies, programmes and projects and advising national and local policy-makers on the development of evidence-informed policy. PERU works in the UK and Europe for clients and funders including UK government departments, local government, the voluntary sector and the European Commission. What makes PERU's work distinct is its emphasis on methodological rigour, its knowledge of multiple methods, and its broad expertise across different sectors.
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\nThe Hub explores diverse models for creative practices, ranging from critical and historical writing to performance, sound archives, painting, sculpture (analogue and digital), time-based arts, curating, screen art (including screen dance/performance), performer training, dramaturgy, drawing, printing, and photography.
\nThe Hub’s work takes place in the public realm, locally and internationally, through exhibitions, seminars, conferences, screenings, events, performances, critical writing and publishing.
\nThe Hub contributes to the overall research culture and expertise at Manchester School of Art through the local and international profiles of the staff. Its activities include:
\nThe Hub recognises and embraces the importance of individual practice as well as collaborative and inter/trans-disciplinary work. Members actively promote the fact that art and performance is generated and developed in digital and analogue idioms across real and virtual sites, platforms and realities, working at and challenging the boundaries of the live and/or liveness, the proximal and online. In addition, they embrace new technologies and methodologies as well as cross-disciplinary collaborations with academic and non-academic partners in the UK and abroad whilst also providing specific expertise and knowledge in materials and processes outlined above, as well as 'out-dated' analogue media such as micro-fiches, slides, vinyl and film. In response to the pandemic, members have embraced new ways of making and disseminating work online.
\nThe Hub team embraces, interrogates and responds to contemporary issues from within a research environment that is clustered around rigorous intellectual research themes, including:
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\nEHRAC is a team of expert lawyers and NGO-management professionals, specialising in international human rights law, focusing primarily on the European Convention on Human Rights. The Centre operates as an independent human rights centre, based within the Law School. It uses international legal mechanisms to challenge serious human rights abuses in Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Ukraine, in partnership with committed local lawyers and NGOs. EHRAC aims to secure justice for victims of human rights violations and their families, and bring about lasting systemic change in the region.
\nEHRAC builds and strengthens the expertise of human rights lawyers and NGOs operating in challenging circumstances by providing long-term legal mentoring, bespoke training, and ongoing advice and support. Working in close collaboration, EHRAC takes ground-breaking cases on behalf of vulnerable and marginalised communities. It sets new international legal precedents which improve human rights standards, and advocates to ensure that state authorities fulfil their human rights obligations.
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\r\nThe purpose of the GRG is to organise events that bring together scholars from these diverse sub-groups to strengthen the impact of their research and to create new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration and methods of inquiry.
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\r\nThe group is always interested in hearing from those with research interests in the performance of songs, music, recordings, community narratives and cultural texts (broadly defined), particularly where they construct conflict between ethnic, religious or racial groups in the social life of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
\r\nPerforming Prejudice engages with methods across the arts and humanities, such as critical discourse analysis, performance studies, ethnomusicology, media analysis, sociological and socio-legal approaches.
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\nThe group undertakes independent and commissioned research. It analyses and comments on policy and practice issues in relation to the experience of ethnic minorities in a wide variety of contexts within criminal and social justice.
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\nThe group works with a wide range of stakeholders to ensure its research has impact. These include:
\nThis group brings together colleagues from a variety of public and private law areas to uncover the impact of innovation on society, in the context of business and governance. It is the foundation for the development of cutting-edge ideas and provides the basis for sharing innovative approaches to business law and governance.
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\r\nIt also explores the relationship between individuals and the state, particularly in the context of human rights law.
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","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":54.98250864212084,"longitude":-1.615005800576292},{"infrastructure_id":"1144","name":"gloknos: Centre for Global Knowledge Studies","town":"Cambridge","postcode":"CB3 9DT","tags":["art","law","philosophy","anthropology-ethnography","technology","science","sociology","agricultural-studies-keyword","biotechnologies-keyword","anthropocene-keyword","science-fiction-keyword"],"addr1":null,"addr2":null,"country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Global Knowledge Studies: gloknos (/'glɒnɒs/) is a multi-disciplinary research centre and intellectual community based at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge and concerned with the constitution, diffusion, exchange, and use of human knowledges throughout history.
\r\nIt aims to foster advanced trans-disciplinary research and pedagogical training in Global Epistemics, as well as cross-sectorial exchanges and initiatives, through a transnational network of associate members and partners engaged in academic and public-oriented collaborations and activities, an institutional and virtual infrastructure, and a range of scientific and public dissemination channels dedicated to the diffusion of its research outputs to the widest audience.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":["Unfunded fellowships"],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.2055314,"longitude":0.1186637},{"infrastructure_id":"1174","name":"Institute of Humanities","town":"London","postcode":"E1 7HT","tags":["art","history","law","museum-studies","language","literature","music-sound","linguistics","creative-writing","science"],"addr1":null,"addr2":null,"country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Institute of Humanities, based in the Department of Humanities, provides an intellectual home for all the Humanities research conducted across the University.
\r\nColleagues in History, English Literature, English Language and Linguistics, Creative Writing, American Studies and Music form the core membership , but the Institute's research activities are deliberately interdisciplinary, with colleagues working together through research groups, holding regular reading groups and writing workshops, and coming together for a weekly Institute Research Seminar.
\r\nInstitute members are committed to promoting the importance of the Humanities, working across faculties and sectors to address the pressing issues of the modern world. They aim to catalyse new research projects in strategically important areas, especially those that combine scholarly Humanities research with the Sciences, Arts, and Business and Law. To this end, the Institute facilitates engagement between its members and other faculties and institutions, but also supports meaningful public engagement with local and national partner organisations. With research funded by UKRI, AHRC, The Leverhulme Trust, The British Council and The British Academy, and research partners including Historic England, The National Railway Museum, The Bowes Museum, Arts Council England, New Writing North, Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums, Shandy Hall, and the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle, the Institute of Humanities is a dynamic and outward looking community.
\r\nAll Humanities scholars, postgraduate students and faculty in the University are members of the Institute and are invited to join one or more Research Groups. Membership of the Institute provides access to seminars, workshops, writing retreats, bid-writing advice, and book launches, as well as access to seed-funding streams. The Institute regularly welcomes visiting international scholars and support promising postdoctoral candidates in applications to leading funding bodies including the Leverhulme Trust and the British Academy, and it is always keen to hear from anyone wishing to partner with its membership, or to propose new projects.
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\r\nThe group shares interests in issues a range of issues, including: activism; the politics of educational practice and pedagogy; feminism; law; migration, forced migration and multilingualism; histories of racism and slavery; social and linguistic inclusion/exclusion; and social justice.
\r\nCurrent externally funded projects run by members of the group include a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, ‘Implicit and Explicit Language Attitudes and Accent Discrimination in England’ and Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, ‘Truth-Telling/Story-telling: Literary and Critical Perspectives on Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission’. Recent publications by group members include works on literary responses to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the undercover policing of internet sex crime, and feminist periodical culture. Current PhD projects include explorations of contemporary Palestinian memoir and the challenges of visibility for contemporary working-class writers.
\r\nDrawing together expertise on first and second language acquisition and education, histories and representations of activism, truth and reconciliation, forensic linguistics, language attitudes, and literary representations of migration and law, this interdisciplinary group works across disciplines and time frames to explore some of the ways in which power and societal relations are maintained and questioned through language and literature. The group runs a regular reading group as well as one off symposia and other events.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5074456,"longitude":-0.1277653},{"infrastructure_id":"1188","name":"Legal and Professional Skills Research (LEAPS) Group [INACTIVE]","town":"London","postcode":"E1 7HT","tags":["law","development-studies"],"addr1":null,"addr2":null,"country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Legal and Professional Skills (LEAPS) group focuses on how to integrate research into academic learning and legal practice. The group is an inclusive collegiate group that provides support to promote and enhance legal education at Northumbria and beyond based on its pioneering research. The group builds on the work of the Clinical Legal Education Research group and acts as a focus point for activity. A varied programme of support for conference attendance, writing retreats and collaboration have created an innovative environment and a strong platform for growth.
\r\nLEAPS is committed to informing and contributing to developments in teaching and learning in the Law School and, in particular, to fostering a research-rich teaching and learning environment for students and staff alike. The Law School's existing clinical programmes regularly involve students engaging in experiential learning in the community and its focus on enquiry-based learning methods enables the group’s research to both draw on, and contribute to, new innovative learning initiatives.
\r\nThere is a well-established history of research into clinical legal education in the Law School which publishes the International Journal of Clinical Legal Education and hosts an annual international conference. Members of LEAPS are on editorial boards of legal education journals, hold prestigious legal education roles with key external stakeholders and are regularly quoted in the mainstream news in relation to legal education matters.
\r\nResearch carried out by LEAPS has had a significant impact and has influenced the Higher Education sector. In 2019, Professor Chris Ashford carried out the QAA Law benchmark Statement which defines the academic standards that can be expected of UK law graduates.
\r\nFunding success has driven high-quality research events and outputs. For example, Northumbria hosted an international seminar funded by the Modern Law Review, Revisiting Pressing Problems in the Law: What is the Law School For and a project in collaboration with Cumbria University explored the evolving technological trends in legal practice.
\r\nIn 2018, researchers led the Family Justice Project which worked with a BAME women’s organisation to provide free community legal support. The project was awarded ‘best pro bono activity’ at the LawWorks and Attorney General Student Awards 2018.
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\r\nThe Northumbria Centre for Evidence and Criminal Justice Studies (NCECJS) has a global reputation for international excellence. Research addresses and explores issues/factors such as criminal evidence, expert evidence, youth justice, and law and technology. Its mission is to undertake research of value and interest to a wide range of academic and practitioner communities within the legal systems of the UK, and other EU and common law countries.
\r\nThe Centre encourages the exchange of ideas and facilitates collaboration regionally, nationally and internationally. It brings together Northumbria academics and postgraduate students from a range of disciplines with colleagues from other academic institutions, members of the judiciary, legal practitioners and other major stakeholders in the criminal justice system such as senior police officers and leading expert witnesses. Its reputation is based on an extensive range of academic publications as well as a major programme of externally funded research and significant public engagement activities. The Centre organises an annual seminar programme for researchers and practitioners, as well as national and international conferences or symposia. The majority of events are free of charge and open to non-members, who through participation in such events often become involved in a wider range of the Centre’s activities.
\r\nCentre members have attracted research funding from bodies such as The Modern Law Review, the European Commission, the Belgian Ministry of Justice and the Nuffield Foundation. Several of the senior academic members are also editors or contributors to numerous books and journals in the fields of criminal law, criminal evidence, civil evidence and socio-legal studies (both academic and practitioner) for leading publishers.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5074456,"longitude":-0.1277653},{"infrastructure_id":"1190","name":"Chinese Law, Society and Economy Research Interest Group (CLSE RIG)","town":"London","postcode":"E1 7HT","tags":["law","political-science"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"China is a vast country and the second largest economy in the world. It is now increasingly seeking to perform a leading role in the international community. Things happening in China – good or bad – often attract global attention. This makes China-related research exciting.
\nThe Chinese Law Society and Economy Research Interest Group (CLSE RIG) is a platform, a forum and an outlet for academics and practitioners who are interested in research about or in relation to China, including comparative research and pertinent international research.
\nThe Group aims to:
\nEmpirical Legal Studies Research Interest Group seeks to increase the production of empirical legal studies in UK Universities, and to improve the quality and diversity of related research. The Group organises round table events with academics from other institutions, and an Empirical Legal Studies conference.
\nMembers define both ‘empirical’ and ‘law’ broadly, for the widest reach. By ‘empirical’ they mean systematic data collection, whether qualitative or quantitative, using whatever method. By ‘law’ they mean the operation of individual laws, the behaviour of law’s agents, legal education, and the ‘law in action’ generally. The group contains members from both Northumbria and Newcastle Universities.
\nGroup members believe that most areas of legal study could be enhanced with some form of empirical component.
\nThe Northumbria Open Access Journal of Legal Research Methodology was created and edited by members of the group. The Journal invites submissions on all aspects of legal research methodology, including (but not limited to) empirical approaches.
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\nThis multidisciplinary group acts as a platform for researchers from Northumbria Law School and the wider University, whose research interests include the governance of the environment and sustainable development. Members include well established researchers, early career researchers and PhDs that are addressing environmental governance and sustainable development challenges at both national, regional and global scales.
\nActivities of the Environmental Governance and Sustainable Development research interest group include running knowledge exchange seminars which tackle cross-cutting research sub-themes, such as the sustainable development goals, environmental justice and climate change. Additionally, the research interest group provides an opportunity to foster research collaborations and ensure that Northumbria’s research in this area is reaching key constituencies.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5074456,"longitude":-0.1277653},{"infrastructure_id":"1195","name":"International and Comparative Law and Human Rights Research Interest Group","town":"London","postcode":"E1 7HT","tags":["law","human-rights","comparative-studies"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The International and Comparative Law and Human Rights Research Interest Group brings together all staff and postgraduate students in the law school with an interest in related subject matter, broadly conceived.
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\nMembers of the group, in partnership with AuditOne, the North-east NHS audit consortium, have teamed-up to provide a series of Continuing Professional Development courses for public sector staff working in counter-fraud. Drawing on the expertise and research of members, these courses will strengthen counter-fraud responses in the NHS and disseminate the wider research of group members to partners in the NHS, across the public sector, and beyond.
\nThe group seeks to inform policy, and has recently responded to consultations by the Law Commission, the EU Commission, HM Treasury and others, and also organised the Law Commission’s consultation and closing symposium into the law on confiscation in Part 2 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 on behalf of the University.
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\nThe Centre provides world-leading research that enhances understanding and practice in relation to a range of key local, national and international issues. A key element of the centre's research is that it combines a wide range of disciplines including criminology, forensics, sociology, law, social work, geography, and beyond. Members co-produce much of their work with policing, local authority and central government agencies, and international partners.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5074456,"longitude":-0.1277653},{"infrastructure_id":"1206","name":"Insecurity, Violence and Harm Research Cluster","town":"London","postcode":"E1 7HT","tags":["law","criminology","political-science","gender-sexuality-studies","development-studies","science","sociology","diplomacy"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Insecurity, Violence and Harm is an interdisciplinary research cluster based primarily within the Department of Social Sciences, aimed at creating a dynamic and research-led environment that will serve as the jump off point for collaborative publications and bidding activity. It is an umbrella group welcoming all individuals interested in wide interpretations of the concepts of ‘security/ insecurity’, ‘violence’, and ‘harm’, including colleagues in International Relations and Politics, International Development, Sociology, Policing, and Criminology.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5074456,"longitude":-0.1277653},{"infrastructure_id":"1209","name":"Gender, Violence and Abuse Research Network (GVARN)","town":"London","postcode":"E1 7HT","tags":["art","law","cultural-studies","museum-studies","gender-sexuality-studies","science"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Gender, Violence and Abuse Research Network (GVARN), established through an initial collaboration between Social Sciences and Law reflects the growing and extensive interest in these research topics from scholars across the university.
\nEstablished in 2019, with about 30 core members from all four faculties across the University, GVARN has provided an inter-disciplinary network for Northumbria scholars to share and develop their research interests. The initial aim has been to provide an intellectual home for GVA scholars, with the intention to provide opportunities for collaboration on funding bids, projects and other such initiatives.
\nIt has hosted two seminar programmes, the first featuring Northumbria scholars to give members opportunities to learn about each other’s research profiles and interests. The second seminar programme, run online during COVID-19 restrictions, has featured scholars from Northumbria and beyond and has included international audiences and speakers. These online seminars have been very popular, regularly attracting audiences of at least 20 scholars and practitioners from statutory and third sector organisations.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5074456,"longitude":-0.1277653},{"infrastructure_id":"1215","name":"Tropical Ecosystems Network","town":"York","postcode":"YO10 5DD","tags":["history","law","geography","archaeology"],"addr1":"University Of York","addr2":"Heslington","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Tropical Ecosystem Network seeks to understand tropical environments focussing on themes such as resilience, ecological restoration and protected areas.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.9453903,"longitude":-1.0314592943104675},{"infrastructure_id":"1220","name":"York Asia Research Network (YARN)","town":"York","postcode":"YO10 5DD","tags":["law","health","cultural-studies","museum-studies","information-studies","language","literature","sustainability","technology","science"],"addr1":"University Of York","addr2":"Heslington","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The York Asia Research Network (YARN) is an interdisciplinary group for people across the University whose research interests relate to Asia.
\nYARN is supported and funded by the Research Centre for Social Sciences (ReCSS), Humanities Research Centre (HRC), Global York, as well as academic departments across the University of York.
\nWhilst YARN is essentially a region focussed network, the research interests of its members are consistent with the University of York’s seven interdisciplinary Research Themes. These themes help to align members' academic strengths to best meet the global challenges of today and thus address both the UN sustainability goals and the four strategic objectives of the UK Aid Strategy.
\nThe research themes are:
\nThe Global Health Academy is a vibrant, evidence led academic community and cross-disciplinary structure. The academy showcases, support and help enable global health research, learning and networks – advancing the University’s global ambitions and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It delivers impact for society by drawing together resources within and beyond the University community to enable better and more equitable health for all. The Global Health Academy works to support the creation, curation and implementation of global health knowledge across a diverse global community including practitioners, trainers, researchers, policy makers, business, local community and international agencies.
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\r\nThe CRJ aims to contribute to public and academic debate, and to influence the thinking of law and policymakers through publications, seminars and conferences. It also aims to build and strengthen a vibrant and supportive research culture in which experienced and new researchers alike are able to develop and test their ideas.
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\nRecent work has included analysis of the need for businesses to be sustainable and socially responsible; the challenges presented by new technologies, including artificial intelligence; ways in which struggling businesses can be supported; controls on abuses of the corporate format; and ways in which companies can harness the economic benefit of intellectual property.
\nThe Centre is strongly international in outlook, with excellent links with India, China and Turkey. Recent projects have been supported by research grants from the Economic and Social Research Council, the Global Challenges Research Fund, the Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Education of People’s Republic of China, and the Social Science Foundation of China.
\nThe Centre enjoys strong links with practice and members have regularly organised conferences in collaboration with professional organisations and firms. Highlight events have included the annual conference of the Partnership, the annual conference in the Intersection Between Corporate Law and Technology, and other national and international fora. Other collaborations with practitioners have included an innovative webinar roundtable discussion in which Centre Professors discussed with practitioners the question “will Covid-19 change legal systems permanently?”. The Centre is also proud of the collaborative organisation with UCL/Norton Rose of a Secured Transactions Reform conference. The Centre enjoys rewarding engagement with Honorary and Visiting Professors who have distinguished themselves in the field of insolvency law and business and human rights.
\nThe Centre has a strong record of supporting early career researchers with several members having completed doctorates in the Centre. Its taught Masters’ modules are research-led and inspiring and there is a thriving doctoral community, with regular successful completions. It is notable that several Masters’ students have been inspired to study PhDs in the Centre, and there have been regular publications by PhD students and by Masters’ students.
\nThe Centre publishes an open-access journal, Nottingham Insolvency and Business Law e-Journal, which has included special issue to support the partnership conference and to showcase the work of early career researchers, and invites submissions at any time.
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\r\nGroup members’ research interests lie in the medical use of the human body (especially organ transplantation but also medical research and bio-banking) and health related dignity and rights issues; capacity, treatment of the mentally incapable and mental health issues (including issues related to the employment context); and the legal aspects of risk management, clinical governance and patient safety, and nursing law.
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\nStaff are also willing to supervise MPhil and PhD students in the IP law field.
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\r\nMembers are interested in collaborating with researchers in other Schools within Cardiff and those at other institutions working in the field of language and law, broadly conceived. They aim more generally to facilitate, encourage and undertake collaborative research between legal practitioners so they are interested, too, in collaborating with those who work in legal settings of any sort.
\r\nTo this end, reading groups are held every few weeks during term time and coordinate research talks, projects and events.
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\nThe group's members are trained in methodological innovation, with a particular strength in qualitative mixed-methods, participatory action research, visual methods, biography, life-story and narrative research, and ethnography.
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\r\nThe centre's work relates to School Themes, such as:
\r\nLocated within the Cultures of the Everyday research cluster in the Communications, Culture and Media team, this group aims to explore a wide range of aspects of food media and cultures. This dates back to the group's collaboration on the book Food and Cultural Studies (Routledge, 2004).
\nGroup members have published widely on questions of class and gender in television cookery programmes including work on Nigella Lawson, Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and the campaigning culinary documentary. Within this work they have also addressed the relationships between food and neoliberalism; feminism; lifestyle; and ethical consumption.
\nAnother focus has been food writing and journalism and, in particular, the work of Jane Grigson, Elizabeth David and Nigel Slater. Although members continue to work in these areas, they have also recently published on the relationship between food and cultural policy, focusing on the role of urban food festivals.
\nThe Group welcomes PhD students who share interests in food media and culture.
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\nThe primary objective is to conduct high quality criminological and criminal justice research that can be applied to crime prevention practice. The Unit also aims to disseminate knowledge as widely as possible through professional and academic publications, conferences and seminars.
\nThe NCRU has an ambitious vision in this connection, supported by a healthy flow of funding from internal and external sources. It also seeks to provide a stimulating and caring environment for the supervision of postgraduate research.
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\r\nThe Fundamental Rights and Equality Group (FREG) comprises academics, doctoral researchers and honorary fellows working within the fields of human rights, equality, migration and law, and religion.
\nThe group provides a leading research forum in areas related to fundamental rights, equality and migration. Hosting conferences, events and lectures, the group brings together academics, practitioners and policy makers to debate emerging research challenges.
\nThe group's conception of human rights is broad but what underpins the ethos of the group is consideration of the interplay between human rights and equality at domestic, European and international levels.
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\nWhilst this opens up a variety of possibilities, examples might include the spatial/temporal experiences of workers engaged in forms of precarious and/or informal labour, (re)configurations of urban space, the relationship between spatial/temporal experiences of migration and migrants' subjectivities, conceptions of 'home', spatial and temporal aspects of social inequality and marginalisation, or relations between humans and non-humans.
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\nThe Critical Security Studies (CSS) research group focuses on issues related to:
\nThe group is particularly interested in the intersections between traditional and non-traditional security and encourages interdisciplinary knowledge-exchange and approaches to the conceptualisation and management of security challenges.
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\r\nMembers analyse data sets and systems for bias, interpretability, brittleness and robustness. They carry out risk analysis and classification to understand which restrictions and controls should be applied. They develop bespoke Artificial Intelligence solutions for organisations.
\r\nThe automation enabled by AI and data analytics has the potential to radically alter the way people work. The Institute works at integrating AI within businesses from both the human and business perspective, understanding how this technology will impact employees and their families and how society might react. This includes research into understanding how these products translate across international boundaries and how people with special characteristics might be adversely affected.
\r\nMembers of the Institute's team sit on law commission working groups to analyse how the current law can be used to manage internet issues such as cyberhate and to influence and propose changes to those laws.
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\nDealing with the challenges and transformations caused by this shift pose major problems and some opportunities for governments at every level, from the broadly international to the intensely local.
\nThe Migration and Refugees Research Network engages directly with these issues. It embraces an enriching interdisciplinarity, with researchers and practitioners from social anthropology, refugee studies, sociology, political science, computer science, media studies, psychology, legal scholars, business studies, among other disciplines.
\nFrom whatever disciplines members come, whatever research partnerships are formed, the network's work centres on the predicament and opportunities of migrants and refugees today, globally. The network's research includes, for example, studies into refugee entrepreneurship and their integration into the labour market, migrants as political agents, housing for forced migrants, migrant children in education, and computing models for managing migrants’ data.
\nThe network works together with both colleagues in other universities and research centres, both in Europe and beyond. Above all, the network will seek to collaborate with institutions, government agents, and practitioners in charitable and public policy sectors, on projects of mutual interest.
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\r\nMany approaches are used in AI to do this. Some 'hard code' the intelligence directly into the system using logic and rules. Others use learning-based approaches ('machine learning') in which the system is taught how to perform the task by being given examples often presented in the form of large data sets.
\r\nIn recent years, AI, and in particular, machine learning has been successfully deployed across a wide range of applications. The AI and Data network brings together researchers from across the university who are developing and applying new AI technologies in a number of different areas, including computing, robotics, business, healthcare, surgery, law, engineering, psychology, philosophy and bioinformatics.
\r\nThe AI and Data network also underpins the Institute for Ethical AI which seeks to develop ethical and trustworthy intelligent software solutions for business, organisations and society.
\r\nThe institute draws on a broad range of expertise from across the university, including technology, science, business, law and the social sciences to offer hands-on, practical advice and support to organisations seeking to maximise the benefits of AI and data analysis to organisations, their employees and customers, and to society as a whole.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.755223,"longitude":-1.2301040395972822},{"infrastructure_id":"1356","name":"Centre for Diversity Policy Research and Practice","town":"Oxford","postcode":"OX3 0BP","tags":["law","cultural-studies","museum-studies","policy","human-rights","gender-sexuality-studies"],"addr1":"Oxford Brookes University","addr2":"Gipsy Lane","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Diversity Policy Research and Practice was established in 2004. It is a centre which specialises in inter-disciplinary research and knowledge exchange on gender, diversity and inclusion in organisations, the economy and society. Its work spans gender issues in the workplace, work-life balance, age discrimination and extending working lives, LGBT, religion or belief, social mobility and human rights.
\nSpecific areas of expertise:
\nThe Centre brings together academic and management expertise from the University's Faculty of Business, School of Law and the Directorate of Human Resources. The impact of the Centre's research helps practitioners and policy-makers to take an evidence-based approach to develop policies and practices on equality and diversity. The Centre aims to create a virtuous circle between research, knowledge exchange and impact.
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\r\nThe network's work includes: addressing health and social care ageing issues, designing appropriate living and working spaces, developing policies to accommodate an ageing workforce, and exploring changes in the arts and culture.
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\nThe activities of the Centre relate to research themes such as:
\nThe Centre for the Study of Migration facilitates, promotes and develops interdisciplinary migration research at Queen Mary University of London. The Centre is located within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and acts as a focal point for migration scholars and practitioners within and beyond Queen Mary University London, to share and develop their work through participation in the Centre's events.
\nThe research interests of colleagues range from historical to contemporary work including expertise on mixed migration flows and settlement in London; refugee and migrant health; border controls and the securitisation of migration; low paid work and transnational migration; the migration-development nexus; migration governance; religion, society and immigration, migration and culture and representations of migrants in film and photography.
\nThe Centre for the Study of Migration hosts a programme of seminars, workshops and conferences that explore migration from diverse disciplinary and empirical perspectives. It benefits from the expertise of colleagues drawn from the Faculty of the Humanities and Social Sciences including academics, post-doctoral and postgraduate students based in the Schools of Geography, Politics and International Relations, Law, English and Drama, Business Management, Medicine and Dentistry.
\nThe Centre is particularly committed to forging equitable and sustainable partnerships with organisations working in the field of migration and diaspora in the local Tower Hamlets area, other parts of London, the UK and abroad. It provides facilities for researchers from visiting research fellows and students who wish to spend a period of migration-related study at Queen Mary.
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\r\nSAF understands the category of ‘South Asia’ in an expansive sense and not simply as a defined geographical area. Its programme of research, debate and critical scholarship is located within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, but SAF and its affiliates connect broadly to other Faculties in the University as well as the activities of the Queen Mary International Office.
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\nIts activities reside under the umbrella of the Institute of Banking and Finance Law. The Institute of Banking and Finance Law is a centre of excellence in research and teaching of banking and finance law and is part of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) in the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London. The Institute is a leading centre on banking and finance law in the world. Its members offer a wide range of courses in banking and finance law, organise and contribute to conferences across the globe, and influence national, European and international regulatory developments.
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\r\nThe Institute focuses on advancing legal scholarship, to bring together scholars, policymakers and practitioners in law, economics and finance and influence the development of multidisciplinary research and its application in projects, conferences, teaching and publications.
\r\nThe Institute aims to become one of the leading Institutes for the study of the interaction of law, economics and finance in the UK and globally. It aims to constitute a catalyst for dialogue, thought leadership and scholarship. IGLEF will contribute to the evolution and sustainability of financial markets at a global level.
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\r\nThe Institute in its current form was established in 2019, building on an ongoing tradition of Queen Mary University London involvement in this area for over three decades.
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\nThe Institute’s focus is knowledge creation through rigorous and cutting-edge research with real-world impact, and its dissemination through world-class educational programmes.
\nThe Institute is active in engaging with, and drawing support from industry, with members being actively involved in the Committee of the British Insurance Law Association (BILA) and the BILA Journal; the Drafting Committee of the UNIDROIT Principles of Reinsurance Contract Law project. Institute members specialising in insurance have been involved in research projects led by the Lloyd’s Innovation Department and the English Law Commission.
\nInstitute experts in Shipping Law have been involved in work by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), the Comité Maritime International (CMI), the Baltic and International Maritime Council (BIMCO), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL); the European Commission and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Two academic members are former Lord Justices of Appeal and have decided multiple landmark cases in the Institute’s fields of expertise.\nThe Institute practitioner membership is actively involved, with a number of members contributing to the teaching of many specialist courses.
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\nQMIPRI is part of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University of London and is based at the postgraduate law centre in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London.
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\nThe mission of the Institute for Regulation and Ethics is to:
\nAs the leading postgraduate law school in Europe, the Centre for Commercial Law Studies is at the forefront of legal scholarship and law reform, influencing the development of commercial law in practice, and is an appropriate home for this Institute.
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\r\nThe International Tax Law LLM at CCLS is the pre-eminent Tax LLM in the United Kingdom and one of the leading programmes in the United Kingdom and Europe. The LLM has a strong international and comparative focus. It offers a range of modules and covers important jurisdictions like the United Kingdom, the United States, the European Union and China and specific subject areas like Transfer Pricing and Intellectual Property Taxation.
\r\nThe International Tax Law LLM gives students a strong understanding not only of tax rules but also how tax regimes operate in practice. In addition, students have the opportunity to strengthen a range of employment related 'soft' skills such as legal research, legal writing and legal English. Unsurprisingly, students go on to a range of exciting jobs in law, accounting and consulting firms, government and think tanks in the United Kingdom and abroad.
\r\nMembers of the Institute of Tax Law are engaged in cutting edge research and advisory work, and taught and research students have the benefit of their up to date knowledge of developments in taxation. Students also benefit from studying in London, one of the world's leading centres of business and finance and the capital of one of the most important legal and tax jurisdictions in the world.
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The Queen Mary-UNIDROIT Institute of Transnational Commercial Law (Queen Mary-UNIDROIT ITCL) is a joint venture between Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), which is the intergovernmental organisation for the harmonisation of private international law, headquartered in Rome.
\nTransnational Commercial Law refers to principles and rules of commercial law which have force or influence transnationally, whether because they are common to a number of legal systems or because they are observed as a matter of course by commercial communities or networks which transcend national boundaries. It also refers to methods, instruments and institutions whose activities contribute to the unification of laws and regulations governing commerce or address related issues of comparative law and conflict of laws.
\nThe Queen Mary-UNIDROIT ITCL has been established for the purpose of collaborating in and promoting:
\nThe activities of the Queen Mary-UNIDROIT ITCL will include the provision of postgraduate teaching, supervision and examination by CCLS of candidates in transnational commercial law and related fields; research, publication and other dissemination of knowledge in these fields, including through conferences, seminars and short courses; and collaboration in the promotion of UNIDROIT instruments in the field of transnational commercial law.
\nIn common with CCLS’s other Institutes, it is intended that the Queen Mary-UNIDROIT ITCL is a leading centre of excellence in research, scholarship and promotion of the international harmonisation of commercial law.
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\r\nThe Centre aim is to focus on areas that are at the forefront of human rights to help contribute to its progressive development and to help benefit the community. Through investigation and research the centre seeks to prevent and remedy human rights violations, and by providing pro bono legal advice the Centre research is linked with the practical assistance offered by the Queen Mary Legal Advice Centre. These rights include the rights of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable in the community including socio-economic rights; rights of women; international child rights and the rights of other vulnerable groups.
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\nIn view of ongoing public doubts about the value, integrity, and durability of constitutional democracies, the centre engages legal scholars in dialogue with academic specialists in political science, history, and the humanities, as well as representatives from civil society. Members aim to examine trends and tensions worldwide with an eye towards constructive solutions.
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\r\nThe Centre explores equality and diversity issues from both empirical and theoretical perspectives. The research agenda of the Centre includes questions such as how laws designed to promote equality and diversity work in practice, as well as comparative and historical trends in equality and diversity laws in the UK and other jurisdictions.
\r\nThe Centre fosters links between scholars working in this area from within the School of Law, across Queen Mary University of London and externally. It also engages with people outside the Centre who work in different capacities to promote equality and diversity, for example politicians, policy-makers, civil society institutions and activists, employers, trade unions, commentators and legal practitioners. LEAD also provides a forum for doctoral students working in the area of equality and diversity.
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\nGroup members are drawn from both the legal profession and academia. They provide advice and training to the legal profession, governments and judiciaries, author key publications on criminal justice, engage with the media, undertake collaborative research, supervise post-graduate research and regularly host seminars, lectures, workshops and conferences.
\nIn 2015 the Group launched the Criminal Justice LLM programme.
\nQueen Mary University London is one of the coordinating institutions of the European Criminal Academic Network (ECLAN).
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\r\nIt constitutes a hub for intellectual collaboration and evaluation of the role of law in the making and unmaking of borders and their impact on global (im)mobility. It connects scholars within and beyond Queen Mary School of Law to harness existing inter- and multi-disciplinary research into law, borders and (im)mobility and shape future research agendas in response to global challenges.
\r\nThe Centre also offers supervision to doctoral students, and hosts different events throughout the year, facilitating academic contacts, public engagement, and policy impact by feeding back and forward into current debates. The Centre is also home to Queen Mary's unique Immigration Law LLM, the first Master's programme in the UK entirely dedicated to the legal study of migration, asylum, and borders from an inter- and multi-disciplinary perspective.
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\nDuring the years 2006 – 2019, the former centre was a highly successful, world-leading enterprise. With an ambitious agenda, the centre played an influential role in various professional circles and helped promote competition law teaching and scholarship around the world. Its re-launch as an Institute for Competition and Consumers reflects the particular focus given in recent years, as part of its activities, to both competition law and consumer law, including financial consumer protection, digitalisation, dispute resolution, sustainable consumption and human rights.
\nThe ICC conducts research and offers training to judges, lawyers, business people and enforcement officials in the field of competition and consumer law, drawing on the multi-disciplinary strengths of Queen Mary University of London.
\nThe Institute aims to:
\nThe aim of the Centre for Small States (CSS) is to provide a platform for researchers to discuss and analyse the particular issues small states face, primarily through a legal but also through an interdisciplinary lens. Public and private law scholars with an interest in small states will all be welcome at the CSS.
\nThe Centre for Small States aims to
\nCentre members define small states as those states with a population of 1.5m or less. The Centre for Small States also includes within its remit some territories that are not classified as states as a matter of international law, yet are sufficiently geographically and culturally distinct entities to be worthy of study in their own right including the British Crown Dependencies of the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey and British Overseas Territories such as the Pitcairn islands.
\nThe small states of the world differ considerably in their geography, history, political structures, legal systems and wealth. Nevertheless, because of their size, small states face a set of common challenges including vulnerability to external economic impacts such as changing trade regimes and limited ability to diversify economic activity; limited public and private sector capacity, including the legal and judicial infrastructure; a need for regional co-operation and the impact of international law and globalisation. Many small states of the world are islands, and these are particularly susceptible to environmental impacts such as natural disasters and climate change. Small states can also be flexible, adaptable, sites of social development and innovation, and have an influence in the world disproportionate to their size.
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\nThe Centre aim is to muster scholarly expertise, research and teaching of outstanding quality, contributing to the progressive development of both EU law and public international law, and fostering a broader understanding of underlying and overarching issues within and across both areas of law. On the basis of wide-ranging discussions and analysis, Centre members work towards the resolution of current legal problems in both the European and international legal planes. Therefore they conceive CEILA as a collaborative and open platform for intellectual production and exchange with a distinctive and inclusive identity, welcoming scholars at all career levels working and interested in both European and public international law, in just one of these fields, or in their interaction.
\nBesides extensive collaborative research among scholars, the Centre also offers supervision to post-graduate students, and hosts different events, including annual seminar series and conferences, book launches, reading sessions, and rapid reaction seminars on present legal events, facilitating academic contacts, public engagement, and policy impact by feeding back and forward into current debates.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.52474025,"longitude":-0.039313593694789914},{"infrastructure_id":"1403","name":"Jean Monnet Network 'EU-China Legal and Judicial Cooperation' (EUPLANT)","town":"London","postcode":"E1 4NS","tags":["law"],"addr1":"Queen Mary University Of London","addr2":"327 Mile End Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Jean Monnet Network ‘EU-China Legal and Judicial Cooperation’ (EUPLANT) investigates the interactions between the Chinese and the European Union (EU) legal and judicial systems and promotes excellence in teaching and research on EU-China legal and judicial cooperation.
\nThrough a set of research, policy and outreach activities, EUPLANT creates new avenues for enhanced academic and policy cooperation between the EU and China and engenders a better understanding of each other’s legal systems.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.52474025,"longitude":-0.039313593694789914},{"infrastructure_id":"1408","name":"DoingIPS (International Political Sociology)","town":"London","postcode":"E1 4NS","tags":["history","law","political-science","philosophy","anthropology-ethnography","sociology","geography","international-relations"],"addr1":"Queen Mary University Of London","addr2":"327 Mile End Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"DoingIPS brings together researchers working in the broad area of International Political Sociology (IPS). At the crossroad of different disciplines, they explore different theoretical and methodological lines of thought that are deployed in IPS and key themes of debate that are currently shaping this growing and stimulating field. More than a finite research group, DoingIPS is a hub that aims to promote International Political Sociology by adopting a flexible and inclusive approach.
\r\nSince its inception, International Political Sociology (IPS) has been defined by its distinct effort to articulate a critique of dogmatic conceptualisations of international politics. To that aim, it explores the conceptions of the ‘social’ and ‘political’ that historically have been inscribed in ‘the international’ and investigates how the ‘international’ is produced across multiple, transversal and inter-connected sites of political and social life. Doing so, IPS creates a site for developing concepts, methods and theories that go beyond the inherited models of territorialised sovereignty, state/society relations and the international system while engaging some of the most pertinent challenges in world politics today.
\r\nThe interest in IPS has been steadily growing over the last two decades. In 2016 the journal International Political Sociology celebrated its 10th anniversary with special issue. At the same time, the Routledge ‘Handbook of International Political Sociology and an edited volume International Political Sociology: Transversal Lines’ were published. Between them, these initiatives propose distinct lines of research that have shaped the lineages of critical international studies. IPS has also become a vibrant place for research that works across International Relations and other social sciences and for critical reflections on the relation between political theory, sociology, word politics, human geography, anthropology and law.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.52474025,"longitude":-0.039313593694789914},{"infrastructure_id":"1420","name":"Human Rights Centre (HRC)","town":"Belfast","postcode":"BT7 1NN","tags":["law","health","human-rights","gender-sexuality-studies","comparative-studies"],"addr1":"Queen's University Belfast","addr2":"University Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Human Rights Centre at Queen’s University, Belfast (HRC) was established to provide a focus for research and education on human rights. The goal of the Centre, originally given the unwieldy title of ‘Centre for Comparative and International Human Rights Law’, was to help raise the profile of the human rights expertise of various academics in the Queen’s Law Faculty (as it was then).
\r\nThe Faculty had established a Masters in Human Rights Law in 1988, one of the first in the UK, and the fact that it was being offered in Belfast, a city which had had more than its fair share of human rights issues to cope with during the previous decades, made the Masters attractive to a wide range of people. In the 1990s the Centre acted as a hub around which interested academics and students could organise events, collaborate in research and promote the values inherent in human rights. After the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement in 1998 the Centre intensified its research activities and the Masters programme attracted even more students than before, especially from abroad. Many people who are now senior police officers, judges, politicians and human rights activists are alumni of the programme and contributed greatly to the Centre’s activities while at Queen’s.
\r\nToday, the Human Rights Centre, based in the School of Law, continues to support the promotion and protection of human rights in the local and global community. The HRC is privileged to draw on the work of a strong team of academics and postgraduate scholars who are nationally and internationally recognised for their work on human rights. Key areas of research interest and expertise include civil liberties, migration, gender and sexual violence, international criminal law, transitional justice, amnesty laws, reparations, victims and ex-combatants, health and human rights, business and human rights and climate change and environmental justice amongst others.
\r\nMembers of the human rights centre are active in many different areas – leading and contributing to national and international research projects, publishing academic works, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students in the School of Law, and engaging in knowledge transfer activities, including undertaking responses and consultations for civil society, governmental and international organisations. The HRC also organises a lively seminar series bringing internationally respected academics and practitioners to Queen’s throughout the year.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":54.5842881,"longitude":-5.933656245995208},{"infrastructure_id":"1421","name":"Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice (ICCJ)","town":"Belfast","postcode":"BT7 1NN","tags":["law","criminology","policy","medicine","human-rights","comparative-studies","science","psychology"],"addr1":"Queen's University Belfast","addr2":"University Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice (ICCJ) at Queen’s University Belfast was established to develop and promote criminological and criminal justice research aimed at informing policy and practice in Northern Ireland and beyond.
\nAt its core, the ICCJ has a commitment to the interdisciplinary study of criminology and criminal justice from a range of perspectives including those of law, sociology and psychology among others.
\nThe ICCJ maintains a broad interdisciplinary status. Members primarily come from within the School of Law and the Criminology group in the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work (SSESW) but staff from the schools of Psychology and Medicine are also involved given the acute relationship between a range of psychological and health issues, criminal aetiology and patterns of offending.
\nThe ICCJ enjoys partnerships and collaborations with other criminology and criminal justice research centres both nationally and internationally. Members of the ICCJ are also represented in national and international criminology and punishment and society networks such as the British Society of Criminology, the Irish Criminology Research Network, the European Society of Criminology, the Law and Society Association and the American Society of Criminology. The Northern Ireland regional group of the British Society of Criminology is hosted by the ICCJ.
\nThe mission of the ICCJ can be summarised in the following points:
\nResearch topics covered by ICCJ members include (but are not limited to):
\nQUOTE (Queen’s University Oral History, Technology and Ethics) is a resource for the dissemination of oral history research, teaching and training. It draws together the expertise of a number of Queen’s University researchers who are passionate about oral history and its potential for producing more democratic and inclusive forms of history.
\nMembers aim to tackle head on the ethical and legal challenges of collecting and using oral testimony in a digital world to ensure that oral history at QUB becomes a byword for innovation, partnership, interdisciplinary co-operation and international best practice.
\nGathering together in the first instance Queen's University's considerable expertise in documenting the social, economic and political history of Northern Ireland, QUOTE intend to develop existing international links and projects. QUOTE members are an interdisciplinary team of QUB scholars from History, Law, Drama, Creative Arts, English, Geography and the Faculty of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
\nSeveral of the QUOTE members already play leading roles in local and national oral history networks and societies. These include the Oral History Society, the Oral History Network of Ireland and the Healing Through Remembering Stories Network.
\nThrough the development of the QUOTE hub, members seek to develop greater European and global recognition as an interdisciplinary hub of excellence in oral history research. The Hub activities include the pooling and dissemination of key resources, and the organisation of dedicated oral history seminars, training workshops and conferences.
\nQUOTE builds real and meaningful partnerships with colleagues working in local history and voluntary associations, museums and archives, reminiscence networks, community history organisations and in the media. Together members collect testimonies to produce inconclusive histories that capture the ‘intangible heritage’ that can only be found the excavation of popular memory.
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\nMembers focus on substantive children’s rights issues, children’s participation in decision making and children’s rights-based research methods with an emphasis on two distinct but interconnected strands of research activity, education, training and professional development:
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\nResearch with children
\nThe Centre has a strong reputation for undertaking global consultations with children, in innovative collaborative partnerships. These collaborations have, in turn, generated significant global impact. For example, the Centre research on children’s views on public budgeting influenced the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s General Comment on Public Budgeting and is the first UN General Comment to cite the views of children in its text. Also, the contribution to international advocacy on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has been recognized by UNICEF.
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","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.46042657002707,"longitude":-0.24618982566251163},{"infrastructure_id":"1474","name":"Bedford Centre for the History of Women and Gender","town":"Egham","postcode":"TW20 0EX","tags":["history","law","cultural-studies","museum-studies","language","literature","gender-sexuality-studies"],"addr1":"Flat 1b, Butler Hall","addr2":"Egham Hill","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Bedford Centre for the History of Women and Gender promotes research into the history of women and gender and public histories of women.
\nThe Centre research interests include Tudor Queens; eighteenth-century women in business and engaging with the law; women and the Nation of Islam; female activists in twentieth-century Pakistan; gender and power in confederate households; LGBTQ and Oral Histories; Empire, gender race and sex; nineteenth-century men's dealings with bankruptcy; masculine and feminine objects in Victorian drawing rooms; and alcohol and gendered drinking cultures in twentieth-century Britain.
\nThe Institute has three primary goals: to support faculty and student research and research collaboration in the study of gender and sexuality, to support teaching and learning of and around gender and sexuality, and to produce resources for community engagement and impact around gender and sexuality.
\nMore particularly, the Centre’s aims are
\nThe Centre builds on the long standing contribution of Bedford New College, the first college of higher education for women, founded in 1849, which joined with Royal Holloway in 1986, to women’s higher education and intellectual lives.
\nLocated in the South Tower of Royal Holloway’s iconic Victorian Founders Building, the Centre was founded in 1999.
\nThe Centre pioneered the field when the study of the history of gender first came to be a major part of women's history, and gender scholars were establishing the primacy of the subject for the discipline as a whole.
\nThe Centre is linked to the Royal Holloway Archives and Special Collections, which contain substantial collections relating to the history of Royal Holloway and Bedford New College.\nThe Centre is also affiliated to and actively collaborates with the British Academy funded Gender Institute at Royal Holloway.
\nIn 2016, the Centre launched the Bedford Centre Blog in order to widen historical debates, engage with academics and the public in the UK and other countries; and to promote research.
A fundamental part of its mission is the promotion of links between scholars of women and gender, and collaborations with overseas institutions. The Centre also acts as an important forum for the dissemination of research. Members have previously co-organised events with the Society for the History of Women in the Americas and the Women's History Network. In addition, the Centre holds an annual lecture, and hosted international conferences that have shaped the field in recent years.
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\nAssociated staff and postgraduate student body cover a wide variety of projects and approaches: South Asia’s place in global development history, the study of Partition and its long term impact on concepts of national citizenship, the politics of space-making, memory and heritage preservation in its ever-growing cities, the changing face of religious thought and religious practices, the role of South Asian labour migration around the world, the literary representation of South Asian food cultures in contemporary diaspora literature, and the experiences of South Asian diaspora communities in Britain and elsewhere.
\nWhilst the Centre is based in the Department of History within the School of Humanities, its research is characterised by an interdisciplinary approach that takes ‘History’ as a licence to study all aspects of human endeavour with methods gleaned from oral history, geography, anthropology, political theory, cultural studies, literature, material culture and museum studies. Members also include researchers based elsewhere within Royal Holloway, including the School of Law and Social Sciences, the School of Life Sciences and the Environment, and the School of Performing and Digital Arts.
\nRoyal Holloway maintains a small but select archive of South Asia-related research materials, including a full microfilm copy of the influential early 20th century Urdu newspaper Madina, and papers relating to the Farangi Mahal family of scholars from Lucknow. As part of the University of London, the Centre also offers easy access to the world-leading resources of the British Library’s India Oriental and India Office collection, and also material held in The National Archives at Kew. The Centre is proud to host postdoctoral researchers and visiting fellows from South Asia and elsewhere in the world.
\nIts postgraduate community has access to UK research funding through the TECHNE consortium as well as through Royal Holloway’s own links with the Friendly Hand charitable trust. Applications for places to study can be received at any time of the year but the annual funding round usually closes in early spring of each year.
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\r\nThe CVTRC’s research focuses upon the act of violence itself; the motivations and rationale of violent actor(s); the contemporary and historical contexts in which violence takes place; violent spaces; the antecedents of violence; the social, political and other consequences of violence; representations of violence in news media, film, and literature; memories of violence and commemoration; and conflict resolution and peace-building efforts.
\r\nThis inter-disciplinary approach is reflected in the academic backgrounds of the Centre Research Fellows who hail from a range of disciplines including History, Law, Terrorism Studies, Politics, International Relations, Economics, Geography, and Psychology. The principle aims of the centre include:
\r\nThe Crime and Punishment Research Cluster is made up of members of academic staff and PhD students/postdoctoral scholars from the Department of Law and Criminology and the Department of Social Work, all active researchers undertaking multi-disciplinary and impactful research in criminal justice settings.
\nWithin the ‘Crime’ strand of research expertise there are two primary themes:
\nThe ‘Punishment’ strand focuses specifically on Prisons, Parole and Probation and includes current projects focusing on risk assessment processes, prison health (for example mental and physical health, self-harm, physical activity), probation healthcare, prisoner education, peer mentoring and voluntary sector involvement in prisons, women and transgender prisoners, disability in prisons, IPPs and life sentences, resettlement and the families of prisoners, as well as the scrutiny and monitoring of prisons and other places of detention (HM Inspectorate of Prisons and National Preventative Mechanisms).
\nIn all of these areas the Cluster has a track record of successful research grant applications, regularly publishing papers in international journals and producing policy briefings, leading research texts and collating edited collections.
\nMembers of the group serve as journal editors as well as consultants and research partners to national and international Universities, external organisations, government departments and charitable groups (these are wide ranging and currently include – but are not limited to – the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the United Nations and Council of Europe torture prevention committees, the Ministry of Justice, the Home Office, HM Prison and Probation Service, the Scottish Prison Service, HM Inspectorate of Prisons, the Parole Board, RAND Europe, The Disabilities Trust, Prisoners Education Trust, the Prison Reform Trust, CREST, Depaul International, Bristol Human Rights Implementation Centre, the Commission for Counter Extremism, Surrey County Council).
\nThe department of Law and Criminology’s two flagship postgraduate programmes also map directly onto these research areas with colleagues from the Crime and Punishment research cluster leading and contributing to the MSc in Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Studies and the MSc in Forensic Psychology.
\nThe Cluster provides a forum for members for exchange ideas, share information and support one another's research through collaboration and peer review.
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\nResearch in the Health and Social Care Cluster focuses on three general themes:
\nThe Cluster provides a forum for members to exchange ideas, share information and support one another's research through collaboration and peer review, and acts as a catalyst for funding, outputs and impact.
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\r\nMembers are proud that Royal Holloway’s stunning main campus is located close to Runnymede, where the Magna Carta was signed in 1215. The Magna Carta is recognised as one of the foundation stones of justice and the international rights movements.
\r\nBuilding on this important heritage, the cluster engages in impactful research spanning a number of disciplines. The cluster comprises a mixture of academics from law, criminology, social work and social policy, researching:
\r\nThe Cluster provides a forum for members for exchange ideas, share information and support one another's research through collaboration and peer review.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.4249395,"longitude":-0.5663896},{"infrastructure_id":"1484","name":"Families and Children Cluster","town":"Egham","postcode":"TW20 0EX","tags":["law","criminology","health","policy","technology","sociology","psychology"],"addr1":"Flat 1b, Butler Hall","addr2":"Egham Hill","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Families and Children Research Group in the Department of Law and Criminology brings together academic colleagues from a range of disciplinary perspectives, namely Law, Social Policy, Sociology, Criminology, Social Work, and Psychology.
\nAreas of research include adoption, children in state care, children as witnesses, family formation, family life and well-being, poverty and child protection, families and food, children's experiences of living with chronic conditions and the impact on family relationships, parenting programmes, domestic abuse, technology and family life, and youth justice.
\nResearch also illuminates the relationship between families, the law and the criminal justice system. For example, studies have focused on the legal responses to alternative family structures, forensic interviewing of child abuse victims and prisoners’ familial relationships.\nMembers aim to:
\nThe Cluster provides a forum for members for exchange ideas, share information and support one another's research through collaboration and peer review.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.43493522355069,"longitude":-0.5768105720440553},{"infrastructure_id":"1485","name":"Institute for the Study of Power, Crime, and Society","town":"Egham","postcode":"TW20 0EX","tags":["history","law","criminology","political-science","sociology","psychology"],"addr1":"Flat 1b, Butler Hall","addr2":"Egham Hill","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Founded in 2022, the Institute is an intellectual home for the study of illegal, informal and criminal dynamics of power in the broader social context.
\nResearchers at the Institute draw on insights from social and cultural psychology, sociology, political science and criminology to examine how structural and psychological factors may interact across countries and societies. The Institute produces leading research on various criminal, illegal and extra-legal actors and practices, focusing on fundamental scientific problems and applied areas. Members address topics such as organized crime, political violence, vigilantism, and criminal governance.
\nComplex problems can rarely be addressed without insights from multiple disciplinary backgrounds and perspectives. The Institute supports interdisciplinary collaborations among Faculty from Royal Holloway and with other Academic Institutions and Research Centres globally. The Institute’s mandate is to foster a dialogue between social scientists, policy-makers and other stakeholders, nationally and internationally.
\nThe Institute promotes cutting-edge research using quantitative methodologies. It hosts workshops and training events to foster open science practices and enhance quantitative education and training among Staff and Research Students.
\nThe Institute currently hosts the project Secret Power, awarded a 2021 European Research Council StG grant (€1,499,818.00; funded by UKRI) to investigate the legitimization of criminal governance across countries.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.43493522355069,"longitude":-0.5768105720440553},{"infrastructure_id":"1492","name":"Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies","town":"Egham","postcode":"TW20 0EX","tags":["history","law","language","literature","economics","music-sound","religious-studies","drama-theatre","geography"],"addr1":"Flat 1b, Butler Hall","addr2":"Egham Hill","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies (CIWAS) at Royal Holloway University of London was established in October 2016 to provide an institutional focus for Royal Holloway scholars interested in Islamic and West Asian societies, including researchers in the departments of History, Music, Geography, Theatre, English, Economics, Law, and Management.
\nIts mission is to foster an exchange of ideas and knowledge about Islam, Islamic societies, and West Asia, and to contribute to the conversation being carried on, in western academia and around the world, on the future of West Asian societies and on the role that Islam might play in the search for solutions to current problems faced by the peoples of the region. Consistent with this aim, and with its commitment to facilitating constructive dialogue, CIWAS hopes to become a reference point in the UK for under-researched areas within the field of Islamic and West Asian studies.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.43493522355069,"longitude":-0.5768105720440553},{"infrastructure_id":"1495","name":"Centre for Critical and Historical Research on Organisation and Society (CHRONOS)","town":"Egham","postcode":"TW20 0EX","tags":["history","law","heritage","management-studies-keyword"],"addr1":"Royal Holloway University Of London","addr2":"Egham Hill","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Critical and Historical Research on Organisation and Society (CHRONOS) actively provides an interdisciplinary, international and inclusive forum to discuss and develop the plurality of ways in which ‘critical’ and ‘historical’ research into organizations, markets and society can be conducted.
\r\nThe guiding belief of critical research is that it should uncover the social and cultural dimensions and implications of any subject matter, interrogating and questioning mainstream approaches and practices as a way to make a positive difference for organisations, markets and society. This, in turn, needs to be grounded in an in-depth awareness of the origin, historical heritage and evolution of social phenomena, using historical perspectives as a way to delve into present and future trajectories of organisation and society. In this way ‘critical and historical’ research prompts social and cultural awareness and wise judgement among policymakers, organisational leaders and employees while informing public debate within broader society. What is therefore excluded is research concerned with purely technical, asocial and/or a-historical approaches to organisation and management.
\r\nThe Centre’s strengths and key research areas are:
\r\nGeopolitics, Development, Security and Justice Research Group works on a range of vitally important issues across political, development and social geography and has interdisciplinary reach in its connections to international relations, cyber security, development studies, anthropology, sociology, disaster studies, health and gerontology.
\nMembers have also built interdisciplinary links across the university with the Information Security Group (ISG), Centre for Research into Sustainability (CRIS), the Centre for the GeoHumanities, the department of Health Studies, and The ICT4D Collective.
\nGDSJ’s 20 academic researchers and associate members, and 25+ PhD students are committed to research both in and across the Global North and Global South including the UK and Overseas Territories, the Arctic and Antarctica, Sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Australasia.
\nGDSJ organises a range of events including research theme and praxis workshops, ‘brown bag’ lunches and seminars. The group runs the Masters programmes: the MSc Global Futures: Justice, Development and Sustainability; the MSc Global Futures: Geopolitics and Security; the MSc Practising Sustainable Development, and the MRes in Geopolitics, Development, Security and Justice
\nThe research of GDSJ members cross-cuts four themes. The group works through a range of methodological approaches with particular interests in participatory visual methods, transdisciplinary co-creation/-production methods, immersive and experimental methods, film and social media analysis:
\nThe Centre for Research into Sustainability (CRIS) is a multidisciplinary, international group of researchers and educators at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Members are actively engaged with the understanding of social/ethical, economic and environmental sustainability in contemporary society.
\r\nThe centre’s researchers understand sustainability in broad terms as relating to economic, social/ethical and environmental perspectives. They do this through research, teaching, and collaboration with external organisations. The Centre’s purpose, ultimately, is to advance scholarship and contribute to positive social change in terms of the contemporary challenges of poverty alleviation, social injustice and climate change.
\r\nThe Centre is world-leading in three research areas:
\r\nIts goal is to advance scholarship and to contribute to positive social and environmental change. To this end, the current focus is on four cross-cutting themes:
\r\nThe Centre holds regular seminar series and external speaker events. Its flagship courses are the postgraduate and undergraduate levels through the MSc Sustainability and Management and the BSc Management with Corporate Responsibility and the BSc Management with Corporate Responsibility with a Year in Business.
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\nThis vibrant multi-disciplinary group actively translates science into practical applications influencing animal owners, farmers, policy makers and veterinarians.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.71618245,"longitude":-0.21089115896609448},{"infrastructure_id":"1523","name":"Law, Environment and Development Centre","town":"London","postcode":"WC1H 0XG","tags":["law","development-studies","climate-change","international-law-keyword"],"addr1":"School Of Oriental & African Studies","addr2":"10 Thornhaugh Street","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Law, Environment and Development Centre undertakes research in various areas of environmental law of contemporary relevance. The centre's research focuses in particular on topics of relevance to the South and to North-South relations:
\r\nThe Centre for Gender Studies (CGS) at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) is an interdisciplinary space promoting research and teaching on gender and sexuality with particular reference to Asia, Africa, the Middle East and their diasporas. Since its inception in 2005, CGS has become a hub of research and training working to support anti-racist feminisms and social movements challenging normative constructions of gender and sexuality. Members' focus on Asia, Africa and the Middle East productively disrupts the teleologies of 'Western' feminism and their critical study of Europe and its 'others' has earned the CGS a reputation as a vivid centre for queer and trans thought, transnational feminisms, critical legal theory and anti-racist knowledge production. Grappling with the legacy of SOAS as a training ground for the administrators of Anglophone Empires, CGS not only tackles the long complex entanglements of modern feminisms with white imperialism and postcolonial nationalisms, it also incubates new strategies to decolonise feminist scholarship and praxis.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5218979,"longitude":-0.1288676341954016},{"infrastructure_id":"1529","name":"Centre for Human Rights Law","town":"London","postcode":"WC1H 0XG","tags":["law","policy","human-rights"],"addr1":"School Of Oriental & African Studies","addr2":"10 Thornhaugh Street","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Human Rights Law aims to provide a space for scholarship and cooperative approaches on human rights law in practice. Building on the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)’s unique focus and experience, it seeks to advance research and the teaching of human rights law and related areas with particular reference to Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
\nThe Centre aspires to act as a forum for debate on human rights law and developments of interest in the field for staff and students within SOAS, for scholars and practitioners from other institutions and for organisations and for the general public.
\nReflecting the multitude of actors and dynamic nature of the field of human rights law, the Centre is committed to promoting cooperation between academics and practitioners worldwide. This includes working closely with the SOAS International Human Rights Clinic and encouraging and facilitating students’ engagement and research projects with NGOs and practitioners in the field.
\nThe Centre has also been engaging in standard setting and policy making processes concerning the protection of human rights, with a particular focus on issues and areas forming the subject of its members' expertise and research interests.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5218979,"longitude":-0.1288676341954016},{"infrastructure_id":"1533","name":"Centre for the Study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law","town":"London","postcode":"WC1H 0XG","tags":["history","law","cultural-studies","museum-studies","gender-sexuality-studies"],"addr1":"School Of Oriental & African Studies","addr2":"10 Thornhaugh Street","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Building on the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)’s unique remit to develop research on the global south, the centre for the study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law (CCEIL) is a hub for inter-disciplinary collaboration and research on public international law and its historical and contemporary relationship to colonialism and empire.
\nThe centre’s research is organised into three research streams:
\nThe Centre on Conflict, Rights and Justice (CCRJ) was established in 2010 in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). The centre promotes individual and collaborative research on the international politics of human rights and transitional justice, humanitarianism and aid, religion and politics, and civil liberties especially as they relate to conflict and post-conflict situations.
\nThe centre pursues research that investigates efforts to construct international norms, policies, and institutions for governing conflict and post-conflict situations. The Centre also facilitates research designed to evaluate the effects of these practices on a range of political outcomes and especially the for the future of international peace and security.
\nThe centre provides a forum for encouraging research driven engagement between and among scholars, practitioners, advocates, and research students in these areas. The centre welcomes interdisciplinary perspectives, but seeks to contribute especially to the study of international relations and comparative politics.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5218979,"longitude":-0.1288676341954016},{"infrastructure_id":"1539","name":"Centre for AI Futures","town":"London","postcode":"WC1H 0XG","tags":["art","law","cultural-studies","museum-studies","policy","gender-sexuality-studies","philosophy","anthropology-ethnography","technology","media-studies","ai"],"addr1":"School Of Oriental & African Studies","addr2":"10 Thornhaugh Street","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The explosive growth of data, and the algorithms and computing infrastructures developed to process this data, is transforming societies.
\r\nArtificial Intelligence (AI) – or the growing ability of machines to do tasks previously attributed to humans – is predicted to change how we live and how we are governed while redrawing our attention to the larger philosophical debates of what it means to be human.
\r\nHow these changes are imagined, however, often reflect the prerogatives of major players located in the US, EU and China, neglecting the perspectives of smaller nations experiencing the many social, political and cultural disruptions brought about by new forms of algorithmic governance even as these nations participate and provide the AI universe.
\r\nThe Centre for AI Futures is a new initiative at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). It is unique globally in its exclusive focus on the implications of AI in countries of Africa, Asia and the Middle East. See here.
\r\nThe Centre for AI futures was inaugurated by Prof. Arshin Adib-Moghaddam and Dr. Somnath Batabyal who acted as the first co-directors. The Centre of flanked by a new book series called 'AI Futures' published by Manchester Universitiy Press under the editorshop of Prof. Adib-Moghaddam.
\r\nThe centre’s interdisciplinary and collaborative activities rest on three pillars:
\r\nThe Cultural Effects of AI: New research initiatives focused on the variegated impacts of AI in the Global South and the theoretical and philosophical questions raised by such.
\r\nMethodological Innovations: Data-driven methodologies to facilitate research and interventions into policy and legal debates and also to work with and within the AI industry for purpose-driven applications.
\r\nPractice based Research: Working towards a critical framework to understand and study AI practitioners and their milieu and how this impacts output.
\r\nThe Centre for Law in Asia (CeLIA) was originally established in 1988 as the Centre for East Asian Law (CEAL). Based at the School of Law, Gender and Media, CeLIA brings together legal expertise on South Asian, South-East Asian, East Asian, and Central Asian laws.
\nThe main goals of the centre are to advance research and teaching on Asian laws while building partnerships with educational organisations and legal practitioners based in Asia.
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\nBuilding upon the rich history of scholarly engagements with the Ottoman Empire and its successors at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), the Centre’s primary purposes are to promote research and teaching in the field of Ottoman studies and to facilitate links between SOAS and other individuals, institutions and associations with an academic interest in the Ottoman Empire and post-Ottoman societies.
\nThe Centre's activities are particularly focused on understanding how the Ottoman past is experienced and used in contemporary contexts.
\nThe post-Ottoman focus of the Centre is further emphasised by an exceptionally cross-disciplinary profile of its Members. The Centre Members belong to all three of the SOAS Faculties and are critically engaged in dealing with the Ottoman past and its cultural, artistic, legal, linguistic, anthropological, political and economic re-appropriations in centres and peripheries of the former Empire.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5218979,"longitude":-0.1288676341954016},{"infrastructure_id":"1551","name":"Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law","town":"London","postcode":"WC1H 0XG","tags":["law"],"addr1":"School Of Oriental & African Studies","addr2":"10 Thornhaugh Street","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (CIMEL) is dedicated to building bridges and the mutual exchange of ideas and legal approaches between western academics and practitioners and colleagues in Muslim majority countries. In this increasingly globalised world, the Centre seeks to play its part in building a spirit of mutual respect and understanding between Europe and the Muslim world. The Centre's research takes this mission to heart.
\nCIMEL academics and practitioners seek to generate and disseminate rigorous, unbiased, and contextually focussed research of the highest academic and professional calibre. Members are specialised in a diverse range of law and law-related practices, ranging from Islamic law to the legal systems of Muslim majority jurisdictions.
\nThe Centre's research is often interdisciplinary as it seeks to observe and understand the law amidst the growing complexity of social life in Muslim majority states and minority Muslim populations across the globe.
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\r\nThe Institute promotes interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, critically informed research and teaching on China; it channels the unrivalled breadth and depth of expertise across a wide spectrum of disciplines on China to the wider worlds of government, business, media, education, the arts, NGOs and beyond. The SOAS China Institute promotes collaborative research on China and its relations with the rest of the world.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5218979,"longitude":-0.1288676341954016},{"infrastructure_id":"1563","name":"Centre for Palestine Studies, SOAS","town":"London","postcode":"WC1H 0XG","tags":["art","history","law","political-science","economics","gender-sexuality-studies","music-sound","development-studies","film-studies","anthropology-ethnography","media-studies"],"addr1":"School Of Oriental & African Studies","addr2":"10 Thornhaugh Street","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Palestine Studies (CPS) was established in 2012 under the umbrella of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Middle East Institute (previously known as the London Middle East Institute - LMEI).
\r\nIts establishment responds to the urgency of the study of Palestine as a major global concern over social injustice, rights, settler colonialism, systems of exclusion and global politics.
\r\nThe question of Palestine and the lack of resolution to the so-called conflict with Israel has implicated various countries across the Middle East and North Africa and further afield. Palestinian refugees remain the largest body of refugees in the world, Palestine is the theatre of the longest ongoing illegal occupation recognised as such in international law, Palestinian holders of Israeli citizenship have been permanently engaged in fighting for their rights, and a wide range of social and political movements locally and globally claim to represent the Palestinian voice.
\r\nReflecting this complexity and central importance to the wider Middle East and North Africa region and to the world, the academic study of Palestine and Palestinians has generated a large and ever-growing body of knowledge across every disciplinary field and across disciplines.
\r\nThe Centre for Palestine Studies provides an institutional home for this work across the various disciplines represented at SOAS, including Politics, History, Development Studies, Economics, Anthropology, Gender Studies, Law, Media and Film Studies, Art, and Music.
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\nThe centre is home to a range of social justice and human rights activities that include:
\nIts central values are those of widening access to justice and education, the promotion of human rights, ethics in legal practice, equality and a respect for human dignity in overcoming social injustice.
\nThe Helena Kennedy Centre's scope of expertise covers:
\nThe centre works on the high-profile projects in a variety of human rights and social justice areas. Research and projects concern Modern Day Slavery, gender-based violence, hate crime and many more.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.3806626,"longitude":-1.4702278},{"infrastructure_id":"1579","name":"Social Research and Policy","town":"Southampton","postcode":"SO14 0YN","tags":["law","criminology","health","political-science","policy","gender-sexuality-studies"],"addr1":"Southampton Solent University","addr2":"East Park Terrace","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Solent University's portfolio of social research is rich and diverse, with some of the most pressing societal concerns at the forefront of exploration. Solent's team of social researchers comprise psychologists, sociologists, health professionals, and business and marketing professionals. Solent University's social research concerns improving individual and community wellbeing through practice, provision, and policy.
\nCurrent strands of research seek to inform social policy and concern:
\nThe Centre for Bioethics and Emerging Technologies (CBET) focuses on the ethical and social implications of biomedicine and other new technologies.\nThrough research, teaching, stakeholder dialogue and international networking, the centre engages with areas such as:
\nThe Centre also manages the production of The New Bioethics – A Multidisciplinary Journal of Biotechnology and The Body.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.43990837347894,"longitude":-0.335531771879523},{"infrastructure_id":"1591","name":"Centre for Law and Culture","town":"Twickenham","postcode":"TW1 4SX","tags":["history","law","cultural-studies","museum-studies","philosophy","religious-studies"],"addr1":"St. Marys University","addr2":"Waldegrave Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Launched by Lady Hale in 2014, the Centre for Law and Culture is re-focusing its academic attention on addressing pressing contemporary matters of social justice and equality through interdisciplinary doctrinal, historical, and philosophical legal scholarship.
\nThe Centre aims to foster the exchange of high-quality, impactful and insightful legal research; the promotion of education; and the sharing of knowledge relevant to the fight for social justice and equality. When it is understood what has gone before, it can be better understood today, and people’s hopes for the future.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.43990837347894,"longitude":-0.335531771879523},{"infrastructure_id":"1596","name":"Centre for Crime, Justice and Security","town":"Stoke-on-Trent","postcode":"ST4 2DE","tags":["law","policy","development-studies"],"addr1":"Staffordshire University","addr2":"College Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Crime, Justice and Security aims for the promotion, development and implementation of justice in various forms. Work primarily focuses on criminal justice and how social justice impacts and is impacted by criminal justice practices. The work done with the Centre's communities aims to enrich and transform lives and to positively impact on policy and practice in wider social and criminal justice environments.
\nThe Centre's research involves many areas of criminology, forensic science and policing, including developing new and innovative methods for combatting crime at a national and international level. The Centre is organised into four main themes:
\nThe Centre houses four thriving research groups that work collaboratively across the University and with external partners on particular areas of interest. They include:
\nThe Centre for Criminal Justice and Criminology is the focal point for research on crime and justice issues within the School of Social Sciences. Supported by the work of a vibrant community of academic researchers and postgraduate students, the Centre strives to produce high quality and influential outputs across a broad range of areas. Its work reflects a critical and interdisciplinary approach that generates impact within Wales, the wider United Kingdom and internationally.
\nThe current areas of research include:
\nIn addition to research and publishing, the Centre maintains a commitment to enhancing the teaching and learning environment within the School of Social Sciences. Members organise regular research seminars, panel discussions and feedback groups, host guest speakers and build working relationships with government and civil society partners within Wales, the UK and internationally.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.6080596,"longitude":-3.9773969},{"infrastructure_id":"1601","name":"Cyber Threats Research Centre (CYTREC)","town":"Swansea","postcode":"SA2 8PP","tags":["law","criminology","information-studies","political-science","human-rights","development-studies","technology"],"addr1":"Swansea University","addr2":"Singleton Park","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Cyber Threats Research Centre (CYTREC) explores a range of online threats, from terrorism, extremism and cybercrime, to child sexual exploitation online and grooming.
\r\nIts core aims are to:
\r\nCYTREC is an interdisciplinary centre. Its experts have backgrounds in law, criminology, political science, linguistics and psychology. It is also collaborative, and engages with non-academic stakeholders at all stages of the research process. CYTREC works with partners to ask the research questions that matter, to share findings and to produce policy recommendations. CYTREC’s partners include RUSI, Tech Against Terrorism and the NSPCC. Its work has been presented around the world, including to the UK Home Office, US State Department, Europol and NATO Advanced Training Courses.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.6080596,"longitude":-3.9773969},{"infrastructure_id":"1602","name":"Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law (IISTL)","town":"Swansea","postcode":"SA2 8PP","tags":["art","law"],"addr1":"Swansea University","addr2":"Singleton Park","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law (IISTL) was established in 2000 as a specialist research and professional training centre within Swansea University's School of Law.
\nIt promotes research and teaching of the highest standard in the fields of international shipping and trade law; and fosters co-operation with other academic institutions and professional, commercial, shipping, insurance and business organisations.
\nOver the last decade, the IISTL has gained a world-wide reputation for its contribution to research, policy-making, professional training and teaching in these areas.
\nThe Annual Colloquium, first held in 2005, is a highlight of the academic year concerning maritime law in Europe and beyond. It has addressed the following issues over the years:
\nThe IISTL maintains close connections with leading maritime and international organisations including maritime research centres at Dalian, Oslo, Rotterdam, Shanghai and in Tromsø and others, including but not limited to the International Maritime Organisatio and the Comité Maritime International.\nSeveral IISTL members have been involved in the debate on reforming aspects of shipping and insurance law, at domestic and international levels. Some have served on working groups of inter-governmental organisations or provided legal advice to key NGOs and institutions.
\nThe IISTL operates a wide variety of professional courses for directors, managers and employees of shipping corporations, as well as a bespoke training programme for young solicitors working in the City Law firms. The IISTL also works closely with shipping organisations, such as the BIMCO, in organising professional training courses.
\nSeveral members offer consultancy services on various aspects of maritime and shipping law or help deliver the School’s LLM programmes in Commercial, Maritime, Trade, Oil, Gas and Renewable Energy, and Intellectual Property Law.
\nMembership of IISTL has grown considerably and it is proud to be one of the largest specialist research centres in Europe dedicated to shipping and trade law. It has a substantial research library of specialist materials available to IISTL members, PhD students and visiting scholars.
\nThe award-winning IP Wales, which raises understanding of Intellectual Property among Welsh businesses, operates under the auspices of the IISTL.
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\nCurrent areas of research include:
\nMembers are a strong academic community that publishes work of international quality. They regularly discuss cutting-edge research in the Governance and Human Rights Discussion Group.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.6080596,"longitude":-3.9773969},{"infrastructure_id":"1625","name":"Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative (HERC)","town":"Milton Keynes","postcode":"MK7 6AA","tags":["art","history","law","criminology","health","policy","human-rights","comparative-studies","technology","science","sociology","psychology"],"addr1":"The Open University","addr2":"Walton Hall","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative (HERC) is based in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at The Open University. It was formed in 2015 out of what was known as the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research (ICCCR), which itself had been established in December 2003. From 2010-2020 was formally partnered with the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.
\nHERC is a unique multidisciplinary and cross faculty initiative drawing on expertise from Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (social policy and criminology, psychology, history and sociology) and Health and Social Care (youth justice); and from the affiliated International Centre for the History of crime, policing and justice; and the affiliated Higher and Distance Education in Prison research interest group, based in the Institute of Educational Technology.\nHERC unites contemporary practice-based research and critical policy analysis in crime, harm, policing, criminal justice and criminalisation, with an awareness of historical, psychological and social contexts. Its core focus can be summarised by the theme, “Harmful Evidence and Evidencing Harm”.
\nHERC is organised around three substantive (but inter-related) research questions:
\nThe Initiative approaches these questions:
\nThe International Centre for the History of Crime, Policing and Justice aims to promote and facilitate research into criminal justice history around the world and to generate the exchange of ideas between academics, criminal justice practitioners and serving and retired policemen. This is achieved via seminars, conferences, publications and the provision of specialist archive facilities. The Centre has research specialisms in:
\nThe Centre is located in the History Department within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at The Open University. Formerly known as the European Centre for the Study of Policing (ECSP), the Centre is linked to the Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative, an interdisciplinary research group at the Open University. In addition, the Centre has strong links with the Groupe Européen de Recherche sur les Normativités (GERN) and close connections with the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Polizeigeschichte. Centre members also have a close collaborative relationship with History and Policy. Visiting research staff have come from as far afield America, New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, Canada and China and the permanent staff at the Centre are always keen to hear of relevant research being conducted world-wide.
\nPlease use the links in the top menu for more information on the Centre's membership, current research projects, events, resources and contact information.
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\r\nThe Centre develops innovative pedagogy that provides students with the opportunity to enhance their skills and experiences to support them in the changing employment market. This is underpinned by pioneering cutting edge research that informs the curriculum and showcases technology enhanced experiential learning.
\r\nAs well as co-ordinating a wide range of practical activities, the Open Justice Centre is also engaged in academic research on the topics of clinical legal education, access to justice and pro bono (“for the public good”) work. Members are currently working on an empirical project exploring motivations for pro bono work amongst solicitors within England and Wales. They are also writing on the opportunities and challenges created by providing legal advice and guidance in an online setting.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.02453775,"longitude":-0.7092748093945007},{"infrastructure_id":"1644","name":"Brain Science and Law","town":"Milton Keynes","postcode":"MK7 6AA","tags":["law","philosophy","science","psychology"],"addr1":"The Open University","addr2":"Walton Hall","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Recent years have seen enormous advances in scientific and theoretical understanding of the brain.
\nThese advances provide new insights into how the law influences behaviour.\nAt the same time, legal theorists have suggested that jurisprudence and legal theory should take a 'naturalistic turn' to be more informed by brain sciences.\nAcademics within the Law School are examining the use of research from cognitive science, neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, and associated brain sciences within law and the justice system.
\nSome of the academics in this research cluster have dual qualifications in cognitive science, psychology, and philosophy. They conduct empirical research, analyse statistics, and engage in programming. They are collaborating with neuroscientists, psychologists and psychiatrists to understand the reliability of scientific claims, and working with lawyers worldwide to understand how science is being used in different jurisdictions and to recommend best practice.
\nSome of the many fascinating and important questions for the law that are being raised by developments in the brain sciences include:
\nFeminism, Law and Gender (FLAG) provides an intellectual and collaborative space for academics, visiting researchers and PhD students interested in gender-focused and feminist analysis of the law. FLAG’s research and research activities currently centres around the four themes:
\r\nFLAG has had considerable success in engaging in knowledge exchange activities including in devolved nations, UK, and internationally. The work of FLAG members has been cited by the Scottish Government, Welsh Government, politicians, the House of Lords, Women and Equalities Committee, the Law Commission and used to influence knowledge and working practices of national and international civil society organisations. Members of the cluster are pursuing a range of projects, collaborative research, and public engagement activities in the areas of their expertise.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.02453775,"longitude":-0.7092748093945007},{"infrastructure_id":"1649","name":"Space Exploration Analysis and Research","town":"Milton Keynes","postcode":"MK7 6AA","tags":["design","law","political-science","science"],"addr1":"The Open University","addr2":"Walton Hall","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Space Exploration Analysis and Research (SPEAR) is a cross-Faculty research cluster that builds upon the OU’s expertise in space exploration and its impact upon economy and society.
\nThe research activity includes a number of significant projects including the European Space Agency Exploration Roadmap in Socioeconomics (BEERS) and SpacePort Scotland projects.
\nSPEAR’s contribution to this interdisciplinary agenda is focused on the socio-economic analysis of space exploration programmes and missions, evaluating and measuring:
\nSPEAR has been enabled by interdisciplinary collaboration and co-operation between The Open University’s Space and Citizenship and Governance Strategic Research Areas (SRAs).
\nThese two areas are the major drivers for the awarding of funding for the BEERS project, further building expert capacity, knowledge exchange and impact in this increasingly important interdisciplinary area.
\nThe cluster encompasses an internal, external and international multi-disciplinary network that encompasses research and its application in the areas of:
\nThis association is creating new research collaborations in the form of projects, funding bids and outputs in a range of publications and other media. SPEAR builds upon and develops these outcomes and impacts to make a significant inter-disciplinary contribution.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.02453775,"longitude":-0.7092748093945007},{"infrastructure_id":"1650","name":"Futures of Legal Education and Practice","town":"Milton Keynes","postcode":"MK7 6AA","tags":["law","development-studies"],"addr1":"The Open University","addr2":"Walton Hall","country":"United Kingdom","description":"This research cluster draws together several academics from within The Open University Law School who have an interest in the development and future directions of legal education and legal practice.
\r\nThe title of the cluster reflects the diverse and evolving nature of legal education and the legal profession in the UK and beyond and the innovative and progressive work of its members. Research topics covered within this cluster include:
\r\nthe use and integration of learning theories
\r\nthe role of emotion within legal education
\r\nthe place of EU law within the curriculum
\r\nskills development within the law degree
\r\nthe development of apprenticeship models of legal education
\r\nclinical legal education
\r\ntraining within the legal profession
\r\nthe wellbeing of practitioners
\r\nethical issues involved in all aspects of legal education and practice
\r\nThe research cluster is also interested in assisting members of Open University staff in developing bids for scholarship, and supporting them in the dissemination and publication of their findings.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.02453775,"longitude":-0.7092748093945007},{"infrastructure_id":"1654","name":"Contemporary Youth Cultures and Transitions","town":"Milton Keynes","postcode":"MK7 6AA","tags":["law","criminology","cultural-studies","museum-studies","policy","sociology","psychology","geography"],"addr1":"The Open University","addr2":"Walton Hall","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Contemporary Youth Cultures and Transitions Research Group at the Open University brings together academic researchers – working across and between the boundaries of criminology, human geography, psychology, sociology, and education studies – alongside practitioners and youth activists.
\nMembers believe that young people’s voices and experiences should be front and centre of their work. Moreover, that the production of knowledge, as well as being co-created from within those communities it is about and affects, must also look to inform policy and practice. The Research Group is particularly concerned with redressing the academic/media deficit narrative that either problematise and criminalise, or ignore, youth racialised as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic. They are committed to ensuring that the holistic lived experience, and intersectional identities, of young people deemed to be at the ‘margins’ of society, within the UK and globally, are sensitively and ethically captured, interpreted and utilised for change.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.02453775,"longitude":-0.7092748093945007},{"infrastructure_id":"1663","name":"Conflict Analysis Research Centre","town":"Canterbury","postcode":"CT2 7NZ","tags":["design","law","political-science","economics","policy","human-rights","gender-sexuality-studies","anthropology-ethnography","media-studies","science","psychology","journalism","social-science-keyword"],"addr1":"University Of Kent At Canterbury","addr2":"The Registry","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Conflict Analysis Research Centre (CARC) at the University of Kent is a multi-disciplinary Faculty Research Centre. It is based in the School of Politics and International Relations but draws on the expertise of other Schools such as Anthropology, Psychology, the School of Social Policy and Social Science Research, Law, Economics, and the Centre for Journalism.
\nThe aims of the Conflict Analysis Research Centre are:
\nThe Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) is the learned society for those who teach law in a university or similar institution or who are otherwise engaged in legal scholarship. The SLS has over 2700 members consisting primarily of academic lawyers in the UK and Ireland. The SLS (formerly called The Society of Public Teachers of Law) was founded in 1908 and has charitable status. It is the oldest as well as the largest learned society in the field of law. The Society is the principal representative body for legal academics in the UK as well as one of the larger learned societies in arts, humanities and social science.
\r\nThe Health Humanities Centre explores how methods from the humanities and social sciences may be brought to bear on the study of biomedicine, clinical practice, the politics of health care, experiences of health and illness, and their portrayal in literature, film and contemporary culture. Amongst the departments represented are History, Science and Technology Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Philosophy, Mental Health, Population Health, Global Health, Laws, Political Science, The Institute of the Americas, Geography, Political Science, The Slade School of Fine Art, the School of European Languages, Culture and Society and the Medical School. The Centre research is organised around three main research units:
\r\nThe Centre research aims to combine practicality with the highest levels of theoretical rigour. Outputs include policy reports and interventions as well as conventional academic articles and books.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.52420305,"longitude":-0.13300072425929543},{"infrastructure_id":"1708","name":"Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation","town":"London","postcode":"WC1E 6BT","tags":["art","history","law","cultural-studies","museum-studies","political-science","environmental-humanities","technology","science","medical-humanities","geography","post-colonial-studies"],"addr1":"University College London","addr2":"Gower Street","country":"United Kingdom","description":"UCL’s Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation was established in 2019 in response to student-led demands for the transformation of the curriculum and a reparative reckoning with the powerful, but often unacknowledged, colonial and imperial histories of UCL, London and the UK.
\r\nWorking closely with many partners on-site, the Sarah Parker Remond Centre accommodates a unique, multi-disciplinary community of students, teachers and researchers. It provides a focal point for scholarship, teaching and public engagement activities that are addressed to various problems of racial inequality and hierarchy.
\r\nAlongside its role in coordinating and facilitating existing initiatives, the Centre is committed to the production of new, historically-informed, critical knowledge addressed to some of the most urgent social and political questions of today. Its affiliates explore the impact of racism, scientific, metaphysical and cultural, on the development of all varieties of academic inquiry. There is particular interest in the complex legacies of race-thinking across the Humanities and Social Sciences as well as the continuing effects of racialised inequality in the workings of government, law, the arts, culture, science, technology and social life.
\r\nThe Centre is firmly grounded in the academic humanities and mindful of the significance of culture, literature and the arts in the development of movements against racial hierarchy. Its initial priorities for research and teaching are located in three key areas where the impact of racial divisions can be apprehended all of which have big implications for the future of race politics in Britain and beyond. These are (1) environmental humanities, (2) medical humanities, and (3) the rapidly expanding fields of “big data” and AI. These areas point, not only to the residual effects of colonial and imperial relations, but to emergent patterns in the racial ordering of the world.
\r\nThe Centre is committed to scholarly practice at the highest level, however, its work is not only scholarly. Its work is outward-facing and dedicated to public engagement with the full range of BME communities. The Centre’s location in London is therefore considered an important asset and its approach to all aspects of its work is transnational and global. Members endorse comparative research into these worldly issues and, in present circumstances, they are especially keen to contribute to broader European discussion about the continuing problems of exclusion, inclusivity and belonging that result from the conjunction of racism with nationalism.
\r\nBy connecting humanists and social scientists, and linking their concerns to other disciplines across the university, members will deliver research-led postgraduate teaching that engages with the ways that racial divisions persist and are still being reproduced. Studying those problems equips students with the critical knowledge and academic skills required to shape policy and action in government, civil society organisations and commercial sectors around the world.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.52420305,"longitude":-0.13300072425929543},{"infrastructure_id":"1717","name":"China Centre for Health and Humanity (CCHH)","town":"London","postcode":"WC1E 6BT","tags":["history","law","health","cultural-studies","museum-studies","political-science","development-studies","archaeology"],"addr1":"University College London","addr2":"Gower Street","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The UCL China Centre for Health and Humanity (CCHH) takes an interdisciplinary approach to research and teaching, and is strong in the social sciences: history and culture, archaeology, the environment, law and international health and development.
\nIt is committed to UCL's Grand Challenges especially as they relate to China: global health, sustainable cities, intercultural interaction and human wellbeing.
\nThe Confucian concept Ren 仁, the quality that makes individual and society ‘human’ or ‘humane’, is at the centre of contemporary Chinese ethical discourse and CCHH will take up this debate in relation to health. The Centre supports interdisciplinary research and education in all these aspects of China’s health, and China’s impact on world health, past, present and future.\nThe Centre brings together UCL’s considerable China expertise in an ambitious programme of teaching and research. Members aim to develop existing connections and facilitate new collaborative initiatives with institutions in China, creating new spaces for dialogue and debate about effective and appropriate health interventions.
\nThe Centre organises seminars, film screenings and general-interest events, which are open to all members of the UCL community and registered Friends of CCHH.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.52420305,"longitude":-0.13300072425929543},{"infrastructure_id":"1721","name":"Refuge in a Moving World","town":"London","postcode":"WC1E 6BT","tags":["law","political-science","human-rights"],"addr1":"University College London","addr2":"Gower Street","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The ‘Refuge in a Moving World’ network brings together experts from across the UCL who work on displacement, forced migration, exile and conflict. It is grounded on the understanding that cross-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research is essential to develop a full understanding of, and a means of responding to, the human, material and representational effects of intersecting processes of mass displacement around the world.
\r\nThe network organises research-led interdisciplinary events, including seminar series, conferences, workshops, public debates, and a PhD Wing to help better understand the history, causes, experiences, representations and implications of ongoing shifts in politics, people and perceptions.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.52420305,"longitude":-0.13300072425929543},{"infrastructure_id":"1723","name":"Post-Soviet Press Group","town":"London","postcode":"WC1E 6BT","tags":["history","law","cultural-studies","museum-studies","language","literature","economics","human-rights","religious-studies","media-studies","architecture"],"addr1":"University College London","addr2":"Gower Street","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Post-Soviet Press Group (PSPG) provides a weekly opportunity to discuss developments in states of the former Soviet Union.
\nMembers discuss news from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic States, Moldova, the South Caucasian states, and Central Asia, covering a wide range of topics, including politics, the mass media, business, the environment, NGOs, human rights, culture, economics, and religion.
\nThe core activity of the Group involves members presenting and discussing news items during weekly meetings. These meetings take place in person on Wednesdays, 13:00-14:00, in Terms 1 and 2 (excluding Reading Weeks) in the Masaryk Room on the fourth floor of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) building. These meetings are held under the Chatham House Rule.
\nMembers are free to pick any story they wish, with no need to notify the Group beforehand. In practice, some members choose an issue to follow throughout the year, making them the “go-to person” in the Group on a particular topic. Members are also free simply to listen to the discussion.
\nWhen presenting a news item, the Press Group member gives a short summary, before opening up to discussion with other members, who can add details and ask follow-up questions. Written summaries of these news reports are then published each week and circulated to members of the Press Group in the Bulletin.
\nInstructions on how to prepare material for inclusion in the Bulletin are available. In addition, longer pieces are published on the Post-Soviet Brief blog, alongside commentary from SSEES academics.
\nSeveral guest speakers are invited each year to the Wednesday lunchtime meetings.
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\nIts work predominantly centres around the areas of social welfare, community care, education, and employment law.
\nUCL Laws has been a leader in access to justice and the incorporation of casework and social justice awareness into the law degree programmes it offers. Working with charity organisations and legal professionals, the Centre provides legal assistance to members of the local community while giving students an opportunity to gain hands on experience in meeting legal needs and critically reflect on the role of law in society.
\nAt the core of its activities is the Faculty’s own access to justice research, underpinning both the Centre's approach to teaching as well as how the Centre provides services and engage with the community. Understanding the broader implications that a lack of access to justice can have, members take a holistic approach to resolving the legal problems clients face while also placing an emphasis on community engagement and outreach.
\nFor the last 20 years, the Faculty’s ground-breaking research has had significant impact on access to justice policies and the delivery of legal services both in the UK and abroad. Building on this history, the Centre continues to produce research which aims to stimulate debate and inform policy around access to justice issues.
\nTo encourage students to make the most of their degree while at UCL, the Centre also runs a wide-ranging pro bono programme to allow students to develop both personally and professionally and to place their degree in the context of the real world.
\nFounded in 2013 within UCL Faculty of Laws, the Centre for Access to Justice (CAJ) combines progressive experiential teaching and multi-disciplinary research-based learning with the provision of pro bono legal advice and representation to low income and vulnerable local communities.
\nThe central mission of the Centre is to promote access to justice through research-led education, community activities and evidence-based policy advice. This is achieved through five core objectives:
\nThe Centre’s objectives are achieved through projects and activities which focus on:
\nThe Centre for Criminal Law aims to promote research and teaching at UCL in criminal law subjects, namely substantive criminal law, criminal procedure and evidence, the criminal justice system, criminology and the philosophy and practice of punishment.
\nCriminal law is a major subject of academic and practical importance. This has always been so in England, where the subject has a rich history and occupies a very prominent place in popular awareness of the legal system.
\nThe many questions raised by the use of criminal law as a means of social control continue to engage the attention of scholars in law and many other disciplines, to say nothing of politicians, policymakers, the judiciary, the legal profession and many other groups and individuals. New challenges are presented by the growth in terrorism, organised crime and money-laundering, all of which frequently occur across national boundaries.
\nIn addition, in recent years criminal law studies have taken on a substantial European dimension, by virtue of the impact of the European Convention on Human Rights and the growing significance of EU harmonisation and co-operation in criminal justice enforcement. The development of international criminal law and its associated tribunal jurisdiction has generated new issues and provided a further stimulus to the ‘globalisation’ of the subject.
\nAs London’s global university UCL has recognised the significance of criminal law and its increasing international dimensions by the establishment of the Centre. The Centre stands alongside the Department of Crime Science, with its broad interdisciplinary focus on crime prevention, and its work similarly addresses including the issue of security in UCL's Grand Challenges research programme.
\nThe Centre's work includes:\n•\tthe organisation of courses, conferences, seminars and lectures\n•\tthe preparation of responses to Government legislative proposals, Law Commission consultation papers, and other law reform proposals\n•\tthe building of networks of contacts with government departments, the judiciary, the criminal Bar, solicitors’ firms, the police, the Crown Prosecution Service, the Prison Service and other institutions and groups with interests in criminal justice\n•\tco-operation with other universities with special interests in criminal law subjects, with a view to developing programmes of visits, staff exchanges, and collaborative research; increasing the profile of criminal law studies at UCL with the aim of attracting greater numbers of LLM and PhD students
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\r\nLocated in the heart of London, the Centre's main goals are to bring together commercial law experts to stimulate research and debate in commercial law (including corporate law) and practice and to strengthen cooperation with other academic centres, international organisations, the legal profession and the industry.
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\nThe Centre is a world leader of methodological innovation in empirical legal studies, and is helping to build research capacity in the United Kingdom and enable evidence led evolution of justice systems around the world.\nThrough its current membership, the Centre is able to draw upon expertise in fields as diverse as law, sociology, criminology, statistics, psychology and political science, to bring new perspectives to bear upon the study of law and legal institutions.
\nResearch projects currently being undertaken by members of the Centre for Empirical Legal Studies relate to access to justice, integration of legal and health services, judicial training and diversity, jury and tribunal decision-making, ethics in the legal profession, prison privatisation; prison therapeutic communities and women in prison.
\nRecently concluded studies include:
\nThe UCL Centre for Ethics and Law works at the interface between law and ethics.
\nThe centre's members are particularly interested in the relationships between ethics and the professions; law, ethics and business; innovation, technology and ethics and ethics and risk. Its work draws on law, philosophy, psychology and practice.
\nThe Centre:
\nMembers aim to encourage ethical reflection, awareness and positive change through teaching, research and stakeholder engagement with the public, policy makers, regulators, practitioners and academics.
\nThrough think tanks and other events the Centre brings together academics, policy makers, practitioners and business leaders to discuss ethical dilemmas in business and professional life. Through teaching and research it provides thought leadership.
\nOngoing projects include:
\nCompleted projects include:
\nThe Centre for Law, Economics and Society (CLES) is UCL Faculty of Law’s Centre dedicated to the study of competition law and policy and economic regulation. It promotes the study of regulatory action in all its forms (State, non-State, all forms of collective action), from a trans-disciplinary perspective, in particular drawing on law, economics, sociology, political science and complexity science.
\nMembers firmly believe that law can address some of the pressing issues of today and can generate a more just and sustainable society.\nThe Centre’s objective is to research original topics relating to collective action, with important practical implications, from a trans-disciplinary perspective. Researchers take a broader perspective than traditional "law and economics" centres, being inspired by the Law and Political Economy tradition, experimenting with new approaches, bringing together the best of social science research (orthodox and heterodox, theoretical and empirical) when exploring the intersection between the legal system and the economy, technology and more broadly society.
\nThe Centre takes a Mode 2 perspective on knowledge production. For this reason, the organization of its activities is different than in traditional research centres.
\nFirstly, the Centre chooses the research topics in close collaboration with the world of practice (governments, International Organizations, law firms and economic consultancies, corporations, the civil society) and it integrates as much as possible the main actors from practice in the Centre’s work.\nSecondly, the Centre has a flexible internal organization for each of these “research initiatives”, with specific teams from the Centre and/or practice working together, independently from the other projects of the Centre, to accomplish their research outcomes.
\nResearch areas and projects are:
\nThe Centre for Law and Environment was established to provide a focal point for the UCL Faculty of Laws' outstanding expertise and academic strength in the field of the environment and the law.
\nThe main goals of the Centre are to advance research and teaching and explore the role of law in meeting contemporary environmental and energy challenges.
\nThe Centre is committed to treating domestic law (UK), regional (European Union) and international aspects of environmental law in a comprehensive and integrated manner. This approach is reflected in offerings on the LLM course and the supervision of doctoral students, as well as in the diverse range of research pursued by members of the Centre.
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\r\nIt serves as the London home of the Project on International Courts and Tribunals (PICT), which was established in 1997 by FIELD in London and the Center on International Cooperation at New York University.
\r\nAs a part of PICT, the Centre at UCL addresses the legal, institutional and financial issues arising from the increase in the number of international courts and tribunals and the growing number of cases before these courts. The Centre’s overall mission is to provide a forum to promote ideas that contribute toward more effective, equitable and efficient delivery of international justice. The activities of the Centre contribute to the full range of PICT activities, including:
\r\nThe emergence of an international judiciary gives rise to a wide range of legal and policy issues, from the independence of the international judiciary to the relations between international and national courts, as well as new international issues such as forum shopping, lis pendens and res judicata.
\r\nIt is against this context that PICT and the Centre have the following aims and objectives:
\r\nThe Institute of Brand and Innovation Law (IBIL) is one of only a small number of UK-based university research centres which focus solely upon intellectual property law.
\nThe Institute was established in 2007 with a distinctive objective. IBIL seeks not only to undertake first class academic research, but also to pay attention to the practical application intellectual property law and to the interests of IP practitioners in this field.
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\nWith its wide range of activities the Institute leads academic impact and engagement on global human rights issues. The Institute's focus is on human rights standard-setting, interpretation and application, in both the international and domestic context. Its mission is to contribute to UCL's role as a global university.
\nThe institute was established to bring the university's multidisciplinary expertise (eg in law, the humanities, social sciences and medical sciences) to bear on human rights. The institute will play a prominent role as facilitator to bring together stakeholders and researchers and to develop new working partnerships in the advancement of human rights.
\nThe aims are:
\nThe UCL Institute for Human Rights (IHR) coordinates research undertaken in the field of human rights across UCL. Research work is organised around seven themes:
\nAs a leading multidisciplinary university, UCL is committed to academic research that transcends boundaries between disciplines and offers novel and practicable solutions to global problems.
\nThe institute also aims to equip students studying human rights with the knowledge and skills that will enable them to contribute to the human rights movement, be it through civil society, governmental institutions or legal practice.
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\nIts aim is to:
\nThe Institute’s approach in this area of law and policy is based on a strong interaction between legal principles and analysis and applied economic theory and empirics. Research in the area of competition law and policy is conducted in the context of the Centre for Law, Economics and Society.
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\nThe Institute's Research Programme is the UK's only dedicated programme of empirical research exploring the process of judicial decision-making, judicial attitudes, the judicial process, judicial appointments, training and education, and it also provides expert advice to policy-makers on reform of the courts and judicial processes.
\nThe UCL Jury Project has pioneered the study of jury decision-making in the criminal courts in this country, using innovative research methods and working only with actual jurors at court. Landmark studies include Are Juries Fair? and Diversity and Fairness in the Jury System, both of which tackle sensitive and controversial issues about the fairness of trial by jury.
\nThe Tribunals Research Programme includes a path-breaking study of decision-making by tribunal panels funded by the Nuffield Foundation and conducted in co-operation with the Tribunals Service. The Programme also includes research on tribunal users' perceptions of the fairness of the tribunal process.
\nMembers of the Judicial Institute have conducted this country's first empirical analysis of the judicial appointment process, explored reasons for highly qualified practitioners not applying for senior judicial posts, and have provided expert advice to government on increasing judicial diversity working with the JAC, Neuberger Panel and current Judicial Appointments Review.
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\nFor the purposes of the Institute, ‘labour law’ is broadly defined as including individual and collective labour law, and anti-discrimination and equality law, at a domestic, European, international, and comparative level.
\nLabour market regulation and issues of labour migration also fall within the Institute’s core areas of interest and work, and the Institute has a distinct vocation for comparative and European/supranational analytical and critical studies.
\nThe LRI seeks to achieve these objectives in a number of ways: chiefly by organising conferences, seminars and lectures on labour law subjects, establishing interdisciplinary links with other UCL Institutes and Centres, and building networks of contacts with government departments, international organizations, the social partners, and institutions and groups working in the area of labour law.
\nThe Institute also encourages co-operative work with other universities with special interests in labour law subjects with a view to developing programmes of visits, staff exchanges, and collaborative research.\nIts work is organised on the basis of ‘research streams’. The Institute currently has five ongoing streams:
\nLabour law as an academic subject can rely on a long and proud tradition here at UCL. Roger Rideout was one of the pioneers in the development of labour law as an academic subject, and its progressive ‘emancipation’ from other disciplines such as industrial relations and, to some extent, contract law.
\nLabour law has always been taught, under various denominations, as a successful undergraduate and, more recently, postgraduate course, and the Faculty members are actively involved in a number of important national and international forums and institutions dedicated to the study of labour law and the development of employment rights.
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\nUCL Laws brings together a vibrant group of researchers working on private law, whose activities include critical doctrinal analysis of obligations and property law, legal history, legal theory and comparative law.
\nMembers of the Private Law Group have published many highly regarded books and articles in these areas, and are actively engaged in organising conferences, lectures and workshops to promote informed engagement with current issues in private law scholarship and to build academic capacity in the field of private law.
\nThey are committed to the rigorous academic study of private law topics and to fostering constructive dialogue between different communities of private law scholars including critical analysts of legal doctrine, historians, economists, social scientists, legal theorists and comparativists.
\nRecent research by Group members has included:
\nIn addition to advancing and participating in the academic study private law, members regularly engage in mutually enriching exchanges with a wide community of judges and legal practitioners. Members’ work has also discernibly influenced the way in which many important recent cases have been pleaded and decided.
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\nThe Information Technology Law Collective is an informal and open network of scholars in the London area, who meet and exchange ideas about contemporary challenges and issues on topics including data, the Internet, and emerging digital technologies.
\nThe primarily purpose of the group is to co-ordinate occasional discussion events with a strong social element, with the aim of strengthening the networks and profiles of doctoral/early career scholars within and across institutions, and fostering exciting collaborations.
\nResearchers outside of law schools working in areas adjacent to information technology law, including computer science and technology policy, are very welcome. Researchers based in or around London, who commute out to non-London institutions, or those who want to lurk because they often find themselves in town, are also welcome to join the list.
\nThe group is administratively coordinated by UCL Laws, but is designed to span across University of London colleges and other London–based institutions, with co-ordinating support from scholars across 13 London law schools.
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\nThe jurisprudential tradition at UCL continues to flourish. A large number of faculty members conduct research in jurisprudence and related areas of legal theory and philosophy.
\nMembers are united not by adherence to any common set of jurisprudential doctrines, but by a joint commitment to the use of clear and rigorous philosophical argumentation to probe some of the deepest problems of law and society.
\nA shared focus, in keeping with the Benthamite ideals of the founders of UCL, is the aim of relating law to fundamental ethical values in order to achieve an enhanced appreciation of how law can be a force for good in the lives of individuals and societies.\n.\nThe Faculty hosts the annual Quain Lectures in Jurisprudence, which are given by a leading figure in legal or political philosophy and are published by Oxford University Press.
\nTogether with scholars from Philosophy and Politics, the Faculty of Laws co-ordinates the running of a Colloquium in Law, Politics and Philosophy which takes place in Terms 2 and 3 of the academic year.
\nAs part of an on-going collaboration with Yale Law School the Group co-hosts the UCL-Yale Legal Philosophy Workshop in Term 3. The Faculty has collaborated with Yale on a number of other projects in legal and political philosophy, including workshops and symposia on the nature of law, the philosophy of private law, and the ethics of markets and economic inequality.
\nThe UCL Legal Philosophy Forum is a more informal discussion group for work-in-progress in legal philosophy, which is run by UCL research students.\nIn addition to such ongoing activities, the Faculty has organised major international conferences on philosophical themes including the philosophical foundations of aspects of private and public law.
\nResearch by Faculty members addresses a diverse, and continually changing, array of topics. This includes questions concerning the general nature of law and legal adjudication, and questions about the conceptual and normative underpinnings of particular areas of law, including seeing law through the lens of gender and race theory, as well as those in particular areas of law such as constitutional theory, the philosophy of international law, human rights and labour law, medical law and ethics, and the ethics of markets and the philosophy of criminal law and contract law.
\nThere is also a strong focus on the history of legal philosophy, exemplified primarily by the world-famous Bentham Project which was established in 1959 and is based in the Faculty. The mission of the Bentham Project is to produce the new authoritative edition of the Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham.
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\r\nThe UCL Public Law Group is a community of scholars working in the field of public law, broadly understood. Its aim is to provide a supportive forum for the discussion and development of theoretical and doctrinal questions in constitutional theory, comparative constitutional law, human rights, judicial review, legal and political theory, and more.
\r\nThe group brings together academic staff and visiting fellows, PhD researchers, and advanced students at UCL Laws interested in these topics. The Group regularly hosts seminars with scholars from UK-based and international institutions interested in sharing recent work.
\r\nThe group’s mission is to foster creative dialogue between diverse scholars at all levels and to promote rigorous academic debate of public law topics.
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\r\nThe Group’s mission is to develop the ECR academic waste law community both within the UK and internationally. We aim to foster rigorous academic debate among ECR academic waste lawyers who would like to think creatively about theoretical, empirical and normative approaches to waste law. We welcome ECR academic waste lawyers and established waste law academics to engage with us.
\r\nThe group meets once monthly online during term time. We aim to meet in person once a year. Our first in-person writing workshop was hosted by Dr Michael Picard at Edinburgh School of Law in March 2022 and generously funded by the Edinburgh Law School Research and Impact Facilitation Fund. Our second in-person writing workshop was hosted by Dr Allison Lindner at UCL Faculty of Laws in July 2023 and generously funded by the UCL Laws Vice-Dean International Leadership Fund.
\r\nPhD level and above academics are warmly invited to join this very active community to convene montly meetings and get involved in the group's other projects.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.52420305,"longitude":-0.13300072425929543},{"infrastructure_id":"1761","name":"Conflict and Change Group","town":"London","postcode":"WC1E 6BT","tags":["history","law","political-science","human-rights","science"],"addr1":"University College London","addr2":"Gower Street","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Based in the Department of Political Science at University College London (UCL), the Conflict and Change group, founded in 2015, contributes to the scientific understanding of political violence.
\nPursuing systematic and empirically informed research, the group brings together scholars analyzing the causes, dynamics, and consequences of political conflicts.
\nSharing a focus on systematic analysis of theoretically-informed and policy-relevant questions, its research draws on a diverse spectrum of methods—from disaggregated large-N analysis and forecasting to fieldwork-based case studies and normative theory.
\nThematically, the group draws together experts on armed groups, civil wars and their external involvement, dynamics of both violent and non-violent mobilization, ethnic cleansing, repression, terrorism, conflict resolution and post-war state-building, and human rights.
\nMembers organize a regular research seminar series, as well as public talks and workshops enabling dialogue between academics, policy-makers, and practitioners, including an annual workshop for PhD students and early career researchers. Several members regularly engage with practitioners and policy-makers and contribute to public debate based on their research expertise.
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\nCJP embraces the multi-disciplinary nature of research on conflict, justice and peace conducted by academics, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows at LSE. The platform fosters integration, linkages and exchange of ideas among LSE’s researchers in diverse disciplines, and specialists on different global regions.
\nIt draws on the long history of innovative research at LSE that has contributed to the global, national, and local debates in search for policy solutions to challenges posed by armed conflict. Facilitating an inter-disciplinary dialogue, CJP promotes a deep understanding of the complexities of war, justice and peace, and seeks to engage with practitioners and contribute to policy-making.
\nCJP disseminates information about new publications by LSE scholars and LSE events about conflict and peace studies, organised by the School’s departments, research centres, units and research programmes. Furthermore, it organises events that are hosted by the European Institute, Department of International Relations, Department of Government and Department of International Development.
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\nThe problems encountered by strategic and critical materials are often driven by economic or political factors and this draws in other expertise from across campus including Economics, Social Sciences and Law.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.4522956,"longitude":-1.9312856726008194},{"infrastructure_id":"1880","name":"Centre for Crime, Justice and Policing","town":"Birmingham","postcode":"B15 2TT","tags":["law","criminology","policy","human-rights","technology","ethics"],"addr1":"University Of Birmingham","addr2":"Edgbaston","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Crime, Justice and Policing brings together a diverse group of researchers who either work in the area of crime, justice and policing or have methodological expertise.
\nResearch themes tackled by the Centre include the following:
\nHealth Law is a growing discipline looking at a wide spectrum of issues from the health care professional-patient relationship, the "public" dimension of health, and regulatory aspects of health care delivery. The nature of health care delivery is the subject of rapid evolution and new structural and scientific developments from the " new genetics" to "nanomedicine" give rise to new legal and regulatory challenges both in domestic law and at EU level.
\nThe Centre for Health Law, Science and Policy (CHLSP) aims to foster dialogue and world leading research in this area and also to foster research led teaching through the development of postgraduate courses and doctoral students.
\nThe Centre is based in the Law School and includes leading scholars from within the Law School and also members from across the University of Birmingham working in a range of disciplines. In addition draws upon a broader advisory board including those in the NHS and legal profession working in this area and input from the broader international community.
\nThe Centre's research incorporates theoretical explorations of philosophical bioethics and legal philosophy to more applied research in topics as diverse as bodily integrity, medical migration, mental health, the legal regulation of complementary and alternative medicine, perfectionism, the regulation of reproduction, and decision making at the end of life.
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\nThe centre focuses exclusively on Africa and on work in three broad core areas:
\nThe Law, Society and Justice (LawSoJust) Research and Enterprise Group brings together academics from law and related social science disciplines, who are active in the fields of social justice and accountability. The group shares a distinctly critical and socio-legal approach, which highlights the role law plays, both, in driving for social justice but also in maintaining certain social injustices. It explores the interplay between law and justice in the social context. This relevant social context, ranges from the local, national and international to the specific disadvantaged groups within society such as indigenous peoples, vulnerable groups and racial minorities. The group examines contemporary legal and social issues which arise in various contexts, such as issues of: racial inequality, modern slavery, hate crimes, indefinite detention, corporate accountability, corporate governance, comparative international law and human rights.
\nThe group aims to provide a support network for research activities related to law, society and justice. It will develop links with legal practitioners, policy-makers and non-governmental organisations. The group also organises activities which are open to students and the wider research community to disseminate research findings, stimulate debate and advance collaborations. It intends to develop bids and apply for grants with the aim of becoming a centre for research and enterprise excellence in the future.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":50.8465563,"longitude":-0.1175745},{"infrastructure_id":"1909","name":"Digital Societies Research Group, Bristol","town":"Bristol","postcode":"BS8 1QU","tags":["law","political-science","economics","policy","science","geography"],"addr1":"University Of Bristol","addr2":"Beacon House","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Digital Societies research group is working to build strong, sustainable, critical and actionable research on how digital technologies change society: in the past, the present and in the future.
\r\nThe group brings together researchers from across the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law (economics, education, geography, political science, law, management, social policy, sociology).
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.50076785,"longitude":-2.5503106339491204},{"infrastructure_id":"1917","name":"Migration Mobilities Bristol (MMB)","town":"Bristol","postcode":"BS8 1TU","tags":["history","law","criminology","health","political-science","language","policy","music-sound","development-studies","philosophy","film-studies","anthropology-ethnography","sociology","engineering","geography","refugees-keyword","latin-american-studies-keyword","education","decolonisation-keyword","modern-languages-keyword","migration-studies-keyword","television-studies-keyword","race-keyword","representation-keyword","immigration-keyword","citizenship-keyword"],"addr1":null,"addr2":null,"country":"United Kingdom","description":"Migration Mobilities Bristol (MMB) is a Specialist Research Institute at the University of Bristol. MMB is an interdisciplinary network of academics and others with diverse interests from Film Studies, Modern Languages and Music, to Politics, Sociology and Aerospace Engineering.
\r\nMMB offers a creative space to engage with migration in theory, policy and practice. By expanding and challenging understandings of migration and making connections between different types of mobilities, beyond the human and across time, MMB endeavours to contribute to a more just world.
\r\nMMB's work is oriented around three research challenges:
\r\nThe Centre for Medieval Studies was formed in 1994 and is a well-established presence within the Faculty of Arts. The Centre for Medieval Studies is concerned with all aspects of the history, culture, art and representation of medieval Europe. An emphasis is placed upon interdisciplinary exchange, and the centre regularly holds seminars and conferences (including an annual postgraduate conference), to which specialists in a wide range of disciplines are invited to contribute.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.50076785,"longitude":-2.5503106339491204},{"infrastructure_id":"1923","name":"Bristol Digital Game Lab","town":"Bristol","postcode":"BS8 1QU","tags":["art","design","history","law","digital-humanities","language","literature","science","game-studies"],"addr1":"University Of Bristol","addr2":"Beacon House","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Video games are no longer just entertainment. They are tools for change. The Bristol Digital Game Lab, based at the Bristol Digital Futures Institute, is pioneering this shift. From public health to cultural heritage and policy, games are shaping how we learn, connect and solve complex challenges. The Game Lab asks not just what games are, but what they can do for society, for our future. We act as a connective infrastructure – bridging academia, industry, and the public sector. Our mission is to unlock the power of play for cultural, educational, and civic transformation. The Game Lab is one of four dynamic labs within the Centre for Creative Technologies and is co-directed by Dr Richard Cole (Digital Futures) and Dr Michael Samuel (Film and TV).
\r\nThe Game Lab supports the development of games as a public service. We act as a catalyst for thinking about and with games in the creative City of Bristol. Since 2022, we have designed games for museums and to support mental health, conducted large-scale player studies as part of industry-led collaborative R&D projects, and developed a methodology that uses game jams to critically examine the past, present, and future. This practice-led, research-informed approach underpins our consultancy service for academics, industry, and the third sector. We also developed the MA Games Design (Narrative), the first programme of its kind globally to focus on narrative design for games.
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\nDedicated to fostering an interdisciplinary dialogue around legal issues related to work, the Centre is intellectually inclusive, embracing a wide range of methodological approaches to the study of law at work and nurturing early career researchers.
\nForging connections with the Faculty Research Group for Perspectives on Work, and with close links with the Labour Law Research Network, the Centre cultivates a transdisciplinary ethos, offering excellent support for research and research-related activities.
\nBy engaging diverse voices and perspectives the Centre aims to influence policy at national, transnational and international levels.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.50076785,"longitude":-2.5503106339491204},{"infrastructure_id":"1944","name":"Centre for Health, Law, and Society (CHLS)","town":"Bristol","postcode":"BS8 1HH","tags":["law","health","human-rights"],"addr1":"University Of Bristol","addr2":"8-10 Berkeley Square","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Health, Law, and Society is a transdisciplinary Centre established to examine the diverse roles for law and governance as mechanisms to address health and well-being. The Centre looks across society and governmental sectors at broad-ranging questions including regulation of health care, reproductive justice, mental health and well-being and public and global health.
\r\nAreas of expertise include:
\r\nThe Centre for Law and History Research brings together expertise in the history of law over many centuries and several jurisdictions, with a variety of academic perspectives.
\nThe Law School has a large body of scholars engaged in research and teaching in law and its histories. The Centre exists to fosters excellent research in this field, individual and collaborative, and to forge links between disciplines and institutions, amongst scholars with an interest in examining law in its historical dimension.
\nThe Centre includes academics with internationally-recognised research profiles, who work with a variety of local, national and international organisations to promote and further the study of law and history.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.50076785,"longitude":-2.5503106339491204},{"infrastructure_id":"1946","name":"Human Rights Implementation Centre","town":"Bristol","postcode":"BS8 1HH","tags":["law","policy","human-rights"],"addr1":"University Of Bristol","addr2":"8-10 Berkeley Square","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Human Rights Implementation Centre (HRIC) was established in 2009, within the Law School of the University of Bristol, to enhance the implementation of human rights worldwide through research, education and discussion. The HRIC’s work therefore encompasses a range of complementary activities, including:
\r\nThe Centre for Global Law and Innovation (CGLI) at the University of Bristol Law School brings together scholars with an interest in drivers of innovation and global regulatory trends in law, with a particular focus of interest on the intersection of law and technology. We take a broad and inclusive approach to innovation and the work of our members focuses on areas such as trade, procurement, investment, finance, intellectual property, information technology, environmental technology, regulation and health law.
\r\nInnovation means different things in different contexts and the work of CGLI members addresses a wide range of issues. Research interests include the potential for disruptive technologies, including digitalisation and automation, to shape regulatory frameworks across legal disciplines. The linkages between innovation and social justice is another focal point for some of our members’ research.
\r\nThe CGLI promotes research among academics, students, policy-makers, third sector organisations and other stakeholders that have an interest in regulation and innovation, innovative regulation and regulating innovation, in law.
\r\nOur leading academics combine an internationally-recognised research reputation with a wealth of experience working with organisations that are responsible for policy-development, professional regulation and social advocacy.
\r\nOur members are also involved in interdisciplinary innovation, both in the Bristol Digital Futures Institute, Jean Golding Institute, the newly-established Bristol Digital Game Lab, and further afield. The CGLI serves as a platform for their more legal-focused research projects and outputs. Many members have senior editorial and board responsibilities for leading journals in their respective legal discipline.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.50076785,"longitude":-2.5503106339491204},{"infrastructure_id":"1948","name":"Centre for Private and Commercial Law","town":"Bristol","postcode":"BS8 1QU","tags":["law"],"addr1":"University Of Bristol","addr2":"Beacon House","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre brings together world-class scholars working in the fields of private and commercial law, promoting doctrinal, collaborative, socio-legal and inter-disciplinary approaches.
\r\nThe Centre's work includes scholarship in the fields of contract, tort, unjust enrichment, property, commercial, insurance, and company law, with world-leading scholars based in the Centre for Private and Commercial Law. The Centre provides a supportive environment in which projects and ideas are discussed, challenged and developed. As a platform to disseminate work, the Centre creates opportunities to engage with the wider legal community, notably with policymakers and practitioners.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.50076785,"longitude":-2.5503106339491204},{"infrastructure_id":"1949","name":"Centre for International Law, Bristol","town":"Bristol","postcode":"BS8 1QU","tags":["law","human-rights"],"addr1":"University Of Bristol","addr2":"Beacon House","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for International Law brings together one of the largest and most diverse communities of international lawyers in the UK. The Centre provides a platform for collaboration, engagement with external institutions, and the dissemination of its internationally-recognised research. The Centre is intellectually inclusive, embracing a diverse range of methodological approaches and seeking to foster an interdisciplinary ethos.
\r\nAreas of expertise include:
\r\nLiberty has underpinned the Judeo-Christian ideal for millennia, and it was the idea of liberty that moulded Europe. Britain, too, was forged by liberty, and British leadership in commerce and politics flowed out of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 which established the Bill of Rights and the rule of law.
\nBut liberty is ever fragile. One takes it for granted at one’s peril and each generation has to rediscover it afresh, lest it becomes stale and withers away. The Max Beloff Institute for the Study of the Constitution of Liberty, soon approaching its 15th anniversary, was set up in memory of the founding Principal of Buckingham as the first and to date only independent University in the UK with a Royal Charter.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.999010316647706,"longitude":-0.9906235386661381},{"infrastructure_id":"1963","name":"Business and Human Rights Resource Centre","town":"London","postcode":"SE11 5RR","tags":["law","political-science","human-rights","sustainability","global-south-keyword","indigenous-studies-keyword","labour-rights-keyword","environmental-sciences","globalisation-keyword","land-rights-keyword","deforestation-keyword","illegal-mining-keyword","corporativism-keyword","ngos-keyword"],"addr1":"A D D I","addr2":"17 Oval Way","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Business and Human Rights Resource Centre is made up of 12 trustees and 70+ colleagues dedicated to advancing human rights in business and eradicating abuse. It maintains expert knowledge of local contexts through its team of researchers and other staff members located across all major regions, including Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, North America, Latin America and the Middle East. They are supported by offices in London, New York, Berlin, and Bogotá. Its global team, senior management and board have extensive experience working in the human rights, development, and environmental fields and as academics, philanthropy professionals, and former businesspeople.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.48957562726821,"longitude":-0.11696514740452374},{"infrastructure_id":"1978","name":"Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), Queen Mary","town":"London","postcode":"WC2A 3JB","tags":["law","information-studies","economics","development-studies","technology","ethics","media-studies"],"addr1":"Centre For Commercial Law","addr2":"Northgate House","country":"United Kingdom","description":"In 1980, Sir Roy Goode decided to create an environment where practising commercial lawyers and those from academia could meet and exchange ideas. His vision was that by bringing together these different perspectives, it would have been possible to create better outcomes. And so the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) was born.
\r\nIt is an innovation that continues to bear results in teaching and research. One example is the Centre’s research on cloud computing being undertaken by its Institute of Computer and Communications Law – a rigorous academic undertaking, funded by industry to address a systemic challenge that has far-reaching consequences for providers of cloud services, as well as their users, whether individual, corporate or public sector.
\r\nBy bringing academia and practice together, CCLS has become a world leader in commercial law research - proof positive that a diversity of ideas fosters academic excellence and helps achieve the previously unthinkable. CCLS has over 50 full-time academic staff and more than 75 practitioners, judges and visiting academics contributing to the teaching, research and life of the centre. CCLS’s advisory council and its Development Board are comprised of judges, solicitors, barristers, general counsel, business leaders and academics.
\r\nCCLS has approximately 100 doctoral and 1,000 postgraduate taught students from some 80 countries. Students benefit from learning from leading academics and experienced practitioners in their teaching teams. View School of Law postgraduate law programmes.
\r\nCCLS has a long history of contributing to the training of practitioners and industry professionals, as well as providing seminars and lectures that count towards continuing professional development.
\r\nCCLS’s objective is to disseminate research on the practice and development of law. The Centre’s academic staff contribute to the work of domestic and international bodies undertaking law reform, acts as consultants to governments, agencies and practitioners and engages in debate through seminars and conferences, such as recent joint seminars with the Financial Services Authority and the Bank of England. The Centre’s School of International Arbitration is accredited as a non-governmental organisation by the United Nations.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.521356514598494,"longitude":-0.11831015531163835},{"infrastructure_id":"1980","name":"South Asia Centre","town":"London","postcode":"WC2A 2AE","tags":["history","law","health","cultural-studies","museum-studies","political-science","language","literature","economics","policy","gender-sexuality-studies","development-studies","anthropology-ethnography","media-studies","science","sociology","psychology","geography","diplomacy"],"addr1":"London School Of Economics & Political Science","addr2":"Houghton Street","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The LSE South Asia Centre leads LSE’s global engagement with the region — Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka — in the United Kingdom, and in South Asia.
\r\nThe Centre is the leading hub for South Asia in the United Kingdom, curating platforms to exchange ideas, foster discussions, create knowledge resources, provide research opportunities, and impact policy and public thought. Members embolden critical thinking about issues confronting the region, translate the global relevance of South Asian complexities through interdisciplinary, comparative, perspectival and contextual prisms of analyses, and underline the importance and relevance of South Asia beyond its geographical boundaries, as the world lives through the Covid-19 pandemic and the attendant civilisational turn.
\r\nStay up to date with the South Asia Centre on BlueSky and Threads.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.51846933996222,"longitude":-0.11576645538936141},{"infrastructure_id":"1982","name":"UCLan Cybercrime Research Unit (UCRU)","town":"Preston","postcode":"PR1 2HE","tags":["law","criminology","cultural-studies","museum-studies","political-science","gender-sexuality-studies","development-studies","science"],"addr1":null,"addr2":null,"country":"United Kingdom","description":"UCLan Cybercrime Research Unit (UCRU) is focused upon the pursuit of cutting-edge research in the field of Cybercrime which will inform social and educational policy in tandem with income generation activity and publications for REF 2020.
\r\nIdentity and Property crime as well as Digital Piracy, Cyberbullying/Stalking/Grooming, Trolling and Online ASB, gendered violence online and disability scammers online, metatheoretical development drawing upon Criminological Theory and Forensic Science. Including research into Terrorism.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.7593363,"longitude":-2.6992717},{"infrastructure_id":"1991","name":"Centre for Professional Ethics","town":"Preston","postcode":"PR1 2HE","tags":["law","political-science","medicine","human-rights","development-studies","philosophy","ethics","science","performance-studies","global-justice-keyword","research-ethics-keyword"],"addr1":null,"addr2":null,"country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre of Professional Ethics’ projects and activities are designed to maximise benefit for society. Members work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders to ensure lasting impact and the sustainability of their work. For instance, the leadership team is responsible for the TRUST Family of Ethics Codes (https://www.globalcodeofconduct.org/), which include the TRUST Code – A Global Code of Conduct for Equitable Research Partnerships. The Code aims to prevent helicopter research and 'ethics dumping', i.e. the export of research, which would be prohibited or severely restricted in a high-income country, to a low-or-middle-income country.
\r\nThe Code has been adopted by high-profile funders (e.g. the European Commission) and publishers, e.g. it forms the basis of NATURE's approach to ethics and inclusion in global research.
\r\nThe Centre for Professional Ethics, established in 1993, is one of the oldest ethics research centres in the world and has gained a reputation for excellence in various areas. Of key importance for the Centre is that projects have an impact in the real world and are of practical benefit.
\r\nIn the last 20 years, the Centre for Professional Ethics has co‐ordinated large‐scale, international projects on benefit sharing; community consent and indigenous populations; ethics dumping in international collaborative research; ethics in science policy; access to essential drugs; performance‐based pharmaceutical rewards as a supplement to the intellectual property rights system; responsible research and innovation, and research ethics and integrity during major crises.
\r\nWhat also makes the work stand out is the very close collaboration with marginalized populations, in particular, since 2003 with the San people of South Africa and since 2007 with sex workers in the informal settlements in and around Nairobi.
\r\nThe San have been one of the most researched communities in the world and prior misconduct by researchers and other outsiders have left them feeling exploited. Lack of respect for local traditions and culture; lack of care for local needs; lack of any benefit to the San themselves and lack of transparency in the researchers’ dealings have been commonplace. The San were supported, by the Centre, to develop the first ever research ethics code by an Indigenous population in Africa, the San Code of Research Ethics, one of four in the TRUST Family of Ethics Codes.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.7593363,"longitude":-2.6992717},{"infrastructure_id":"1992","name":"Global Race Centre for Equality (GRACE)","town":"Preston","postcode":"PR1 2HE","tags":["law","health","political-science","policy","human-rights","development-studies","psychology"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Global Race Centre for Equality (GRACE) works to generate new questions and new thinking in relation to modern day challenges relating to racial inequalities across the globe.
\nGRACE is a vibrant, transdisciplinary research centre, committed to quality research and intellectual enquiry that has real-world impact. The Centre is led by academics of colour and benefits from an active membership of colleagues with a track record of race-focused and/or racially inclusive research with a commitment to anti-racism.
\nThe centre operates under four key research themes, reflecting industry, the private, statutory, and voluntary sectors.
\nThe four research areas:
\nThe purpose of GRACE is to explore institutional and societal approaches that lead to enhanced racial justice. Members are interested in the interplay between the lived experiences of Black, Asian, and other racialised minorities, power, institutional structures and culture, and the outcomes for racialised minorities across all walks of life.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.7593363,"longitude":-2.6992717},{"infrastructure_id":"1993","name":"Research Centre for Migration, Diaspora and Exile (MIDEX)","town":"Preston","postcode":"PR1 2HE","tags":["art","history","law","cultural-studies","museum-studies","political-science","language","literature","human-rights","media-studies","science","classics"],"addr1":null,"addr2":null,"country":"United Kingdom","description":"The UCLan Research Centre for Migration, Diaspora and Exile (MIDEX) develops in-depth, state-of-the-art and impactful analysis of cultural, political, social, socio-legal and historical topics within migration, diaspora and exile.
\r\nWith more than 60 members across all faculties of the university, including established and young scholars, teaching staff and PhD students, MIDEX has emerged as an interdisciplinary centre of research and community engagement. Its projects include contemporary migration in Britain and Europe and beyond including the Windrush scandal, deportations and detentions and the racialisation of migrants as a result of the rise in xenophobia and far-right political parties, migration as a consequence of climate change.
\r\nThey also research ways that refugees, migrants and the rest of civil society are challenging these inequities. Centre’s researchers do this through links to community groups that work with refugees and migrants such as Preston Black History Group, Sewing Café, Lancaster, Lancashire County Council (Syrian Resettlement Programme) and Preston City of Sanctuary.
\r\nAs well as conducting research on contemporary cases, they also tackle past events such as the Spanish exile after the Civil War, the cultural history of the Black Atlantic diaspora, and the responses of Asian societies to their colonial past. The Centre includes researchers from the social sciences, law and humanities, which builds on the University’s existing research strengths in the field, including Black British artistic practice, Migrant Nurses, Russia Abroad, Spanish literature in exile, Peace and Justice Studies and Chinese Migration.
\r\nMembers work with existing centres and institutes at the University, such as the Vladimir Vysotsky Centre for Russian Studies and the Institute for Black Atlantic Studies (IBAR). They also collaborate with leading researchers on migration issues in the Asia Pacific such as the Northern Institute of Taiwan Studies (NorITS), the Institute of Korean Studies at UCLan (IKSU), the Centre of Austronesian Studies (COAS).
\r\nMIDEX has three main objectives:
\r\nMIDEX research strands are:
\r\nThe Forum for Research into Equality and Diversity (‘FRED’) focuses on and specialises in research and knowledge transfer activities in the area of diversity and equality in the workplace and within higher education.
\nThe Forum provides a ‘brand’ and identity both for the School of Law and the University of Chester in the field of diversity and equality. The Forum’s objectives include:
\nThe University of Dundee Human Rights Network brings together academics from throughout the University, who work on human rights. The network aims to improve lives both within Scotland, and around the world, through research on important human rights issues. This is in line with the University’s mission, ‘to transform lives locally and globally’.
\r\nThe network provides a thriving environment for research on human rights in Dundee. Expertise spans the areas of comics, education, history, human geography, law, literature, politics, and social work. Staff also has experience working with human rights NGOs, international courts, and governments.
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\r\nThe activities of the Centre for Freedom of Information align with its strategic goals:
\r\nThe keystone event of the Centre for Freedom of Information is the Annual Freedom of Information Practitioners’ Conference. This conference is a one-day event bringing together information practitioners, the Scottish Information Commissioner, and academics to explore and discuss contemporary information law issues and their broader impact on governance, practice, and society.
\r\nBeyond the Annual Practitioners’ Conference, the Centre for Freedom of Information also organises a seminar series and delivers lectures of information law and freedom of information, with international contributors from Canada, Ireland, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden, and the USA. The Centre also acts as a platform for external research funding - as demonstrated by the Economic and Social Research Council funded project \"Uncovering the Environment: The Use of Public Access to Environmental Information\" – and engages with Scottish Government consultations and the work of the Law Society of Scotland Privacy Law Sub-Committee.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":56.45796755,"longitude":-2.9821483135375493},{"infrastructure_id":"2021","name":"Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP)","town":"Dundee","postcode":"DD1 4HN","tags":["law","political-science","economics","policy","sustainability","diplomacy"],"addr1":"University Of Dundee","addr2":"Perth Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP) research is focussed on the role played by law, economics and international politics on the various energy and natural resources industries, with a particular emphasis on the impacts of transitions on governance, markets, sustainability and justice.
\nBroad areas for research are international economic law, energy economics, energy diplomacy, climate governance, and critical mineral value chains. Within these areas, two complex sets of issues are the evolving relationships between the state as custodian of the public interest and the participation of foreign investors, involving specific issues such as how to strengthen the rule of law, how to ensure an equitable distribution of outcomes, how to settle disputes amicably and how community participation in decision-making can be achieved.
\nThe second set of issues arises from the ongoing energy transformation to a low carbon economy. This involves an expanding range of issues to do with the sustainability of energy systems, what a just transition means for countries with very diverse energy economies, especially those with low- and middle-incomes; the appropriate regulation of sources of energy that acquire particular importance in this process, and the managed decline of certain mature technologies.
\nThe perspective is global, examining research issues at international, regional, national and local levels; comparative, in recognition that 'one size does not fit all' in a world of more than 190 nation-states; and often applied, using case studies and similar methods to test the theory with practice. In a field where public policy is pervasive and growing, CEPMLP research critically examines and contrasts policy intentions with observed outcomes, considering questions of efficacy, probity, and market dynamics.
\nStaff believe in reinvention and adaptation, like the city of Dundee. CEPMLP is the oldest dedicated Energy Law centre in the UK, founded in 1977, and has become an internationally oriented and inter-disciplinary research centre. The Centre has refreshed its perspectives and methods several times in its long history, and is vigorously doing it today. As researchers, members strive for excellence and original high-impact insights and constantly seek to advance the frontier of knowledge by challenging self-limiting groupthink, unverified orthodoxies and assumptions, and self-serving narratives sometimes promoted by various industry participants and governments. These goals matter more than ever at a time of energy transition.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":56.45796755,"longitude":-2.9821483135375493},{"infrastructure_id":"2023","name":"UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science","town":"Dundee","postcode":"DD1 4HN","tags":["law","cultural-studies","political-science","policy","science"],"addr1":"University Of Dundee","addr2":"Perth Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science is an interdisciplinary centre for research linked to fresh water, with a particular interest in the connections between law, policy and science. The Centre seeks to create an active community of water researchers from across the University of Dundee and Scotland more broadly.
\nAs the UK’s only United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Category 2 Centre, members work internationally on some of the world’s most urgent problems across multiple sectors and environments and maintain links to an international network of water scholars.
\nThe Centre was established in 2008 by agreement between the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the UK Government, in partnership with the Scottish Government and University of Dundee.
\nIt also provides a hub for Associate researchers across Scotland working on issues connected to fresh water.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":56.45796755,"longitude":-2.9821483135375493},{"infrastructure_id":"2031","name":"Business and Human Rights Network","town":"Dundee","postcode":"DD1 4HN","tags":["law","human-rights"],"addr1":"University Of Dundee","addr2":"Perth Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The world faces unprecedented and inter-linked environmental, economic and social challenges with profound implications for human rights. Besides climate change, catastrophic biodiversity loss and unsustainable resource consumption, these include demographic change, deepening global inequalities and trends of asset concentration, as highlighted during the Covid-19 pandemic. Meanwhile financialisation and the commercialisation of the public sphere and private communications carry implications for democracy’s ability to sustain itself that are still emerging.
\nCorporations, their activities, influence, incentive structures and business models are deeply implicated in such problems. This raises the question, through what international standards and mechanisms should corporate human rights impacts be addressed? Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of new initiatives, from individual company codes of conduct to multi-lateral trade, investment and financial instruments, sustainability reporting rules and supply chain legislation. In the United Nations (UN) attempts to define international human rights standards addressed to business have spanned several decades. In 2011, the Human Rights Council endorsed the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), a soft-law framework.
\nA parallel process to develop a business and human rights treaty launched in 2014 has struggled to make progress. Yet interest from key players suggests that a framework treaty on business and human rights might offer a route to break the impasse. To explore this possibility further, this series of inter-disciplinary online seminars will convene internationally-recognised scholars and experts to address questions including:
\nResearch in Critical Global Politics cuts across migration, risk and security, terrorism and counter-terrorism, religion, international law, global infrastructure and global cities, and political economy of finance.
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\nThe centre conducts independent policy-relevant research, organises bespoke professional development and runs specialist events such as conferences, workshops and seminars. It brings together experts, government officials and practitioners from the fields of business, economics, law and political science to create and communicate high-quality research.
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\nThe group involves academics from across the university who work on migration-related issues in a variety of disciplines, and key community participants who work in areas affected by migration or who offer services to migrants in East Anglia.
\nThe purpose of the group is to facilitate collaborations between community practitioners who have identified areas in which further research is necessary and academic researchers who have access to analytical research tools. The group aims to produce high quality interdisciplinary research in migration studies that can tangibly benefit the local community and beyond.
\nThe Migration Research Network involves researchers from Economics, Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies, Law, Education, Health Sciences, the Norwich Medical School, and Development Studies.
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\nIn 2017, CREATe received follow-on funding from the AHRC, and in 2018 and 2020, it won two large grants as part of the AHRC Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC) and the H2020 project "reCreating Europe: Rethinking digital copyright law for a culturally diverse, accessible, creative Europe". CREATe is now a research center hosted by the School of Law at the University of Glasgow, a globally top-ranked law school. It provides resources and conducts new research of national and international significance as part of the University's Advanced Research Centre (ARC).\nProjects at CREATe are currently organized under the themes of Creative Industries, Public Domain, and Competition and Markets. Problem-focused research is supported by resource pages and tagged with disciplinary icons, allowing new priorities to emerge organically.
\nThe work at CREATe is guided by three key principles:
\nOpenness\nIn a contested policy environment with limited evidence, CREATe adopts an open approach to synthesizing knowledge from different fields. It actively involves users in research design at all stages and develops dynamic, open access resources. CREATe's resources receive hundreds of thousands of visitors per year from over 160 countries.
\nInterdisciplinarity\nCREATe recognizes that the norms governing the information space are not just a legal problem. Research questions and policy issues require perspectives from multiple disciplines. CREATe projects typically involve collaboration and take into account empirical, historical, computational, cultural, sociological, or economic approaches. Within law, CREATe is anchored in the subject areas of intellectual property, information, and competition law.
\nAgility with a long view\nCREATe has the ambition to contribute to the big questions of today. In a fast-moving technological environment, sustained intervention requires taking a long view. CREATe aims to be responsive but not fast, and its policy contributions include EU and UK copyright policy, platform regulation, and broader questions of innovation, the creative economy, and the digital public sphere.
\nThe University of East Anglia Law School has a significant and growing cluster of researchers focusing on Human Rights, including specialists on International Human Rights, refugee law and Public Protest.
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\nThe ICC's aims are:
\nThe Centre for the Study of States, Markets, and People (STAMP), founded in June 2013, is an inter-disciplinary research centre in the Royal Docks School of Business and Law (RDSBL) involving staff, practitioners, early career researchers, PhD students and international scholars. The centre, having a global focus, examines the theory and practice of global and European enterprises and their corresponding forms of governance at macro and micro levels. It extends to areas of law, critical marketing and money studies, global geo-politics, conflict and international security because all these areas constitute key pillars for a safe economic and sustainable environment free of geopolitical tensions and conflict.
\r\nSTAMP has six areas of research concentration (research units) each of which is headed by dedicated members of staff:
\r\nThe Intellectual History research group brings together staff and students from across the School who are interested in the history of ideas, intellectuals, and intellectual movements.
\r\nEdinburgh has one of the largest concentrations of intellectual historians of any university in the UK, with particular strengths in the following areas:
\r\nThe Group organises work-in-progress seminars for PhD students and members of staff, as well as occasional lectures from scholars within and outwith Edinburgh.
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\r\nThe University has a long tradition in the field, as the Chair of Civil Law was founded in 1710, with Civil Law taught continuously in the University since then. Major interests pursued are Roman law, the learned laws in the Middle Ages, the history of law in Europe, the history of Scots law, and legal history in Louisiana.
\r\nStay up-to-date with the Centre's latest on Bluesky.
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\r\nThe members of the Centre conduct research in various fields of commercial law including company law, banking law, labour law, agency law and consumer protection law. In all these cases they study Scots and UK commercial law in its comparative European or international context.
\r\nThe Centre for Commercial Law was launched in 2008.
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\nTaking advantage of Edinburgh Law School's place as an historic and renowned hub for theoretical, socio-legal and doctrinal studies in law in national, European and global dimensions, ECIGL is committed to being a dynamic and interdisciplinary intellectual space that addresses contemporary international and global questions through both fundamental research and practical policy engagement.
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\nThe Centre’s research themes are:
\nThe ECLT, in close collaboration with the student-run Legal Theory Research Group, organises a series of events, including a dedicated seminar series and the annual Legal Theory Festival.
\nWithin the Law School ECLT retains close ties with various other Centres – in particular, the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law, the Centre for Legal History, the Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law and the Europa Institute. Beyond the Law School, members also collaborate intensely with other researchers and research outfits within the University of Edinburgh (such as Eidyn and the Political Theory Research Group) and beyond.
\nThe ECLT is a nodal point of various global research networks in legal theory and legal argumentation and is proud of its role in shaping the future of the field.
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\nThe Edinburgh Centre for Private Law (ECPL), founded in 2009, exists to foster and develop this long tradition of private law scholarship. Building on Edinburgh’s position as a major university within Europe’s main mixed jurisdiction, much of the research carried out by its members examines Scots law in a European context or fosters a dialogue between the civilian tradition and the common law.
\nThe research interests of Edinburgh Centre for Private Law members cover all the main areas of private law including contract, delict, unjustified enrichment, agency, property, succession, trusts, insolvency, labour law and family law. A number of different approaches are employed, so that the work of the Centre may emphasise, for example, comparative law or doctrinal history or legal theory or wider issues of policy.
\nLaw reform is also strongly represented, with seven members of the Centre being current or former Law Commissioners.
\nThe ECPL has close links with the legal profession, and publications by its members are widely used by practitioners and frequently cited in the courts at all levels up to and including the Supreme Court. Members of the Centre also play a key role in editing and contributing to the 25-volume "The Laws of Scotland: Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia" plus "Reissue" and "Gloag and Henderson: The Law of Scotland".
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\r\nAs a knowledge hub situated in Edinburgh Law School, the ELRN facilitates learning and teaching in empirical legal research and trans-disciplinary research collaboration on topics relating to law in the real world. Through events scheduled throughout the academic year, the ELRN disseminates knowledge and the results of its members’ research to the community within and beyond the University of Edinburgh.
\r\nThe Network provides a resource of methodological skills and legal expertise which can be drawn on by academics, policy-makers and practitioners, and supports and encourages a range of specialist training and knowledge exchange activities.
\r\nThe Empirical Legal Research Network was established in February 2009.
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\nIt has been designated as the FUTURES Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, and is supported by the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme.
\nFounded in 1968, the Europa Institute is one of the most active and longest-established specialist centres of advanced study on European integration in the United Kingdom and Europe.
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\r\nIn particular, the Global Justice Academy aims to provide:
\r\nThe Academy is active in facilitating discussions to enable individual academics and existing centres and networks to expand their scope.
\r\nThe goal is to allow the members of the Global Justice Academy to broaden their horizons with regard to research, teaching and knowledge exchange. In the medium-term, hopefully this will lead to collaborative research projects, new teaching initiatives and original forms of engagement with the public at large.
\r\nThe Academy has a broad research agenda and is the umbrella research centre for the LLM in Human Rights. The research streams include:
\r\nThe Mason Institute is an interdisciplinary research centre based at Edinburgh Law School. It focuses on ethics and law at the interface between health, medicine and the life sciences at a national and global scale. The Institute provides internationally-recognised academic and policy leadership in the socio-legal, medical and life science governance, and bioethics fields. The Institute also provides evidence-based research and policy advice and is a nexus for international collaboration and exchange, drawing on and promoting a diverse collection of existing networks and forging new ones. It is undertaking an expanding portfolio of work that will lead to greater insights into ethical and legal issues in health, medicine and the life sciences, via direct and on-going engagement with government, as well as expert and lay stakeholder communities.
\r\nMason Institute research covers a range of topics, including:
\r\nMason Institute offers a range of activities throughout the year, including:
\r\nThe Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR) is lead by a partnership between Glasgow, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier, Stirling and Strathclyde Universities.
\r\nThe Centre aims to:
\r\nMembers undertake a wide range of projects and produce different forms publications to achieve the Centre’s core objectives. The Centre’s work focuses on a whole host of research topics including:
\r\nMembers intend that their research makes a difference — both in advancing their academic disciplines and in constructively contributing to public debate and policy and practice development in relation to crime and criminal justice. They have prepared a number of ‘impact case studies’ to give examples of how they have done this in some key areas.
\r\nWhile the Centre has a particular kind of expertise to bring to public debate, policy and practice, it also recognises the expertise of others; expertise that comes from a wide range of different engagements in the field, whether political, professional or personal. Members have learned that the impact of their work have been greatest where they have worked with others, through developing and maintaining strong relationships; and that one of their key contributions is to help people frame, analyse and respond to issues in new ways, informed by theory and research from around the world. Consequently, they are always looking for opportunities to work with others, whatever the nature of their engagement with this field.
\r\nMembers of the SCCJR recognise the precarity experienced by Early Career Researchers and commit to supporting and collaborating with them in ways that facilitate their professional development as independent scholars, prioritise their well-being, and protect them from exploitation and the harms of insecure employment.
\r\nThrough the SCCJR ECR Group members have developed a Statement which outlines the practical ways in which the Centre will support early career colleagues.
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\r\nCurrent Funding opportunities can be found here on the SIPR Grants Page of the SIPR Website.
\r\nFor more information and to stay in touch with SIPR, be sure to follow their social media accounts: BlueSky, YouTube, and LinkedIn.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":["Bursaries"],"relationships":[],"latitude":55.93110635,"longitude":-3.2093902303057424},{"infrastructure_id":"2136","name":"Scottish Research Centre for IP and Technology Law (SCRIPT)","town":"Edinburgh","postcode":"EH8 9YL","tags":["art","law","information-studies","development-studies","technology","media-studies","science"],"addr1":"University Of Edinburgh","addr2":"Old College","country":"United Kingdom","description":"SCRIPT, the Scottish Research Centre for IP and Technology Law, explores the intersection between law, technology and society from a multidisciplinary and multi-jurisdiction perspective. The Centre research is about the synergetic relationship between law, social norms, ethics, technologies, commerce and society in the widest possible sense.
\r\nAs well as the core areas of IP, IT and data protection law, Centre’s members and their associates are concerned with the adjunct areas of artificial intelligence and algorithmic justice; Legal Tech, RegTech and their regulation; regulation of electronic commerce; the regulation of new media and the information society. They also consider law as it affects information management and cultural production and archiving.
\r\nSCRIPT was born as the Shepherd and Wedderburn Centre for Research in Intellectual Property and Technology at the University of Edinburgh in 1998 as a centre of excellence in the disciplines of intellectual property law (IP) and information technology law (IT). The Scottish Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law was established on 1 April 2002 with the generous support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and received stage 2 funding in from 2008-2012.
\r\nThe Centre's original research vision was to examine the synergies between intellectual property law and information technology law as two main modes of legal control over data. Its remit was to consider the relationship between law, policy and technologies in the broadest sense.
\r\nInitially the purpose was to bring together and provide a coherent focus for work that was on-going at the University of Edinburgh, particularly within the School of Law, from which were drawn the four founding co-directors (Edwards, Laurie, MacQueen and Waelde). The Centre and its ambitions quickly grew, and today it serves as a crucial pivot that supports the digital strategy of the University of Edinburgh by connecting legal academics with research in computer science, design informatics, STS, political science, medicine and sociology, to name but the most active interconnections.
\r\nAs examples of the varied and intensive cross-university activities, the Centre is part of the Creative Informatics Research and Development Cluster and contribute the new doctoral training centre for bioinformatics. Members work closely with the Edinburgh Futures Institute, but also the Bayes Centre and Science and Technology Studies at the School of Social and Political Science. Beyond Edinburgh, the Centre’s vision is to connect researchers across jurisdictions and disciplines. The Centre is a member of the Global Network of Internet and Society Research Network, and is leading the University’s internationalisation strategy with the University of Amsterdam. Members of the Centre have been in recent years visiting professors at the universities of Sao Paolo, Leuven, and UNAM in Mexico.
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\nThe Centre’s members undertake research and teaching in all these areas, as well as providing expertise to institutions outside academia in the UK and beyond.
\nThe Centre also co-hosts several academic and knowledge exchange networks, including the Scottish Public Law Discussion Group and the Keith Forum on Commonwealth Constitutionalism.
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\nCCLAS was established in 2014 with funding from Santander Bank, seeking to strengthen knowledge networks, as well as cultural, social and institutional ties between the UK and Latin America.
\nThe Centre aims to foster activities rooted on: cultural exchange and understanding of the Latin America region, through increasing international experiences and scholarship as well as through hosting key events; promoting and supporting research; and facilitating knowledge exchange and enterprise.
\nAt the core of CCLAS's interests lies its commitment to the University’s vibrant community of students and researchers from Latin America, promoting educational, cultural and economic ties between Scotland and Latin America, and supporting mobility of students and researchers between them.
\nBuilding on the University of Edinburgh’s long-standing mission and success in collaborating and supporting the public and private sectors, the Centre promotes the inception and development of new outlets for knowledge, including knowledge exchange and knowledge transfer activities.
\nIn so doing, the Centre’s mission is to unify the efforts that make Edinburgh, one of the world-leading Universities in the advanced study of Contemporary Latin America, in areas as diverse as anthropology, law, business, political science, architecture, history, art, literature, engineering, geoscience, biological sciences, and psychology. In detail, CCLAS areas of expertise include:
\nThe Centre’s vibrant hub of Arts and Humanities activities connects interdisciplinary teaching and research through programme development, knowledge-exchange and postgraduate supervision in the major areas of Latin American cultural and literary studies.
\nCCLAS work seeks to better understand the dynamics of cultural production in Latin America and question existing interpretive frameworks to approach the diversity of the region. Members have secured AHRC funding for the International Networking Project ‘Afro-Latin (in)visibility and the UN Decade: Cultural Politics in Motion in Nicaragua, Colombia and the UK’.
\nThe Centre has a thriving Latin Americanist postgraduate community, with particular strengths in Latin American narrative, poetry and film, clustering around Chile and Argentina. It also has research expertise in a wide range of other areas, in particular women’s writing in Latin America, gender and sexuality in visual cultures, 19th century Latin America, Latin American cinema, Indigenous and Afro-descendant filmmaking, Cuban post-1959 culture, and Brazilian cultural studies. CCLAS has an exciting programme of cultural events, including the weekly reading group ‘Poema de la semana’, the annual Latin American Cultural Colloquium, hosted by the Centre, and frequent research talks, either by visiting speakers, or showcasing the research interests of postgraduates and staff. Members also benefit from the participation of Latin American writers and artists in the various Edinburgh Festivals, including the book and film festivals.
\nThe Centre’s thematic area relating to Social and Political Science focuses on fostering research in these fields, as well as promoting interdisciplinary collaborations in research within the university as well as with academics across the globe.
\nCCLAS has supported different types international events, such as the Latin America Symposium.
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\nCSAS research and teaching span a wide range of issues such as health, climate, caste, gender, care, borders and migration, multispecies justice, ethnicity, religion, infrastructures, conflict and violence, politics, democracy and governance, culture, art and literature, legal systems, and environment and energy. Members and affiliates work in and on different South Asian countries and their diaspora - Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. CSAS also fosters partnerships with practitioners, state agencies, civil society groups, and South Asian universities.
\nThe Centre was founded in 1988, and over the years, has become home to scholars from varied disciplines and units within the University, including Anthropology, the College of Art, Engineering, Social Work, Geography, History, Languages and Cultures, Law, Politics and International Relations, Religious Studies, Sociology, the Vet School, and the Medical School. It also hosts honorary fellows, associated scholars, and visiting scholars from outside the University. CSAS runs a PhD programme in South Asian Studies.
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\nThe Centre also acts as a hub for a much wider network of scholars across the UK and beyond engaged in analysis of contemporary constitutional issues. It is one of the leaders of the Islands and Unions Network, linking academics and practitioners across the United Kingdom and Ireland.
\nIts research is multi-disciplinary, with the team spanning the fields of political science, economics, constitutional law, and public policy.
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\r\nKey Research Themes are:
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\r\nMembers nurture a culture of collegiality and support for research at the highest international standards. This is reflected in members having won research grants from ESRC, Leverhulme Trust, the European Commission and the British Academy; member postgrads securing scholarships from these and other bodies, including ESRC and AHRC; editorial work for key journals in the discipline - such as Contemporary Political Theory, Res Publica and Moral Theory and Practice - and the rich academic production, published by prestigious university presses (Oxford, Cambridge, Columbia, and Stanford) and the top journals in Politics and IR.
\r\nKey Research Themes:
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\r\nKey Research Themes are:
\r\nThe Middle East Research Group (MERG) seminar series is an interdisciplinary space that is geared towards discussing work-in-progress by PhD and MS by Research students at UoE, whose research focuses on the modern and contemporary Middle East politics. UoE graduate students in research degrees, fellows and colleagues whose research is related to the region are welcome to join the seminar series. The Contemporary Middle East Series (CMES), sponsored by Politics and IR, hosts public lectures, roundtables and teach-ins on modern and contemporary issues related to the region. To date, this interdisciplinary series has featured book launches, research workshops, and roundtables by scholars and experts who are based in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and North America.
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University of Edinburgh
Chrystal Macmillan Building
15a George Square
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\nThe centre influences and sets human rights agendas. It makes concrete differences around the globe, and is a dominant voice for change. Through the centre's research, impact and educational activities, at Essex, not only does the centre lead the way in identifying, enduring and responding to human rights challenges, it's the way the centre applies this which defines it.
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\nThe Hub seeks to identify key challenges through projects and areas of research, addressing issues such as the protection of civilians in conflict, social work in situations of emergency, displacement and refugee law, journalists and the media in conflict settings, conflict-related trauma, accountability for violations, and much more.
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\nThe Essex Business and Human Rights Research Group encourages dialogue across these disciplines and among actors from a broad range of backgrounds. The group's aim is to foster research and to bring the results of that research to bear on practical problems, working on national and international issues and collaborating with partners across the world.
\nProjects previously undertaken by group members covered a wide range of areas, from balancing national and local human rights concerns in development projects, corporate complicity in human rights abuses, regional human rights law and multinational corporate accountability, commercial arbitration and human rights, extraterritorial treaty obligations and their impact on companies, project finance, development and human rights, unconscionable debt and resistance, social movements and human rights pressure groups and their impacts on business and management.
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\nThe hub's aims include building on the University's world-class research in business law and other disciplines to work together on articles and books, to engage in impact and KT work, and to apply for funding. It reflects the key University commitment to prioritising interdisciplinary research.
\nThe hub's vision of interdisciplinarity is a flexible and constructive one. This includes ongoing support from colleagues from one discipline, such as offering relevant advice on a project being completed by colleagues in a different discipline, to much larger collaboration on projects.
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\r\nThe Health Law research cluster brings together academics from across the University to work on a number of health-focused topics, including mental capacity and disability, sexual and reproductive health, and legal and social determinants of health.
\r\nIn light of the Covid-19 pandemic, members of the Health Law cluster, alongside colleagues from other clusters, are exploring, among other topics, triage ethics, implications for the right to health, the protection of most vulnerable groups in a care-based society, and positive human rights obligations of private health providers.
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\nThe scope of the cluster covers a wide range of subject areas including corporate criminal liability, police accountability, police and crime commissioners, the impact of forensic evidence on the criminal trial, criminal justice responses to organised crime and corruption, and the inter-connections between institutional and media justice.
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\nThe cluster's members work in areas including family law, medical law, trade law, EU law, competition law, property law, banking and insurance law, maritime and shipping law, financial crime and regulation, company and insolvency law, consumer protection, investment law, internet, broadcasting and digital regulation, contract law, and tort law.
\nThe cluster works with a commitment to improving the theory, practice, and development of private and business law locally, nationally, and internationally. In its work, the cluster strives to develop efficient trade mechanisms, as well as effective competition, corporate governance, and financial market regulation, among others. Other aspects of the cluster's work seeks to balance various business interests with protecting the environment and preserving human rights such as dignity, privacy, freedom of expression and association, judicial protection, access to services of general interests, consumer protection, and safe food.
\nIn the cluster's research, teaching, and engagement with stakeholders, its philosophy is that private law and business law can only be understood and improved by rigorous analysis, learning from other countries and disciplines, and providing practical legal solutions.
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\nBringing together this range of interests, the cluster takes an expansive view of the most current developments in the application of law to public bodies, both domestically and internationally. In particular, the cluster's research engages with the relationships between public power and the often competing demands of social justice and commercial enterprise. The cluster employs a wide range of methods including empirical and theoretical and more traditional doctrinal approaches.
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\r\nThe centre's strengths include:
\r\nThe Medical Humanities Cluster continues to shape fast-moving interdisciplinary research in the medical humanities, both locally and internationally.
\r\nThe cluster's contributions include high-impact interventions on debates around autonomy, disability and mental health; insight, objectivity and the management of risk; and experiences of powerlessness in contexts of chronic illness, end-of-life care, addiction and moral distress.
\r\nThrough this cluster, multiple partnerships across disciplines, including Law, Sociology, and Health and Social Care; and with non-academic stakeholders, from local hospices to the UK Ministry of Justice, the Judicial College and the Council of Europe have been forged. The cluster's work in the medical humanities contributes to the wider Faculty of Arts and Humanities research in Health and Medical Humanities.
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\r\nWorking on topics such as conflict communication, testimony, freedom of expression, statelessness and the performance of protest, a focus on lived practices is central to the cluster's approach. The cluster also brings the critical methodologies of the humanities to bear upon the aesthetics and ethics of human rights representations.
\r\nThe cluster's research is outward-facing and seeks to engage with different cultural institutions and civil society groups on human rights and social justice issues.
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\nCPSS produces high-quality, cutting-edge research evidence that informs policy and practice. It works with many organisations and agencies – local, national, and international – from the sport, child protection, and coaching sectors as well as with current and former athletes, ‘survivors’ of violence and abuse from sport, and coaches and coach educators.
\nCPSS staff have global reputations and a range of relevant expertise. Members contribute to national and international research projects, enquiries, expert panels, and conferences, and deliver CPD training and expert consultancy services to the sport and safeguarding sectors.
\nThe Centre’s work attracts research grants to explore new areas of knowledge and stay at the forefront of developments in the field. Members have collaborated with organisations including the International Olympic Committee, World Athletics, the Canadian Coaches Association, Sport England, the Football Association, and UK Coaching.
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\r\nEdge Hill University academics’ work touches upon a wide range of topics within the field of migration, such as migrants’ integration, diasporas and representation, refugee law and policy, locality and diversity, and arts, health and wellbeing. The University is also active in supporting humanitarian initiatives for refugees through Action For Refugees.
\r\nMWG-NW is in line with EHU’s Research Strategy, which states that the University is committed to responding to and engaging with national and international research agendas and produce research that has direct application to challenges that concern professional practitioners, business, third sector organisations and community groups.
\r\nAs such, the group works closely with other major research groupings in the University and with organisations and practitioners in the region, and aims to enhance the visibility of migration issues and integrate its work with other academic and professional initiatives at national and international level. Members’ expertise and activities position MWG-NW as a stakeholder in the broad field of migrants’ inclusion and overall public discourse that surrounds migration and broader issues of social justice in the North West of the UK, and at national and international level.
\r\nThe group encourages publication of short policy-oriented pieces via its blog Quest – Migration North West.
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\nEdge Hill University is at the cutting edge of autism positive teaching through its Critical Autism Studies courses, embracing the Neurodiversity Movement, paving the way for a new understanding of Autism rejecting the Medical Model which focuses on individual disorder and so-called ‘deficiencies’.
\nThe vast majority of global academic research about autism still follows the clinical and cognitive psychological route and continues to be focused on interventions and treatment of autism. Advocates of Critical Autism Studies reject that reinforces deficit models of autism.
\nThe Network has an ongoing brief to share and develop inclusive, co-produced research which challenges the perceived and problematic orthodoxy to promote better understanding and awareness of the disparities in the human rights, health and wellbeing and social exclusion a significant number of autistic people face.
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\nTopics covered include gender and corruption, corruption and development, corruption and ethnic relations, corruption and human rights, corruption(and/or anti-corruption) and technology, citizen participant in anti-corruption, anti-corruption practice and innovation, anti-corruption education and regional and international anti-corruption instruments and their impact on the Global South.
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\r\nThe Indian Ocean World has been historically significant to the emergence of the climate-risk management and insurance sectors. It is also an important site for the study of indentured labour, high-value commodity trade, and early decolonial solidarities. The group will bring these existing literatures into conversation with contemporary research on urban and climate justice, thereby creating a new research agenda.
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\r\nPolitical institutions set the rules for how governments create, enforce and apply policies and laws. The division conducts research on legislatures, executives, courts, political parties and electoral systems. It focuses on how the rules of the political game are formed and how different combinations of rules lead to a variety of political outcomes. This includes developing an understanding of the myriad institutional designs in the advanced, industrialized world and how they lead to different policy outputs as well as applying these lessons to the developing world to help build institutions that lead to stable democratic governments.
\r\nThe Political Institutions research division also contributes to three departmental methods working groups: mixed-methods research, data science and quantitative political methodology, and evidence and public policy. The methods working groups encourage collaboration across research divisions based on shared methodological interests and facilitate interdisciplinary research.
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\r\nResearch interests, projects and publications have been wide-ranging, from studies of the personal and the cultural, through the mapping of organised and corporate criminality, to investigations of state systems of support and intervention, surveillance and violence - all with a critical and sociological approach as the common core.
\r\nCentre members cover a wide range of topics within criminology. These include: crime and the media; organised crime; urban disorder and social control; racism, victims and victimology; sexual labour, regulation and human rights; drug use and markets; women, crime and criminal justice; security; surveillance; green criminology and crimes against the environment; terrorism and counter-terrorism; policing, prisons, punishment and the criminal justice system.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.8773639,"longitude":0.9498750625114011},{"infrastructure_id":"2252","name":"Centre for Environment and Society (CES)","town":"Colchester","postcode":"CO4 3SQ","tags":["law","language","literature","economics","policy","sustainability","film-studies","media-studies","science","sociology","drama-theatre"],"addr1":"University Of Essex","addr2":"Wivenhoe Park","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Environment and Society (CES) brings together world-leading, impact-focused research on all aspects of sustainability science being undertaken at the University of Essex.
\nThe centre works closely with a range of local, regional, national and international groups, developing and deepening these relationships to enhance understanding, engagement and impact. With a diverse range of members, the Centre is home to a number of staff from a variety of departments, including; Essex Business School, School of Life Sciences, Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, Department of Economics, Department of Sociology, Department of Law, and the Department of Government.
\nCES brings together world-leading and impact-focused research on all aspects of sustainability science being undertaken at the University of Essex, including significant expertise on the social dimensions of sustainability challenges and solutions. Throughout the centre's research and delivery to the wider community, it is committed to informing the global transition to a green economy which supports environmental well-being and social and economic justice.
\nCES acts as an incubator of community enterprises, a knowledge hub for green business and policy-makers communities local to Essex and around the world, local and international businesses, partner academic organisations and as consultant to local sustainability initiatives.
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\r\nThe Centre for Migration Studies is an umbrella for a wide range of research that examines causes and consequences of the movement of people across international borders. The centre's research takes a variety of empirical approaches, including quantitative, qualitative and experimental methodologies as well as applied investigations in the School of Health and Social Care and the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.8773639,"longitude":0.9498750625114011},{"infrastructure_id":"2274","name":"Centre for Imperial and Global History","town":"Exeter","postcode":"EX4 4QJ","tags":["history","law","human-rights","development-studies","post-colonial-studies"],"addr1":"University Of Exeter","addr2":"Northcote House","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Imperial and Global History brings together the research expertise of the University's eminent imperial, (post-)colonial, transnational and global historians, with a strong focus on global South histories. It is one of the largest groups of imperial and global historians in the UK. The key themes that frame the field-leading research produced by Centre members are:
\r\nThe Centre for Imperial and Global History is comprised of 19 research staff in History, working alongside postgraduate students and staff in related disciplines. Histories of the colonial and postcolonial worlds are contentious and unresolved projects, and those points of tension and irresolution are reflected in the Centre for Imperial and Global History. On one hand lies the project of global history – taking Britain or Europe as its point of departure and looking to explore its zones of interaction beyond the locality, region, nation state, or civilization. On the other lie efforts to recover the voices and subjectivities of the Global South; of looking to provincialize the European experience by highlighting the alternative experiences and normativities that existed even at the height of British and European imperial projects. The Centre for Imperial and Global History offers a space in which both these streams are analysed, explored and interrogated.
\r\nSome of the centre’s researchers analyse the development of global and imperial systems with a focus on political and economic structures, whilst others write histories from below by researching the lives of colonized populations and those who were marginalized within processes of globalization. In all of history-writing, however, members take the position that they must challenge the normative focus on ‘white whiteness’ in the writing of history and that the normative audience ought to be that same ‘white whiteness’. They aim to write of the Global South and its peoples for an audience above and beyond Britain. Working across British, French, Iberian, Islamic, American, Chinese and Russian imperial systems they seek to recover indigenous, subaltern and marginalized voices, writing histories of those who experienced colonialism and still experience its ongoing consequences, both as people at the margins of and within the empires, and also studying them in their own right rather than simply in relation to colonial/imperial experiences. Members do this by tracing archival records across multiple locales in the North and South, conducting oral histories, and engaging with local communities, non-governmental organisations, and other non-academic partners across the globe.
\r\nAs one of the largest research centres for studying imperial, (post-)colonial and/or global histories in the United Kingdom, the Centre’s research expertise is wide-ranging. The Centre includes colleagues who work on African, Latin American, Islamic, East Asian and South Asian histories in both early-modern, modern and contemporary eras as well as those who are focused on British, French, North American and Eastern European experiences. They work collaboratively within the Centre, within historical and interdisciplinary research grants at Exeter and other universities, and they are engaged in co-producing research with practitioners and non-academic partners in multiple fields and with scholars in the Global South. The Centre runs a fortnightly seminar series featuring visiting and internal speakers, as well as ‘work in progress’ sessions and workshops. These serve as an important space of discussion, debate, and researcher development for staff and postgraduate students, as well as a way of connecting the Centre to colonial, postcolonial or global scholars based outside Exeter. In teaching the Centre is committed to efforts to decolonize the history curriculum at Exeter and to decentre it away from its current Eurocentrisms. Members encourage applications from high-quality postgraduate students to joinits research community and contribute to both academic and public discussion of all these issues.
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\r\nThe Centre for Histories of Violence and Conflict (CHVC) brings together researchers across disciplines with interests in historical approaches to studying collective violence, its meanings and impacts, its limits and abuses, and the strategies and abuses of violence workers, from security forces to terror groups. Analysing past histories of violence, many with continuing legacies in the contemporary world, offers distinct insights into these questions – and is at the heart of CHVC's work.
\r\nStaff members pursue various methods to explore the evidential traces of violence in historical and cultural spaces. Some have particular interests in histories of violence, displacement, and environmental spoliation. Others examine the connections between differing forms of mass violence, the conceptualisation of human rights, and their legal histories. Still others look for evidential traces of violence on societies, communities and bodies. Some work through archaeological records, others through historical documentation and quantitative data.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":50.7353947,"longitude":-3.5343268},{"infrastructure_id":"2303","name":"Centre for Commercial and Corporate Law, Exeter","town":"Exeter","postcode":"EX4 4RJ","tags":["law"],"addr1":"University Of Exeter","addr2":"Amory Building","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Commercial and Corporate Law is a platform for world-class research in all areas of commercial and corporate Law. Its members, many of whom are leaders in their fields, have a wide range of specialisms and are advisors to governments and other agencies worldwide.
\r\nMembers also deliver the LLM in Commercial Law, a programme which offers unrivalled opportunities to study across a range of modules taught by leading academics.
\r\nThe Centre’s wide range of specialisms includes:
\r\nThe Centre fuses the experience of academic lawyers and practising lawyers, and the impact of their work is far-reaching. For example, in addition to being frequently cited in the courts, members of the Centre have advised:
\r\nPeople and Mining is an inclusive space to help people learn, network and work together on their shared interests at the intersection between mining and people. At the core of the People and Mining are a set of shared values and aims that drives the network forwards.
\r\nThe Network is a community that bridges disciplinary and professional boundaries. In order to do justice to the complex issues and puzzles that emerge at the intersection of people and mining, it is essential to draw on different ways of thinking and experiences. Broadening perspectives means encompassing a plethora of interests, recognising that diversity creates the opportunity for new ways of thinking and working.
\r\nThe range of interests reflected in the People and Mining network were explored at the launch event and are illustrated below. This visualisation offers a glimpse into the breadth of interests and themes that members are hoping to explore further. As the network grows, the Network hopes that the interests that People and Mining represents will grow with it. Research interests include:
\r\nThe Exeter Centre for Environmental Law (ExCEL) was established at the end of 2021 to stimulate interdisciplinary internal partnerships with centres within the University. The purpose of ExCEL is to provide an intellectual environment to create a Worldwide Environmental Law and Policy Research Network with international academic partners, such as Duke, QUEX, and CUHK. In parallel, it is aimed to engage with international, national, and local stakeholders. In addition to being an attraction centre for law researchers willing to conduct their research in Cornwall, it is also one of the goals of ExCEL to support members with achieving impact through policy workshops and training, as well as PR and marketing.
\r\nExCEL research focuses on:
\r\nExCEL work is not merely based on legal discipline, but also has an interdisciplinary focus. Many of its members are from different disciplines and have first-hand experience related to environmental issues since ExCEL intends to leverage interdisciplinary network to produce research based on existing research in other disciplines. Accordingly, it is aimed to provide opportunities for all ECRs and postgraduates to be involved in producing outputs and funded projects by giving members advice on funding options and potential links and partners.
\r\nMembers of the Centre conduct research for a future-proof environmental governance. Researchers aim to contribute to the solution of international, national, and local environmental issues. In addition to build an efficient academic network as well as strong cooperation between the academia and stakeholders, they publish leading articles and reports concerning about current affairs.They actively participate in the work of international professional organizations and contribute to the events across the world. They convene various workshops on critical topics, which are open to academicians and stakeholders so that problems and potential solutions can be discussed from a holistic perspective.
\r\nThe centre has close links with the Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) and Law and Business Cornwall (LAB/C) and is open to external researchers or practitioners who are interested in developing work in ExCEL research areas
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\r\nThe Centre for European and Legal Studies (CELS) engages with an international circle of scholars, practitioners, the political community and State and non-State actors. It is assisted in its work by an advisory board. In addition, the Centre maintains collaborative links with other research centres and disciplines on broader themes such as transnational private and commercial law, constitutionalism, human rights, and new forms of governance.
\r\nEstablished in 1972, CELS is one of the oldest centres of its kind in the UK. CELS has close ties with the Centre for European Governance.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":50.7364604,"longitude":-3.5316386},{"infrastructure_id":"2312","name":"Exeter Centre for International Law","town":"Exeter","postcode":"EX4 4RJ","tags":["law"],"addr1":"University Of Exeter","addr2":"Amory Building","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Exeter Centre for International Law is home to a vibrant community of resident scholars, affiliated members, and external visitors working in the field of international law. Their research interests and activities span a wide range of subjects and branches of law, with particular expertise in international human rights law, the law of armed conflict, international criminal law, and international refugee law. The Centre is an inclusive community that encourages students and fellow scholars at all levels to attend and participate in their events.
\r\nThe mission of the Exeter Centre for International Law, established in 2014, is to provide a focal point for the study of international law at the University of Exeter. The Centre builds on a long and distinguished tradition of international legal scholarship at Exeter Law School, dating back to the 1960s. The purpose of the Centre is to provide an intellectual environment to:
\r\nThe work of the Centre reflects the idea that international law is not merely an academic subject, but also an area of legal practice. Many of its members have first-hand experience in the application of international law and maintain strong links with practitioners outside academia, including senior legal advisors, international judges, government representatives, and staff of non-governmental organizations. The Centre also benefits from close links with colleagues working in related disciplines, including members of Exeter University's Strategy and Security Institute.
\r\nMembers of the Centre conduct research at the forefront of international legal scholarship and pride themselves on their contribution to the wider legal and policy community. They publish leading pieces in peer-reviewed journals, contribute to key academic blogs, participate in the work of international professional societies, and regularly contribute to international events in the UK and abroad. The Centre convenes workshops on emerging topics and leads research projects addressing contemporary legal challenges.
\r\nThe research conducted by the Centre informs their teaching, and members of the Centre deliver a variety of courses in international law at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including in the field of conflict and security law, international criminal law and justice, counter-terrorism, and international human rights law.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":50.7364604,"longitude":-3.5316386},{"infrastructure_id":"2313","name":"Network on Family Regulation and Society","town":"Exeter","postcode":"EX4 4QJ","tags":["law","health","political-science","policy"],"addr1":"University Of Exeter","addr2":"Northcote House","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Network on Family, Regulation and Society, is a collaboration of academics from family law and related disciplines from the Universities of Exeter, Bristol and Cardiff. In response to the increasing diversity of family life, the network is engaged in a socio-legal research agenda to explore the implications of these changes for the regulation of family and personal relationships in law and policy. In so doing, it aims to ensure that family policy can be built on high-quality evidence and critical scholarship.
\r\nAs one of the academics involved in the Network comments, \"Our network addresses the legal and policy implications of profound recent changes in family life, locating these within a national, international, and comparative context. Family policy is hotly debated in politics and problems can arise when debates are reduced to highly emotive commentary without the research evidence to back it up. This area of law and policy affects so many people in very personal, sensitive, and intimate ways, and it is critically important that high-quality research informs the debate.\"
\r\nThe Network gratefully acknowledges the support of its funding partners, including AHRC, Department for Education, Department for Work and Pensions, ESRC, The Family Justice Council, The Leverhulme Trust, The Ministry of Justice, Nuffield Family Justice Observatory, The Nuffield Foundation, The Socio Legal Studies Association, and The Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, for individual research projects.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":50.7353947,"longitude":-3.5343268},{"infrastructure_id":"2314","name":"Centre for Science, Culture, and Law (SCuLE)","town":"Exeter","postcode":"EX4 4QJ","tags":["law","cultural-studies","museum-studies","science"],"addr1":"University Of Exeter","addr2":"Northcote House","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Science, Culture and the Law research group (SCuLE) at Exeter Law is a multidisciplinary research group providing leading contributions to discourse on matters of policy, governance, regulation and culture in intellectual property law, medical law, environmental law, cultural heritage and culture and society. SCuLE undertakes internationally leading, innovative and engaged research, with a view to its ultimate impact on society.
\r\nSCuLE employs interdisciplinary, empirical, and traditional legal research methods in its investigations of these areas and their impact on the well-being of society, the consequences of such processes for individuals and communities and the regulation and legal implications of innovation.
\r\nSCuLE's outlook is collaborative, and it welcomes colleagues from around the world who would like to become involved in SCuLE's work.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":50.7353947,"longitude":-3.5343268},{"infrastructure_id":"2315","name":"Human Rights and Democracy Forum","town":"Exeter","postcode":"EX4 4RJ","tags":["history","law","criminology","political-science","human-rights","gender-sexuality-studies","comparative-studies","religious-studies","sociology"],"addr1":"University Of Exeter","addr2":"Amory Building","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Human Rights and Democracy Forum at the University of Exeter Law School is a cross-disciplinary research group that includes members from various fields, such as Law, Politics, Sociology, and Criminology. The Forum also includes PhD researchers and associate members from academia and legal practice.
\r\nThe Forum's research activities focus on four main areas:
\r\nForum members conduct research on various human rights issues, including international trade law, climate change, migration, gender and sexuality, religious freedom, treatment of prisoners, police powers, and police use of lethal force. They also conduct research on democracy and democratic principles, such as criminal justice and the rule of law, comparative history of criminal law in interwar Britain and Fascist Italy, constitutionalism and constitutional reform processes, and the foundations of national and transnational democracy in Europe. The research methods employed by the Forum include comparative, doctrinal, theoretical, historical, and empirical approaches, with a national and international scope.
\r\nThe Forum has five main aims:
\r\nAs a research group committed to human rights and democratic principles, the Forum aims to be open and inclusive, ensuring equality of opportunity and participation, and welcoming all forms of research falling within its scope. Forum members are open to enquiries about their research activities, proposed collaborations, and postgraduate research opportunities. Further information about publications and recent activities, as well as contact details, can be found on the Forum's website.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":50.7364604,"longitude":-3.5316386},{"infrastructure_id":"2316","name":"Bracton Centre for Legal History Research (BCLHR)","town":"Exeter","postcode":"EX4 4RJ","tags":["history","law","comparative-studies","critical-legal-studies"],"addr1":"University Of Exeter","addr2":"Amory Building","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Established as a beacon for internationally excellent legal history scholarship, the work of the Bracton Centre for Legal History Research spans the last five centuries and employing doctrinal, theoretical, comparative, socio-legal and interdisciplinary approaches. It is a hub for major funded research projects, a centre for postgraduate study encouraging use of the excellent facilities for legal history research in Exeter and South West England, and a forum for public lectures, conferences and seminars open to all sharing an interest in legal history.
\r\nThe centre's areas of legal history expertise include:
\r\nThe Centre for European Studies (CES) is an interdisciplinary research centre located in Amory on Streatham Campus, part of the College of Social Sciences and International Studies. It brings together scholars from various disciplines such as politics, sociology, geography, history, law, and the Business school, and focuses on a wide range of topics related to the European Union (EU) and its member states. This includes research on the EU political system, its actors and institutions, policies, and governance processes, as well as comparative studies of European states, discourses, policies, and politics. The Centre also conducts analysis on Brexit, its impact on the EU and the UK, and the consequences of leaving the EU on different levels. More information about the Centre's members and research can be found on their website.
\r\nThe Centre for European Studies is actively involved in supporting research and training initiatives. This includes sponsoring workshops and events that bring together scholars from British and international universities, as well as students and PhD researchers working on related themes. Additionally, the Centre provides advanced training in areas such as EU politics, regulatory governance, public opinion, and the political economy of European integration through its MA programmes coordinated through the Department of Politics and the European stream of the MPA programme.
\r\nThe Centre for European Studies is also actively engaged in academic publishing and professional associations. It hosts the European Journal of Political Research, and its members edit and contribute to a number of academic journals and book series. They also hold important roles in renowned professional associations, further demonstrating their expertise and involvement in the field of European studies.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":50.7353947,"longitude":-3.5343268},{"infrastructure_id":"2323","name":"Q-Step Centre for Computational Social Science (C2S2)","town":"Exeter","postcode":"EX4 4QJ","tags":["history","law","criminology","political-science","sociology"],"addr1":"University Of Exeter","addr2":"Northcote House","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Q-Step programme, a UK-wide £19.5 million initiative in response to the shortage of numerically-skilled social science graduates, is being implemented at Exeter University as one of only fifteen universities chosen to host a Q-Step Centre. The Centre focuses on developing specialist undergraduate programmes that incorporate work placements and pathways to postgraduate study, with a goal to promote a step-change in quantitative training in the British social sciences education over a five-year period.
\r\nExeter Q-Step Centre brings together academics from core disciplines such as Sociology, Criminology, Politics, and International Relations to deliver undergraduate courses that emphasize quantitative literacy and applied data analysis skills. The Centre is committed to providing challenging, exciting, and career-enhancing programmes through its dedicated academic staff and accompanying support programme, which includes training in industry-standard tools and personal feedback. As part of its efforts to bridge academia and industry, the Centre has established links with industry-leading employers and offers guaranteed work experience placements funded through work experience bursaries.
\r\nThe Q-Step programme is funded by the Nuffield Foundation, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), and further information can be found on the Nuffield Foundation Q-Step website.
\r\nThe Q-Step Centre is currently housed in the Clayden Building, featuring a state-of-the-art Computational Lab equipped with individual PCs for up to 30 students.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":50.7353947,"longitude":-3.5343268},{"infrastructure_id":"2324","name":"Centre for Rural Policy Research (CRPR)","town":"Exeter","postcode":"EX4 4PJ","tags":["law","cultural-studies","political-science","policy","development-studies","heritage"],"addr1":"University Of Exeter","addr2":"Lazenby House","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Rural Policy Research is home to an interdisciplinary team of social scientists who specialize in various aspects of the rural economy and society. Their research focuses on topics both in the United Kingdom and around the world, with a particular interest in Europe.
\r\nThe Centre's research strengths and interests include:
\r\nIn addition to conducting research, including hosting PhD students and externally funded projects, the Centre's staff actively participate in the development of rural, agricultural, and food policy.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":50.7357007,"longitude":-3.5308775},{"infrastructure_id":"2346","name":"Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies | Beniba Eòlas na Tràillealachd","town":"Glasgow","postcode":"G12 8QQ","tags":["history","law","political-science","human-rights"],"addr1":"University Of Glasgow","addr2":"Central Mail Room","country":"United Kingdom","description":"This research centre aims to focus attention on slavery and its legacies in Scotland and globally, through academic research, public events, and engagement with ongoing anti-racist activism and reparative justice.
\r\nThe date of this centre's launch is significant. The name was chosen for the centre because Beniba was a woman, a mother, who was held in slavery by Robert Cunningham Graham, former Rector of the University of Glasgow (1785-1787). Very little is known about the life of Beniba, but her name indicates that she was born on a Tuesday and was perhaps, of Akan origin. For that reason, the centre was launched on a Tuesday - to give respect and remembrance to the innumerable lives of ancestral Africans and their contributions throughout the slavery era.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":55.8716587,"longitude":-4.2883961},{"infrastructure_id":"2347","name":"Centre for Gender History","town":"Glasgow","postcode":"G12 8QQ","tags":["history","law","cultural-studies","museum-studies","language","literature","gender-sexuality-studies"],"addr1":"University Of Glasgow","addr2":"Central Mail Room","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre’s research themes include:
\nThe Global Security Roundtable (GSR) at Glasgow University was formed in 2010 to bring together a wide range of academics with an interest in security issues—very broadly defined. At its first meeting it had representatives from three different colleges representing ten different subjects including Politics, History, Economics, Business, Law, Sociology, Archaeology, Geography, Hatii and Central and East European Studies. Since that time it has continued to add new members in the field from across the university.
\nIn summer 2012 the group received formal network status from the Vice Principal for Research and Enterprise and was renamed The Glasgow Global Security Network (GGSN). The GGSN is conceived of as a dynamic network of Glasgow University academic staff. Its primary role is to facilitate the exchange of ideas which should lead to further cooperation in security issues. Its role is to act as a facilitator and originator of projects, and a vehicle for publicizing or coordinating events in the global security field.
\nThe network has assembled a new university MSc in Global Security. It will also hold a regular series of staff research seminars. These seminars are intended to allow scholars to receive feedback on their work from a wide variety of staff members from different disciplines. The GGSN will also act as a portal for different parts of the university to advertise seminars and conferences that would be of interest to those with a wider interest in security issues. Finally, the GGSN will help circulate information on grants and awards with a security theme that should be of interest to its members.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":55.8716587,"longitude":-4.2883961},{"infrastructure_id":"2355","name":"Law and Philosophy Network","town":"Glasgow","postcode":"G12 8QQ","tags":["law","philosophy","publishing-keyword"],"addr1":"University Of Glasgow","addr2":"Central Mail Room","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Law and Philosophy Network is dedicated to research on foundational questions about the law.
\r\nThe Network fosters an interdisciplinary approach to these questions, drawing on members’ expertise in various areas of law, philosophy, as well as cognate disciplines. Their ultimate purpose is practical: to help confront key legal and political challenges of today, and promote modes of governance that respect equality, freedom and respect for diverse forms of human flourishing. The Forum organises a seminar series, which is co-sponsored by Hart Publishing, The School of Law and the Department of Philosophy. It encourages joint co-supervision of PhD students by staff based in Law and Philosophy.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":55.8716587,"longitude":-4.2883961},{"infrastructure_id":"2357","name":"Corporate and Financial Law Research Group","town":"Glasgow","postcode":"G12 8QQ","tags":["law","economics","development-studies","ethics"],"addr1":"University Of Glasgow","addr2":"Central Mail Room","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Research Group on Corporate and Financial Law creates a space for substantial research in the School of Law focusing on company law, corporate finance, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, and financial regulation. It comprises around 15 Glasgow University academics and doctoral researchers from diverse international backgrounds. Members of the Research Group are recognized internationally for their research and regularly contribute to leading journals and other publications. This research informs the Group's teaching, which spans a range of undergraduate/honours options as well as a dedicated master's programme in Corporate and Financial Law (LLM).
\nResearch methodology within the group spans doctrinal, historical, empirical, comparative, and law and economics. The facilitation of collaborative and interdisciplinary research both within and beyond the group is a key focus.
Current research projects overlap with the Legal Theory and International Law Research Groups at Glasgow and encompass collaborators in Europe, China, Canada, and Australia. Sustainable finance represents a common interest across the group and a focus for emerging projects.
\nMembers aim to engage effectively beyond the academic community in developing and disseminating their research. Recent external engagement has focused on sustainable finance, the role of stakeholders in corporate decision-making and enforcement strategies in financial law.
\nResearch areas include:
\nBased within the University of Glasgow’s School of Law the Glasgow Centre for International Law and Security (GCILS) is a centre of excellence for research and training in the field of international law and security.
\nGCILS is home to a cosmopolitan community of around 40 active research staff and doctoral students, making it one of most significant hubs for international legal research in the United Kingdom. The breadth of expertise and interest of the researchers at GCILS is reflected in 12 specialist areas within the field of international law and security, broadly understood. Researchers approach international law from diverse angles (e.g. practice-oriented, critical, doctrinal) to produce work of global significance. This research provides the basis for academic programmes and executive training carried out at Glasgow and beyond, including three specialised postgraduate degree and a new Erasmus Mundus programme. The excellence of the group research also enables GCILS-based researchers to engage in a wide range of knowledge exchange activities, e.g. working with governments, NGOs, international organisations and businesses. The combination of academic excellence, dedicated teaching and a commitment to the practical application of international law makes GCILS a unique hub for understanding and navigating questions of international law and global security.
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\nMembers engage with the foundational, political and doctrinal aspects of the law in a critical key, seeking to generate well-defined research that sets the agenda for a philosophically demanding and politically progressive understanding of contemporary law.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":55.8716587,"longitude":-4.2883961},{"infrastructure_id":"2368","name":"Scottish Centre for China Research (SCCR)","town":"Glasgow","postcode":"G12 8QQ","tags":["art","design","history","law","cultural-studies","museum-studies","political-science","policy","development-studies","heritage","asian-studies-keyword","chinese-studies-keyword"],"addr1":"University Of Glasgow","addr2":"Central Mail Room","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Scottish Centre for China Research (SCCR) is Scotland's leading centre for post-graduate research on China. It has over 50 students undertaking doctoral research. Doctoral programmes are located administratively within eight Schools across the arts and social sciences. SCCR encourages cross-disciplinary fertilization and inter-disciplinary research by organising seminars, lectures and other events with a China focus. Academic staff meet regularly to discuss China-related research themes and collaborate on particular projects. The Centre brings together researchers specialising in China in universities across Scotland. Its distinctiveness and strength in research come from its multi-disciplinary range, pulled together currently into three strategically significant and cognate areas:
\r\nThe Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies (CRCEES) is an inter-institutional Centre of Excellence in language-based area studies, led by the University of Glasgow and comprising of a consortium of UK universities, including Aberdeen, Durham, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Nottingham, St. Andrews and Strathclyde. Established in 2006, CRCEES brings together specialists in various research areas within the Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities who have the necessary expertise to understand the legacies and challenges of the post-communist world, and who are familiar with the main theoretical frameworks relevant to this region.
\nCRCEES is also home to the Europe-Asia Studies journal, the world's principal academic journal dedicated to the history and current political, social and economic affairs of the countries of the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Asia. The centre has received funding from several prestigious institutions, including the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, the British Academy, the Scottish Funding Council, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
\nCRCEES supports activities that showcase the impact and strategic importance of research in language-based area studies, particularly in terms of building capacity and supporting knowledge exchange in the non-academic sector. The centre has a wide range of renowned international partner universities, making it a truly global hub for expertise on the post-communist world. CRCEES is led by staff in Central and East European Studies, School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow.
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\nThe initial focus of the Glasgow Human Rights Network (GHRN) is to forge links with partners, members of the public and other institutions based in Scotland only. The network is open to potential working relationships with organizations based outside Scotland and will hold their details on file if membership is extended at a later date.
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\r\nThe group's research interests and units include:
\r\nThe Centre for Applied Sociology focuses on taking an applied sociological approach to understanding and reducing social inequalities among disadvantaged, vulnerable and stigmatised communities in the UK and internationally.
\nThe Centre's multi-disciplinary research involves collaboration and partnerships with community practitioners, professionals, policymakers and other universities. Centre members conduct research, evaluations and evidence-based interventions that are co-produced, participatory and involving creative, arts-based and auto/biographical methodologies in order to develop grassroots, bottom up, and community-led approaches, elaborating solutions and responses to key areas of social life and relationships.
\nThe Centre’s research is organised into 3 strands to advance the co-creation of applied social policy knowledge, inter-disciplinary research and practice in key areas of social policy:
\nThe Centre's areas of study include migrant labour, mobility and citizenship rights; policing ‘race’ and multi-culturalism; older people, care and wellbeing; gender rights and violence; identity politics and social movements; homelessness, social exclusion and disadvantage; communities; inter-ethnic and inter-faith relations; drugs and substance (mis)use; social capital and education; death, dying, and end of life care; social and cultural eco-systems.
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\r\nThe purpose of the GMC is to promote a greater understanding and social awareness of the relationships between sea and society, and to be a platform for developing sustainable solutions for maritime issues.
\r\nResearch themes include:
\r\nThe Centre for Inequalities focuses on exploring, understanding and reducing inequalities across various domains (for example, in education, health, the community, and the workplace). The centre's members conduct primary and secondary research, develop and evaluate evidence-based interventions, and work alongside practitioners and policy makers to promote equality, integration and social justice across the lifespan. Areas of study include inter-ethnic and inter-faith relations; nationalism, prejudice and stigma; refugee, Roma, homeless and other displaced and disadvantaged communities; LGBT and gender rights; older people; victimised and stigmatised groups; mental health and disability.
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\nThe group is focused on the study and research in the areas of Traditional knowledge, bioethics, gender studies, honour based violence, honour killings, honour based violence against LGBTIs, honour killings in Turkey, human rights, state crime, organised crime, torture, incarceration in the UK, prison studies in the EU, culture of fear, penal reforms, restorative justice, community remedies, probation, EU arrest warrant, European Criminal Justice, victimology, penology, political theory, political violence and terrorism, criminal evidence, youth crime, human trafficking, drug trafficking, youth crime, policing, human rights, freedom of expression, policing, cybercrime, organised crime and terrorism.
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\nIts researchers are looking at cutting-edge issues company and commercial law, as well as different aspects of employment law.
\nThe group's research is highly multi-disciplinary in nature. It includes director’s duties, shareholder remedies, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, director’s remuneration, e-commerce, online marketing, online behavioural advertising, sale of goods, quasi non-possessory securities, insolvency law, precarious contracts and employee status.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.75174425,"longitude":-0.23904979445944738},{"infrastructure_id":"2405","name":"Centre for Future Societies Research","town":"Hatfield","postcode":"AL10 9AB","tags":["art","design","law","health","political-science","music-sound","development-studies","sustainability","drama-theatre"],"addr1":"University Of Hertfordshire","addr2":"College Lane","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Centre for Future Societies Research carries out interdisciplinary investigations into complex ways of making the future world a better place. It gathers over 50 academic and research staff across seven Schools of Study. This creates an exceptionally diverse collection of knowledge that is commensurable with the hard and open problems of increasing the understanding for the ways of creating better future societies.
\nThe Centre links to the six university research themes of food, global economy, health and wellbeing, heritage, cultures and communities, information and security, and space. While the research themes have the ingredients of future societies, the Centre combines these ingredients in a range of joined-up ways to seek recipes for future societies. These recipes are evaluated using rigorous interdisciplinary methods in the context of global scenarios and the UN Sustainable Development Goals to create insights into the pathways towards values-led change in the global development.
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\nThe Centre adopts an ‘impact driven’ approach in all its activities. It exploits higher resolution projections to quantify regional impacts of climate change (e.g. of extreme weather and air pollution), identifies options for sustainable futures for cities and investigates the potential of new, zero polluting fuels and other low carbon technologies. The Centre's research programmes add significant value to understanding the impact of climate change and identify solutions - be they technological or societal - for adapting and mitigating against the impact.
\nThe Centre's research areas and activities, include:
\nThe Behavioural Research Centre (BRC) is dedicated to conducting, advancing and applying behavioural research. The BRC develops and implements cutting edge science to support businesses and policymakers to understand, predict and manage behavioural challenges successfully.
\nThe BRC initiates original interdisciplinary research both within the University and with external collaborators and partners. The BRC includes researchers with backgrounds in behavioural science, management, marketing, economics, logistics, law, psychology, computing and artificial intelligence. The research expertise of the members spans quantitative and qualitative research methods, experimental science, psychometric and agent-based modelling, as well as behavioural model development and testing.
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\nACPC strives to ensure that its research, consultancy, teaching and training activity is contemporary and relevant to police, policy makers and allied criminal justice partners, in ‘real-world’ contexts, whilst maintaining the highest academic quality and rigour.
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\nSSI focuses on four broad themes which reflect current members’ research. These are:
\nThe Cultures of Incarceration Centre explores creative responses to the experience of incarceration across cultures and continents. Although often associated with imprisonment in a jail or prison, “incarcerate” can be applied to a host of historical and contemporary contexts – for example, to wartime internment camps, immigration detention centres, modern-day trafficking, and situations of domestic abuse or pandemic lockdowns. Within such carceral environments creativity has flourished in the form of songs, poetry, art or memoirs. The Centre considers how incarceration may act as a lightning rod for discussions of race, class, gender, humanity, and citizenship in countries across the world.
\nThe Centre has four research activities: Culture, Criminology, Creative-Critical Practices, and Community.
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\nCEG fosters multi- and interdisciplinary research which will draw on Business, Economics, Law and Politics. It builds on research activities which were carried out by, for example, the Centre for European Union Studies (CEUS) and the Institute of European Public Law (IEPL).
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\r\nThe cluster uses a range of qualitative and quantitative source materials and approaches to examine women's histories and historical geographies. The cluster's projects include work on women’s property ownership, including land, buildings, livestock and commons; women’s engagement with the law; gender, land, landscape and emotions; women’s contribution to landscape change including enclosure and improvement; gender and the family.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.773250649999994,"longitude":-0.3670415117318655},{"infrastructure_id":"2449","name":"Film, Media and Culture Research Group","town":"Canterbury","postcode":"CT2 7NZ","tags":["art","history","law","cultural-studies","museum-studies","language","film-studies","media-studies","sociology","engineering","psychology"],"addr1":"University Of Kent At Canterbury","addr2":"The Registry","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Film, Media and Culture Research Group recognises film, media and cultural activity is best understood comprehensively in terms of aesthetic shapes, social roles, discursive formations, cultural meanings, psychological effects and/or economic realities, and best explained through attention to both institutional imperatives and individual agencies.
\nDrawing together scholars from across the University – including Arts, European Culture and Languages, Digital Arts and Engineering, History, English and American Studies, Law, Sociology and beyond – the Cluster furnishes a lively, member-led research culture that serves as a forum for Kent-based researchers and as a beacon for the international community.
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\r\nThe Centre for Critical Thought encompasses members from many disciplines across the University with a shared interest in contemporary theoretical, social, juridical and political questions. Members, including a vibrant postgraduate contingent, are drawn from diverse fields, such as modern European philosophy, critical legal theory, political and social thought, psychoanalytic theory, religious studies, theatre studies, film studies, art history, social anthropology, and sociology.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.298607696936195,"longitude":1.0710267559107132},{"infrastructure_id":"2459","name":"Centre for Practical Philosophy","town":"Canterbury","postcode":"CT2 7NZ","tags":["law","economics","medicine","philosophy"],"addr1":"University Of Kent At Canterbury","addr2":"The Registry","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Practical Philosophy aims to bring together cutting-edge philosophical research on questions of normativity (values, reasons, and norms) to contemporary practical issues in politics, economics, and medicine. The Centre adopts an inclusive philosophical approach to exploring the connections between the abstract and practical, welcoming both analytic and continental contributions to questions of practical normativity.
\nFounded on the belief that philosophical reflection often starts from everyday thought, the Centre is firmly committed to the practical application of philosophy outside traditional academia through collaboration with policymakers, clinicians, lawyers, and technology firms. The Centre provides a research hub for philosophical activity and networks in ways that address vital concerns of society.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.298607696936195,"longitude":1.0710267559107132},{"infrastructure_id":"2473","name":"Centre for Journalism","town":"Canterbury","postcode":"CT2 7NZ","tags":["history","law","ethics","media-studies","journalism","publishing-keyword"],"addr1":"University Of Kent At Canterbury","addr2":"The Registry","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Journalism is committed to forms of research that engage with historical and contemporary issues in journalism, locally and regionally, nationally and internationally.
\nThe Centre undertakes research that critiques journalism theoretically and practically and seeks to examine the central importance of journalism in facilitating an engaged democratic society.
\nA significant feature of the Centre's research environment is the dialogue between research and practice-based staff. This facilitates the design and development of research outcomes that have ‘real world’ impact in terms of both media policy and journalistic professional practice.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.298607696936195,"longitude":1.0710267559107132},{"infrastructure_id":"2475","name":"Tizard Centre","town":"Canterbury","postcode":"CT2 7NF","tags":["law","health","political-science","policy","human-rights","development-studies"],"addr1":"University Of Kent At Canterbury","addr2":"Cornwallis Buildings","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Tizard Centre is a leading UK academic centre working in autism, learning disability and community care.
\nThe Centre has a commitment to social justice and its work is underpinned by values relating to anti-discriminatory practice, social equality and rights. People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) and their families are the Centre's main focus, as is work on the health, care and education systems surrounding them. This distinctive approach allows the Centre to make a sustained positive difference to their lives.
\nThe Centre is also pioneering in its focus on people with more complex needs. This work includes deinstitutionalisation, work on sexuality, supported employment, autism and challenging behaviour.
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\nGSEJ serves as a hub for transdisciplinary and international collaboration on major research programmes, promoting accountable science, expanding public engagement potential, and enabling inclusive policy debates.
\nThe Centre's intellectual agenda is two-fold: 1) to understand how emerging science and technology perpetuate and reshape value paradigms and vice versa and, 2) to investigate how inclusive and socially-sustainable production and application of knowledge can be promoted in a global yet ideologically fragmented world.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.3006819099304,"longitude":1.0635164036466402},{"infrastructure_id":"2477","name":"Centre for Parenting Culture Studies (CPCS)","town":"Canterbury","postcode":"CT2 7NZ","tags":["history","law","criminology","health","cultural-studies","museum-studies","policy","philosophy","sociology","psychology"],"addr1":"University Of Kent At Canterbury","addr2":"The Registry","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Parenting Culture Studies (CPCS) is based in the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Research at the University of Kent. The Centre is interdisciplinary, and its Associates work in other Schools at Kent, including Law and Psychology, and at other Universities in the UK and internationally.
\nWhile CPCS associates have diverse research interests, the Centre's common view is that child-rearing as a social activity needs to be distinguished from ‘parenting’ and the culture that surrounds it. Through its work, the Centre has sought to show how the role and meaning of parenthood has changed in recent years. Child-rearing has expanded to encompass a growing range of activities that were not previously seen as an obligatory dimension of this task. CPCS associates have identified this emerging trend as exercising a decisive impact on the mothering role and more broadly on child-rearing; parenting culture in this form has a profound impact on the constitution of mothering and fathering identity as well on the relationship amongst parents.
\nHow mothers and fathers manage and perform these identities is one of the themes running through the explorations of colleagues involved with CPCS. The expansion of the child-rearing role has also encouraged the belief that ‘parenting’ is a problematic sphere of social life. Indeed, ‘parenting’ is almost always discussed as a social problem. Many social actors have sought to turn child-rearing into an object of policymaking encouraging the emergence of the activity ‘parenting’. The causes and effects of this policy turn is another central area of CPCS's research.
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\r\nIt provides education and training to all working, or seeking to work in the nonprofit sector and conducts robust and relevant research, in partnership with charity sector partners on a range of topics, including fundraising, major donors, giving circles, giving across the life course, corporate philanthropy, and philanthropy’s relationship with social justice.
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Members of the Crime, Culture and Control research cluster have extensive experience in undertaking theoretical and empirical criminology research. Their expertise also extends to related subjects such as the sociology of deviance, criminal justice studies, penology, media and cultural analysis.
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\nMembers have diverse disciplinary backgrounds, including sociology, social policy, criminology, victimology, cultural studies, history, urban studies, geography, media studies and law. This varied range of subject specialisms underpins members’ theoretical and empirical contributions to a wide range of areas and topics including: feminist theory and practice, post-colonial theory, queer theory, critical race studies, sexuality studies, gendered embodiment, gendered divisions of labour, gender-based violence, homophobic hate crime, gender and the work-life balance, masculinities theories, clothing and the ageing processes, women and retirement, and radical women’s history.
\nAffiliates of this research cluster share a common aim of producing impactful work that informs both popular and political debates. Their knowledge and skills have been harnessed by the community, voluntary and statutory sectors, and have also directly informed media debates by challenging popular misconceptions and prejudices relating to gender and sexuality. Members demonstrate their investment in the research environment through publishing, peer reviewing and editing across a range of international academic journals, as well as mentoring students who are seeking to further their own academic careers in gender and sexuality studies.
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\nThe vision of KISS is to become a UK research leader in interdisciplinary Spatial Studies in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The aims of KISS are to a) provide new pathways and services to the research community of University of Kent by enhancing the spatial focus of research and teaching; b) contribute to the development of cross-disciplinary skills and resources; and c) promote impact, innovation and enterprise by boosting collaborations with the local and regional business and public sectors, as well as international institutions.
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\r\nThe GEC combines internationally significant research with a high level of engagement with international policy communities in Brussels, London and other European capitals. Through the dissemination of its research, consultancy and professional development programmes, it informs decision-making and makes a major contribution to knowledge transfer.
\r\nGEC's multi-national team conducts research across a wide range of interdisciplinary areas and provides policy advice to a variety of national governments, European and international organisations. GEC's current thematic research priorities include:
\r\nThe Centre for Critical International Law (CeCIL) at Kent aims to foster critical approaches to the field of international law, and other areas of law that touch upon global legal problems, through promoting collaboration and exchange at Kent Law School and within the broader scholarly community.
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\nIt is founded on the conviction that the disciplines of comparative law and European Union law should inform one another both intellectually and practically.
\nMembers of the Kent Centre for European and Comparative Law research in the general areas of comparative law and European public and private law. They also write on more specialized topics including the harmonization of private law in Europe, the constitutional law of the European Union, European economic law, European environmental law, comparative art law, and epistemological and methodological issues in comparative law.
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\nThe Water@leeds team comprises 212 professionals from across the different departments and faculties of the University of Leeds, ensuring a cross-section of expertise and different disciplinary backgrounds.
\nWater@leeds also has good links with industry and a track record of collaborative research and development (R&D) , knowledge transfer and joint innovation. The central tenet of Water@leeds is an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and hence solving major water issues.
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\r\nThe group researches family, kinship and population and encompasses scholarship from the perspectives of gender, sexuality, race, class and culture. Women, Gender and Sexuality has particular interests in Britain and America, the broader problem of the legal construction of gender, and the history of masculinity.
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\nThe Centre's researchers have a wide range of interests that span literature, history, languages, cultural studies, visual arts, communication studies, computing, law, social science, and library studies. They also engage in practical research, workshops, and demonstrations in the School of English print room.
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\nThe Centre promotes the study of literature from around the world, exploring the intersections between literature and cultural studies, history, sociology, performance, politics, translation studies and other art forms, such as music and the visual arts. It draws on a wide range of research and teaching expertise across the University, particularly from the School of English and the School of Language, Cultures and Societies. Rather than considering ‘world literature’ as a fixed field of study, it focuses on the different ways in which the concept can be understood, arguing for a pluralist and polycentric view of world literatures that takes into account different and sometimes competing perspectives.
\nThe Centre’s members work on a variety of different literatures and periods, from antiquity through the Middle Ages to contemporary literature from around the world. The Centre has particular interests in the areas of cosmopolitanism, law, memory, postcolonialism, transnationalism, trauma and reception.
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\r\nBased in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds, the aims of the Centre are:
\r\nThe European Popular Musics Research Group endeavours to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and ideas between its own disciplines and musicology, the social sciences and the humanities, and to disseminate the results of such collaboration in print and at public events. The group also wishes to engage with those directly involved in the production and consumption of music, not only the artists themselves but also the media and the music industry.
\nSome of the issues that the group seeks to open up to debate are:
\nEstablished in 1996, the Centre for Business Law and Practice (CBLP) is an internationally recognised, leading business law research centre. The Centre’s particular, unique feature is the breadth and diversity of the research expertise of its members. The Centre aims to address matters of contemporary concern in business law and regulation using pluralistic perspectives that mix disciplinary and inter-disciplinary approaches. It strives for high quality research outputs that have a broader societal impact.
\nThe Centre's themes include:
\nResearch areas include:
\nThe Centre for Criminal Justice, established in 1987, pursues research into criminal justice systems and criminological issues. The Centre's research has established a strong international reputation, particularly in the areas of policing, crime prevention, victims, youth justice, cyber-crimes and the supervision of offenders.
\nThe Centre's research has international relevance, spanning across the themes below:
\nThe Centre for Law and Social Justice explores the role that law has in addressing inequalities and achieving a more just society. It aims to generate research which addresses the global challenge of inequalities, exploring the themes of accessing and enacting justice, law and social sustainability, and (legal) embodiment.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.805792499999995,"longitude":-1.5551109986455112},{"infrastructure_id":"2571","name":"Centre for Global Security Challenges","town":"Leeds","postcode":"LS2 9JT","tags":["history","law","health","political-science","gender-sexuality-studies","development-studies","media-studies"],"addr1":"University Of Leeds","addr2":"Woodhouse Lane","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Global Security Challenges is a large, interdisciplinary research centre, hosted in the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds. The Centre possesses world-leading, multi-method expertise in the study of security, covering a range of substantive areas.
\r\nThe Centre's research:
\r\nThe centre is structured in 6 research themes – Critical and Non-traditional Security, Environmental Security, Health Security, Gender Security, Mass Atrocity Prevention, Protection and Peace, and Terrorism, Conflict and Contentious Politics.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.805792499999995,"longitude":-1.5551109986455112},{"infrastructure_id":"2574","name":"Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies","town":"Leeds","postcode":"LS2 9JT","tags":["law","health","cultural-studies","museum-studies","language","literature","policy","medicine","gender-sexuality-studies","music-sound","philosophy","technology","media-studies","science","sociology","geography"],"addr1":"University Of Leeds","addr2":"Woodhouse Lane","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (CIGS) brings together over 170 academic staff from across the arts and humanities, social sciences, medicine and healthcare studies. CIGS has strong links with other Centres in the School and work particularly closely with The Centre for Disability Studies, The Centre for Families Life Course and Generations and the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies.
\nResearch on gender and feminist scholarship has a long history at Leeds, and the University is home to many leading international feminist scholars. The Centre enjoys excellent connections with Gender and Women’s Studies departments at universities regionally, nationally and internationally, and many of the Centre's students and visiting academics are from countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. The Centre has a lively intellectual culture and is located in the School of Sociology and Social Policy in a newly renovated building in the centre of the campus. Above all, CIGS is a friendly, welcoming and enthusiastic home for those interested in any aspect of gender studies.
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\nThe CDS is well-known for its work in the area of the sociology of disability, disability politics and policy, disability law and human rights, inclusive design (transport systems and assistive technologies) and Deaf Studies.
\nIn addition to being a world-leader in its research field, the CDS is a centre-of-excellence in teaching. Colleagues teach modules in Disability Studies across several undergraduate programmes. The postgraduate programmes at CDS have been taken by many important disability activists, policy-influencers and academics from around the world. CDS colleagues supervise PhDs in Disability Studies and welcome applicants interested in undertaking interdisciplinary work in this area.
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\r\nThe Centre works towards shaping policies and practices that enable professionals to engage with diversity, support victims, and tackle hate. In addition to conducting large-scale studies, the Centre is regularly commissioned by organizations within the public, private and third sector to conduct smaller, tailored pieces of research.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.61651745,"longitude":-1.1360344048227153},{"infrastructure_id":"2590","name":"Violence Reduction Hub","town":"Leicester","postcode":"LE1 7RH","tags":["law","criminology","information-studies","policing-keyword"],"addr1":"University Of Leicester","addr2":"University Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"To produce word leading research that enables academics and policy makers to better understand patterns of different forms of violence, the harms of violence to survivors; develop public health focused interventions and a better understanding of what works to reduce violence.
\r\nThe discussion paper (PDF, 826kb) presents the findings of research conducted by the Violence Reduction Hub in early 2021 that maps the interventions across the region; ‘theories of change’ and some of the emerging challenges with evaluation. The paper identifies that:
\r\nThe Global, Colonial and Postcolonial research cluster at the University of Leicester is dedicated to investigating various aspects of imperial, colonial, and global history. The research encompasses different parts of the world, including Australia, the Caribbean, China, Guyana, India, Mexico, Malawi, Mauritius, New Caledonia, and South Africa. The cluster's focus is broad and covers the study of cultures of empire, settler colonialism, business networks, health and well-being, cities and the built environment, labour, migration, punishment, violence, and consumption.
\nThe University of Leicester has a long-standing history of research on imperial, colonial, and global history. Over the past 50 years, academic staff, postdoctoral researchers, and postgraduate students have conducted research in numerous areas of the world, as previously mentioned. The cluster has received funding of over £2.5m in the past ten years from organizations such as the AHRC, British Academy, ERC, ESRC, Leverhulme Trust, and Wellcome Trust. The Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History has been based at the University of Leicester since 2011.
\nThe Global, Colonial and Postcolonial research cluster collaborates with a wide range of partners such as the Government of Australia, Royal Museums Greenwich, Salvation Army, Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, and the Guyana Prison Service. The cluster is keen to expand research activity with partners outside of Higher Education and is currently working on the Global Challenges Research Fund. They specialize in explaining social change and have excellent contacts and partners in many countries.
\nThe cluster welcomes potential postgraduate students and postdoctoral scholars who are interested in working in a dynamic, innovative, and open research environment. They routinely sponsor applicants for competitive national and international funding schemes. Postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers have secured funding from the AHRC, Economic History Society, ESRC, IHR, Leverhulme Trust, Menzies Scholarship, and Wellcome Trust.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.61651745,"longitude":-1.1360344048227153},{"infrastructure_id":"2597","name":"Health Communication and Wellbeing Research Group","town":"Leicester","postcode":"LE1 7RH","tags":["law","health","information-studies","political-science","policy","technology","media-studies"],"addr1":"University Of Leicester","addr2":"University Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The School has a strong research interest in Health Communication and Wellbeing, which was reflected in two impact case studies submitted during the REF 2014 exercise. The research focus has since expanded to encompass aspects of health communication and wellbeing across various forms of media, including legacy and digital media, and involving diverse stakeholders such as advertisers, educators, third-sector organizations, health service providers, policymakers, and citizens.
\r\nThe Health Communication and Wellbeing Research Group explores the intersection of lay expertise and scientific knowledge in health communication processes, the impact of digital communication on health information exchange, and the implications of living in knowledge societies where big data and open data are significant concepts. The team welcomes multidisciplinary and international collaborations and is currently working with colleagues from population health sciences, computer science, psychology, and sociology.
\r\nThe team's key research questions include investigating the media's impact on public understandings of health issues and illnesses, examining the effect of social media communication on public health debate and health service delivery, improving patient-health professional communication, exploring the relationship between risk perception and understanding of health and illnesses, assessing the roles of eHealth and mHealth in delivering health information and interventions, investigating the effect of migration, ageing, and retiring on wellbeing, and understanding how eHealth reconfigures health care provision and regulation.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.61651745,"longitude":-1.1360344048227153},{"infrastructure_id":"2598","name":"Institute for Space","town":"Leicester","postcode":"LE1 7RH","tags":["art","law","political-science","science","engineering"],"addr1":"University Of Leicester","addr2":"University Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"At the University of Leicester, science driven by discovery and challenge underlies all space-related research, engineering, and technology development. The institution's success in this field stems from nurturing the end-to-end value chain that encompasses the entire lifecycle of space systems. To further advance its research programs and opportunities, Leicester emphasizes collaboration and bridging between disciplines. The university also prioritizes internationalization by maintaining and expanding international scientific research links and key partnerships. The Institute for Space and Space Park Leicester collaborate to address pressing space sector and global sustainability challenges, with a strong focus on the relationship between Space Park Leicester and industry. Leicester also works alongside other academic units, such as the National Centre for Earth Observation, Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies, Institute for Digital Culture, Institute for Environmental Futures, and the Centre for European Law and Internationalisation.
\nFor over 60 years, Leicester has been a pioneer in space research. Its astronomers discovered the first known black hole in the galaxy, and the institution has been involved in over 20 successfully launched space missions, with 7 instruments currently operating in space, including Chandra (NASA), XMM-Newton (ESA), Swift (NASA, UK, Italy), METEOSAT (x3), Astrosat (Indian Space Agency), BepiColombo (ESA/Japan), and the James Webb Space Telescope. Leicester also played a crucial role in Europe's first touchdown mission to Mars, and its involvement in the James Webb Space Telescope MIRI instrument will significantly enhance the understanding of the galaxy and the Universe.
\nLeicester's Institute for Space, headquartered at the national flagship of Space Park Leicester, is a world-leading cluster for innovative space research and innovation, with a £100m investment. The institute is building a coalition of space research groups and centres across the university, expanding its reach to include new areas of space policy and regulation. Its goal is to serve as an essential vehicle in realizing the UK, bringing in the expertise and knowledge of colleagues across the University of Leicester.\nToday, researchers at the Institute are pioneers across astrophysics, planetary science, Earth observation, space engineering, and space law and policy.
\nResearch areas include:
\nThe Lincoln Centre for Crime and Justice unites academics and practitioners from a range of disciplines to investigate and improve crime and justice outcomes through research, consultancy, and knowledge exchange. The centre's research covers four core themes: health and wellbeing; violence and harm; data and technology; and reducing offending.
\nThe centre's key aims and objectives are to investigate a range of areas with a view to informing responses and improving outcomes related to crime and justice. These include:
\n\"Act as if the house is on fire, because it is\".
\r\nThese words of Swedish activist, Greta Thunberg, sum up the damage that humans are wreaking on the environment. They also serve as a reminder that humankind urgently needs to embed new, or better ways of thinking about the environment in individual and institutional practices to prevent critical planetary boundaries from being breached. The failure to think and to act will result in catastrophic effects for human and natural systems.
\r\nDespite mankind's technological and cultural achievements, humans remain (and will always remain) critically dependent on healthy, functioning earth-system and ecosystem processes. The accelerating environmental degradation projected for this century, of which climate change, natural habitat loss, over-exploitation of resources and pollution are major drivers, will likely move many key natural systems beyond their capacity for resilience to the limits where sudden and dramatic regime shifts, perhaps even complete system collapses, will occur.
\r\nThe implications of these changes are profound, both for the natural world and for the goods and services it provides humanity, not least the impacts on food production and threats to health from pollution and emerging diseases. They are also profound in terms of the social and economic disruption and dislocation that will inevitably follow these changes.
\r\nSolutions to these challenges are urgently needed. However, current solutions to these problems remain embedded within institutions that perpetuate the problem. To change the types of solutions that are adopted it is necessary to improve the understanding of how best to make the necessary changes in human and institutional behaviour at a level and degree that will make a difference. Developing the understanding of how to induce the necessary changes requires new forms of research, with new synergies from interdisciplinary, cross-scale research in law, the natural and social sciences, and the humanities.
\r\nThe Lincoln Centre for Ecological Justice (LinCEJ) will lead and enable creative research that does just that, and will deliver new understandings of the types of changes and governance measures needed to turn the Anthropocene from an era of high risk for society and the environment to one in which the needs of all are met on an equitable basis.
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\nThe Law and Society Research Group has expertise in a number of areas including company and commercial law, criminal justice, environmental law, human rights, and international law. As the main research group in the school, it runs a vibrant research seminar series and hosts internal research events.
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\r\nThe Lincoln Policy Hub was launched in May 2021 to bring together the latest insights, evidence and commentary from researchers, in a one-stop-shop for both academics and policymakers. Connecting politicians, decision makers, and practitioners with university research, helps deliver evidence-based policy that meets the challenges facing society today.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.2297151,"longitude":-0.550105},{"infrastructure_id":"2650","name":"Staffordshire Forensic Partnership","town":"Stoke-on-Trent","postcode":"ST4 2DE","tags":["law","development-studies","science"],"addr1":"Staffordshire University","addr2":"College Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Staffordshire Forensic Partnership is an integrated partnership between Staffordshire Police, Staffordshire University and the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner.
\r\nThe main aims of the partnership are to:
\r\nDelivery of these aims is achieved through a mix of methods which include, but are not limited to:
\r\nCreating a responsive and dynamic Forensic Service which is accredited, cost effective and readily accessible to the community of Staffordshire and beyond
\r\nIntegrated University and Police forensic expertise which commands excellence throughout the justice process, from crime scene to court
\r\nEmbracing targeted research opportunities which stimulate learning, leading edge innovation and enterprise with high impact at a national and international level
\r\nCreating advanced and superior training and career development opportunities for the forensic staff and students; driving consistency and high standards
\r\nIncreased interaction and engagement with schools, colleges, the media and the wider community, ensuring services are delivering to the community needs
\r\nDevelopment of enhanced strategic partnerships and networks in the UK and beyond to inspire confidence and providing opinion to Government, Strategic Leaders and Business
\r\nThe European Children's Rights Unit (ECRU) is a research-intensive cluster located within the University of Liverpool's School of Law and Social Justice. Composed of experts in children's rights issues of global, European, and local importance, the ECRU has three main objectives:
\nThe ECRU's members are experienced in employing progressive and participatory research methods involving children. They also have a track record of building the capacity of practitioners and policy makers through training, consultancy, and strategic litigation, in order to facilitate the application of a children's rights-based approach to their work. The ECRU established and works closely with the Young People's Advisory Group (YPAG), a local body that enables children and young people to provide input into University of Liverpool research projects.
\nThe ECRU's members are experts in a broad range of fields, including immigration and asylum, children's rights in legal processes, children and sport, education, criminal justice, Brexit, children's sexual and gender identity, child labour, and best interests decision-making.
\nChildren and Childhood is a significant research theme within the University of Liverpool's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. The University of Liverpool has a long-standing history of making meaningful contributions to improving the quality of life and outcomes for children, young people, and babies at local, national, and international levels.
\nThe Children and Childhood research theme allows the ECRU to build upon existing research collaborations and explore new opportunities for cooperation with other centres of excellence across the University's faculties.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.40724285,"longitude":-2.965833661018871},{"infrastructure_id":"2665","name":"Human Rights and Social Justice","town":"Liverpool","postcode":"L69 3BX","tags":["law","political-science","policy","human-rights","media-studies"],"addr1":"University Of Liverpool","addr2":"PO Box 147","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Human Rights and Social Justice research cluster at the Department of Politics, University of Liverpool is a group of staff and PhD researchers in Politics who are committed to examining contemporary human rights issues. These issues include but are not limited to modern slavery, refugees, abortion, adoption and decolonial research practices. The cluster is actively engaged with policy-makers, international and local NGO’s, and the media.
\r\nThe cluster's research is centred around the people impacted by politics and policies, with a particular focus on the relationship between practice, theory, and empirical analysis of human rights both locally and globally. They encourage research that is informed by human rights and social justice to pursue impactful and politically transformative outputs and practices. Members of the cluster have received funding from major UK funding bodies, acted as consultants to policy-making bodies and helped to inform policy and practice in their field.
\r\nThe cluster's research is focused on several key areas, including forced labour, modern slavery and human trafficking, decolonial research practices, reproductive justice, abortion rights and access, adoption practices and inequalities, refugee journeys and border practices, international political economy, and the politics of the Middle East. The cluster also conducts research on safeguarding and risk in research.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.40724285,"longitude":-2.965833661018871},{"infrastructure_id":"2667","name":"International Criminological Research Unit (ICRU)","town":"Liverpool","postcode":"L69 3BX","tags":["law","criminology","policy","gender-sexuality-studies","comparative-studies","sociology"],"addr1":"University Of Liverpool","addr2":"PO Box 147","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The International Criminological Research Unit (ICRU) is a research cluster located in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology (SSPC) at a prominent university. It was officially ratified by the School Research and Impact Committee in October 2014. The research cluster consists of a team of academic researchers in criminology, criminal justice, socio-legal studies, and criminal law. It includes senior internationally-recognised leaders in their respective fields, mid-career and early career researchers, and a thriving community of post-graduate research students. The academic and post-graduate research members of ICRU work alongside affiliated academic staff members, supported by an International Reference Group (IRG) and a National Consultative Group (NCG).
\nThe core mission of ICRU is to develop, promote and support high-quality research and postgraduate training on issues related to criminology, criminal justice, and harm. It aims to advance cutting-edge theoretical and empirical knowledge, research methodologies, and work across a wide range of academic, policy and practice communities. This ensures reciprocal knowledge exchange and impactful evidence-based criminal justice and social justice interventions. ICRU aims to communicate clearly and disseminate widely to extend public understanding on issues related to criminology, criminal justice, and harm.
\nICRU aims to host visiting researchers, coordinate a range of events, seminars, symposia, and conferences, forge partnerships, exchanges, and research collaborations locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. It also facilitates collaborative writing/publishing projects and grant applications/capture, including interdisciplinary research. ICRU provides, promotes, and supports a ‘home’ for a lively community of postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers.
\nICRU’s areas of research expertise include criminal law and criminal justice, critical criminology, comparative criminal justice regimes, and international criminology, corporate crime, and the crimes of the powerful. Other areas of research expertise include gender, crime, and criminal justice, histories of criminal justice and historical criminology, human rights, juvenile/youth crime, juvenile/youth justice, and youth criminology, policing, risk discourses, criminal justice, and criminology, security, and victimology.
\nICRU welcomes visiting researchers, co-ordinates a range of events, seminars, symposia, and conferences, and fosters partnerships, exchanges, and research collaborations locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.
\nICRU members from within SSPC are entitled to bid for funds to deliver a cluster event that aligns with ICRU’s objectives, using a recently designed application process. A committee consisting of the SSPC Research Lead, ICRU Co-Leads, Publics and Practices Co-Leads, PGT Lead, and PGR Lead will evaluate applications and make decisions about the allocation of funds in relation to such bids.
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\nExamples are the unit's path-breaking work on charity mergers, disputes in the charitable sector, the legal structure of charities, housing the mentally vulnerable, and charities and equality legislation.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.40724285,"longitude":-2.965833661018871},{"infrastructure_id":"2671","name":"Critical Approaches to International Criminal Law","town":"Liverpool","postcode":"L69 3BX","tags":["law","criminology","political-science"],"addr1":"University Of Liverpool","addr2":"PO Box 147","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The International Criminal Court (ICC) and other tribunals have gained widespread attention and sparked scholarly interest in international criminal justice. However, there is now a growing sense of disillusionment towards international criminal law, with scholars, activists, and practitioners drawing attention to its biases, blind spots, and its role in perpetuating unequal global power relations.
\nThe CAICL Research Cluster aims to address these issues by providing a platform for sustained reflection and critique of international criminal law. As part of the wider CAICL network, the Cluster brings together scholars and practitioners interested in exploring these themes.
\nThe members of the Cluster have published extensively on various aspects of the relationship between ICL and the wider world, including ICL and ideology, politics, hegemony, gender, imperialism, and political economy. The Cluster also hosts regular film screenings, work-in-progress seminars, guest lectures, and a video series where authors provide insights into their important articles. These events involve members of the Liverpool Law School and others outside both the School and the University, particularly those in the wider CAICL network.
\nThe Cluster's contributions to teaching and research are significant. LL.B. and LL.M. modules are directly associated with the Cluster, and its members play a crucial role in delivering teaching in the Law School. Additionally, members of the Cluster have experience supervising research at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and several postgraduate researchers are part of the Cluster. Interested individuals are welcome to approach members of the Cluster for supervision of research projects addressing various possible critical engagements with ICL.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.40724285,"longitude":-2.965833661018871},{"infrastructure_id":"2672","name":"EU Law at Liverpool","town":"Liverpool","postcode":"L69 3BX","tags":["law","political-science","policy"],"addr1":"University Of Liverpool","addr2":"PO Box 147","country":"United Kingdom","description":"EU Law at Liverpool is committed to advancing a critical understanding of the European Union. With a wealth of expertise across diverse areas of EU law and policy, it is one of the oldest and largest centres for research into the law of the European Union in the UK.
\nThe centre has a long-standing tradition of publishing leading academic research, organizing significant national and international scholarly collaborations, and producing world-class impact for the benefit of policy-makers, civil society organizations, and the wider public. Its expertise spans a wide range of fields, including EU institutional and constitutional law, legal relations between the EU and its member states, the Internal Market (including competition law), the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, and the EU's relationship with the UK.
\nIn response to public demand for clearer and improved information about the EU, some of the centre's members contributed their expertise to the public debate following the UK's withdrawal from the European Union. As individuals who have worked closely with the EU for many years, they are able to provide independent, evidence-based information and analysis in a way that is accessible to interested members of the public as well as more specialist audiences.
\nEU Law at Liverpool welcomes queries from prospective postgraduate research (PGR) students interested in pursuing an LLM (by research) or MPhil / PhD. Prospective PGR students are encouraged to discuss possible research topics and fields with the centre's Co-Directors and other staff members by contacting them directly. They are also welcome to browse the Liverpool Law School web pages on PhD Research.
\nThe centre's members offer a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules to Liverpool Law School students, drawing on their individual research interests. The LL.B degree includes a mandatory module on European Union law. Additionally, EU Law at Liverpool members deliver a range of optional modules in key areas of EU law and policy, including Contemporary Issues in EU Migration Law, EU Competition Law, and Asylum and Immigration Law.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.40724285,"longitude":-2.965833661018871},{"infrastructure_id":"2673","name":"Feminist Legal Research and Action Network (FRAN)","town":"Liverpool","postcode":"L69 3BX","tags":["art","history","law","health","cultural-studies","museum-studies","gender-sexuality-studies","ethics"],"addr1":"University Of Liverpool","addr2":"PO Box 147","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Building upon the legacy of the Feminist Legal Research Unit at the University of Liverpool, a group of legal scholars have formed a new network. The members take an intersectional approach to feminist research, teaching and scholarship, drawing upon their expertise in various areas including access to justice, sexual and gender-based violence, labour rights, criminalisation of women, motherhood and family, assisted conception, reproductive rights and legal embodiment, children's rights, marriage and civil partnership, women's legal history, and LGBT rights.
\nThe main objective of this network is to advance feminist legal research and directly influence law and policy. The group plans to achieve this goal by utilizing their published research to support strategic litigation in national and international courts, responding to and proposing law reform initiatives, undertaking public education and consultancy, and publishing working papers and reports on current issues.
\nIt is important to acknowledge that this is not the first time a feminist legal research cluster has been formed within the University of Liverpool Law School. The Feminist Legal Research Unit originated from Anne Morris and Sue Nott's course on Women and the Law, which was accompanied by their early book in this area. The cluster was formally recognised in 1993 and gained a strong national reputation for its pioneering work in feminist legal scholarship.
\nThe cluster's annual seminar series programme in Feminist Legal Studies advertised many high-profile guest speakers. The themes covered in these seminars, such as 'Feminist Perspectives on Employment Law', 'Well Women: The Gendered Nature of Healthcare Provision', 'Women in Wealth', and 'Making Ourselves Heard! Women in the Decision-making Process in Europe', continue to be reflected in feminist scholarship today, including the work undertaken by current members of this network. Over time, these seminars inspired the move from the cluster publishing its own Working Papers series to publishing books with established publishers, including 'Law and Body Politics', among others. The Unit also made responses to both the parliamentary consultation document on consent to life-prolonging treatments (House of Lords Select Committee on Medical Ethics, 1993) and the HFEA Public Consultation Document, 'Donation Ovarian Tissue in Embryo Research and Assisted Conception'.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.40724285,"longitude":-2.965833661018871},{"infrastructure_id":"2674","name":"Health Law and Regulation Unit (HLRU)","town":"Liverpool","postcode":"L69 3BX","tags":["law","health","political-science","policy","medicine","ethics"],"addr1":"University Of Liverpool","addr2":"PO Box 147","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Health Law and Regulation Unit (HLRU) supports research and knowledge exchange activities related to health law and regulation. HLRU brings together a diverse group of experts who pursue cutting-edge research into current legal, regulatory, and policy issues in healthcare.
\nThe members of HLRU have a wealth of knowledge in various health law topics, including medical malpractice, patient capacity and consent, reproduction, professional regulation, children and medicine, research ethics, and mental health. They are committed to conducting world-leading legal and policy research that contributes to health law scholarship and enhances public debate in a particularly contentious field.
\nEstablished in 2013, HLRU aims to build on the School of Law and Social Justice's proud history of medico-legal research and add to the University of Liverpool's record of producing high-quality public health outputs. The unit is dedicated to building capacity by engaging with academic partners and external entities.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.40724285,"longitude":-2.965833661018871},{"infrastructure_id":"2675","name":"International Law and Human Rights Unit (ILHRU)","town":"Liverpool","postcode":"L69 3BX","tags":["law","human-rights"],"addr1":"University Of Liverpool","addr2":"PO Box 147","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The International Law and Human Rights Unit (ILHRU) serves as a central hub for researchers specializing in the broad areas of international law and human rights. The members of the Unit possess diverse research expertise and interests that coalesce around several themes, including the European System of Human Rights Protection, Conflict, Post-Conflict and Security, International Courts and Tribunals, Law of the Global Economy, Migration, and Minority Protection, Self-Determination and Natural Resources.
\nThe primary goal of the Unit is to promote collaboration and research in the broadly defined areas of human rights and international law. It serves as a forum for discussion and debate, as well as presentations and collaborative projects. The Unit is keen to engage with national and international partners to offer its expertise in international law and human rights.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.40724285,"longitude":-2.965833661018871},{"infrastructure_id":"2676","name":"Law and Non-Communicable Diseases Unit (Law & NCD Unit)","town":"Liverpool","postcode":"L69 3BX","tags":["law","health","political-science","policy","human-rights"],"addr1":"University Of Liverpool","addr2":"PO Box 147","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Law and Non-Communicable Diseases Unit (or Law & NCD Unit) was established in January 2015 to conduct research into the use of legal instruments as tools for preventing NCDs. The unit's research focuses on designing evidence-based policy interventions to support effective NCD prevention strategies at local, national, regional or global levels.
\nThe unit's primary research areas are unhealthy diets, alcohol and tobacco as major NCD risk factors. It also addresses overarching themes such as health inequalities, addiction, and the relationship between public health, human rights, and international trade and investment law. The unit has also conducted work on air pollution and anti-microbial resistance, although to a lesser extent.
\nThe unit's members have developed expertise in specialised areas, including the protection of children against unhealthy food and alcohol marketing, food labelling, tobacco plain packaging, food taxation, and alcohol minimum unit pricing. The unit has participated in various policy initiatives, aiming to inform effective and evidence-based public policies. It regularly works with international organisations, governments, public health agencies, and non-governmental organisations worldwide.
\nThe unit values a multi-disciplinary, multi-partner approach to its work and welcomes collaborations with colleagues who share similar interests. However, to maintain its rigorous and independent approach, the unit strictly prohibits real, potential, or perceived conflicts of interest and does not accept funding from the tobacco, alcohol, food, pharmaceutical, and advertising industries, among others.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.40724285,"longitude":-2.965833661018871},{"infrastructure_id":"2677","name":"Liverpool Economic Governance Unit (LEGU)","town":"Liverpool","postcode":"L69 3BX","tags":["law","health","political-science","policy"],"addr1":"University Of Liverpool","addr2":"PO Box 147","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Liverpool Economic Governance Unit is a collaborative team of researchers with a shared interest in the challenges and opportunities presented by changes in global economic governance. The principal goal of LEGU members is to conduct pioneering research in economic governance, with globalisation and the emergence of neo-liberal economic and political principles creating a complex new set of relationships between the state, society and markets. This new governance landscape provides fertile ground for researchers to explore fresh perspectives on economic phenomena.
\nThe unit's research expertise spans a wide range of areas, including international energy law, trade law, investment law, company and commercial law, corporate governance, banking and financial services law, competition law, consumer and health protection, and intellectual property rights. Members also undertake theoretical research aimed at gaining a fundamental understanding of the intricate relationships between state, society and markets. This includes investigating the governance dynamics of international organisations such as the WTO and the EU. Researchers pursuing this line of inquiry produce critical research informed by the Liverpool Law School’s overarching ‘social justice’ ethos. Many also engage in interdisciplinary research, drawing on approaches from law, economics, philosophy, political science and the behavioural sciences.
\nThe team is highly experienced in research, knowledge exchange and consultancy work in different fields of economic governance. For examples of recent projects, please visit the LEGU page on current projects. The LEGU director and members welcome enquiries from academics, private and public organisations who are interested in their work. For recent publications, please see the individual staff profiles of the Unit's members, and for earlier publications, please consult the publications archive page.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.40724285,"longitude":-2.965833661018871},{"infrastructure_id":"2678","name":"Liverpool Public Law Unit (LPLU)","town":"Liverpool","postcode":"L69 3BX","tags":["law"],"addr1":"University Of Liverpool","addr2":"PO Box 147","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Liverpool Public Law Unit (LPLU) draws together wide-ranging expertise in public law, in and between global, European and UK contexts.\nFounded in 2022, this unit focuses on analyses of institutional power, theory, and multi-level governance.
\nIt covers traditional realms of public law, but also explores how other areas of law can regulate public life, and what constitutes public law and why, exploring Marxist, critical and feminist perspectives.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.40724285,"longitude":-2.965833661018871},{"infrastructure_id":"2682","name":"School of Advanced Study (SAS)","town":"London","postcode":"WC1E 7HU","tags":["art","history","law","cultural-studies","museum-studies","library-studies","information-studies","digital-humanities","political-science","language","literature","economics","development-studies","philosophy","anthropology-ethnography","sociology","archaeology","classics"],"addr1":"University Of London","addr2":"Senate House","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The School of Advanced Study (SAS) plays a unique role in fostering collaborative, innovative, and distinctive research in the humanities. It also aims to equip researchers with the skills necessary to navigate and contribute to the research and innovation landscape in the United Kingdom. SAS achieves these objectives through its institutes, as well as its specialised hubs for digital humanities and public engagement. It trains the next generation of humanities researchers, develops innovative research methods, facilitates interdisciplinary connections, and provides unique research infrastructure to generate new knowledge and collaborative formats.
\r\nCollaborating with funders and other research and innovation organisations, SAS actively contributes to the creation of an inclusive research infrastructure that supports researchers at all career stages. This infrastructure enables them to seize opportunities for interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral, and cross-cultural work.
\r\nThe research conducted by SAS primarily focuses on the human dimensions of societal challenges. In order to address pressing issues such as climate change, global mobility, social injustice, human rights, and poverty, an understanding of the human world is crucial. Cultures, languages, and identities hold critical importance in the contemporary world. Given the complexity of modern societal challenges, solutions require comprehensive explanations that the arts and humanities can provide.
\r\nSAS's Digital Humanities Research Hub promotes digital approaches to the humanities within the UK and globally, fostering a sense of community among digital humanities practitioners and researchers. Additionally, SAS provides resources and opportunities for humanities researchers at all career stages throughout the UK. These offerings include training programs, innovative research methods, interdisciplinary connections, and a unique humanities research infrastructure.
\r\nEngaging the public in the latest research developments is vital to future discoveries that acknowledge the significance of the humanities and align with societal values. The University is committed to collaborating with wider society to ensure that people feel confident to engage with and contribute to research and innovation. As part of this commitment, SAS is proud to host the Being Human Festival, the UK's only national Festival of Humanities Research. This festival, currently held in 51 British towns and cities, is increasingly recognised as an international model.
\r\nThe School unifies eight internationally renowned research institutes at the University of London to form the UK's national centre for supporting and promoting research in the humanities. At the core of this national mission is the research and scholarship conducted by SAS's academic staff. Undertaking challenging research to push the boundaries of knowledge across disciplines and collaborating with researchers worldwide is essential to SAS's role as an innovative space for advanced study and its commitment to the highest standards of scholarship.
\r\nSAS's staff engage in research across a wide range of topics in the humanities and social sciences, including: archaeology, classics, culture, language, and literature, development studies, digital humanities, economics, history, human rights, law, library, philosophy, politics, sociology and anthropology For more information on research conducted by academics at the School and its institutes, please explore the following initiatives at SAS:
\r\nThe Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) is a national resource for legal researchers, providing support and facilitating research for students at universities across the UK and the University of London.
\r\nThe IALS Library extends a warm welcome to LLM students from the University of London, as well as PhD/MPhil students, researchers, and academics from all universities. The Institute has established and emerging research strengths and interests in various fields. It serves as a neutral space that promotes and facilitates research and researchers, fosters disciplinary development, and encourages engagement with practitioners, policymakers, and other stakeholders. Moreover, it offers a welcoming environment for visiting fellows, scholars, and students, with an average of 50-80 PhD students at any given time.
\r\nIn 2018, the Institute hosted a panel discussion to explore the significant contributions that IALS has made to legal scholarship over the past 70 years since its establishment.
\r\nThe Institute's research areas cover a wide range of topics, including Company Law, Comparative Law, Criminal Law and Evidence, Energy Law, European Criminal Law, Financial Crime, Financial Services and Regulation Law, Gender, Sexuality, and Law, Information Law and Policy Centre, Law and Society, Legal Education, Legislative Studies/Law Reform, and Public Law and Regulation.
\r\nIALS boasts an exceptional scholarly community, with students and staff earning numerous honours, awards, and achievements. The research conducted at the Institute encompasses diverse legal subjects. The postgraduate student community plays a central role in scholarly research, with an average of 50-75 research students each year, in addition to a substantial LLM cohort enrolled in internationally esteemed legislative drafting programs. The Institute prides itself on delivering a student-centred learning environment facilitated by leading experts in their respective fields. Furthermore, it offers annual training courses to PhD students from any institution on 'How to Obtain a PhD in Law' and 'Legal Research Methods.'
\r\nIALS has had the privilege of welcoming and collaborating with exceptional lawyers, judges, and influential leaders from both public and private sectors, academia, and beyond. Many individuals have visited the institution to access its outstanding library. The Institute operates an active visiting fellows scheme alongside a well-established research fellows scheme.
\r\nThe library serves as the heart of IALS, holding the distinction of being one of Europe's largest legal research libraries. Its vast collection encompasses UK and international materials. The library provides a welcoming space for conducting research, attending conferences, workshops, and colloquia, or engaging in research discussions in the downstairs café area. A newsletter is published three times a year, featuring updates on the library, events, publications, staff news, and more.
\r\nSince its establishment in 1947, IALS has played a significant role as a national research institution, promoting, facilitating, and disseminating high-quality legal research. The Institute maintains close collaborations with colleagues in other schools across the UK and internationally, fostering excellent connections with leading law schools in various jurisdictions. The Institute's original objectives were to prosecute and promote legal research and provide graduate students with training in its principles and methods.
\r\nIALS has a commendable track record of producing high-quality graduates who maintain regular contact with the Institute. Many former students continue to visit long after graduation, even delivering guest lectures on the LLM programs or participating in the PhD Masterclass series. As research students at IALS, individuals have the opportunity to engage with and learn from esteemed academics and legal practitioners. They become part of a truly international community of scholars and have access to a world-class library, along with other resources, facilities, and a highly experienced professional student support team. Beyond these benefits, students are challenged to critically engage with contemporary legal issues, develop as independent researchers and scholars, and cultivate their own thoughts and perspectives on the role of the law.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.52252325,"longitude":-0.12739438948545648},{"infrastructure_id":"2686","name":"Sir William Dale Centre for Legislative Studies","town":"London","postcode":"WC1B 5DR","tags":["law"],"addr1":"Institute Of Advanced Legal Studies","addr2":"Charles Clore House","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Research is conducted at the Centre for Financial Law, Regulation and Compliance (FinReg) on three levels: Centre level, staff level, and student level.
\nAt the Centre level, ongoing research focuses on various aspects of drafting and law reform, with a particular emphasis on EU criminal law. The Centre's current main research project involves the transposition of EU legislation. Additionally, the Centre conducts comparative studies for the European Commission, collaborating with multi-member multinational research teams from both older and new EU member states, as well as accession countries. Notably, the Centre's studies on criminal records as a means of preventing organized crime and the potential introduction of a European Criminal Record in national legal orders have influenced the Commission's Communication on a draft Framework Decision.
\nThe Centre has developed unique expertise in databases for the prevention of crime at the EU level. Collaborating with Europol and Eurojust, the Centre has explored the feasibility of compiling a database of legal entities to enhance data availability across EU member states. They have also studied the creation of an EU-wide database on prosecutions and investigations to improve the effectiveness of addressing transnational crime.
\nFurthermore, the Centre has conducted studies on the reception of EU instruments in the field of Justice and Home Affairs by Member States' laws, serving as a guide for transposition practices in EU criminal law. They have also undertaken smaller-scale studies for other departments of the EU institutions, including a study on disciplinary proceedings and criminal trials within member states conducted for the Legal Service of the European Commission.
\nThe Centre's extensive experience in teaching and researching these topics is reflected in their training programs. In addition to postgraduate and professional teaching in drafting and law reform, the Centre offers tailor-made training for legal professionals in EU law and EU criminal law. Various projects, such as GROTIUS CIVIL, AGIS, PHARE, and the Programme of Exchanges of Judges, provide training opportunities for judges from EU member states to enhance their knowledge and understanding of recent developments in EU law.
\nThe Centre takes pride in receiving the European Commission's approval for two JEAN MONNET modules: "Drafting for EU Accession and Membership" and "Theories of European Integration." These modules are offered in the LLM for Advanced Legislative Studies and as stand-alone summer courses.
\nAdditionally, the Centre has been engaged in the Ukraine Legislative Drafting Project, providing assistance to the Ukrainian government in developing legislative drafting capacity over the past four years.
\nAt the staff level, research is primarily conducted by the Academic Director, the IALS Visiting Fellow in Legislative Drafting, and a group of Associate Research Fellows. Collaboration with other units within the Institute, such as the Centre for Legal Education, enhances research outcomes. Findings from these research activities are published in British and international journals.
\nThe Centre collaborates with academics and practitioners from various research units within the Institute and other institutions to organize author teams for writing on specific aspects of a particular topic. The aim is to publish the results in a book edited by or under the auspices of the Centre. Suggestions for topics and titles are proposed by practicing drafters or members of the academic community. The Legislative Drafting course and contributions from students and alumni also contribute to the research and publications of the Centre, including the European Journal of Law Reform.
\nThe Centre also benefits from research conducted by its postgraduate students. The LLM program and courses offered at the Centre serve as an excellent source for recruiting postgraduate students for M.Phil. and Ph.D. levels. Students are encouraged to publish their research under the Centre's auspices and in collaboration with the Centre's staff. Country reports are a significant part of the Centre's ongoing research activities, mainly undertaken by alumni.
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\nThe Human Rights Consortium (HRC) of the School of Advanced Study was established to facilitate and promote inter-disciplinary research in human rights nationally and internationally. They bring together multidisciplinary expertise to provide a national and international collaborative centre for the support, promotion and dissemination of academic and policy work in human rights.
\nThe Human Rights Consortium's mission focuses on enhancing the promotion of the human rights research and related activities of scholars nationally and internationally. It aims to build upon the existing successes, networks and expertise of the School Members’ Institutes and develop a particular forum of discipline-focused human-rights-led activities that would both benefit both the Institutes’ strategies and the School as a whole.
\nThe Consortium’s mission is:
\nThe Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) is a unique academic centre promoting interdisciplinary research, teaching and exchange on law, policy and practice in refugee and displacement contexts.
\r\nEstablished in 2010 at the School of Advanced Study of the University of London, the RLI works in the UK and internationally to promote new research and facilitate practical impact in this field.
\r\nThe four priority activities for the RLI are:
\r\n1. Research and Consultancy
\r\nInnovative research projects by RLI academic staff and affiliates shape national and international research agendas on refugee law, policy and practice. The RLI is also the only academic institution in the world currently hosting a dedicated research programme on internal displacement.
\r\nThe RLI provides high-impact policy-relevant research and guidance via our consultancy capacity. This builds on our world-class expertise in the refugee and displacement field, our charitable mission and independent status as a university institution and our unparalleled networks in this field.
\r\n2. Networking and collaboration
\r\nThe RLI facilitates research through our extensive senior associate and research affiliate networks that facilitate interaction and opportunities for over 300 experts across the globe; and via thematic RLI working groups. Visiting Fellows are also hosted regularly at our university premises in London.
\r\nRLI directly supports research in under-served themes and regions through our institutional support for research networks in countries affected by internal displacement. We regularly partner for research with other universities, governments, international agencies and civil society.
\r\n3. Dissemination and impact
\r\nWe support publication in the refugee field through an accessible range of platforms, including the RLI book series on refugee law, the RLI working paper series, the RLI blog, the Researching Internal Displacement site, and RLI newsletter. We also publish event reports and podcasts.
\r\nRLI thematic expertise is channelled through RLI Declarations on International Protection. We help disseminate research, promote academic exchange and facilitate practitioner engagement through the RLI annual conference, as well as a range of seminar series and other ad hoc events.
\r\n4. Teaching and practice
\r\nOur accessible MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies supports the development of the field, alongside our open-access popular short courses on refugees and internal displacement. We facilitate high-quality research through specialist postgraduate training on refugee research.
\r\nThe Refugee Law Clinic provides practical clinical legal education through pro bono representation of marginalised appeals rights-exhausted asylum seekers in London. The RLI also provides practical training by invitation for governments, international organisations and civil society.
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\r\nThe Centre's core principle is that economic life can only be fully understood through engagement with the tools and methods of the humanities. As was frequently pointed out in the wake of the 2007 financial crash, economics is too important to be left only to economists.
\r\nThe Centre draws together a broad range of scholars based in History, English and American Studies, Business, Economics and Law to advance an interdisciplinary agenda focused around the following themes:
\r\nThe Centre is located in a major research university, in the world's first industrial city, and has world-class research resources on its doorstep, including the John Rylands Library, the Whitworth Art Gallery, Chetham's Library, the Museum of Science and Industry, People's History Museum, and the Working Class Movement Library.
\r\nThe Centre is a dynamic group of established and early career scholars, and supports a new generation of postgraduate research students and research fellows in the field.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.466022550000005,"longitude":-2.2330858190427176},{"infrastructure_id":"2737","name":"Manchester International Law Centre (MILC)","town":"Manchester","postcode":"M13 9PL","tags":["law"],"addr1":"University Of Manchester","addr2":"Oxford Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The School of Law at Manchester has a distinguished reputation for research in international law in the UK and Europe. Since the 1920s, it has been recognised as a leading centre for this field.
\nThe Manchester International Law Centre (MILC) was established in 2014. With a team of over 30 academics and PhD students, MILC conducts research in international law and is widely acknowledged for its academic excellence.
\nMILC's members aim to make innovative contributions to international legal scholarship while providing consultancy and advice on international law matters to governments, international organizations, and NGOs. Additionally, MILC organises the prestigious Melland Schill Lecture Series.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.466022550000005,"longitude":-2.2330858190427176},{"infrastructure_id":"2738","name":"Manchester Centre for Regulation, Governance and Public Law","town":"Manchester","postcode":"M13 9PL","tags":["law","information-studies","political-science","policy","technology","media-studies"],"addr1":"University Of Manchester","addr2":"Oxford Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Manchester Centre for Regulation, Governance, and Public Law (ManReg) aims to become a globally recognised academic institution known for its excellence in research and contributions to enhanced regulation and governance in various domains. The centre's objectives are as follows:
\r\nManReg comprises a diverse group of over 20 academics and PhD students who bring together expertise from various disciplines and are dedicated to policy engagement. This interdisciplinary team, which includes lawyers, criminologists, socio-legal scholars, and others, collaborates on regulatory challenges across multiple sectors such as environmental regulation, corporate governance, media regulation, policing, intellectual property, and biotechnology. Through strong connections with regulators, policymakers, and practitioners in these sectors, ManReg ensures that its research has a tangible impact.
\r\nThe School of Law has a proud tradition of scholarship on regulation dating back to the 1980s. Established in 2011, The Manchester Centre for Regulation and Governance (ManReg) builds upon this tradition while charting new paths for future advancements.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.466022550000005,"longitude":-2.2330858190427176},{"infrastructure_id":"2739","name":"Centre for Social Ethics and Policy","town":"Manchester","postcode":"M13 9PL","tags":["law","health","political-science","policy","gender-sexuality-studies","development-studies","philosophy","ethics"],"addr1":"University Of Manchester","addr2":"Oxford Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Social Ethics and Policy is a renowned institution in the field of research both nationally and internationally.\nThrough collaboration with large international research projects, the Centre has established an impressive track record. Their dedicated staff coordinates these endeavours and regularly organises small funded workshops to delve into ethical and legal issues.
\nThe recent Coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the crucial role of health care law and ethics in society.
\nThe staff members at the Centre publish extensively on various controversial and challenging topics within this field. These topics include ethical and legal aspects surrounding assisted suicide and euthanasia, the involvement of criminal law in medicine and health care, mental health and capacity issues, reproduction, the utilisation of human organs and tissues, as well as public health law and ethical questions arising in the pandemic.
\nThe Centre offers postgraduate taught courses in healthcare ethics and law, both on campus and through distance learning. These courses include the LLM Healthcare Ethics and Law, MSc Healthcare Ethics and Law, and Healthcare Ethics and Law online courses.
\nIn their interdisciplinary PhD by publication programs in Bioethics and Medical Jurisprudence, current PhD students conduct independent research in various areas of health care ethics and law.
\nAll the students at the Centre play a vital role within their research community and contribute to both research and teaching.
\nAdditionally, the Centre provides a range of short Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses in ethics and law. These online courses are available to both healthcare professionals and non-healthcare professionals, offering flexible study options that can be tailored to fit their schedules. The Centre also offers an online course via FutureLearn titled 'Introduction to Medical Ethics: The Impact of Disability Screening'.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.466022550000005,"longitude":-2.2330858190427176},{"infrastructure_id":"2740","name":"Manchester Centre for Law and Business","town":"Manchester","postcode":"M13 9PL","tags":["law","information-studies","technology","media-studies"],"addr1":"University Of Manchester","addr2":"Oxford Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Manchester Centre for Law and Business, formerly known as the Private and Commercial Law Hub, contributes to legal scholarship and discussions that impact daily lives. Established in 1989 at The University of Manchester's Faculty of Law, the Centre has gained recognition for facilitating engagement between the legal community and academic scholarship at regional, national, and international levels. It focuses on research at the intersection of critical social and economic debates, addressing legal, regulatory, and policy questions. The Centre offers a wide range of business-related areas of study, including commercial, corporate, and financial law, through various LLM modules and streams taught by Centre members.
\nNoteworthy recent activities, organised initially by the Private and Commercial Law Hub, include prominent conferences such as the 2016 event on the Insurance Act 2015, sponsored by DAC Beachcroft; the 2017 conference commemorating ten years of the Companies Act 2006, sponsored by Trowers and Hamlins and Queen Mary University of London; and the 2020 conference on the impact of LegalTech on the legal profession, sponsored by Exchange Chambers and the Northern Business and Property Courts Forum.
\nIn 2020, the Centre was revived by the current directors. Its vision is to become a globally recognised institution among academics, practitioners, and policymakers. Present partners include the Sheffield Institute of Corporate and Commercial Law (SICCL) at the University of Sheffield, the Hong Kong Commercial and Maritime Law Centre (HKCMLC) at City University of Hong Kong, Labour Business and Regulation at NUI Galway, the Manchester Business and Property Courts Forum, and Grant Thornton LLP Manchester.\nSince September 2021, the Centre has taken over as the editor of the esteemed publication Law and Financial Markets Review (Taylor and Francis). The Centre plans to host its inaugural annual conference in September 2022.
\nThe Centre specialises in the following areas:
\nThe Morgan Centre is internationally recognised as a leading research institution in the fields of personal life, relationships, and everyday life. It comprises a dynamic group of researchers dedicated to pioneering empirical and theoretical advancements, as well as innovative methodologies for investigating the intricacies and complexities of contemporary social dynamics.
\nThe Centre's research encompasses a wide range of topics related to intimacy, relationships, and personal life. It is attuned to the broader societal changes within contemporary societies. Recent studies hosted by the Centre have explored cutting-edge subjects such as civil partnerships and same-sex marriage, the implications of assisted reproductive technologies on kinship, and the growing prevalence of shared living arrangements.
\nKey themes that intersect throughout their work include sexuality, gender, life-course, and generation. Their research draws from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, reflecting their rich methodological influences. The Centre has proudly hosted two consecutive 'Nodes' of the ESRC's esteemed National Centre for Research Methods, underscoring their strong methodological focus.
\nThe Morgan Centre is situated in the Department of Sociology within the School of Social Sciences. Their members boast diverse disciplinary backgrounds encompassing social policy, social work, human geography, cultural studies, gender studies, anthropology, socio-legal studies, biology, and psychology. They actively collaborate with colleagues from various disciplines and research centres, fostering interdisciplinary collaborations and joint research projects. International visitors are warmly welcomed on a regular basis.
\nTheir teaching portfolio comprises undergraduate courses in the following areas:
\nThey also offer undergraduate and postgraduate methods courses, including a master's program in Creative Methods. In addition, they provide research methods training for postgraduate students and staff.\nMembers eagerly encourage students interested in conducting PhD research within their areas of expertise to contact a member of the Morgan Centre, providing an outline of their proposed research.
\nAs part of their commitment to knowledge dissemination and practical application, they actively engage with policymakers, practitioners, professionals, and community groups. This includes sharing their expertise in qualitative research with voluntary organisations, collaborating with local councils, housing associations, private sector organisations, and charities (such as Crisis and Shelter) to promote successful shared housing initiatives, and working with family lawyers, charities, and user groups to influence policies impacting families with children conceived through donor eggs or sperm. Members also communicate the experiences of families with donor-conceived children directly to individuals in similar situations through leaflets and videos.
\nThe Morgan Centre is named in honour of Professor David Morgan, acknowledging his significant contributions and lifelong dedication to the sociology of families and relationships. Initially known as the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life, they changed their name to the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives in 2014 to reflect the expanding scope of their research interests. David remains a respected and inspiring member of the Centre.
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\nThis Initiative provides a trusted space for stakeholders and University experts to address challenging questions arising in the legal sector due to the emergence of new technologies. It combines practice and research to identify risks and opportunities in future policy directions at the intersection of law and technology. Moreover, it aims to cultivate the next-generation workforce through innovative curriculum and skills training.
\nIndustry leaders are invited to apply for membership in the Initiative, which also offers media and policy bodies access to a diverse range of experts and exclusive events.
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\nThere is an urgent need for fresh ideas to tackle the challenges brought about by changes in work, employment, and equalities. The Institute combines two esteemed research centres, namely the European Work and Employment Research Centre and the Fairness at Work Research Centre, both affiliated with the renowned Alliance Manchester Business School. These centres possess international proficiency in various areas such as human resource management, industrial relations, labour economics, organisational psychology, employment law, technology, organisation studies, sociology, and social statistics.
\nThe research agenda of the Work and Equalities Institute will pioneer innovative interdisciplinary approaches to address fundamental policy and intellectual challenges.
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\nThe IPSCJ is situated at the interface between practice, policy and academia, adopting an evidence-based approach to enhance public service delivery models, organisational strategy and outcomes for service users. The IPSCJ collaborates with partner organisations at local, regional, national and international levels. The core mission of the IPSCJ is to support positive evidence-based policy and practice change for the benefit of society.
\nThe IPSCJ has five key research and evaluation portfolios:
\nBILA is a unique organisation, its membership being drawn from insurers, insurance brokers and other intermediaries, academic lawyers, solicitors and barristers.
\r\nIn addition to UK members, there are many from all over the world. BILA is not only a domestic organisation, it is also the British Chapter of Association Internationale de Droit des Assurances (AIDA) and is an active participant in all the activities of AIDA including its quadrennial world congress.
\r\nThe British Maritime Law Association was founded in 1908. Its purpose is and always has been to promote the study and the advancement of British maritime and mercantile law: to promote and consider with foreign and other maritime law associations proposals for the unification of maritime and mercantile law in the practice of different nations: to afford opportunities for members to discuss matters of national and international maritime law: to collect and circulate amongst its members information regarding maritime and mercantile law and to establish a collection of publications and documents of interest to members
\r\nMembership consists of representatives from the following groups: shipowners, shippers, merchants, manufactures, insurers, insurance brokers, tug owners, shipbuilders, port and harbour authorities, bankers, classifications societies or other societies or bodies interested in the objects of the Association. The Association also has a number of individual members who may be employees of corporate or institute members or barristers or others with out a corporate identity.
\r\nThe Association has two principal functions. Firstly it acts as an adviser to U.K. Government bodies responsible for maritime legislation or regulation and secondly, it co-operates with its international parent body, the CMI, in research and drafting of international instruments for the harmonisation of maritime and mercantile law.
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\nEnergy Lancaster's research centres on 6 core themes, representing key energy technologies and their impacts on the environment and society. Whilst the themes provide focal points, one of Energy Lancaster's strengths is cross-disciplinary research, incorporating expertise from related domains to create unique and synergistic outcomes.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":54.009842899999995,"longitude":-2.787576781958986},{"infrastructure_id":"2795","name":"Centre for Research on Cuba","town":"Nottingham","postcode":"NG7 2RD","tags":["history","law","health","cultural-studies","museum-studies","literature","medicine","development-studies","science","archaeology","critical-race-studies-keyword","latin-american-studies-keyword","caribbean-studies","black-resistance-keyword","cuban-studies-keyword"],"addr1":"University Of Nottingham","addr2":"University Park","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Research on Cuba is a dedicated research group, based in the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, but bringing together post-doctoral and postgraduate researchers working on Cuba from across the university. The centre runs an annual international seminar programme, an annual international conference and postgraduate workshops which bring postgraduate students together on a regular basis. Running parallel to the CRC is the Cuba Research Forum, an international network of over 500 scholars working on Cuba. Please contact the Director of the CRC/CRF, Professor Par Kumaraswami, if you would like to be added to the mailing list: parvathi.kumaraswami@nottingham.ac.uk
\r\nThe centre provides a physical base for the Hennessy Collection (a unique open shelf archive of books, newspapers, journals and other materials on, and from Cuba), which is also accessible to researchers from outside the university. You can find the basic catalogue here: https://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/understandingcuba/the-hennessy-collection/ and can email Professor Kumaraswami if you would like to know more or visit the archive.
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\nMembers of the UNCLC include recognised leaders in their fields, who contribute to the mission of the centre through a broad and varied range of research original empirical data collection, doctrinal studies, and interdisciplinary partnerships. Their publications and collaborations include work with other leading academic institutions, as well as governments, intergovernmental organisations, and standard-setting bodies.
\nUNCLC seeks to develop and reform commercial law around key areas including business and human rights, businesses regulation, intellectual property, consumer law, corporate, restructuring and insolvency, and international trade and maritime law. It also takes on key and current challenges, such as the impact of covid-19 and the climate crisis. As a hub for scholars, practitioners, and professionals around the globe, the centre is providing foundations for change with lasting positive impacts.
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\nAs a joint initiative of the School of Law and the School of Sociology and Social Policy, inter-disciplinary research is at the core of the CJRC. Members and associate members of the CJRC take a collaborative approach to research, and are assisted by an external Advisory Board of stakeholders. The centre's research in the areas of criminal justice and criminology has local, national and international reach and impact.
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\r\nFounded in 1993, the HRLC originally sought to conduct human rights research in the countries of the former USSR and provide training to the judiciary and law enforcement agencies in that region. From this beginning, the centre has grown to accommodate the key human rights challenges experienced in the increasingly globalised world.
\r\nCurrent research areas include the promotion and protection of human rights in conflict and post-conflict situations, UN treaty body reform, transitional justice, the International Criminal Court, economic, social and cultural rights, human rights, trade and business, forced migration, and the European Convention on Human Rights.
\r\nThe Human Rights Law Centre includes six research units which are reflective of collective expertise.
\r\nThese are: Business, Trade and Human Rights, Civil and Political Rights, Economic and Social Rights, European Human Rights Law, Forced Migration, and International Criminal Justice.
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\nNILSC wishes to raise and answer significant questions for international law which tackle key challenges facing society today. Areas of focus include the impacts of economic crises and the climate crisis, with a focus on the security of ordinary citizens in the face of natural or man-made disasters arising from climate and geological catastrophes. NILSC also considers the challenges facing States, including an expanding range of security issues arising from contested territorial spaces, military and maritime security, cyber-security, and security threats relating to energy, infrastructure and the delivery of essential services.
\nThe centre includes the Disaster Law Unit and the International Humanitarian Law Unit.
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\r\nPPRG research encompasses issues of human rights and sustainability, development, corruption as well as defence and strategic procurement, with six units focused on different areas of public procurement law and policy:
\r\nThe Treaty Centre was founded in 1983 and its objectives are to foster, conduct, and disseminate research in to the law of treaties and the practice of treaty-making. The centre was established following a generous grant of £10,000 from the University for the development of resources on international law.
\nThe centre's major areas of substantive interest are:
\nThe Identities, Citizenship, Equalities and Migration Centre is a large and diverse centre, whose members conduct research across a wide range of areas within the centre's research themes of identities, mobilities and migration, and work and equalities.
\r\nContributing to a range of substantive fields of study (including economic life, migration, gender, class, wealth, ethnicity, postcolonial subjectivity, families, sexuality, nationalism, religion and education), members' research documents, explores and theorises the:
\r\nICEMiC's research informs public and policy debate as well as helping to shape the contemporary sociologies of identities, citizenship, ethnicity and displacement.
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\nThe centre organises academic conferences, exhibitions and public events relating to Lawrence within the University of Nottingham, while also working alongside D. H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum in Eastwood to showcase his importance for the local area through permanent and temporary exhibitions and events.
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\nThe Centre focuses on multidisciplinary research into Islamic culture, civilization, and contemporary Muslim societies. Numerous Fellows of the Centre are actively involved in various departments, faculties, and colleges across the University. Oxford has welcomed many students and senior academics through the Centre's Scholarships and Visiting Fellowships programs over the years. Throughout the academic year, the Centre organises lectures, seminars, workshops, conferences, exhibitions, and other scholarly events.
\nSince the establishment of its programme in 1993 with HRH The former Prince of Wales' inaugural lecture, 'Islam and the West,' the Centre has hosted renowned statesmen and scholars as guest speakers. These include heads of state, government leaders, internationally acclaimed scholars from the Muslim world and beyond, and secretary generals of international organizations such as the UN, OIC, Arab League, UNESCO, and the Commonwealth.
\nInitially located in a wooden hut on St Cross Road, the Centre later moved to office spaces on George Street in 1990. Finally, in the 2016/17 academic year, it relocated to purpose-built premises. The Centre's facilities include a lecture theatre, seminar and teaching rooms, exhibition space, library, offices for Centre Fellows and staff, a dining hall, and accommodations for students and visiting fellows. These facilities are arranged around quadrangles and gardens in the traditional Oxford style. Additionally, the complex houses a public mosque for daily prayers.
\nSituated adjacent to Magdalen College, the Centre enjoys easy access to the University's main libraries, academic departments, and colleges. Its architecture combines elements of traditional Oxford colleges with the forms and styles of the classical period of Islam. This unique blend symbolises the harmony between two ancient scholarly traditions united in the pursuit of knowledge. The Centre serves as a hub for international collaboration and provides academic, social, and residential amenities vital to a community of scholars.
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\nUniversity College Oxford Blockchain Research Centre is an initiative of University College Oxford (Univ), one of the constituent colleges of Oxford University.
\nThe centre has recruited a number of international experts in blockchain as well as related areas and is looking for more. Members regard blockchain as an interdisciplinary topic, involving multiple areas of computer science, mathematics, law, international relations, economics and finance.
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\nContemporary strategic challenges, including the resilience of global networks, food and water security and the rise in global maritime trade, have highlighted the dependence of island nations, such as the UK and Ireland, on seapower to maintain open lines of communication, connectivity, and so economic prosperity and political stability.
\nBetween 2008 to 2021, the University of Plymouth established itself as a centre of excellence and success in delivering educational opportunities to naval officers and NCO professional training. This experience was complimented by colleagues within the School of Law, Criminology and Government, who utilised their expertise in strategic and defence studies as well as their professional military education.
\nCSS undertakes valuable teaching and research in order to help inform and shape security policy decision-making and generate debate across the maritime domain.
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\r\nWith one of the largest marine and maritime portfolios of any institution in Europe, the Marine Institute has a long-held and outstanding international reputation for conducting world-leading, transdisciplinary research.
\r\nThrough this, with partners and collaborators, the institute is developing and optimising positive interventions in response to global challenges, while training the scientists and business leaders of the future.
\r\nMarine Institute research themes include:
\r\nThe Centre for Cybercrime and Economic Crime (CCEC) was founded in 2022 to bring together members' extensive knowledge in these areas, and to enhance research, teaching and innovation in these fields.
\nThe Centre's aim is to harness, coordinate and develop the cybercrime and economic crime expertise across the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the wider University, including the School of Computing, the Department of Psychology, and the Faculty of Business and Law.
\nCCEC also enables greater multidisciplinary working and cooperation between the many other pockets of interest related to cybercrime and economic crime across the University and beyond.
\nAs one the largest groups of active researchers in these areas in the UK, the Centre's members are at the forefront of researching and understanding the challenges posed by cybercrime and economic crime. Their work contributes to solutions that address these risks and enhance societal and organisational security and resilience.
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\nCybercrime is an umbrella term applied to criminal and harmful behaviours that are facilitated online or via the use of digital technologies, or which only occur due to the existence of such tools. Cybersecurity focuses on techniques of protecting digital technologies, networks and data against criminal or unauthorised activity.
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\nEconomic criminology at its simplest is the study of financially motivated economic crimes. This includes fraud, corruption, bribery, money laundering, terrorist financing, cartels, economic cybercrime, economic and industrial espionage, intellectual property crime, and deviant acts perpetrated by individuals or organisations against individuals or organisations.
\nThis group aims to generate knowledge that will reduce the harm of these crimes and deviant acts, improving the response to them as well as wider questions concerning power relations and the application of relevant theory. The group covers the following themes:
\nForensic science has made a huge contribution to contemporary justice. Developments such as fingerprinting, forensic investigation and DNA recovery have changed the way crime is detected, prevented and investigated.
\nForensic Science has been widely criticised, however, for lacking a robust evidence base. The House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee Inquiry into Forensic Science (2019) highlighted the need for robust scientific data to support all aspects of forensic investigation from crime scene to court.
\nIt is important that academic research addresses these recommendations and delivers impact in terms of outcomes that are translatable within practice. The Forensic Science Group therefore aims to extend the evidence base behind forensic science practice by:
\nThe group takes a context specific approach to its research, acknowledging the complexity of the forensic science process and the dynamic and evolving nature of crime.
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\nThe group works in close collaboration with external partners and stakeholders like local, national and international police organisations. Through its programme of research-based activities, the central concerns of the group are with the development of new research opportunities, the sharing of research findings and the support of early-in-career academics.
\nThe broad themes of the group's research include:
\nPrisons and the probation services deal with some of the most excluded members of society, and research is needed to challenge the assumptions of the justice system and to promote change through good quality research and scholarly activity.
\nThe focus the interdisciplinary research of the Probation, Prison and Penology Group is the theory and practices of punishment and rehabilitation, and the key agencies and professional groupings involved therein. The University of Portsmouth is a key provider of professional qualifications to probation officers in England and Wales through the provision of a research-informed curriculum.
\nGroup members work with a range of agencies that have involvement with the criminal justice system, nationally and internationally, to develop knowledge, expertise and ethical practices.
\nThe group's research and knowledge transfer activities contribute to the ways in which the institutions of criminal justice respond to the problems of crime, punishment and rehabilitation. Key issues include:
\nThe Victimology and Ecological Justice group brings together researchers from the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
\nThe group's aim is to explore what combinations can be created to highlight teaching and research across the following areas:
\nVictims of crime remain high on the political and criminal justice agenda following the wider politicisation of crime victims in the 1990s. Since then, the needs and rights of crime victims have been widely debated and remain a highly contested area for reform. Despite the introduction of Victims’ Charters and Codes of Practice, these entitlements remain discretionary rather than legally enforceable. Calls continue for victims to have legislative rights to be enshrined in a Victim’s Law and the findings of a recent public consultation are still awaited.
\nRecognition of legitimate forms of victimisation have expanded significantly over the last three decades due to activism and campaigning. These include behaviours not previously recognised as criminal — for example, domestic abuse, stalking, sexual harassment and honour based violence — and new crimes resulting from developments in technology, such as internet fraud, cybercrime, and image-based sexual abuse (more commonly known as ‘revenge porn’). There has also been an acceleration of crimes that some thought no longer existed, such as human trafficking and modern day slavery.
\nMore recently, ‘green’ criminology has developed into a rich seam of criminological enquiry, enabling a focus on human-induced environmental harm, through the lens and development of Green Victimology. The United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly referred to as COP, has elevated the urgency. The discipline has flourished with a critical focus on the climate and environmental crises, to embrace both a ‘wildlife criminology’ (Nurse and Wyatt, 2020) and a ‘climate change criminology’ (White, 2020).
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":50.800031,"longitude":-1.0906023},{"infrastructure_id":"2996","name":"Centre for Commercial Law and Financial Regulation (CCLFR)","town":"Reading","postcode":"RG6 6EP","tags":["law","economics"],"addr1":"University Of Reading","addr2":"Foxhill House","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Commercial Law and Financial Regulation (CCLFR) was founded by the School of Law and ICMA Centre in 2011 as a forum for stimulating and conducting research and for disseminating knowledge on international commercial law and financial regulation.
\r\nThe Centre's academic staff contribute regularly to policy development and law reform, by acting as consultants to governments, commissions and practitioners, and by engaging in debate through conferences and public fora.
\r\nFrom its creation a core part of CCLFR’s mission has been to combine excellence in research with excellence in teaching. It is a leading centre for postgraduate studies in commercial law, providing a stimulating environment in which students benefit from learning from leading academics who regularly invite experienced practitioners to participate in their teaching provision. A focus on international, comparative and multi-disciplinary perspectives is a key characteristic of teaching within CCLFR, and its students have access to modules run not only by the School of Law, but also by ICMA, Henley Business School, and the Department of Economics.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.4404358,"longitude":-0.9417618328736392},{"infrastructure_id":"2997","name":"Law, Justice and Society (LJS) Research Group","town":null,"postcode":"RG6 6UR","tags":["history","law","human-rights","ethics"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Law, Justice and Society (LJS) research grouping showcases and supports the full breadth of legal research found at the University of Reading. United by a determination to interrogate and reflect upon the multitudinous interactions between law, justice and society, scholars in this research grouping approach their chosen subjects through the lens of various methodological and conceptual approaches, including doctrinal, socio-legal, empirical, historical, literary and theoretical approaches to the study of law.
\nThis research grouping comprehends a broad range of substantive expertise and methodological approaches, and its members are able to draw upon diverse and shifting synergies – both in the genesis and execution of research projects and the creation of high calibre traditional research publications, and in the delivery of work which has significant impact in the realms of policy formation, law reform, and public engagement.
\nSuch is the breadth of the research encompassed within this research community, that any attempt comprehensively to describe it would inevitably fail to do justice to the rich diversity of its research community. Only a flavour of the sorts of work which its members engage in can be given here. It includes scholars who adopt theoretical (including critical legal, queer theory, feminist, and critical race theory) approaches to topics such as constitutional theory and reform, human rights, and citizenship and electoral rights. It also provides a home for the many researchers in the School of Law whose work is concerned primarily with the role that law plays in the establishment, delivery, management, and critical analysis of public policy goals in diverse areas, including the Criminal Justice System, environmental and financial regulation, food security, and health and social care.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.4403499,"longitude":-0.9432282},{"infrastructure_id":"2998","name":"Global Law at Reading (GLAR)","town":null,"postcode":"RG6 6UR","tags":["law","development-studies"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Global Law at Reading (GLAR) is one of the leading groups of expert staff researching and teaching global law at any university within the UK. As Reading’s research hub for public international law and human rights it has a proud international reputation for research excellence in these areas.
\nGLAR has particular strengths on topics relating to international peace and security, such as cyber warfare, the role and responsibilities of the United Nations (UN), UN peace operations and other global crises from a range of perspectives. There is also a strong expertise in international human rights law and refugee law with experts working on UN human rights bodies, current refugee crises, children’s rights, and more.
\nGLAR offers unique interdisciplinary expertise with members engaging with other research divisions across the university including Global Development and Politics and International Relations. With academic staff publish leading works in these fields and many are heavily engaged in policy and practice in both the UK and overseas.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.4403499,"longitude":-0.9432282},{"infrastructure_id":"3001","name":"Centre for Social and Health Research","town":"Salford","postcode":"M5 4WT","tags":["law","criminology","health","political-science","policy","sustainability","technology","sociology"],"addr1":"University Of Salford","addr2":"43 Crescent","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Social and Health Research is an inter-disciplinary research Centre bringing together experts in criminology, digital information, mental health, midwifery, nursing, sociology, social policy and social work to address global social and health challenges. These challenges include ensuring fair welfare systems and services, addressing health and social inequalities, modernising health and social care, crime and justice and sustainability. The centre's research aims to understand the delivery and receipt of interventions, practices and policies that face people, communities, services and places and often uses digital solutions to solve real world problems and make positive changes.
\nThe centre includes three research groups:
\nThe Digital Humanities Institute (DHI), established in 1994, is a renowned centre in the UK that specialises in the application of technology and computation in Arts and Humanities research. The institute collaborates extensively with academic and cultural organisations, providing a range of services including project conception, data management, staff training, computational process development, digital output production, and long-term hosting of the final deliverable.
\r\nApproximately half of the projects are led by institutions outside the University of Sheffield, illustrating DHI's strong partnerships. All costs are calculated using a day-rate agreed with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), and collaborations usually occur under a 'services rendered' agreement or as a co-investigator when significant technological research is involved.
\r\nThe DHI also offers an online publishing service, maintaining and hosting websites for the lead institutions for a minimum of seven years, though typically for an indefinite period. The most popular website, Old Bailey Online, draws seven million visitors annually. The institute adheres to rigorous standards and conducts regular maintenance to ensure all hosted websites remain accessible and functional. A hosting agreement outlining the terms and responsibilities of the arrangement is established with each collaborating organisation.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.381504199999995,"longitude":-1.4833687805861575},{"infrastructure_id":"3044","name":"Centre for Criminological Research","town":"Sheffield","postcode":"S3 7ND","tags":["law","criminology"],"addr1":"School Of Law University Of Sheffield","addr2":"Bartolome House","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Criminological Research is the focal point for criminology and criminal justice at the University of Sheffield, one of Britain's main research-led universities.
\r\nThe Centre is one of the four original criminological centres of excellence in the UK and recently celebrated its 30th anniversary. Reaching across the university to bring together experts from a wide-range of excellent departments, it forms a multi-disciplinary Centre conducting high quality research on a variety of key criminological subjects.
\r\nBuilding on its international profile, the Centre encourages leading scholars from other countries to be visitors and welcomes postgraduate research students. A strong seminar series and conference programme is organised each year, creating a lively context to stimulate debate and to disseminate research findings to as wide an audience as possible.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.38711979970658,"longitude":-1.4887709639986197},{"infrastructure_id":"3045","name":"Sheffield Institute of Corporate and Commercial Law (SICCL)","town":"Sheffield","postcode":"S10 2TN","tags":["law","development-studies","philosophy","ethics","critical-legal-studies"],"addr1":"University Of Sheffield","addr2":"Western Bank","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Sheffield Institute for Corporate and Commercial Law (SICCL) includes members committed to research on law and the economy, including markets and their limitations. Members take a pluralistic and interdisciplinary approach, informed by both the social sciences and the humanities, and engage with a variety of perspectives, including doctrinal, socio-legal and empirical, law and economics, critical, philosophical, historical and comparative.
\r\nSICCL members are actively involved in research and policy-making in many aspects of corporate and commercial law (broadly conceived), including:
\r\nThe Sheffield Centre for International and European Law (SCIEL) actively engages in research dissemination, collaborates with both domestic and international academic institutions, research centres, and think-tanks, and interacts with governmental and non-governmental organisations. As law and legal issues often transcend national borders in the globalised world, SCIEL's work is of vital importance.
\nThe study of International and European Law has been integral to the Sheffield Law School. Notable past holders of the International Law Chair include Professors J. G. Merrills and Nigel White, while the EU Law Chair was held by Professor Josephine Steiner. SCIEL's mission is to intertwine teaching and scholarship and to influence public debates through its research and engagement. Its areas of focus encompass international and regional human rights law, armed conflict, refugee law, European health law, citizenship, regionalism, international and European constitutional law and theory, dispute resolution, international organisations, economic law, and cyber security.
\nSCIEL is a collective of scholars with a mutual interest in International and European Law, where they exchange thoughts on their research, teaching, and the dynamic world events that affect their study and society. They disseminate their research to the wider academic community, policy makers, and the public via publications, consultations, and events.
\nSCIEL's research degree students play an active role within the research centre. They are the promising minds being cultivated to be future leading scholars in International and European Law. SCIEL offers a platform for discussion, mentorship, coaching, and an apprenticeship for academic life.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.381504199999995,"longitude":-1.4833687805861575},{"infrastructure_id":"3084","name":"Centre for Criminology, South Wales","town":"Pontypridd","postcode":"CF37 4BD","tags":["law","criminology","policy","comparative-studies","psychology"],"addr1":null,"addr2":null,"country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Criminology at the University of South Wales, established in 2001, is a hub of active researchers and students specialising in various facets of criminology. These include homicide and violence, policing, youth justice and policy, rehabilitation and resettlement of offenders, families and children of prisoners, substance misuse, green, global and transnational criminology, crime prevention, animal abuse, informal justice, and alternatives to prosecution and imprisonment. This team often collaborates with the Centre for Social Policy, the International Centre for Policing and Security, and the Psychology department.
\r\nThe Centre has strong ties with local and national agencies, supported by the Welsh Centre for Crime and Social Justice, which was created in 2011. This body fosters collaboration between Welsh university criminologists and tightens the link with policy and practice.
\r\nThe Centre is home to several research groups, each focusing on distinct areas of criminology, including the Criminal Investigation Research Network, the Substance Use Research Group, the Violence and Homicide, Investigation and Prevention, Expertise and Research Group, the Youth Justice, Probation, Custody and Vulnerability group, and the Global, Green and Comparative Criminology. In addition, there is a joint research and practice unit named USW's Cold Case Unit.
\r\nThe Centre consistently conducts research on behalf of local, national, and international governments, engaging with policy and practice experts. It has secured research funds from notable national sources such as the ESRC, British Academy, Leverhulme Trust, Big Lottery, Ministry of Justice, and Home Office, and various Welsh institutions and third sector organisations.
\r\nThe Centre's research is published in leading national and international journals and is presented at conferences worldwide. In the Research Excellence Framework (REF), a significant portion of its criminology research was recognised as world-leading or internationally excellent, with a high impact. The Centre's output and impact have increased in the latest REF, and it maintains a high ranking in Wales for its research impact in social policy and criminology.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.6001047,"longitude":-3.3449362},{"infrastructure_id":"3105","name":"Southampton Ethics Centre (SEC)","town":"Southampton","postcode":"SO17 1BF","tags":["history","law","criminology","health","economics","policy","medicine","philosophy","ethics","science","sociology","engineering","psychology"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Southampton Ethics Centre (SEC) brings together the large community of researchers working on ethics and ethics-related issues across the University. Each year, the SEC hosts a number of events, several co-organised with existing research centres.
\nWith members from departments/schools including Chemistry, Computer Science, Criminology, Economics, Education, Engineering, Health Sciences, History, Law, Management, Medicine, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Sociology and Social Policy, and from research centres including C2G2, CELS, CLEG, HEAL and the Parkes Institute, the Southampton Ethics Centre show-cases the multi-disciplinary work already underway at the University, build on existing inter-disciplinary ethics teaching, and nurtures interdisciplinary research and outreach.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":50.9025349,"longitude":-1.404189},{"infrastructure_id":"3129","name":"Law and Technology Centre","town":"Southampton","postcode":"SO17 1BJ","tags":["art","law","information-studies","political-science","policy","medicine","sustainability","philosophy","technology","ethics"],"addr1":"University Of Southampton","addr2":"University Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Law and Technology Centre brings together leading scholars with shared research interests in the intersection of law and technology drawing on the long-standing reputation of Southampton Law School as a vibrant hub in this field.
\nThe centre's mission is to join and influence the wider debate on the legal implications of technological developments. For this purpose, members regularly host conferences and workshops with experts and policy makers from various disciplines and jurisdictions to discuss topical issues, exchange knowledge and form pathways for collaborative research. This includes the Law and Technology Seminar Series in which scholars share their works-in-progress with the academic community. The Centre contributes to the production of high-quality outputs, generates impact, and adds to the wider research environment.
\nResearch themes:
\nThe Institute of Maritime Law is a world leading centre for research, consultancy and training in maritime law, led by Director, Professor Andrea Lista.
\nThe Institute of Maritime Law (IML) was founded in 1982 and was the first of its kind in the world. The focus of the IML is to build on an existing interest in maritime and international trade law as these subjects have historically been a strong feature within law at Southampton. The IML is now composed of both academic and external experts and since the outset, has established an international reputation as a world-leading centre in Maritime Law.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":50.93418045,"longitude":-1.3974843578245824},{"infrastructure_id":"3131","name":"Centre for Private and Commercial Law (CPCL)","town":"Southampton","postcode":"SO17 1BJ","tags":["law"],"addr1":"University Of Southampton","addr2":"University Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Private and Commercial Law encourages members in researching and building impact in all aspects of private and commercial law, regulation and policy.
\nThe purpose of the centre is to encourage mutual support and the sharing of best practice.
\nTo that end, the group’s meetings are a mixture of open forum discussions and presentations by internal and external speakers.
\nPCL members are currently engaged in areas of research including:
\nFounded in 2018, the Centre explores structural, societal, legal and regulatory issues associated with gender discrimination, raises awareness, investigates the causes and seeks better solutions.
\nSouthampton Law School launched the Stefan Cross Centre for Women, Equality and Law (SCC) in September 2018. The SCC provides a forum to study the structural, societal, legal and regulatory issues associated with gender discrimination from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The members' research seeks to better understand the roots of the phenomenon, with the aim of promoting more effective ways to address it.
\nThe SCC aims to disseminate its research through a variety of channels (including academic publications, conferences, and participation in government consultation processes) to inform policy, drive change and, ultimately, reduce discrimination.
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\nThe University of Southampton is now the host institution for Global Constitutionalism (GlobCon), an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to global and transnational aspects of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. At GlobCon members talk about the global constitutional triad of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law as the basic principles of international politics.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":50.93418045,"longitude":-1.3974843578245824},{"infrastructure_id":"3134","name":"People, Property, Community (PPC) Research Centre","town":"Southampton","postcode":"SO17 1BJ","tags":["law","political-science","policy","human-rights"],"addr1":"University Of Southampton","addr2":"University Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"People, Property, Community (PPC) comprises a collaborative network of legal and other scholars concerned with exploring the broader implications of contemporary property ownership.
\nThe centre's members offer something distinct – a concern with the broader implications of contemporary property ownership. Members' interests include the distribution and regulation of property on a global, national and local scale, the relationship between property and the state, the emergence and reinforcement of property norms, and the politics underpinning individual and alternative forms of ownership. Social justice is central to PPC's work as members recognise that those excluded from property or marginal to it are at least as deeply impacted by property as those who are owners.
\nPPC members are currently engaged in areas of research including:
\nThe Centre for International Law and Globalisation (CILG) was established in 2022 and brings together researchers working in a broad range of fields of international and global law.
\r\nThe core aims of the Centre are, first, to foster innovative research and policy engagement by experts in distinct substantive areas of international law. Secondly, recognising that contemporary global challenges are multi-dimensional, the Centre provides a space within which researchers can work collaboratively, cutting across distinct substantive areas, to explore law’s role and potential contribution in addressing contemporary international and global challenges through the identification and development of multi-disciplinary, integrative responses and approaches.
\r\nThe research interests of Centre members include:
\r\nThe Clinical Ethics, Law and Society (CELS) Group researches the ethical issues raised when rapidly advancing medical technologies are made available and considers what is needed to be ready to adapt, from the perspective of the individual, as well as healthcare and society.
\nMuch of the centre's research focuses on the impact of recent developments in genetics and genomics and the complexities of delivering nuanced information to patients and public in the context of a deterministic public discourse. For example, negotiating clinical, research and direct to consumer testing boundaries and creating a functioning learning health care environment. The members research issues around consent and confidentiality raised by genomics and the extent to which familial, rather than individual, approaches are appropriate and how these might be operationalised.
\nOther examples include research around the issues related to incidental or additional findings from genomic tests, the ‘immortality’ of genomic data, and the offer of ‘couple’ instead of individual tests for recessive conditions pre-conception. The centre's research also examines ethical preparedness in other areas, such as technological advances extending the lives of seriously ill children and preparedness required for appropriate refugee healthcare. The underpinning approach to the members' work is bi-directional translation: identifying a problem in practice; undertaking conceptual and empirical research; and then using research findings to effect changes in that practice.
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\nThe Institute maintains an interest in exploring and developing the relationship between criminal justice research and scholarship and policy and practice. Fostering these connections remains a central aim of the Institute which is a genuinely inter-disciplinary research hub that seeks to reach out to colleagues of all disciplines (and indeed across all institutions) who feel that their research interests might include or complement criminal justice studies.
\nScholars who feel that their research interests might include or complement criminal justice studies are invited to join as members and to attend ICJR's lively seminar series.
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\r\nThe network's foundation received support from a Wellcome Trust Small Network Grant (2018 - 2020) during which three conferences were convened across Scottish universities. Subsequent funding from the Royal Society of Edinburgh facilitated a 3-year project (2020 - 2022) studying the Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Act (2021). Additional financial support from the Wellcome Trust in 2022 is enabling the organisation of three annual conferences from 2022 to 2024.
\r\nAdministratively, MRN is located at the University of Aberdeen, while one of its projects is conducted through the University of St Andrews.
\r\nSince MRN's inception, the prominence of menstruation in various societal domains like politics, law, medicine, environmental and economic discourses has heightened. Scotland's passage of the Period Product (Free Provision) (Scotland) Act, making menstrual products accessible to all residents, and government-commissioned reports on product costs, pollution, and shame exemplify this increased attention. MRN has contributed interdisciplinary menstruation expertise to these discussions, with continued focus needed as dialogues shift from product accessibility and poverty to the core causes of menstrual taboos, including shame, invisibility, exclusion, and fear. The network also advocates documenting menstruation's positive aspects such as activism, art, and joy.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":57.16452475,"longitude":-2.1018363546621197},{"infrastructure_id":"3158","name":"Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research (ILCR)","town":"St Andrews","postcode":"KY16 9QW","tags":["history","law","political-science"],"addr1":null,"addr2":null,"country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research (ILCR), situated at the University of St Andrews, excels in cross-disciplinary studies encompassing law, legal history, and constitutionalism. Established in 2015, the Institute amalgamates eminent scholars and a diverse student population, covering a vast array of disciplines such as law, history, international relations, literature, classics, and philosophy. It specialises in legal history, global constitutionalism, and the legal dimensions of international relations.
\r\nDistinctive for its dynamic community extending beyond the academic realm, the ILCR nurtures a network of researchers and practitioners in law, politics, and constitutionalism. Its research often explores law in practice, collaborating with legal professionals on a local and global scale. Hosting esteemed visiting scholars and legal professionals for extended stays, lectures, seminars, and workshops, the Institute maintains expansive connections across the UK, Europe, North America, and the Antipodes. Institute members actively partake in significant international projects while also contributing to teaching and supervision at St Andrews.
\r\nThe ILCR organises a robust schedule of academic events, encouraging dialogue and collaboration, with several events open to the public. The University of St Andrews has a long-standing tradition of legal and constitutional studies, dating back to the Papal authorisation of Civil Law teaching in 1432. Three of the Founding Fathers of the United States were associated with the University. Today, in addition to hosting PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, the Institute offers a dedicated Master's programme, the MLitt in Legal and Constitutional Studies.
\r\nThe University also boasts a lively Student Law Society and benefits from the active engagement of a dedicated alumni body. These alumni, working across various political and legal professions, aid in fostering future generations of lawyers, policy makers, and leaders from St Andrews.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":56.3403902,"longitude":-2.7955844},{"infrastructure_id":"3177","name":"Centre for Global Law and Governance (CGLG)","town":"St. Andrews","postcode":"KY16 9AX","tags":["history","law","political-science","economics","philosophy","ethics"],"addr1":"University Of St. Andrews","addr2":"St. Katherines West","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Global Law and Governance (CGLG), stationed at St Andrews, investigates the evolution and challenges of global order. Comprising staff, PhD Fellows, students, and external members, the Centre serves as a hub for theoretical, empirical, and normative discussions on international law, institutions, and governance. Their interdisciplinary approach incorporates insights from politics, law, economics, history, philosophy, and ethics, promoting wide-ranging thinking and pioneering research through regular events and publications.
\r\nFive core pillars guide the CGLG's work, connecting members with shared interests:
\r\nEstablished in 2020, the CGLG replaced the Centre for Global Constitutionalism (CGC). The CGC, a product of St Andrews' previous programmes such as the \"Rethinking the Rules\" project and the Wilson Programme in Constitutional Studies, facilitated interdisciplinary work on the ways constitutionalism shapes the global political order. The CGLG continues this legacy with its commitment to normative and practical scholarship.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":56.3398198,"longitude":-2.8117937053149826},{"infrastructure_id":"3186","name":"Centre for Pacific Studies (CPS)","town":"St Andrews","postcode":"KY16 9AJ","tags":["art","history","law","cultural-studies","museum-studies","language","literature","development-studies","anthropology-ethnography"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Pacific Studies (CPS), internationally acclaimed for its research, teaching, public engagement, and impact, is a unique institution in the UK. Since 2008, CPS has been instrumental in Oceania-based research, fostering international collaborations across Europe and Pacific research institutions. Despite St Andrews' geographical distance from the Pacific, CPS actively foregrounds Pacific peoples' concerns and ideas. It boasts a growing alumni of doctorate holders, including two individuals from Papua New Guinea, and collaborates on research projects with Pacific region partners, particularly in Fiji, Hawai'i, Papua New Guinea, and Samoa.
\nCPS has made significant contributions to developing research-policy knowledge exchanges with international and regional development and governance agencies, grounded in Pacific perspectives and social science evidence. The Pacific Connections series, a collection of accessible research-policy and public engagement events, showcases the contemporary realities of Pacific peoples' lives and the potential of academic research.
\nThe CPS's research objectives centre on the peoples and cultures of the Pacific and Melanesia regions, which have significantly influenced social anthropology's history. The first successful implementation of participant observation, a long-term, immersive fieldwork method, occurred here. Early participant observation studies fuelled the development of foundational anthropological concepts such as kinship, gender, knowledge varieties, politics, and gift-based economies. Many pioneering ethnographic studies, including Malinowski's 'Argonauts of the Western Pacific', found their roots in these regions.
\nThe ingenuity of Pacific peoples' interactions with global phenomena like colonialism, Christianity, capitalism, and development continues to shape the discipline. These interactions are now recognised sources of theoretical creativity in global anthropological theory. The region offers unparalleled research opportunities across all areas in contemporary anthropology.\nThe CPS aims to promote studies of the region with a focus on anthropological research. The centre has a broad interest in Pacific phenomena, including historical variation, religions, languages, politics, literature, art, public and domestic rituals, kinship, and household organisation, and law. In essence, it explores every facet of social relations found in the region.
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\nThemes explored in this cluster include the nature of practical reason and normativity; the universality of moral and other practical claims; human rights as a legal and a moral concept; the nature and purpose of rights and duties, including human rights and property rights; the relation between regulation, paternalism and autonomy; and aspects of the Aristotelian, Kantian and Humean traditions. It provides one route by which the unit contributes to three University-wide research themes: Cultures, Communities and Society; Global Security and Resilience; and Living Well.
\nDeveloping organically from its members’ work, the cluster is the source of recent and ongoing projects in the foundations of human rights, the legitimacy of legal and policy interventions, and the nature of practical reason and its relation to politics.
\nThe cluster has strong research links with colleagues at the University of Ghana, and cluster members play an ongoing role in Stanford University’s Coding Caring: Human Values for an Intimate AI. The cluster hosts the interdisciplinary Stirling Political Philosophy Group involving colleagues from Criminology, Law and Politics.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":56.145115399999995,"longitude":-3.917393804088662},{"infrastructure_id":"3201","name":"Private International Law Research Cluster","town":"Stirling","postcode":"FK9 4LA","tags":["art","law","development-studies"],"addr1":"University Of Stirling","addr2":null,"country":"United Kingdom","description":"Private International Law is one of the most exciting and intellectually stimulating disciplines in law. Its global significance is particularly evident as the world is more and more interconnected and interdependent – see the coronavirus crisis engulfing the world at the moment.
\nLawyers need to make sure that conflicts of different national laws can be resolved fairly by having globally agreed rules on how to deal with these conflicts. It is unrealistic and often inappropriate to resolve these problems by creating uniform global laws as this poses a threat to legitimate national and regional diversity and to democratic accountability. Conflicts of laws can arise in all areas of law, eg contractual disputes at the heart of international trade and disputes over which parent should have the primary care of a child when the parents are living in different countries. Private international law regulates the rules on jurisdiction (the courts of which country or countries can resolve the case), the applicable law to govern cross-border situations and whether a judgment of a court in one country will be recognised and enforced in another country. Private international law accommodates legitimate differences in the fundamental values of different countries through such mechanisms as public policy and mandatory rules.
\nPrivate international law has a dedicated international institution with a single purpose to “work for the progressive unification of the rules of private international law” – the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH). HCCH has made impressive leaps forward in achieving its purpose in certain fields (notably adoption, child abduction, service of court documents abroad and taking of evidence abroad) and has provided an excellent framework to achieve its purpose in other areas (notably choice of court agreements and choice of law agreements in contracts, recognition and enforcement of judgments, child custody, maintenance, divorce, incapacitated adults, formal validity of wills, and trusts) but many areas remain to be harmonised satisfactorily (eg tort/delict, companies, family agreements, competition, intellectual property, conflicts of jurisdiction, succession, parentage/surrogacy, marriage, property (including matrimonial and registered partnership property issues), etc).
\nThe Stirling research cluster is engaged in efforts to try to enhance the achievement of the HCCH’s purpose. Members are doing this by taking the lead in the AHRC funded workshops on Private International Law in the UK after Brexit and by pulling together a highly distinguished, world leading group of contributors to the first ever attempt to comprehensively set out what unified global private international law should look like. Members are also doing it by promoting the development of private international law in Africa, the continent least affected by HCCH global private international law. Two areas where HCCH has failed to achieve successful harmonisation are succession and property law (apart from formal validity of wills) and the cluster's members offer a global solution to one of their most controversial issues in Clawback Law in the Context of Succession.
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\r\nEnvironment and heritage are central to our identity and wellbeing in the face of accelerating change and associated intersecting crises. Members of the Centre aim to make a difference by undertaking mission-oriented research on environment and heritage – and the threats, challenges and opportunities they face. In doing so, we undertake cutting-edge projects that create sustainable solutions to ‘real-world’ problems addressing multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals. A significant proportion of our research is characterised by attention to the conflicts and pressures surrounding natural and cultural resources and the ways in which new policies and practices can address issues of inequality and social justice. In doing so we are also attentive to how ideas about environment and heritage are created and contested. Integrating research in the arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, we work with communities, practitioners and policymakers to create more resilient futures through collaborative practices.
\r\nOur aims:
\r\nBristol Population Health Science Institute builds on Bristol's internationally-leading reputation for research in the determinants and consequences of ill-health.
Its research ranges from basic discovery science in molecular and genetic epidemiology to innovative clinical trials and policy-influencing and assessment activities. Its multi-disciplinary community spans across several schools and faculties within the University and tackles a wide range of questions about health and health care.
The Environment and Society Research Group is an interdisciplinary network of scholars who work on environmental problems, broadly conceived.
\nSocial sciences and law play a critical role in researching environmental problems, offering solutions and impacting policy.
\nThe group's goal is to build connections, share methods, and communicate with interested parties from academia, industry, and society to increase the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law's impact on solving environmental problems.
\nThe group's research themes include:
\nThe Families and Parenting research group brings together expertise on family and relationships across the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law.
\nCentral research themes considered by the group are:
\nThe Gender research group in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law brings together academics interested in scholarship on gender, broadly conceived.
\r\nThe group seeks to support events and collaborative activities that raise the profile of gender-related research within the Faculty.
\r\nThe group welcomes a range of methodological and conceptual approaches to the study of:
\r\nThe Global Political Economy (GPE) Research Group supports and promotes research into the different areas within this interdisciplinary field, with the aim of improving connectedness and widening the scope of both the group and member’s activities – both within the University of Bristol and between Bristol and other universities.
\r\nThis research group examines themes including:
\r\nThe Faculty of Social Sciences and Law’s International Development Research Group has been established as a thematically diverse but theoretically and methodologically inclusive group. It champions interdisciplinary research and reaches out to other Faculties within the University and beyond. The group brings together social scientists who work on the problems of the social world as well as those who study the linkages between the social and natural worlds. The themes explored by the members are focused on the Global Challenges confronting society currently and in future. While group members predominantly draw on the challenges faced by the Global South, it also recognises and encourages researchers that work on the implications of the actions and decisions carried out within the Global North.
\nThe group exists to offer an intellectual space for colleagues across the Faculty and the University inclined towards International Development. It is an instrumental place to think innovatively, and benefit from the wealth of collective knowledge the group has. It is a supportive research group where members can share fresh analysis, new research ideas, publications or come to network and collaborate for new research bids. In pursuing this goal, and to disseminate up-to-date research findings to the wider public, the group organises public lectures from time to time.
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\nThe group is organised around three themes under the broad banner of 'Perspectives on Work,' which encapulates the attempt to bring theory and practice together. The three themes are:
\n(1) Boundaries of Work, (2) Mobilities of Work and (3) Transformations of Work.
\nSmart Networks for Sustainable Futures represents a broad spectrum of academics developing a shared research purpose, learning together and making informed interventions to drive some material improvement in a series of identified thematic areas.
\nThis research group serves as a cross-disciplinary community that attempts to tackle important challenges, utilising knowledge and resources coming from:
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\nThe CLCJ undertakes globally recognised, cross-disciplinary research, offers unique postgraduate programmes, and cultivates a dynamic, high-calibre postgraduate research student community. Its research, teaching, and public engagement activities actively contribute to public policy, discourse, and practice.
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\r\nCYCJ generates robust, pioneering international work, combining insights from children and adolescents, empirical evidence, practical knowledge, and system expertise to be a front-runner in child and youth justice deliberations in Scotland and beyond.
\r\nCYCJ's concentration is threefold:
\r\nAll of these activities are undergirded and interconnected by communication and knowledge exchange work, aimed at improving the awareness of evidence in various forms, and facilitating dialogue among different perspectives, knowledge types, and viewpoints.
\r\nCYCJ is chiefly funded by the Scottish Government and located at the University of Strathclyde.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":55.8618812,"longitude":-4.241956565778082},{"infrastructure_id":"3242","name":"Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance (SCELG)","town":"Glasgow","postcode":"G1 1XQ","tags":["law","political-science"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance (SCELG) is situated at the University of Strathclyde Law School in Glasgow, Scotland. Its mission is to conduct globally impactful research, teaching, and knowledge exchange in numerous interconnected domains of environmental law and governance.
\nSCELG, established in 2012, received significant funding in 2016. The Centre unifies over twenty researchers, including staff, PhD and visiting researchers from Strathclyde Law School and also invites experts from various other disciplines.
\nThe Centre strives to discern and mould emerging domains of legal research in environmental governance, maintaining a strong development emphasis. It seeks to do this via innovative teaching methods focused on enhancing students' global employability and through collaboration with international practitioners.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":55.861155,"longitude":-4.2501687},{"infrastructure_id":"3243","name":"Centre for Professional Legal Studies","town":"Glasgow","postcode":"G1 1XQ","tags":["law","political-science","policy"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Professional Legal Studies is a think tank, established within the Law School in 2000, which unites stakeholders from diverse sectors including the Judiciary, the Government, the Faculty of Advocates, the Law Society, the Scottish Legal Aid Board, Citizens Advice Scotland and academia to deliberate on issues concerning access to justice, legal service provision, the future of the legal profession, professional ethics, and the judiciary.\nThe Centre annually hosts a Retreat at Ross Priory, Loch Lomond. The 2019 event featured speakers like the Founder and Executive Chair of Elevate, a Deputy General Counsel, Accenture, and the Former President of the UK Supreme Court.
\nThe director, a global authority on the Quality Assurance of Legal Aid providers, serves as the professional adviser to the Law Society of Scotland and the Scottish Legal Aid Board, guiding their Peer Review system. During 2018-2019, he has spoken on Peer Review in various locations including China, Kiev, Latvia, Vienna, Brussels, Taiwan and London upon invitation from institutions such as the EU, the Council of Europe, and the UNODC.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":55.861155,"longitude":-4.2501687},{"infrastructure_id":"3245","name":"Strathclyde Centre for Antitrust Law and Empirical Study (SCALES)","town":"Glasgow","postcode":"G1 1XQ","tags":["law","political-science","policy"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Strathclyde Centre for Antitrust Law and Empirical Study (SCALES), based at the University of Strathclyde Law School in Glasgow, Scotland, commits to producing globally impactful research, teaching, and knowledge exchange in numerous related areas of competition/antitrust law, policy-making, and enforcement.
\nThis Centre integrates researchers from the Strathclyde Law School and also invites expertise from various disciplines. The Centre strives to discern and shape burgeoning areas of legal research in competition/antitrust law by integrating normative, doctrinal, and empirical research projects in partnership with stakeholders. It encourages PhD research proposals across all aspects of competition law scholarship. Moreover, it supports PhD students via joint supervision of their independent research and by directly engaging them in the Centre’s research and knowledge exchange activities.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":55.861155,"longitude":-4.2501687},{"infrastructure_id":"3246","name":"Scottish Constitutional Futures Forum","town":null,"postcode":null,"tags":["law","political-science"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Scottish Constitutional Futures Forum is a joint initiative of academics across the law schools of the Scottish universities.
\nIt seeks to provide an independent framework within which the key questions concerning Scotland's constitutional future can be aired and addressed.
\nThe forum's main aims are to:
\nThe Construction Law Research Cluster (CLRC) at the University of Strathclyde examines the legalities surrounding the construction process. Recent research activities have largely centred on issues such as delay and disruption, environmental regulation, and corporate corruption.
\r\nEstablished in 2010, the CLRC consists of staff members from the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction. The cluster also provides training and consultancy services regarding construction law. The CLRC hosts an international and diverse collection of PhD students, and their research primarily concentrates on:
\r\nThe CLRC collaborates with public and private sector professionals and academics on both a local and international scale.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":55.861155,"longitude":-4.2501687},{"infrastructure_id":"3257","name":"Institute for Inspiring Children’s Futures","town":"Glasgow","postcode":"G1 1XQ","tags":["law","human-rights","development-studies","social-justice","child-and-youth-keyword"],"addr1":"University Of Strathclyde","addr2":"McCance Building","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Institute for Inspiring Children’s Futures, based at the University of Strathclyde, works with partners with a collective vision that children and young people have what they need to reach their full potential, particularly those facing adversity. Children’s human rights and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development guide our efforts as we work to reveal and resolve the structural barriers preventing children from fulfilling their potential. We work with a range of interdisciplinary partners to develop the evidence-base and strengthen the political will to support effective policy and practice responses for children, especially those who are most likely to be ‘left behind’.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":55.8618812,"longitude":-4.241956565778082},{"infrastructure_id":"3258","name":"Institute for Social Justice and Crime (ISJ&C)","town":"Ipswich","postcode":"IP4 1QJ","tags":["law","political-science","policy","human-rights","gender-sexuality-studies","development-studies"],"addr1":"27 Neptune Quay","addr2":null,"country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Institute for Social Justice and Crime (ISJ&C), at the University of Suffolk, conducts applied research in social science, humanities, and related fields.
\r\nThe ISJ&C investigates societal issues, exploring the causes and implications of crime to extend academic, policy, and practical knowledge. Its research strives to enhance the understanding of multi-agency practices for better community service, public safety, and promotion of social justice. The Institute advocates interdisciplinary, mixed, and innovative methodologies. It nurtures an inclusive research environment where early career researchers are valued, mentored, and everyone's wellbeing is given precedence.
\r\nThe ISJ&C is devoted to addressing societal barriers to justice, focusing on experiences of vulnerable and marginalised groups. Its overarching goal is to promote global equality and justice, aligning with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly: gender equality, reduced inequalities, and peace, justice and strong institutions.
\r\nCollaborations with university academics and external stakeholders have identified five initial themes to cultivate specialisation within the institute: People, Justice and Security; Trauma, Injustice, Violence and Abuse; Gender and Sexual Minorities; Childhoods, Children and Young People; Global Majorities and Racial Justice. Intersectionality and cross-theme collaborations are central to the institute's approach, facilitated by dedicated staff co-developing research with theme leadership teams.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.052498424501174,"longitude":1.1622050842828602},{"infrastructure_id":"3262","name":"Vulnerability and Criminal Justice Network (DisCrim)","town":"Sunderland","postcode":"SR1 3SD","tags":["law","criminology","health","political-science","policy","development-studies","media-studies","psychology"],"addr1":"University Of Sunderland","addr2":"Chester Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Network characterises 'vulnerability' as sensory or physical impairments, learning disabilities, autistic spectrum disorders, dyslexia, neurodevelopmental disorders, traumatic brain injury, mental health conditions, or substance misuse issues. The unique research network endeavours to amalgamate vital programme disciplines from the University, such as Criminology, Police Studies, Forensic Psychology, Forensic Computing, Law and Media Studies (film production for criminal justice agencies).
\nThis network provides a platform for nurturing future partnerships, positioning the University of Sunderland as a hub of excellence in this singular research area on local, national, and international academic stages. The network possesses six primary objectives:
\nAt the University of Sunderland, the Centre for Applied Social Science (CASS) supports and promotes social sciences research. CASS encourages innovative ideas and partnerships, aiming to impact positively on people and communities locally, nationally and globally. It unites scholars from diverse social sciences backgrounds, fostering research that focuses on addressing social exclusion and inequalities, advancing social and criminal justice, and influencing policy, practice, and service development.
\r\nResearchers, primarily from the School of Social Sciences but also from other faculties, undertake applied and practice-based research in health and social care, education, community and youth work, social work, and criminal justice. They employ diverse methodologies, including participatory research, feminist and trauma-informed methods, creative and arts-based approaches, ethnography, discourse analysis, and statistical analysis. The research tackles social issues affecting the North East region and beyond, and pioneers in areas such as violence and abuse, place and wellbeing, offender rehabilitation, child protection, adult social work, and creative pedagogies.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":54.90438685,"longitude":-1.3917922494124566},{"infrastructure_id":"3275","name":"Centre for International Intervention","town":"Guildford","postcode":"GU2 7XH","tags":["law","political-science","philosophy","ethics"],"addr1":"University Of Surrey","addr2":"Stag Hill Reception","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Functioning at the convergence of academia, government, private, and third sectors, the Centre for International Intervention offers a platform for research, discourse, and education concerning international intervention. It proffers an involved but critical view on intervention, advocating enhanced efficacy, ethicality, and sustainability in intervention practice. The research aims to decipher the conceptualisation, justification, and conduct of intervention, encompassing four key themes: humanitarianism, law, ethics, and geopolitics.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.24307815,"longitude":-0.5900544877514773},{"infrastructure_id":"3282","name":"Surrey Centre for International and Environmental Law (SCIEL)","town":"Guildford","postcode":"GU2 7XH","tags":["history","law","political-science","human-rights","development-studies"],"addr1":"University Of Surrey","addr2":"Stag Hill Reception","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Surrey Centre for International and Environmental Law (SCIEL) is a hub for interdisciplinary research on international and environmental law and policy. As a team of legal experts, SCIEL prioritises the identification and resolution of challenges within legal reform and development, striving to implement preventative and precautionary measures whilst also enhancing the operation of justice through impactful research.
\nSCIEL exhibits expertise in numerous areas such as environmental law, human rights law, law of armed conflict, security, criminal justice, and migration, among others. Their core research addresses the myriad global challenges, which involve various areas like environmental issues, conflict between nations, and migration influenced by conflicts or environmental degradation.\nThe mission at SCIEL is not merely centred on problem-solving, but also on prevention and procedural or regulatory reform. The objective is to utilise the legal acumen of the team in developing future-oriented solutions while ensuring an efficient justice system.
\nThe complex nature of these global challenges often interrelates and triggers conflict and unrest, causing a domino effect in other areas under SCIEL's purview. Therefore, SCIEL's work involves procedural reform in international courts, regulatory reform for waste pollution, risk regulation in drinking water supplies, and legal reform for new forms of displacement and migration.\nSCIEL comprises lawyers adept at meeting these challenges, often collaborating with other disciplines to tackle the complexity of global issues. As individuals and as part of multidisciplinary teams, SCIEL members conduct research, run workshops, build capacity, teach, and consult for various stakeholders. SCIEL strives for adaptability and proactivity, seeking solutions through legal research that will act as catalysts for change and a better world.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.24307815,"longitude":-0.5900544877514773},{"infrastructure_id":"3283","name":"Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy","town":"Guildford","postcode":"GU2 7XH","tags":["law","philosophy"],"addr1":"University Of Surrey","addr2":"Stag Hill Reception","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy conducts numerous annual events, fostering imagination and encouraging collaborative, interdisciplinary research. Three specific series stand out:
\nThe Law and Technology Hub represents a novel initiative within the University of Surrey School of Law. This initiative promotes engagement amongst students, academics, industry leaders, and legal practitioners to explore intricate research topics related to digital transformation and law. The hub encourages collaboration with partners from within the university and externally, contributing to digital legal education, academic research, local business and community support, and eventually, student career development.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.24307815,"longitude":-0.5900544877514773},{"infrastructure_id":"3285","name":"Centre for Criminology, Surrey","town":"Guildford","postcode":"GU2 7XH","tags":["law","criminology","information-studies","technology"],"addr1":"University Of Surrey","addr2":"Stag Hill Reception","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Criminology synthesises criminological and methodological proficiency to undertake empirical and policy pertinent research on crime and crime control. Its research is concentrated on three themes: Analytic Criminology, Issues in Criminal Justice, and Technology Crime and Control.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.24307815,"longitude":-0.5900544877514773},{"infrastructure_id":"3289","name":"Environmental Regulatory Research Group","town":"Guildford","postcode":"GU2 7XH","tags":["law","health","political-science","development-studies"],"addr1":"University Of Surrey","addr2":"Stag Hill Reception","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Environmental Regulatory Research Group conducts research in four main areas: climate change, environmental and public health, natural resources, and water.
\nThe Group's research involves numerous projects that deal with global climate change, food legalisation, regulations on food safety and hygiene, forestry and oil exploitation in developing countries, and regulatory frameworks for independent water providers in developing countries.
\nThe Group's research areas are:
\nReproductive and sexual cultures are complex, lived phenomena which can only be researched through interdisciplinary and multi-method approaches. Sussex has faculty expertise in such approaches across its schools and departments (anthropology, sociology, gender studies, arts and humanities, health sciences, development).
\r\nFramed by a specific interest in the processes of power and addressing health inequities, it promotes research on the social, medical, public health, legal, and moral lenses through which reproductive health is perceived, produced, concretised and articulated (for instance, through new policies, engagement with new technologies, new forms of social relations in reproduction). With its unique focus on cultural-ethnographic perspectives, the centre facilitates knowledge transfer partnerships between anthropologists, social and human scientists, health researchers, medical professionals, practitioners, legal activists and policy makers working internationally on critical issues in global maternal, sexual reproductive health (SRH), emerging technologies and health and human rights. A specific aim is to foster international dialogue on ‘Southern’ analytic models and practices.
\r\nThe centre provides an intellectual space for bringing researchers together for intensive research, critical thinking and the development of an interdisciplinary body of scholarship on reproductive and health cultures. It promotes the dissemination of cultural and interpretive understandings of the interconnections between reproduction, sex, health and technologies to health planners and policy makers. The centre fosters a strong research environment for international and national postdoctoral students who are currently seeking to gain research guidance from Sussex faculty and be based at the University. Through hosting visiting researchers and fellows, it seeks to develop collaborative projects, produce quality research outputs and connect Sussex faculty and graduate students to key thinkers and policy makers in the field of reproductive and sexual health research.
\r\nAims and Objectives:
\r\nResearch themes include:
\r\nRelated areas of interest include:
\r\nThe Centre for Rights, Reparations, and Anti-Colonial Justice is a new initiative formed of two long-standing Centres and areas of intellectual concern, scholarship, and doctoral supervision at the University of Sussex. It brings together the Sussex Rights and Justice Research Centre and the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies.
\r\nCentre members pursue wide-ranging research agendas in the areas of the ethics and politics of (human) rights and justice. The centre examines, for example, the late 20th century ascendance of 'rights talk' and its transformation of the nature and practices of social movements, the political rhetoric of states, and its impact on formations of selfhood (through new categories such as ‘rights holder’, 'minority', 'indigenous person'). At the same time, researchers at the centre also probe the challenges to rights arising from populist socio-political formations and the capitalist economy. The understanding of such phenomena and one's intellectual scholarly and activist responses to them as pursuits of a more encompassing justice are always already embedded in the revenant histories and cultures of colonial modernity more broadly. The Centre explores the politics of knowledge production inherent in one's undertakings as well as historical and ongoing colonial and imperial endeavours, allowing such critical self-reflection to drive the study of racial, anti-colonial and gender justice, environmental racism and resistance to it, contemporary disposability, as well as the dynamics of armed conflict and political economy.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":50.8667576,"longitude":-0.0905336},{"infrastructure_id":"3301","name":"Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP)","town":"Brighton","postcode":"BN1 9RH","tags":["law","health","development-studies","sustainability"],"addr1":"University Of Sussex","addr2":"Sussex House","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP) delivers interdisciplinary research to help achieve the global sustainability goals for humanity and the environment.
\r\nThe UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide an extraordinary opportunity for the planet and humanity. If met, these goals will address the grand challenges of today – including ending poverty and hunger, providing education for all, protecting and conserving environments, and combating climate change.
\r\nAchieving the SDGs will require commitment across all sectors, and the goals will influence how all institutions invest their resources. Research has a vital role to play in providing stakeholders and policymakers with the knowledge to make the SDGs happen.
\r\nEstablished in 2016, the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP) is a partnership between the University of Sussex and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS).
\r\nThe mission of SSRP is to be a hub for delivering research to international, national and local stakeholders to enable efficient responses to achieving the SDGs. SSRP research specifically focuses on solutions to avoid trade-offs among the goals, and explores synergies that allow multiple SDGs to be accomplished at the same time. To date, SSRP has financed 48 and co-sponsored 9 interdisciplinary research projects that address interactions among the SDGs, which has led to an additional 42 activities and projects.
\r\nAchieving the Sustainable Development Goals will require unprecedented global partnerships between government, the private sector, civil society, and the research community. SSRP helps to mobilise the research community to do its vital part.
\r\nThe programme's core themes are:
\r\nTiPP is committed to the idea that the participatory arts have the power to transform people's lives for the better. TiPP would like to see the arts playing a part at all levels of the Criminal Justice System.
\nTiPP's work is concerned with personal and social change in pursuit of a more just and equitable society. TiPP seeks to achieve these changes by providing people with a means to gain more control over their lives through participation in high quality, participatory arts programmes.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.466022550000005,"longitude":-2.2330858190427176},{"infrastructure_id":"3319","name":"Sussex European Institute (SEI)","town":"Brighton","postcode":"BN1 9SP","tags":["history","law","political-science","economics","anthropology-ethnography","sociology","diplomacy"],"addr1":null,"addr2":null,"country":"United Kingdom","description":"Founded in 1992, the Sussex European Institute (SEI) is an interdisciplinary research hub that brings together scholars and experts whose work engages with Europe’s political institutions, political economy, and its historical legacies.
\r\nSEI facilitates a dialogue between scholars based in various departments across and beyond the University of Sussex, including disciplines such as Anthropology, History, International Relations, Law, Sociology, Politics, Law, and Economics. The institute's community of scholars also works closely with practitioners, policy makers and the voluntary sector.
\r\nEurope is often seen as a realm - or even cradle of - democracy, freedom, and rights. Other times, European integration is viewed as in perpetual crisis. In SEI's understanding, Europe not only takes shape through such projected self-images, but also constitutes itself through European states’ and institutions’ historic and contemporary actions – which have crafted internal power asymmetries and produced global inequalities.
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","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":50.8214626,"longitude":-0.1400561},{"infrastructure_id":"3320","name":"Crime Research Centre (CRC)","town":"Brighton","postcode":"BN1 9RH","tags":["law","criminology","cultural-studies","museum-studies","political-science","gender-sexuality-studies","development-studies","science","psychology"],"addr1":"University Of Sussex","addr2":"Sussex House","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Crime Research Centre (CRC) brings people together from a variety of disciplines, focused on research into ‘crime’ broadly conceived. This includes experts from law, sociology, criminology, politics, psychology, international development, and beyond. The Centre provides a forum for researchers to share ideas and develop collaborations, as well as a platform for influencing external debate and reform.
\nSussex has a long history and reputation for excellence in criminal law and criminal justice research. The Crime Research Group was extremely active in this area for a number of years, and in August 2016 was awarded the status of University Research Centre. This has reflected a significant expansion of research expertise in areas such as criminal law/ evidence, criminology, new forms of criminality, corruption and socio-legal research, to name but a few.
\nCrime research at Sussex is multi- and inter-disciplinary, with expertise from law, sociology/ criminology, politics, psychology, neuroscience, business, international development, and beyond. The research expertise within this field ranges from doctrinal analysis (eg criminal law; evidence), theories of crime (eg the structure and limits of crime), criminological theories (eg sociology of violence; victimisation; cultural criminology), psychological insights (understanding of hate crime; secondary victimisation; procedural fairness); neuroscience and law (eg impact of drug addiction; understanding judicial sentencing decisions) and regulation theory (eg alternative approaches to criminalisation and punishment). This inter- and multi-disciplinary motivation is a core feature of crime research at Sussex.
\nThe focus of the Centre is outward-looking. Centre members have developed sustained relationships with academics, policymakers, NGOs, and other stakeholders at a local, national, and international level. Members of the Centre have a history of engagement and knowledge exchange with, for example, the Home Office, National Crime Agency, Cabinet Office, as well as national and international charities.
\nParticular areas of expertise include:
\nGender is a key theme for Sussex research and many of the members are expert leaders in this field. They research and teach on gender issues in a variety of schools and departments which leads to fresh and innovative debates and to a diverse approach to teaching and learning. They also have a strong policy, community, and media presence via several high-profile research projects.
\r\nThe centre functions in two key parts:
\r\nResearch in Gender Studies takes place over three interlinked streams: gender, law, crime, and violence; gender, identity and the body; and gender theory, politics and pedagogy. Researchers from across the university are networked via these strands to work on exciting collaborative projects.
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\r\nThe Centre's work has a global as well as national focus and members engage with policy and practice as well as theory, adopting a range of legal, multidisciplinary, and interdisciplinary approaches to human rights research.
\r\nSome of the centre's research themes are:
\r\nMembers of this group develop streams of research which focus on the intersection between art and the legal discipline.
\r\nThe group's research activities are developing in a number of directions, such as:
\r\nThe Critical Theory Research Group brings together scholars working in the areas of critical theory, law and society, gender studies and more from within the School of Law, Politics and Sociology and the wider Sussex community of critical scholars.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":50.8667576,"longitude":-0.0905336},{"infrastructure_id":"3326","name":"Family, Relationality and Kinship Research Group","town":"Brighton","postcode":"BN1 9RH","tags":["law","cultural-studies","museum-studies","human-rights","gender-sexuality-studies"],"addr1":"University Of Sussex","addr2":"Sussex House","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The group brings together academics from various schools and disciplines at Sussex who are researching topics broadly related to the family and personal relationships.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":50.8667576,"longitude":-0.0905336},{"infrastructure_id":"3327","name":"Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth (CIRCY)","town":"Brighton","postcode":"BN1 9QQ","tags":["art","law","health","policy","psychology","social-science-keyword","education","social-care-keyword","childhood-studies-keyword","youth-studies-keyword"],"addr1":"University Of Sussex","addr2":"Essex House","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth (CIRCY) is a pan-university research centre at the University of Sussex, with a membership that spans social sciences, arts, humanities, psychology, and professional fields including social work, law, education and health. In 2023, the CIRCY was awarded Centre of Excellence status by the University of Sussex.
\r\nCIRCY’s research is innovative, interdisciplinary and international in scope, and aims to reflect and address real world concerns whilst developing new academic understandings. Their diverse research and scholarship are united by a critical engagement with children and young people’s lives in time and place, and a focus on the rights, voice and welfare of the child or young person at the centre of inquiry. Considered together, the critical and multidisciplinary perspectives offered by CIRCY projects and outputs enrich understandings of childhood and youth within the fields of research, policy, and practice.
\r\nResearch within the Centre is conducted within the themes:
\r\nSLISH does interdisciplinary research in health and science in society.
\nTheir members are working on research relating to several different themes:
\nThe centre's aims are:
\nMembers of the Property, Land and Environment Research Group develop existing Law research interests, with a special emphasis on natural resource conservation.
\r\nThe group focuses on areas such as:
\r\nThe network comprises of researchers working on ethnicity, race and diverse societies from many departments across the University of Sussex, including Sociology, Cultural Studies, Geography, Anthropology, Education, Business, International Relations, History, Law and others.
\nThe network's main aims are:
\nThe Sussex Centre for American Studies is nationally recognised with an acclaimed reputation for research in the interdisciplinary study of North America and its links to the world.
\r\nMany of the centre's members have published books and articles on the history, literature, politics and culture of the Americas. They have won awards from organisations including the Royal Historical Society, the International Studies Association and the British Association for American Studies, and are regularly interviewed on the BBC.
\r\nThe centre's work is far-ranging, covering fields as diverse as:
\r\nThe Middle East and North Africa Centre at Sussex (MENACS) brings together a diverse group of academics from across the University of Sussex.
\r\nDrawing on a rich history of area studies and interdisciplinary research at Sussex, MENACS members engage in cutting-edge research and teaching related to the Middle East and North Africa from the perspective of specific disciplines.
\r\nMENACS is particularly strong in modern history, languages, literature, anthropology, international relations, politics, and development studies. The geographic reach of its research stretches from North Africa to Afghanistan and Turkey to the Indian Ocean. It seeks to place the Middle East and North Africa in global context, examining connections, interactions, and transnational networks.
\r\nThe centre is involved in a range of activities related to the Middle East and North Africa, including:
\r\nSome of the members' research interests include:
\r\nVisible Justice is a transdisciplinary research collective based at University of the Arts London.
\nFormed in 2018, its purpose is to provide a platform for artists, activists, journalists, photographers, and human rights lawyers who work at the intersection of visual culture and social justice.
\nThrough a series of symposia, publications, public art projects, and exhibitions, it aims to stimulate creative collaborations across professional lines and to deepen the discourse around questions of visuality, inclusivity, efficacy, and political voice.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.49447785,"longitude":-0.10177312938166025},{"infrastructure_id":"3398","name":"Black Women's Health and Wellbeing Research Network","town":"Milton Keynes","postcode":"MK7 6AA","tags":["history","law","health","medicine","human-rights","development-studies","technology","science"],"addr1":"The Open University","addr2":"Walton Hall","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Black Women’s Health and Wellbeing Network was established in June 2011, following a conference held at The Open University on 29th June 2011. The conference focused on the health of African-Caribbean women, as although there has been an increase in the research on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities in the UK, African-Caribbean women are often absent from this research and their health is often ignored by researchers and policy makers. The conference brought together this disparate group of researchers and it was decided during the conference to provide a network for such researchers to meet and exchange knowledge and ideas.
\nThe Black Women’s Health and Wellbeing Research Network has held annual seminars which have attracted participants from health, local authority and the voluntary sector.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.02453775,"longitude":-0.7092748093945007},{"infrastructure_id":"3400","name":"Design Against Crime Research Lab (DACRL)","town":"London","postcode":"N1C 4AA","tags":["design","law","criminology"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"At the core of the Design Against Crime Research Centre’s (DACRL) activity is research that serves the public and communities. Their main focus is “socially responsive design and innovation”: its primary driver is social issues, its main consideration is social impact, and its main objective is social change. Overall, their approach embraces action research, user-centred and participatory design methods, as well as diverse ethnographic approaches.
\nThey deliver design against crime responses that are recognised as impactful benchmarks. These address everything from personal security and theft to youth violence, public safety and social wellbeing.
\nTheir design work is delivered without compromising the look and functionality of objects or service provision. They use engagement processes that are connected to strong partnerships through an “open innovation” approach, as well as a rigorous design and crime methodology. Ultimately, the team believes that their designs should involve communities in the design process, be user-friendly and abuser-unfriendly, and also to serve communities, as well as business, commercial and public service providers and policymakers.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5074456,"longitude":-0.1277653},{"infrastructure_id":"3409","name":"Community Landownership Academic Network (CLAN)","town":"Perth","postcode":"PH1 2NX","tags":["art","history","law","library-studies","information-studies","language","literature","human-rights","development-studies","archaeology","heritage","participatory-research"],"addr1":"Perth College U H I","addr2":"Crieff Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Community landownership is an endogenous approach to sustainable development which has gained significant attention over the past thirty years. The mechanism has grown and developed from its roots in rural Scotland to having become a flagship policy of successive governments, forming a central tenet of the Land Reform and Community Empowerment agendas, and supported by significant legislative and funding support.
\r\nDespite having been extended to urban communities, these mechanisms have arguably had, and continue to have, the greatest impacts in rural settings where communities have taken over the management and governance of entire estates. Ownership has resulted in the devolution of funding and decision-making levers to the local level, empowering communities to pursue development priorities driven by, and accountable to, local residents. This is especially powerful in communities in the Highlands and Islands region, where centrally-conceived national policy may not be appropriate or relevant to diverse and differentiated community needs.
\r\nThe impacts of community landownership can be transformational for such ‘remote’ and island communities, with recent research illustrating the effects on service provision, rural health and climate action. UHI has been at the forefront of investigating and promoting this topic throughout its existence, with staff and students across the partnership remaining prominent in research, teaching and knowledge exchange. While research in this field is becoming more widespread, it remains somewhat fragmented, reactive and lacking in coordination or strategic direction.
\r\nThe Community Landownership Academic Network (UHI CLAN) was launched in 2021 in order to strategically organise the future of research in the field through a formal network structure. From the outset, the network sought to integrate with community landowning organisations themselves, seeking to serve the sector through conducting relevant and necessary research, the findings of which will be communicated in accessible ways. The formal aims of the network are:
\r\nThe network seeks to collaborate across disciplines and universities, embracing a multifaceted disciplinary and methodological approach to filling gaps in knowledge from different angles. In order to devolve and decentralise responsibility for these different approaches, individuals can volunteer to lead sub-groups focusing on particular aspects of the field.
\r\nTo date, the sub-groups comprise:
\r\nThe Bristol Photography Research Group, based in the School of Creative and Cultural Industries at UWE Bristol, explores the extensive role of photography in contemporary society, spanning across various disciplines such as physical and social sciences, linguistics, education, law, business, and health. They engage in practice-based and written research, partnering with organisations to expand knowledge and impact.
\nTheir activities include hosting conferences, publishing articles, and organising events to delve into various aspects of photographic discourse. They focus on five main areas: photographic methodologies and practices, the role of photography in arts and culture, the ethical and societal implications of photography, the history and theories of photography, and photographic objects and technologies.
\nThe group emphasises multidisciplinary collaboration, linking different experts (e.g., a landscape photographer with an architect) to foster new dialogues. This is embodied in their Photographic Dialogues series, which facilitates conversations between scholars from different disciplines to create new understanding in their respective fields.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.50076785,"longitude":-2.5503106339491204},{"infrastructure_id":"3427","name":"Critical Race and Culture Research Network","town":"Bristol","postcode":"BS16 1QY","tags":["art","history","law","health","cultural-studies","museum-studies","political-science","language","literature","development-studies","technology","science"],"addr1":"University Of The West Of England","addr2":"Frenchay Campus","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Cultural, Race, and Community Research Network (CRCRN) spans UWE's four faculties - Arts, Creative Industries and Education, Business and Law, Environment and Technology, Health and Applied Sciences, and Hartpury College - bolstering research on race, ethnicity, culture, and identity. It is a secure platform for exchanging ideas and disseminating research findings to a wider audience.
\nThe CRCRN seeks funding for extensive research projects and acts as a hub for scholars, students, and independent researchers to enhance the visibility and profile of this critical study area. It serves as a comprehensive repository for race and culture-related research, recognised as a critical community of world-leading, cross-disciplinary scholars.
\nOpen to all UWE staff categories, the network aims to build a research community exploring race, ethnicity, and culture across all study areas. It was launched on 11th June 2020, shortly after the fall of the Edward Colston statue in Bristol, spotlighting the network's vital role within academia.\nThe CRCRN also provides a space to discuss contentious issues such as decolonising the curriculum, attainment gap controversy, and the lack of diversity amongst professors. Its mission is to focus the university's research agenda on race-related studies, thereby preventing their marginalisation and building a strong local and national voice in this area.
\nCRCRN Faculty Leads further promote the network and coordinate subject area-focused meetings.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.50076785,"longitude":-2.5503106339491204},{"infrastructure_id":"3428","name":"Environmental Law and Sustainability Research Group (ELSRG)","town":"Bristol","postcode":"BS16 1QY","tags":["law","political-science","human-rights","development-studies","sustainability"],"addr1":"University Of The West Of England","addr2":"Frenchay Campus","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Environmental Law and Sustainability Research Group (ELSRG) fosters research within environmental, sustainability, and natural resources law domains. Its members, drawn both internally and externally, assert that environmental issues intertwine with societal and legal factors. They aim to connect global sustainability challenges with community experiences, striving to develop innovative legal and policy solutions promoting harmony between societies and nature.
\r\nThe group's primary goals include advancing research, enhancing teaching, and exploring law's role in contemporary environmental and sustainability challenges. The group supports its members' research and scholarship, fostering collaborations within the group, the university, and external institutions.
\r\nThe ELSRG recognises the significance of collaboration and community involvement in addressing environmental and legal challenges. To this end, they frequently organise conferences, workshops, and guest lectures. They also actively engage with international organisations in this field, sharing academic insights and practical expertise. Members of the group contribute to several undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Additionally, ELSRG encourages student participation, endorsing student-led conferences and other activities.
\r\nResearch themes include:
\r\nThe Global Crime, Justice and Security Research Group (GCJS) at Bristol Law School engages in a multitude of areas related to crime and justice. GCJS promotes high-impact, self-funded research and aids its members in the conception and execution of their scholarly pursuits. The group fosters collaboration within itself and the broader research community, including practitioners and vital stakeholders.
\nThe GCJS aims to foster research-led teaching, knowledge exchange, proper training, and stronger academia-stakeholder collaborations. Its scope encompasses criminal justice, organised crime, cyber security, financial crime and terrorism. GCJS members undertake both library-based and empirical research, adapt to new local, regional, national, and international strategies, and respond to governmental, European, and international legislative and policy proposals. Additionally, the group supports a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
\nPrevious funding sources for GCJS members’ research include the European Commission, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, the Economic and Social Research Council, ICT Wilmington PLC, City of London Police, Universities South West, France Telecom Group, the Socio-Legal Studies Association, and Cancer Research UK.
\nGCJS stands as a research hub in the field of financial crime, criminal justice and procedure, organised crime and cyber security, aiming to advance research, teaching, and exploration of the law's role in addressing contemporary issues.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.50076785,"longitude":-2.5503106339491204},{"infrastructure_id":"3430","name":"Social Science Research Group (SSRG)","town":"Bristol","postcode":"BS16 1QY","tags":["history","law","criminology","cultural-studies","museum-studies","information-studies","political-science","human-rights","development-studies","philosophy","technology","science","social-science-keyword"],"addr1":"University Of The West Of England","addr2":"Frenchay Campus","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Social Science Research Group (SSRG) is a multidisciplinary assembly devoted to enhancing comprehension of the intricate societal realm. The SSRG is an applied research team amalgamating diverse academic disciplines to investigate various personal, societal and cultural issues, in collaboration with local, regional and global organisations.
\nAims and objectives include:
\nKey research themes include:
\nThe Centre for Ethics, Law, and Public Affairs (CELPA) was established in 2008 to coordinate and develop the activities of researchers in the University with interests in normative inquiry into public affairs. The members of the CELPA include academic staff and research students from the Departments of Politics and International Studies and Philosophy, and the School of Law who address issues of public concern from the perspective of moral, legal and political philosophy. The Centre’s mission is to facilitate discussion and promote collaborative research in these areas by running seminars and conferences, and to provide a home for PhD students and academics working on ethical and political ideals and their application to different aspects of law, politics and public policy.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.3813073,"longitude":-1.5639569481637439},{"infrastructure_id":"3493","name":"Centre for the Study of Women and Gender","town":"Coventry","postcode":"CV4 7AL","tags":["law","cultural-studies","political-science","language","literature","human-rights","gender-sexuality-studies","sociology","domestic-abuse-keyword","critical-race-studies-keyword","feminist-theory-keyword","global-south-keyword","feminist-studies-keyword","women-s-studies-keyword","animal-studies-keyword","gender-based-violence-keyword","portuguese-studies","inequality-studies-keyword","ethnography","family-studies-keyword","social-studies-keyword","romani-studies-keyword","race-keyword","science-and-technology-studies-keyword","power-keyword","sexual-cultures-keyword"],"addr1":"University Of Warwick","addr2":"Gibbet Hill Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for the Study of Women and Gender (CSWG) is an interdisciplinary research and teaching hub at the University of Warwick, primarily operating within the Sociology Department. With a focus on women's, gender, and feminist studies, CSWG aims to enhance the academic conversation within the university and advance interdisciplinary feminist research.
\r\nEstablished in 1993, the presence of women’s and gender studies at Warwick has spanned several decades. In 2002, CSWG evolved from an academic department to a Faculty research centre within Sociology.
\r\nCSWG is an institutional member of ATGENDER (The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation), the Feminist Studies Association (UK and Ireland), and RINGS (the International Research Network of Institutions of Advanced Gender Studies).
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\nEndorsing Warwick Law School's contextual and interdisciplinary approach, the Centre evaluates substantive law, policy, and regulation questions within broader socio-economic and political contexts. Its interests span international trade law, comparative private law, international business transactions, international and comparative tax law, global intellectual property rights, natural resources law, environmental law, sustainable development, financial regulation, company law, corporate governance, global competition law, and international arbitration. The Centre invites collaboration from both Warwick and external scholars involved in analogous research domains.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.3813073,"longitude":-1.5639569481637439},{"infrastructure_id":"3500","name":"Centre for Human Rights in Practice","town":"Coventry","postcode":"CV4 7AL","tags":["law","human-rights"],"addr1":"University Of Warwick","addr2":"Gibbet Hill Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Human Rights in Practice (est. 2006) provides a focus for academics, students, practitioners and activists who wish to advance the study and promotion of human rights at local, national and international levels.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.3813073,"longitude":-1.5639569481637439},{"infrastructure_id":"3501","name":"Criminal Justice Centre","town":"Coventry","postcode":"CV4 7AL","tags":["law","criminology","philosophy","sociology","psychology"],"addr1":"University Of Warwick","addr2":"Gibbet Hill Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Criminal Justice Centre (CJC) at the University of Warwick hosts a distinguished group of scholars known for their expertise in various areas such as comparative criminal justice, criminology, criminal law theory and practice, criminalisation, the criminal process, border criminologies, international criminal law, transitional and restorative justice, sociology and philosophy of punishment, and prisons research. CJC's researchers, socially and critically engaged, welcome interaction with local communities, media, and both national and international organisations.
\nResearch conducted at the CJC is characterised by its interdisciplinary nature. Although primarily located within the School of Law, the Centre includes members from departments such as Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology, Politics and International Studies, French Studies, and the Warwick Business School. The CJC aims to nurture research and collaboration among its members, hosting a variety of events, workshops, conferences, and public engagement activities annually. It welcomes leading and early-career scholars through its visitors' programme and fosters a dynamic PhD community with dedicated events.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.3813073,"longitude":-1.5639569481637439},{"infrastructure_id":"3502","name":"Centre for Critical Legal Studies (CCLS)","town":"Coventry","postcode":"CV4 7AL","tags":["law","cultural-studies","museum-studies","gender-sexuality-studies","philosophy","critical-legal-studies"],"addr1":"University Of Warwick","addr2":"Gibbet Hill Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Critical Legal Studies (CCLS) is a multidisciplinary collective dedicated to examining issues related to race, class, and gender, particularly focusing on intersectionality. Its mandate is to scrutinise and address significant societal, political, economic, and environmental challenges, and explore the law's role in these complexities.
\r\nThe CCLS encourages collaborations with various stakeholders, including artists, activists, academics, and students. Its research interests are vast, encompassing areas like law and protest, anti-imperialist legal perspectives, aesthetics and law, neoliberalism, decolonising legal theories, and the application of diverse theoretical frameworks such as social, feminist, critical, anti-imperialist, queer and Marxist theory to legal issues.
\r\nThe centre aims to foster a collaborative environment that challenges conventional academic practices. It intends to compile diverse ideas and projects under specific themes, contributing to the production of a book series influencing both pedagogy and research agendas.
\r\nThe CCLS stands on the foundation of Warwick Law School's established tradition of critical approaches to law. It espouses Warwick’s context-oriented legal analysis that promotes understanding law in its broader political, economic, and social context. Moreover, it aspires to build an extensive network beyond Warwick and other higher education institutions.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.3813073,"longitude":-1.5639569481637439},{"infrastructure_id":"3503","name":"Centre for Operational Police Research (COPR)","town":"Coventry","postcode":"CV4 7AL","tags":["design","law","criminology","information-studies","political-science","human-rights","technology","ethics","data-science","psychology","ai","public-engagement-keyword","co-production-keyword","visual-arts","gender-keyword","co-creation-keyword","arts-led-research-keyword","police-keyword","creative-keyword"],"addr1":"University Of Warwick","addr2":"Gibbet Hill Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Launched in 2014, COPR was founded by Warwick researchers from the School of Law, Psychology Department and WBS to formalise a set of research relationships with police forces around the country. Since then, COPR has expanded into a multi-disciplinary research centre with more than 30 members across all faculties, including doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers, as well as permanent academic staff.
\r\nOur activities include an annual PhD/ECR symposium bringing together researchers from all disciplines to present and discuss their work with academic researchers, practitioners and policymakers. In Autumn 2024 we launched our new Blog series, beginning with a reflection from one of our Psychology PhD students. Our research seminars encourage collaboration, broaden networks and promote academic-practitioner knowledge and discussion in areas such as policing and technology, and trauma and policing. The breadth of the Centre's expertise enables us to bring together social scientists, psychologists, data, and technology expertise, to work with individual police forces in their priority areas - whether carrying out evaluations (eg Operation Soteria; West Midlands Partnership with Coventry UK City of Culture); conducting new research (eg preventing hate crime; disproportionate stop & search; alcohol & domestic abuse);
or sharing new findings with key stakeholders through in-force training or NPCC conferences and webinars.
Policing challenges do not sit within disciplinary silos. We understand that the legal, practical, technical and ethical aspects of policing require an interdisciplinary approach. By uniting world-leading researchers from a broad range of disciplines, including law, psychology, sociology, business, behavioural science, statistics, politics & international studies, computer science, and engineering, COPR offers a new approach to policing research. Our work draws on a wide range of disciplinary expertise and methodologies, including police ethnographies, behavioural science, machine learning, statistical modelling, 3D technologies, collaboration with cretaive practitioners, ethics and experimental work.
\r\nOur research partners range from individual police forces, the College of Policing and the NPCC, to theatres, the NHS, the CPS, the Forensic Capability Network, Alan Turing Institute, GCHQ and other research centres and universities in the UK and across the world.
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The Artificial Intelligence Innovation Network (AIIN) was initiated by the Information Systems Management group at Warwick Business School (WBS) in 2018. AIIN's chief aim is to unite academics from diverse fields and incorporate industry research to enhance understanding of how interactions between humans and machines are transforming, and should transform, knowledge work and innovation. The network emphasises interdisciplinary research that is both relevant and rigorous, answering crucial and influential questions in the field through research designs and methodologies.
\r\nAIIN covers a broad range of areas and opportunities, currently including:
\r\nEstablished in 2007, the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) at Warwick is part of a university-wide community of researchers. Their activities foster the mission to progress novel research notions underscored by interdisciplinarity, innovation, and internationalisation. The IAS is resolute about enhancing a constructive research environment where colleagues' contributions are acknowledged and esteemed, facilitating mutual support for success and producing high-quality academic outputs.
\nTheir approach to progressing new research notions encapsulates:
\nThe Warwick IAS is unique among global counterparts as it supports the entire postdoctoral research community, including early career academics and esteemed international visitors. It assists Warwick's research community by providing a conducive environment and financial backing for idea exchange and development, co-creating strategic initiatives for Warwick, aiding early career researchers in fostering their independent careers, and making swift, transparent funding decisions.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.3813073,"longitude":-1.5639569481637439},{"infrastructure_id":"3508","name":"Innovative Manufacturing and Future Materials","town":"Coventry","postcode":"CV4 7AL","tags":["design","law","development-studies","sustainability","ethics","material-studies-keyword"],"addr1":"University Of Warwick","addr2":"Gibbet Hill Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Innovative Manufacturing and Future Materials advocates for the sustainable use of resources. The collective aims to prolong the highest value of finite resources as much as possible, focusing on responsible disposal after repeated use. Their research scrutinises the ethical, legal, and societal concerns surrounding these technological advancements.
\nSeven research themes guide their pursuits:
\nCircular Economy: Aiming to transition from a linear to a circular economy, this theme focuses on extending resource usage time. They seek to maximize a product's usage and regenerate it for further use, a vital step towards global sustainability.
\nFundamental Materials: This theme interlinks the studies of engineering, chemistry, and physics to generate innovative advanced materials for a variety of industrial applications, from sensors and coatings to food and personal care.
\nFuture Materials: Anticipating the pivotal role of future materials in resolving global industrial and societal issues, this theme explores the integration of these materials with increasingly sophisticated manufacturing processes to optimise product output.
\nIndustrial Biotechnology: The research under this theme investigates the potential of living cells and their enzymes in producing industrial products. The resulting products promise higher degradability, energy efficiency, waste reduction, and potentially superior performance than chemically-produced alternatives.
\nIndustry 4.0: This theme acknowledges the evolving nature of industry and society with the rise of intelligent technologies. It stresses the need to adapt human skills and working environments to maximise these changes.
\nManufacturing and Materials in Society: Emphasising the importance of social and humanities research, this theme investigates the impact of manufacturing on society and how it can spur innovation in the field.
\nSpace: This theme capitalises on opportunities in space exploration at regional, national, and international levels. Warwick is well positioned to use its leading STEM research to support this expanding field.
\nThe Cybersecurity and Criminology Centre (CCC) examines, analyses and assesses current and future criminal threats to individuals, organisations and national security.
\nA key theme of CCC's research is to protect and prevent victimisation and increase personal safety, organisational confidence and state security.
\nCCC researches and investigates a broad range of contemporary issues:
\nThe Westminster Law and Theory Lab brings together diverse yet overlapping strands in the study of law in its transnational, regional or international manifestation, with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinarity and critical theoretical analysis.
\r\nThe focus of Lab activities is firmly on the link between the applied and the theoretical. The Lab seeks to facilitate common scholarly activities and projects, thus acting as a bridge between the applied and the theoretical, and providing a supportive context within which radical new research can flourish.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5168987,"longitude":-0.14330516808711596},{"infrastructure_id":"3524","name":"Centre for Law, Race, Gender and Sexuality","town":"London","postcode":"W1B 2HW","tags":["law","cultural-studies","museum-studies","human-rights","gender-sexuality-studies","critical-legal-studies"],"addr1":"University Of Westminster","addr2":"309 Regent Street","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Law, Race, Gender and Sexuality adopts a critical, interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to legal scholarship which is theoretical as well as practical and grounded.
\r\nThe Centre is committed to creating connections with and between researchers whose work is concerned with the interface between law and the body, and particularly in exploring the complex relationship between law, race, gender and sexuality.
\r\nIt is based in the University of Westminster Law School and are made up of a community of PhD researchers and interested academics.
\r\nIt is committed to debating, disseminating scholarship and networking with non-academics, activists, NGOs and policy-makers.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5168987,"longitude":-0.14330516808711596},{"infrastructure_id":"3526","name":"Climate Change, Energy Policy and Sustainability Research Group","town":"London","postcode":"W1B 2HW","tags":["law","political-science","policy","sustainability","psychology"],"addr1":"University Of Westminster","addr2":"309 Regent Street","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The research group on Climate Change, Energy Policy and Sustainability was established in 2021 to draw together relevant research initiatives being undertaken by researchers in the Schools of Law, Politics and International Relations, and Psychology.
\nMembers of the group investigate aspects of the dilemmas presented by the ‘energy transition’, broadly understood as a response to the imperatives of climate change.
\nThe group creates a platform for building and consolidating research networks, for developing multidisciplinary projects, and for organising collaborative events and activities.
\nMembers of the group have expertise in, inter alia, the following areas:
\nThe Equality and Criminal Justice Research Group is a policy-oriented research team that aims to: explore, report on and advise on inequalities within the criminal justice system; develop research expertise and excellence on equality (race, gender, disability, faith, sexual orientation and age) and criminal justice, relating to suspects and offenders, victims (particularly of hate crime) and practitioners; secure funding for specific pieces of research work and publish; develop and disseminate policy proposals to government and criminal justice agencies and comment on emerging legislation.
\nThe research team is committed to working with voluntary and statutory sector partners in order to commission and publish research and policy papers/briefings aimed at ensuring equal criminal justice outcomes for all members of a diverse community.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5168987,"longitude":-0.14330516808711596},{"infrastructure_id":"3529","name":"European and Comparative Law Research Group","town":"London","postcode":"W1B 2HW","tags":["law","comparative-studies"],"addr1":"University Of Westminster","addr2":"309 Regent Street","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Westminster Law School is located in the heart of London and is a centre for study and research of European Union Law.
\nAcademics and PhD students at the Westminster Law School engage in research in many areas of European Union Law. This includes, among others, matters of EU accession and withdrawal, the Charter of Fundamental Rights, economic governance, internal market, competition law and EU criminal law.
\nWestminster Law School offers a number of dedicated EU Law modules at all programmes taught at the School. The European and Comparative Law Research Group organises public events and thus serves as a platform for academic debate.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5168987,"longitude":-0.14330516808711596},{"infrastructure_id":"3532","name":"International Law at Westminster (ILaW)","town":"London","postcode":"W1B 2HW","tags":["law"],"addr1":"University Of Westminster","addr2":"309 Regent Street","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The International Law at Westminster research cluster (ILaW) was founded in 2014 to bring together academics and PhD students who research international law at Westminster Law School.
\nILaW members contribute in many areas of:
\nILaW members also contribute to the teaching of the popular LLM in International Law at Westminster Law School.
\nILaW is a member of the EU Non-Proliferation Consortium. The Consortium was created in 2010 by the Council of the European Union as a network bringing together experts from across the EU to encourage political and security-related dialogue and the long-term discussion of measures to combat the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems.
\nILaW also regularly organises public events on topical international law issues.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5168987,"longitude":-0.14330516808711596},{"infrastructure_id":"3533","name":"Law Development and Conflict (LDC) Research Group","town":"London","postcode":"W1B 2HW","tags":["law","development-studies","critical-legal-studies"],"addr1":"University Of Westminster","addr2":"309 Regent Street","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Law, Development and Conflict Research Group (LDC) brings together researchers from diverse critical traditions to explore the dynamic relationships between national and international law, Third World development and civil and military conflicts in the Third World. LDC engages all critical traditions including Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), Marxist, Critical Legal Studies (CLS) in Legal Studies, Critical, Marxist, post-Marxist, Structural, post-structural and heterodox approaches to Development Studies and critical Conflict Studies, Social Movement Studies, Surveillance Studies, Decolonial Studies and other related fields.
\r\nSince the end of the Cold War, and especially since the events of “9/11”, international law, international institutions, development policies and civil and military conflicts in the Third World appear tangled and interconnected in complex ways. The work of UN Trust Funds and international humanitarian NGOs, the switch from peacekeeping to peacebuilding in international relations, the development and uses of laws on humanitarian interventions, the politics of human rights and protection of minorities, resource conflicts that are often the result of resource intensive development models, generate civil and political conflicts in the Third World that feed into wider regional and global geopolitical and corporate interests. Economic interests of powerful global actors impact upon local class, community, gender, ethnic, religious, environmental and other social relations producing conflicts within and between states. Disciplinary divisions disconnect economic and political dimensions of development and conflicts in the Third World. Geopolitical and corporate interests intervene, fan and fuel civil and political conflicts often using developmental and humanitarian imperatives as their rationale. The legal frameworks, the disciplinary and theoretical approaches and mechanics of policy development processes in producing and sustaining such conflicts are not well understood.
\r\nThe Law, Development and Conflict Research Group at the University of Westminster seeks to probe the disconnections and entanglements of law, development and conflicts in the Third World from interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives. The LDC Group provides a forum for conversation, collaboration, and cooperation between scholars, activists, legal practitioners, and wider communities to develop research activities that advance understanding and appreciation of the complexities in the interplay of law, development policies and conflicts in the Third World. The Group seeks to reach out to wider research communities, development NGOs and global justice movements. Affiliation to the LDC Group is open to scholars, legal professionals, NGOs, activists and community organizations that are interested in work of the group.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5168987,"longitude":-0.14330516808711596},{"infrastructure_id":"3541","name":"Centre for Information Rights (CIR)","town":"Winchester","postcode":"SO22 4NR","tags":["law","information-studies","development-studies","media-studies"],"addr1":"The University Of Winchester","addr2":"Sparkford Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Information Rights (CIR) is based in the Department of Law in the Faculty of Law, Crime and Justice and linked with the Department of Digital Technologies. CIR recognises that the term 'information rights' spans a wide range of live issues, including: machine learning, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, the 'Internet of Things', information sharing, freedom of information (FOI), privacy, data protection, cyberlaw, intellectual property, e-disclosure and Government open data.
\nThe CIR aims to:
\nFounded in 2019, the Criminal Justice Research Network (CJRN) is a formal collaboration of researchers, practitioners and academics working in the field of criminal justice. The focus is on knowledge exchange, practice change, research collaboration and student engagement.
\r\nThe CJRN comprises experts from the University of Winchester’s Centre for Forensic and Investigative Psychology (CFIP), and its Policing and Criminology experts, working alongside colleagues from other universities and criminal justice organisations.
\r\nKey objectives:
\r\nThe CJRN aims to accomplish these by assisting with research development, research and knowledge exchange.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.06366488093194,"longitude":-1.3286958848461647},{"infrastructure_id":"3551","name":"Law Research Centre","town":"Wolverhampton","postcode":"WV1 1LY","tags":["art","law","human-rights","science"],"addr1":"University Of Wolverhampton","addr2":"Wulfruna Street","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Law Research Centre is a vibrant, inclusive community that nurtures high-quality research by experienced, emerging, and new legal researchers. Its members have made significant contributions in legal literature, with their works cited in Parliament, referenced by the Government for policy decisions, and approved by the Supreme Court.
\nThe Centre's research, ongoing since 1992, consistently enhances its reputation. Its vision is to convert the "University of Opportunity" into a "Global University of Positive Outcomes, Influence, and Impact", thereby boosting the effects and recognition of its research on student experiences, clients, and stakeholders, including professional and governmental bodies at local, regional, national, and global levels.
\nThe Centre, part of the Law School under the Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences, welcomes all who seek knowledge in diverse areas of law. It aims to integrate staff research interests into a broad array of modules reflecting staff expertise.
\nThe Centre specialises in two areas: Commercial Law (focusing on arbitration law, corporate law, financial services law and crime, capital markets law, employment law, insolvency law, and intellectual property law) and Criminal Justice (covering historical and current aspects of criminal justice and human rights in both national and international contexts).
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.5901648,"longitude":-2.1277808142402415},{"infrastructure_id":"3553","name":"Institute for Community Research and Development (ICRD)","town":"Wolverhampton","postcode":"WV1 1LY","tags":["art","law","cultural-studies","museum-studies","political-science","policy","human-rights","development-studies","heritage"],"addr1":"University Of Wolverhampton","addr2":"Wulfruna Street","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Institute for Community Research and Development (ICRD) focuses on four principal themes: Social and Community Wellbeing; Criminal Justice and Violence Prevention; Addressing Inequalities through Heritage and Arts; and Migration and Mobilities.
\nSince 2017, the ICRD has been striving to enhance the life quality and prospects of the regional population. It accomplishes this through policy development based on research, fostering social mobility, and executing effective community transformation projects. The ICRD employs a cross-disciplinary approach to stimulate positive change by cooperating with local communities and partnership networks. The institute offers state-of-the-art research and evaluation methods and services, including the ICRD model of Community and Peer Research and research that bolsters policy and practice developments.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.5901648,"longitude":-2.1277808142402415},{"infrastructure_id":"3560","name":"Constitutions, Rights and Justice Research Group","town":"Worcester","postcode":"WR2 6AJ","tags":["law","political-science"],"addr1":"University Of Worcester","addr2":"Henwick Grove","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Established in 2021, the Constitutions, Rights and Justice research group seeks to foster a collaborative approach regarding how to talk about and conduct research on the nature of constitutions, different categories of rights (i.e., social, political, legal and employment) and the importance of justice in its many forms.
\r\nConstitutions, Rights and Justice is based within the School of Humanities at the University of Worcester. This innovative group brings together academics at the University of Worcester, external academics, legal practitioners and active and retired judges to work together on a myriad of issues and seek scope for collaboration within the wider academy and legal practice. The group builds upon five years of research and scholarly activity within the School of Law at the University of Worcester that has focused on issues such as the application of the Fraud Act 2006, the Miller litigation, the rule of law and access to justice.
\r\nThe aims of the group are to:
\r\nThe University of York serves as a distinguished hub for research and instruction in forensic speech science, amalgamating elements of linguistics, phonetics and acoustics within legal investigations. This multidisciplinary research unit comprises academics and students from the University of York, personnel from The Forensic Voice Centre, and a consortium of specialists spanning linguistics, phonetics, speech technology, and law.
\r\nThe broad scope of the group's research encompasses a variety of phonetic, sociolinguistic and forensic speech science issues. These range from examining speech variation among languages, communities, and individuals, to formulating population data on phonetic attributes and employing empirical methodologies for language analysis in asylum procedures. Furthermore, the potential influence of phonetic elements on automatic speaker recognition is assessed.
\r\nThe collective extends an open invitation to prospective postgraduate scholars, professionals keen on research collaborations, and individuals requiring specialist input on speech analysis within legal contexts.
\r\nAreas of particular emphasis within forensic speech science include language analysis in the asylum process (LAAP), ear-witness performance comprehension, speaker comparison, analysis of phonetic attributes and automatic speaker recognition relationship, identification of effective discriminatory speech and language characteristics, the impact of varied hardware and software on acoustic analysis outcomes, feature interdependence and independence evaluation, comparison of bilingual speakers, and investigation into the correlation between phonetic features and parameters extracted during automatic speaker recognition.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":["Unfunded fellowships"],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.9453903,"longitude":-1.0314592943104675},{"infrastructure_id":"3585","name":"York Centre for Political Theory (YCPT)","town":"York","postcode":"YO10 5DD","tags":["history","law","political-science","language","literature","human-rights","development-studies","philosophy","science","social-science-keyword"],"addr1":"University Of York","addr2":"Heslington","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Political Theory is a prime area of research strength at York. Traditionally an area York has been known for, political theory has expanded, diversified, and gained increased visibility in recent years. York is now home to one of the strongest and most dynamic political theory groups in the UK and in Europe.
\nUnique for its size, the political theory group is also unique for its scope. Members have a unique profile, which sets them apart from other groups. With all the different strains within political theory represented – historical, analytic, critical – the group is singularly diverse. Its positive and inclusive research culture is responsible for nurturing not only diversity, but integrated diversity, leading up to the creation of problem-driven, innovative mixed approaches, which underpin the group’s capacity to generate new research questions and new venues of enquiry.
\nNumerous new lines of research have developed as a result, with York political theorists working at the frontier of the subject. Members' research activity is shaping the way in which political theory is practiced and translating into high quality scholarship, published in some of the main academic presses and journals in the field. The chief mission of the York Centre for Political Theory is to sustain and further this capacity for the future.
\nA hub for research-based innovation and practice, the Centre provides an exciting and vibrant research environment in which political theorists can work and develop their ideas. The Centre aims at increasing opportunities for strategic research partnerships within the sub-discipline and with related fields. In particular, it supports more permanent frameworks for exchange and interdisciplinary research collaboration with faculties, departments, and centres across the university and beyond.
\nIn York alone, the network of academics working broadly in the field of political theory and philosophy is wide, including colleagues from the Departments of Philosophy, History, Law and English and Related Literature, and political theorists.
\nPolitical theory is inherently interdisciplinary: part philosophy, part history, part social science, and part humanities. Members identify, develop, and exploit synergies between the parts that make the singularity of political theory in developing projects with a strong interdisciplinary within three broad research themes:
\nThe UoY Migration Network operates as a research hub that brings together a cross disciplinary group of researchers from across the University of York and beyond. The network is underpinned by an ethos that fosters collaboration, innovation and creativity in research (including participatory, visual, performative and filmic methods).
\nSome of the networks emails are:
\nRights, Equality, Citizenship and Empowerment conducts collaborative research developing real-world applications to global issues.
\nTheir research interests include:
\nPrivate Law in Context encompasses scholars specialising in legal theory, private law, as well as regulatory affairs and public roles in governance. Their work is rooted in socially relevant, contextual themes that extend across a wide spectrum of issues typically linked with public law such as:
\r\nIn the UK, countless frontline interactions occur daily between the public and the government. Despite the magnitude and significance of these procedures, there is limited evidence and understanding of public perception on administrative fairness or the effects of fair and unfair experiences. The Administrative Fairness Laboratory aims to reshape public decision-making based on substantial evidence and analysis of perceived administrative fairness, promoting equal treatment and positive civic engagement.
\r\nLocated at the University of York, the Laboratory collaborates with researchers and partners nationwide, embodying an interdisciplinary approach and emphasising support for early-career researchers, diversity, and practitioner engagement.
\r\nThe Laboratory's Priorities:
\r\nLaboratory Activities:
\r\nHealth and Wellbeing comprises scholars from diverse disciplines, extending beyond conventional medical law. Their expertise spans philosophy, criminology, gerontology, and institutional and organisational theory, enabling comprehensive study of not just research substance but also research agenda formulation. The cluster prioritises:
\nThe research undertaken in 'Law, Justice and Power' utilises a socio-legal methodology, frequently collaborating with colleagues from diverse disciplines. The areas of interest encompass administrative decision-making, crime, protest, policing, gender in relation to law, law and tolerance, social welfare, housing law, and the rule of law.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.9453903,"longitude":-1.0314592943104675},{"infrastructure_id":"3621","name":"Centre for Learning and Innovation in Public Protection","town":"Cheltenham","postcode":"GL50 2RH","tags":["law","criminology","policy","sociology","psychology","geography"],"addr1":"University Of Gloucestershire","addr2":"The Park","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Learning and Innovation in Public Protection at University of Gloucestershire delivers applied research, professional training and academic programmes, working with stakeholders in the public and third sectors to respond to public protection challenges. The Centre’s activities focus on these themes:
\nWorking with and for stakeholders, the centre's research and consultancy focuses on priorities in public protection. The team brings both a range of academic expertise in criminology, psychology, sociology, public policy and human geography, and professional experience with the police, charities, public authorities, social housing and other organisations that have a role to play in public protection.
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\nThis involves research in natural and community situations alongside associated laboratory research, including EEG (electroencephalography) studies of relevant brain activity. The Centre staff and students are primarily from the psychology team in the School of Natural and Social Sciences within the university but they also collaborate with other university staff (e.g., from School of Sport and Exercise and the Media, Arts and Technology faculty) and with staff from other universities and from external agencies, occupational psychologist agencies and local businesses.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.89000989725207,"longitude":-2.0901077562366583},{"infrastructure_id":"3624","name":"Criminal Justice Collective","town":"London","postcode":"SE10 9LS","tags":["law","criminology"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Criminal Justice Collective (CJC) is an interdisciplinary research collective that provides an opportunity for collaborative research in all areas of the criminal justice system, including but not limited to policing, miscarriages of justice, prisons, law of evidence and access to justice.
\nSome of the research is generated through the work of the Innocence Project London (IPL) which is a pro bono organisation that reviews and investigates cases of convicted individuals who have maintained their innocence but have exhausted the criminal appeals process.
\nBringing together academics from law and criminology, the CJC provides a collaborative research environment in which the members can not only learn from each other, but also from external organisations.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5074456,"longitude":-0.1277653},{"infrastructure_id":"3626","name":"British Association for Canadian Studies (BACS)","town":"London","postcode":"WC1H 0PN","tags":["history","law","political-science","language","literature","gender-sexuality-studies","diplomacy","indigenous-studies-keyword","identity-studies-keyword"],"addr1":"University College London","addr2":"51 Gordon Square","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Founded in 1975, the British Association for Canadian Studies (BACS) functions as a forum and meeting point for Canadian Studies in the United Kingdom. It is open to everyone who has an interest in Canada, and it holds an annual conference that combines a wide range of topics and distinguished speakers with an informal and friendly atmosphere.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":["Prizes"],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.52420305,"longitude":-0.13300072425929543},{"infrastructure_id":"3634","name":"Colloquium of Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon Lawyers","town":"Cardiff","postcode":"CF10 3AT","tags":["law","religious-studies"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Colloquium, initiated in Rome in 1999 by the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas, Cardiff University's Centre for Law and Religion, and Duquesne Law School, Pittsburgh, is a pioneering initiative recognised by leaders of both Anglican and Roman Catholic communities.
\nIts purpose is to promote ecumenical understanding between these two denominations, using canon law as a method of practical ecclesiology. By examining the laws of each denomination, the Colloquium seeks to understand their shared elements, demonstrating that ecumenism extends to all aspects of Christian thought and life.
\nFull understanding of the canonical possibilities could facilitate greater visible unity. Notably, in 1999, 2007, and 2019, members of the Colloquium were presented to Popes John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis respectively. On 29 November 2019, a working group of the Colloquium convened to draft a response to the ARCIC III document, 'Walking Together on the Way', with a plan to return to this in 2021.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.4816546,"longitude":-3.1791934},{"infrastructure_id":"3635","name":"Interfaith Legal Advisors Network","town":"Cardiff","postcode":"CF10 3AT","tags":["law","religious-studies"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Interfaith Legal Advisers Network (ILAN), a pioneer in the UK, was initiated by the Centre of Law and Religion in December 2007. It was created to address the increase in notable court cases involving religion, such as religious attire, sacred animals, and faith schools, and the substantial challenges faith groups face due to civil religion law.
\nThe network aims to encourage consistent dialogue, enabling members to better comprehend their unique religious legal systems and the mutual issues they confront at the intersection of religious and civil religion law.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.4816546,"longitude":-3.1791934},{"infrastructure_id":"3636","name":"Law and Religion Scholars Network (LARSN)","town":"Cardiff","postcode":"CF10 3AT","tags":["law","religious-studies"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Law and Religion Scholars Network (LARSN) aspires to unite scholars intrigued by the intersection of law and religion, aiming to enhance dialogue and discourse on an expanding array of relevant subjects. Specifically, LARSN endeavours to:
\nEstablished in 2008 by the Centre for Law and Religion at Cardiff University, LARSN facilitates scholarly dialogue on law and religion globally. As of 2020, LARSN boasts around 300 members, a figure they plan to increase and diversify.
\nLARSN's annual agenda includes a one-day conference where members convene to present and discuss academic papers. A comprehensive report, summarising key findings and future research topics, is generated post-conference. Subject to author approval, these academic papers and reports are shared with members and published on LARSN's website for public access.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.4816546,"longitude":-3.1791934},{"infrastructure_id":"3637","name":"Church Law History Network","town":"Cardiff","postcode":"CF10 3AT","tags":["art","history","law","religious-studies","sociology"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Established in 1998, the Centre for Law and Religion convenes a community of scholars and practitioners for interdisciplinary research on religious and state law within various theoretical contexts. The centre studies the theory and practice of these laws, taking into consideration their historical, theological, social, ecumenical, and comparative aspects. Key stakeholders such as the Ecclesiastical Law Society, academic researchers, legal practitioners, and clergy members are significantly involved in these studies.
\nIn 2021, the centre marked the 30th anniversary of the Canon Law LLM, the first degree of its type in the UK since the Reformation. The Centre not only explores the relationships between state and religious laws but also delves into their individual concepts, employing legal history, theology, and the sociology of religion as investigative tools.
\nCritical areas of interest are religion law, state law relating to religious organisations, and religious law - the internal regulations of religious bodies. Furthermore, comparative studies are conducted on the religion laws of various states, the interactions between state religion law and religious law, and the interrelationships of internal laws within religious organisations.
\nThe complex systems of rules regulating religious organisations and their members have roots in medieval times, when Canon Law was a major subject in European universities. Although the English Reformation of the 16th century ended the study of Canon Law in England and Wales, religion and canon law remained foundational to the development of common law and civil law traditions.
\nWith increasing interest in law related to religion and religious organisations in the UK, the Centre contributes significantly to the growing body of literature on the subject. Supported by the Ecclesiastical Law Society, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Nuffield Foundation, and various religious bodies and trusts, the Centre continues to expand its research areas.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.4816546,"longitude":-3.1791934},{"infrastructure_id":"3642","name":"Centre for Health History","town":"Huddersfield","postcode":"HD1 3DH","tags":["history","law","health","political-science","policy","medicine","environmental-humanities","media-studies","science","social-science-keyword"],"addr1":"University Of Huddersfield","addr2":"Queensgate","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Health History deploys historical knowledge and methods to inform contemporary policy discussions within modern health care. The Centre's focus creates opportunities for historians to work with social scientists, health care professionals and medical researchers on pressing national and international medical, social and welfare issues.
\nThe Centre's research explores the historical precedents of current health problems, which allows members to contextualise contemporary media and policy discussions through impact driven research in areas like mental health, infant welfare, medicine and nursing in war, professional regulation, humanitarianism and the plight of refugees.
\nThe Centre for Health Histories is a vibrant community of leading scholars, early career researchers, and research students that provides a vital forum for dissemination and discussion through interdisciplinary networks. Its scope is international and transnational and its topics include:
\nThe Centre for Law, Environment and Rights (CLEAR) engages in research to understand the role of law both locally and around the world. It provides a home for researchers in which they can work to explore essential issues surrounding different areas of law.
\r\nCLEAR has an open approach to research that supports work about a broad range of relevant topics, as well as encouraging innovative research methods to enhance the quality of research.
\r\nCLEAR engages with the local community directly, through its services for individuals as well as its work with businesses and the voluntary sector. Additionally, its members have national and international networks that include NGOs and organisations in various regions as well as the United Nations. Collaboration with these kinds of external partners and stakeholders helps not only produce world class research but also support high quality impact that enables real change.
\r\nCLEAR is organised into two research clusters that tackle some of the most important issues facing the global population today: ‘Human Rights’ and ‘Global Trade and the Environment’.
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\r\nThe None in Three Centre (Ni3) is pioneering new ways to tackle gender-based violence (GBV) across the globe. Its aims are to:
\r\nThe Centre for Sustainability, Equality and Climate Action encourages collaborative links across Schools, Faculties and Directorates in Queen’s University Belfast to investigate the interconnections between socio-economic (in)equality and the interlinked climate and ecological crisis as determined by natural and social sciences. There are three pillars to the Centre across which the challenge of the planetary emergency is investigated from an interdisciplinary and engaged perspective.
\nTogether, the three pillars of the Centre address how to ensure that humanity has a habitable planetary system as the basis for flourishing, good lives for the human population together with prosperous, just and sustainable societies. Sustainability is the adaptation, mitigation and resilience measures needed for a transition to a low carbon, regenerative society which will limit the impacts on future generations while Equality explores inclusive solutions which lead to truly just and equal economies and societies. The final pillar, Climate Action addresses the planetary emergency and climate crisis concentrating on the creation of climate resilient communities at all levels of society.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":54.58562875,"longitude":-5.934011153755322},{"infrastructure_id":"3655","name":"Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment","town":"London","postcode":"WC2A 2AE","tags":["law","health","political-science","economics","development-studies","sustainability","science","geography","diplomacy"],"addr1":"London School Of Economics & Political Science","addr2":"Houghton Street","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment was established by the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2008 to create a world-leading multidisciplinary centre for policy-relevant research and training on climate change and the environment, bringing together international expertise from across LSE and beyond, including on economics, finance, geography, the environment, science, law, international relations, development and political science.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.51846933996222,"longitude":-0.11576645538936141},{"infrastructure_id":"3664","name":"Clio: A Law and History Research Group","town":"Canterbury","postcode":"CT2 7NZ","tags":["history","law","critical-legal-studies"],"addr1":"University Of Kent At Canterbury","addr2":"The Registry","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Bearing the name of the muse of history, Clio, it supports scholarship that promotes critical exchange between law and history. Although history has consistently formed and informed approaches to law, in much of contemporary critical legal studies this bond of engagement between the two remains largely unexplored. The language of history and that of law emerge as if alien to one another. In seeking to foster links between the two, however, Clio is neither interested in providing for a better or a more accurate legal history, nor offering correctives to the historical development of legal systems, theories and doctrines. Rather, the objective is to draw upon the critical possibilities that history and historiography hold for the law. To this purpose, Clio embraces legal research, which whether orientated towards the humanities or the social sciences, draws in particular upon tropes of history writing rooted in continental theory and philosophy.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.298607696936195,"longitude":1.0710267559107132},{"infrastructure_id":"3665","name":"Social Critiques of Law","town":"Canterbury","postcode":"CT2 7NZ","tags":["law","political-science","technology","science","architecture"],"addr1":"University Of Kent At Canterbury","addr2":"The Registry","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Social Critiques of Law (SoCriL) is a research group dedicated to the critical study of law, regulation and governance.
\r\nIt aims to provide innovative insights by allying interdisciplinary critical perspectives with particular practices, examples, or empirical explorations of the social lives of law.
\r\nThe work carried out by members of SoCriL engages instances as varied as Law, Science and Technology; Financial and Commercial Regulation; Law and Religion; Social Welfare; Space and Architecture; Critical International Law; Critical Intellectual Property; Law and Time; Radical Politics, Governance and the Conceptual Imagination. By navigating through this broad set of areas, the group seeks to provide new cross-thematic conversations on the ways in which law operates, and its complex entanglements with social practices, space, time and politics.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.298607696936195,"longitude":1.0710267559107132},{"infrastructure_id":"3666","name":"British International Studies Association (BISA)","town":"Birmingham","postcode":"B15 2TT","tags":["law","economics","gender-sexuality-studies","ethics","sociology","social-science-keyword","post-colonial-studies","african-studies","global-health-keyword","astropolitics-keyword","middle-east-studies-keyword"],"addr1":"University Of Birmingham","addr2":"Edgbaston","country":"United Kingdom","description":"BISA is a leading voice in International Studies in the UK and abroad. Members develop and promote International Studies through their publications, research, academic networks and funding opportunities. Many of BISA's members are, moreover, experts in their field, but the association is diverse and supports its members at all stages of their careers. BISA is known for its progressive, vibrant community, annual conference and its strong research networks.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":["Bursaries","Prizes"],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.4522956,"longitude":-1.9312856726008194},{"infrastructure_id":"3681","name":"Integrated Health and Social Care","town":"London","postcode":"E1 7HT","tags":["law","health","information-studies","technology"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"With an NHS under increasing pressure and more people living with long term conditions, it is vital to explore new, sustainable and effective ways of promoting health and wellbeing across all age groups and to support patients and their families. The Marmot 10 year update, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic, has shifted health and social care focus to place greater emphasis on health equity and the broader determinants of wellness. The Public Health England initiatives are now addressing health inequalities exacerbated by the pandemic.
\nThe vision of Integrated Health and Social Care is to address the challenges of wellness, healthy ageing and health inequality. Northumbria University aims to support every sector of the community by promoting health equity to achieve five extra healthy years of life while promoting higher quality of life. It will achieve its vision by focusing on translational interdisciplinary research. Its Research Pillars foster synergies in three areas of existing Northumbria expertise and one emerging cross-cutting theme:
\nNorthumbria Univeristy is building a critical mass of research excellence that has socio-economic impact setting the following priority areas:
\nPartners include NIHR, SPHR, Fuse, AHSN, GNCR, QCC, BMA, Family Justice Board, the EC, UK Research Councils, Ministry of Defence, Innovate UK, and Department of Health along with industrial and SME partners in Pharmaceuticals, Technology and Nutrition.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5074456,"longitude":-0.1277653},{"infrastructure_id":"3686","name":"Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Reproduction","town":"Canterbury","postcode":"CT2 7NZ","tags":["art","history","law","cultural-studies","museum-studies","political-science","literature","policy","medicine","development-studies","philosophy","anthropology-ethnography","technology","ethics","sociology","psychology"],"addr1":"University Of Kent At Canterbury","addr2":"The Registry","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Reproduction (CISoR) comprises several like-minded academics dedicated to the study of reproduction in all its forms. Impactful, excellent research forms the basis of CISoRs activities including scientific advance, new products and processes, contribution to public policy, and public engagement.
\r\nThe purpose of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Reproduction (CISoR) is to take full advantage of the multidisciplinary nature of this field, providing a hub for research, education, enterprise, knowledge exchange and impact at the University of Kent. CISoR activities thus provide an outward facing, unified “brand” for the University, focussed under the banner of healthy reproduction.
\r\nThere are three priority areas of study:
\r\nThe International Economic Law (IEL) Collective is a forum for critical consideration of the intricate relationships within the expanding field of international economic law. It investigates how epistemological and methodological diversity can foster a more comprehensive landscape of scholarship on law and global economic governance. The Collective aspires to foster discussions on diversity, representation, and criticality in the research, teaching, and practice of international economic law, and to kindle fresh dialogues about the discipline's future.
\nOver the past three decades, international economic law has grown significantly, shifting from a subsidiary of public international law to a multi-layered, highly specialised discipline. This field includes an array of issues related to global economic law, regulation, and governance, such as trade, investment, finance, intellectual property, business regulation, energy, and competition law. Despite its expansion, the diversity and plurality of methodologies, perspectives, and voices within the discipline continue to be significant concerns.
\nMany IEL academics, practitioners, teachers, and students perceive the discipline to be limited by an orthodoxy that generates and perpetuates knowledge about the law and its operation, neglecting the broader socio-cultural, economic, political, geopolitical, and historical contexts. Ignoring these wider structural forces risks giving 'epistemological privilege' to traditional knowledge production sites and producers, rooted in historical and contemporary power and patriarchal imbalances.
\nAmid academic challenges to the lack of representation and diversity in gender, race, geographical locations, and general epistemologies, there is a call to reconsider how conventional international economic law is produced, both epistemically and operationally. The need to contextualise and historicise IEL scholarship, and highlight often overlooked perspectives, particularly those related to global economic vulnerability, inequality, and precarity, is urgent. This could lead to a deeper understanding of IEL and its impact on the groups it regulates and disciplines. Part of this project to disrupt, decolonise, and diversify IEL's epistemic landscape involves creating platforms to amplify traditionally neglected narratives and voices, such as women, ethnic and sexual minorities, indigenous peoples, and postcolonial communities.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.3813073,"longitude":-1.5639569481637439},{"infrastructure_id":"3697","name":"Africa Hub (AHub)","town":"Birmingham","postcode":"B15 2TT","tags":["art","law","political-science","language","literature","development-studies","anthropology-ethnography","religious-studies","media-studies","classics"],"addr1":"University Of Birmingham","addr2":"Edgbaston","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The University of Birmingham has a long tradition of studying Africa, attracting African students, and collaborating with African scholars and institutions.
\nThe Africa Hub (AHub) promotes and disseminates research conducted across its colleges and departments, as well as by invited scholars and international research partners, students and alumni.
\nThe University of Birmingham's research on Africa is world-leading, and it is one of a very select group of Universities in the UK that have a dedicated Department of African Studies and Anthropology founded in 1963. However, excellent research on Africa is carried out across all the five colleges of the University. While Africa is still marginal in school curricula and public culture, members engage pro-actively with unequal structures of knowledge production and exchange, and advocate for research that keeps African colleagues and institutions, and their concerns, at the heart of the field.
\nMedia, policy, and academic representations of Africa emphasise poverty, crisis and dependence. The point is not to confirm or deny these conditions: they exist for some people in some places. The point is to think critically, question received wisdom, and ask difficult questions. Africa Hub is a space for thinking Africa differently.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.4522956,"longitude":-1.9312856726008194},{"infrastructure_id":"3702","name":"Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC)","town":"Birmingham","postcode":"B15 2TT","tags":["history","law","criminology","political-science","economics","policy","sociology","social-science-keyword","voluntary-sector-keyword"],"addr1":"University Of Birmingham","addr2":"Edgbaston","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Launched in 2008, the Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC) produces influential academic research on the third sector. This includes charities, voluntary organisations, community groups, social enterprises, cooperatives, and mutuals.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.4522956,"longitude":-1.9312856726008194},{"infrastructure_id":"3722","name":"Gender, Justice and Security Hub","town":"London","postcode":"WC2A 2AE","tags":["law","policy","human-rights","gender-sexuality-studies","development-studies"],"addr1":"London School Of Economics & Political Science","addr2":"Houghton Street","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Gender, Justice and Security Hub is a multi-partner research network working with local and global civil society, practitioners, governments and international organisations to advance gender justice and inclusive peace.
\nBy bringing researchers from multiple disciplines and practices together, the Hub seeks to advance the delivery of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 on gender equality; SDG 16 on peace, justice and strong institutions; and the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda by developing an evidence-base around gender justice and inclusive security in conflict-affected societies.
\nConflict and gender-based violence have devastating, long-term consequences on individuals, families and communities. They also severely hamper the successful delivery of development goals internationally. Through the creation of new knowledge, research methods and advocacy networks the Hub will amplify the voices of women and marginalised groups and motivate reforms that effect local and global policy change.
\nThe Hub’s research comprises of 32 projects under six themes: Transformation and Empowerment; Livelihood, Land and Rights; Migration and Displacement; Masculinities and Sexualities; Law and Policy Frameworks and Methodological Innovation, across seven focus countries: Afghanistan, Colombia, Iraq, Lebanon, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka and Uganda. The research approach recognises the variety of gender insecurities and injustices and is motivated by a commitment to the development goals and progress towards gender justice and a sustainable peace.
\nThe Gender, Justice and Security Hub is one of twelve interdisciplinary research Hubs funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) through the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF).
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\nHowever, it’s not just businesses that benefit from analysis of these data. Researchers are also able to use consumer data to study what’s going on in society today.
\nThe Consumer Data Research Centre was established to lead academic engagement between industry and the social sciences, and utilise consumer data for academic research purposes.
\nThe Centre provides unique insight into a diverse range of societal and economic challenges, in collaboration with a wide range of consumer data providers.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.805792499999995,"longitude":-1.5551109986455112},{"infrastructure_id":"3769","name":"Women in International Law Network","town":"Manchester","postcode":"M13 9PL","tags":["law"],"addr1":"University Of Manchester","addr2":"Oxford Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Women in International Law Network, known as the Olive Schill Society (WILNET), has been launched to support and promote women in the field of international law. Founded by female researchers from the Manchester International Law Centre, this platform aims to provide a professional community for women at any career stage to discuss their experiences and pathways in international law.
\nWILNET welcomes women from various backgrounds in international law, including academia, international organisations, non-governmental organisations, consultancy, private practice, governments, and education.
\nWILNET was established at the School of Law of The University of Manchester by female researchers from the Manchester International Law Centre. It serves as a professional community for aspiring and established female scholars and lawyers in international law, providing a platform for discussions and sharing experiences. This includes networking events, podcasts, blog posts, and online interactive webchats.\nWILNET aims to promote and recognise the valuable contributions of women in international law, filling a long-standing need for a platform to exchange ideas and experiences. The University of Manchester is an apt location for this initiative, given its historical significance to women's advancement in the legal field. Professor Gillian White, one of the earliest women to hold a Professorship in the UK legal academy, had an appointment here, and Christabel Pankhurst, suffragette and co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union, obtained a law degree from this institution.
\nWILNET's activities include networking events and web-based content, such as interviews with female international lawyers. These interviews offer diverse perspectives on entering and advancing in the profession. Together, they aim to create a database of prominent historical women figures who have played a significant role in advancing international law.
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\nKey research themes:
\nThe Oxford Martin Programme on Wildlife Trade, initiated in December 2016, aims to comprehend and address the consumer demand facet of the illegal and unsustainable wildlife trade. It employs a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach, leveraging theories and methods from fields such as public health, computer science, economics, psychology, ecology, and sociology to tackle this significant global issue of the 21st century. In addition, it aspires to contribute to these disciplines and establish a novel research foundation within conservation science.
\nThis programme seeks to effect tangible change, partnering with wildlife conservation practitioners to understand and alter behaviour at the grass-roots level. It benefits from the guidance of internal and external advisory committees and establishes robust links with global collaborators.\nThe programme is also committed to fostering an active Wildlife Trade Network, promoting connections between global researchers and practitioners and encouraging knowledge exchange. It is hoped that their open, inclusive approach, coupled with intensive engagement with various stakeholders such as governments, NGOs, international conventions, and businesses, will encourage new research collaborations within Oxford and globally.
\nThe Oxford Martin Programme on Wildlife Trade is supported by the Oxford Martin School, with funding assured until 2019. There are plans to maintain and grow the programme in the long term. Interested supporters are invited to contact them.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.7583164,"longitude":-1.2651448728790433},{"infrastructure_id":"3858","name":"Middle East Study Centre (MESC)","town":"Hull","postcode":"HU6 7RX","tags":["history","law","political-science","language","literature","philosophy","religious-studies","drama-theatre","psychology"],"addr1":"University Of Hull","addr2":"Cottingham Road","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Middle East Study Centre (MESC) (formerly Group) is a think-tank that brings together people from different disciplines, academic and non-academic, to discuss Middle Easters affairs. Believing that university should be an integral part of the community, the MESC is open to all people who are interested in and engaged with ME politics. The group has been meeting since 2008, usually once a month on the third or fourth week of the month, to discuss pertinent topics. Meetings are usually designed for the discussion of work-in-progress papers, so presenters can benefit from the deliberation prior to publication.
\nThe Study Group conducts research in ME affairs, delivers high quality, relevant academic insights through public presentations, provides forums to consolidate and promote understanding of current affairs, serves as a meeting point for people of different nationalities to converse and debate, and supports justice, human rights, women rights, minority rights, health rights, peace, security, tolerance, the two state solution — Israel and Palestine — as well as freedom of expression and academic freedom.
\nThe group has dozens of members from different departments (Law, Politics, Business, Philosophy, Psychology, Drama, Biology, Theology and History). It includes lecturers, students, administrators and members of the public. They come from all over the world.
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\nRealism is a term used to describe a wide range of philosophical, scientific and social science approaches and frameworks. However, in the context of Realism Leeds, realism describes an approach to applied, empirical inquiry.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.805792499999995,"longitude":-1.5551109986455112},{"infrastructure_id":"3866","name":"Industry and Innovation Research Institute (I2Ri)","town":"Sheffield","postcode":"S1 1WB","tags":["art","design","law","criminology","sustainability","technology","media-studies","engineering","game-studies"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Industry and Innovation Research Institute (I2Ri) draws on talents, expertise and facilities across the university. The vision is to be the leading provider of applied research excellence delivering materials, computing, science and engineering innovations meeting the development needs of industry.
\nThe institute provides solutions to key global challenges, including:
\nCENTRIC is a multi-disciplinary and end-user focused centre of excellence, located within Sheffield Hallam University. The global reach of CENTRIC links both academic and professional expertise across a range of disciplines providing unique opportunities to progress ground-breaking research.
\nThe strategic aim of CENTRIC is to facilitate the triangulation between the four key stakeholders in the security domain:
\nThe mission of CENTRIC is to provide a platform for researchers, practitioners, policy makers and the public to focus on applied research in the Security domain.
\nThe primary research foci for CENTRIC are:
\nThe Criminal Investigation Research Network (CIRN) strives to enhance understanding of criminal investigation theories and practices, focusing predominantly on homicide and major crime investigation. This network amalgamates prominent academics worldwide, practitioners, and policy makers, all of whom are immersed in the development of practice and strategy for major crime investigation.
\nThe network's key objectives encompass bridging the knowledge and dialogue void between practitioners, researchers, and policy makers, international knowledge and best practice sharing, and fostering scholarly research and publications with operational relevance.\nCIRN boasts an international membership spanning the UK, North America, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Sweden, Italy, and the Netherlands. Its diverse membership includes academics, active and retired detectives, detective training consultants, police commanders, forensic scientists, and forensic science and forensic pathology regulators from the Home Office.
\nCIRN's collaborations and influence are far-reaching. It has fostered myriad successful international collaborations across academia, researchers, practitioners, and policy makers. For instance, within the UK, members closely collaborate with the police force to enhance organisational practices, especially in digital forensics. They are also part of several working groups within the Home Office and the National Police Chiefs' Council Transforming Forensics Programme.
\nThe network's research has had significant impact globally. Research undertaken by CIRN members has heavily influenced gun crime investigations in the US, especially regarding the utilisation of ballistic imaging and other technologies. In Canada, membership has supplied research tools and guidance to the Homicide Unit of the Calgary Police Department, assisting in their exploration of factors affecting homicide investigation outcomes in Western Canada.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.6001047,"longitude":-3.3449362},{"infrastructure_id":"3873","name":"Substance Use Research Group (SURG)","town":"Pontypridd","postcode":"OX1 3UL","tags":["law","criminology","health","political-science","policy","human-rights"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Situated within the Centre for Criminology at the University of South Wales, the Substance Use Research Group (SURG), established in 2019, undertakes top-tier research on drug and alcohol usage. The group, comprising scholars investigates various facets of substance use, including harm reduction, drug production and supply, legal responses, substance use in university students, 'treatment-resistant' heroin users, and substance misuse policy implementation.
\nSURG maintains strong collaborative ties with a broad spectrum of professionals in Wales' substance misuse sector. This includes academic peers at different institutions, Welsh Government officials, Public Health Wales personnel, and third-sector organisations. Among other responsibilities, SURG offers research support to the DIGDDAS consortium, serves on the Welsh Government’s National Drug Poisoning Prevention Implementation Board, oversees a KESS-funded PhD student in partnership with Kaleidoscope, and collaborates with Barod on a university-focused substance misuse service.\nIn 2021, SURG grew by appointing two Visiting Professors. Moreover, a Senior Drug Policy Manager at the Welsh Government completed her doctorate at USW, while one more is a Consultant Psychiatrist at Cardiff's Community Addictions Unit.
\nSURG has a robust history of securing internal and external funding for substance misuse research, having obtained grants from sources such as the Home Office, Ministry of Justice, Welsh Government, South Wales Police Crime and Commissioner, and third-sector treatment providers. Their research has resulted in a variety of high-quality publications that have contributed significantly to the evidence base on substance use.
\nCurrently, SURG is participating in several externally-funded projects, examining topics such as the Gwent heroin and crack action area evaluation, Covid-19 lessons for substance misuse service provision, Barod Digital Intervention Service evaluation, improving outcomes for treatment-resistant heroin users, minimum alcohol pricing impacts on drinkers and their families, misuse of over-the-counter and prescription medication, and substance misuse among university students as part of the Higher Education Alcohol and Drugs (HEADS) programme.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.6001047,"longitude":-3.3449362},{"infrastructure_id":"3874","name":"Violence, Homicide, Investigation and Prevention Expertise and Research (VHIPER)","town":"Pontypridd","postcode":"OX1 3UL","tags":["law","criminology","anthropology-ethnography"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Violence and Homicide Investigation and Prevention Research Group (VHIPER) is comprised of members from the Centre for Criminology at the University of South Wales (USW) who possess specialised knowledge in violence and homicide. This group includes USW criminologists.
\nVHIPER is renowned both domestically and internationally for their research in violence and homicide. The group's work is particularly recognised for its ethnographic and qualitative research methods. The scope of their research encompasses the investigation of homicide patterns and causes in the UK, USA, and Trinidad and Tobago, alongside studies of cold cases, no-body murders, miscarriages of justice, and sexual violence.
\nFurthermore, the research group also explores preventative measures for homicide, domestic violence, and alcohol-related violence, as well as violence amongst and against young individuals. They also focus on the risk management of violent and sexual offenders, and the role of restorative justice in promoting peace, particularly in regions affected by conflict such as Afghanistan.
\nVHIPER has an impressive history of securing external research funding from various organisations, including the ESRC, Council of Europe, European Commission, Leverhulme Trust, Home Office, and various government and charitable sources. Their research has led to a host of high-quality publications and reports that have significantly impacted theory, policy, and practice at both national and international levels. Committed to producing research with tangible relevance and positive impacts, VHIPER maintains strong connections with practitioners and policymakers, including police, forensic scientists, and a variety of government and voluntary sector representatives.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.6001047,"longitude":-3.3449362},{"infrastructure_id":"3875","name":"British Society of Criminology Vulnerability Research Network","town":"Pontypridd","postcode":"OX1 3UL","tags":["law","criminology","political-science","policy","philosophy"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The British Society of Criminology Vulnerability Research Network offers a means for discussion, critical analysis, and knowledge sharing among diverse and dispersed members of the British Society of Criminology and others. As such, its aims are as follows:
\nTo achieve these aims, the The British Society of Criminology Vulnerability Research Network will engage in activities that include:
\nAt the University of Southampton, WiSET+ is a group made up of staff across different faculties that aims to support women, enabling them to achieve their full potential by shaping university policies and culture. Founded in 2002, the group was formed to support Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (WiSET).
\r\nIn September 2018 the group was renamed WiSET+, signifying an expansion to all disciplines including science, technology, engineering, medicine, maths (STEMM), arts, humanities, social sciences, business and law (AHSSBL). WiSET+ will strengthen their working relationship with the other diversity groups within the university.
\r\nWiSET+ has achieved many things since it formed, including support of university wide Athena SWAN activities, reviewing the promotion process, raising the importance of work-life balance, mentoring and running equality, diversity and inclusion events. Every year WiSET+ invites champions of equality from worldwide, both male and female, to give the prestigious Campbell Lecture at the university.
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\nSouthampton Marine and Maritime Institute (SMMI) is the largest entity of its kind in the world, with expertise in everything from naval architecture to the social sciences. The institute's 350 specialists work across academic divides, and in partnership with external organisations, to address issues in the natural ocean environment (marine) and human use of the sea (maritime). The institute fosters new research collaborations, educate the next generation of maritime leaders, and generate knowledge and intelligence for businesses, governments and organisations.
\nThe research themes include but are not limited to:
\nTrade and transport:
\nEnergy and resources:
\nClimate and environment:
\nSociety and government:
\nThe Genethics Forum is for health professionals - and other interested parties - to discuss and explore difficult ethical and/or legal issues encountered in genetic medicine. The Genethics GeCIP (genomics England clinical interpretation partnership) focusses on such issues encountered in the 100,000 genomes project. The Genethics Forum takes place three times a year and anyone working in a clinical genetics department is welcome to come along. The meetings are relatively informal in order to facilitate discussion of cases presented from different centres. The meetings usually include a plenary talk on a particular theme of interest, such as for example, a talk by a medical lawyer on the law on confidentiality in genetics. The meetings are multi-disciplinary and aim to have a medical ethicist and an academic medical lawyer present at each meeting.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":54.7023545,"longitude":-3.2765753},{"infrastructure_id":"3886","name":"Innovation Lab Wales","town":"Swansea","postcode":"SA2 8PP","tags":["art","law","digital-humanities","human-rights","development-studies","technology","ethics","social-justice","ai","creative-technologies","natural-language-processing-keyword","data-analysis","digital-rights-keyword"],"addr1":"Swansea University","addr2":"Singleton Park","country":"United Kingdom","description":"Innovation Lab Wales is a university-based lab at Swansea University that builds collaboration between researchers, companies, and community partners to develop technology projects producing research opportunities and stakeholder impact. Its team of academics, commercial advisors, and developers helps translate ideas into working technology, from consultation and ideation through to full-stack proof-of-concept software. For the academic community, the software solutions the Lab builds can fuel research and serve as a foundation for commercialisation and spin-out. For local and regional business partners, the Lab co-creates web-based software solutions that leverage university expertise. The Lab currently focuses on humanities research and impact projects aimed at building solutions for a more informed, empathetic, and sustainable world. Its work is also supported by LegalTech research developed by the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law, covering areas including legal analytics and data science, regulation of new technologies, digital rights, algorithmic justice, blockchain and smart contracts, and the accessibility of LegalTech research. The Lab offers services spanning discovery workshops, dry and live prototyping, full-stack MVP development, and ongoing support.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.6080596,"longitude":-3.9773969},{"infrastructure_id":"3901","name":"Women in Refugee Law (WiRL) Network","town":"Bristol","postcode":"BS16 1QY","tags":["law","political-science","policy","refugee-studies-keyword","women-s-studies-keyword","refugee-law-keyword","women-refugees-keyword"],"addr1":"University Of The West Of England","addr2":"Frenchay Campus","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Women in Refugee Law (WiRL) network was set up in 2021 to bring together asylum seeking and refugee women, senior and early career scholars, practitioners, policymakers and activists working in this field around the globe.
\r\nThe purpose of the network is to re-centre the study of refugee women within refugee law, policy and practice. In particular, the initiative challenges the assumption that legal and policy changes in the last 30 years have displaced the need for continued research and advocacy efforts. It aims to safeguard advances and identify contemporary obstacles to the protection of women in refugee law, policy and practice.
\r\nThe network's aims are:
\r\nKeep up with WiRL's latest on LinkedIn!
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\r\nDrawing from the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU)’s tradition, members undertake academically rigorous, interdisciplinary and world-leading research that is relevant to contemporary policy challenges.
\r\nSome of the research themes include:
\r\nThe Art/Law Network is a gathering of artists, lawyers, agitators, coming together to work and collaborate for change.
\r\nThe network is a platform where artists can be in contact and collaborate with practitioners working within the law, the legal system, legal teaching and research.
\r\nSimilarly, the network provides a space where lawyers, activists, academics, thinkers of all creeds, can learn new open forms of law and legal thinking through bringing art into law.
\r\nThere are a number of themes the Art/Law Network are working with:
\r\nUK in a Changing Europe (UKICE) is a UK-wide network of academics and researchers coordinated from King’s College London. They promote high-quality and independent social science research on the broad theme of Brexit and its consequences.
\r\nUKICE's work includes politics and society, economics, law, governance and the constitution, the UK in the world, and UK-EU relations. UKICE presents research findings through events, workshops, debates, talks, briefing papers, reports, blogs, social media and via the press.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.514331600000006,"longitude":-0.10750152729540921},{"infrastructure_id":"3913","name":"Centre for Modern Thought","town":"Aberdeen","postcode":"AB24 3FX","tags":["art","law","political-science","language","literature","philosophy"],"addr1":"University Of Aberdeen","addr2":"Regent Walk","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Centre for Modern Thought was created at Aberdeen in 2005 in order to foster dynamic and theoretically informed cross-disciplinary research. It was established as a forum for rethinking the key intellectual movements of modernity in the context of the most urgent questions of today. Its degree-granting programmes are designed to provide graduate training and supervision at the very highest levels.
\nThe Centre has grown rapidly in the past two years, and has attracted significant attention on the global academic stage by reason of its distinguished participants and the breadth of its ambition. In its activities, it traverses the fields of literature, philosophy, theory of art, political and legal thought, and science studies. With a strong emphasis on intellectual history and philosophical foundations, members seek to give a new impetus to contemporary theoretical research. They also want to explore what is possible in the academy and to create a new interface between it and other sectors of cultural and political activity.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":57.16452475,"longitude":-2.1018363546621197},{"infrastructure_id":"3918","name":"Resistance Studies Network (RSN)","town":"Brighton","postcode":"BN1 9SJ","tags":["history","law","cultural-studies","museum-studies","political-science","language","literature","development-studies","philosophy","anthropology-ethnography","geography","diplomacy"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Resistance Studies Network (RSN) is a forum for scholars engaging with practices of resistance.
\nThe Resistance Studies Network is a joint initiative of the Universities of Gothenburg (Sweden), Sussex (UK) and Massachusetts (Amherst, USA), and is now administered with the support of the Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) at Sussex.
\nThe network aims to further collaboration and exchange on the study not only of struggles directed against overt practices of domination, exploitation and oppression; but also against practices of freedom, which place ethical constraints on who an individual can be. Moreover, members of the network hope to encourage interaction around positive and productive aspects of struggles, including those aimed at attaining new ways of being, relating and thinking. They are also interested in exploring the entanglements of power and resistance, especially potentially problematic and contradictory patterns of reproduction of domination within resistance.
\nWhile acknowledging the significance of traditional social movement studies, the RSN aims to heuristically explore new spaces of convergence from diverse fields such as international relations, law, philosophy development, anthropology, sociology, peace research, political science, geography and urban studies around empirical issues and concerns.
\nRSN aims to bring together scholarship informed by empirical sensitivities to actual practices of struggle, with philosophical, theoretical and ethical interrogations of such practices.
\nThe network is open for all interested in fostering pluralistic, critical and self-reflective exchange on diverse modes of resistance – be they organized or spontaneous, explicitly political or everyday struggles – from both historical and contemporary perspectives. It is not necessary for members to hold an academic position at a university.
\nThe following list is an indicative, although not exhaustive, idea of the sorts of questions that might animate members’ research:
\nWith the help of collaborative workshops and conferences, joint research and publication projects and thematic educational events, the RSN aspires to deepen collaboration between researchers interested in the study of resistance.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":50.8214626,"longitude":-0.1400561},{"infrastructure_id":"3919","name":"Coalition for Religious Equality in Development (CREID)","town":"Brighton","postcode":"BN1 8RE","tags":["law","health","human-rights","development-studies","religious-studies","technology","media-studies"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID) aims to redress the impact of discrimination on the grounds of religion or belief, tackle poverty and exclusion, and promote people’s wellbeing and empowerment using research evidence and delivering practical programmes.
\nDiscrimination on the grounds of religion or belief can mean that people:
\nCREID believes that freedom of religion or belief is essential for people living in poverty to achieve their potential, live in dignity, free from stigma and exclusion.
\nMembers provide research and deliver practical programmes tackling the impact of discrimination on the grounds of religion or belief. They work around the world, though their projects are focused on Egypt, India, Iraq, Pakistan and Nigeria.
\nThe coalition's five workstreams are:
\nMinority Rights Group International (MRG) campaigns worldwide with almost 300 partners in 60 countries to ensure that disadvantaged minorities and indigenous peoples, often the poorest of the poor, can make their voices heard.
\r\nMinorities that are of concern to MRG are defined as disadvantaged ethnic, national, religious, linguistic or cultural groups which are fewer in number than the rest of the population and which may wish to maintain and develop their identity.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.52061727413168,"longitude":-0.07435356907319357},{"infrastructure_id":"3923","name":"Food Equity Centre","town":"Brighton","postcode":"BN1 9RE","tags":["law","policy","human-rights","development-studies"],"addr1":"University Of Sussex","addr2":"Institute Of Development Studies","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Food Equity Centre brings together researchers, policy makers, practitioners and activists to collaborate in developing solutions to inequities in food systems. It addresses the urgent need for research and action towards fairness, justice, and inclusion at a time when the Covid-19 pandemic exposed the scale of food insecurity and structural issues that leaves people in poor food environments more vulnerable to disease and malnutrition.
\nThe Food Equity Centre is made up of leading actors in food security and social justice including food systems, nutrition, social protection, food sovereignty and the right to food. Through research, knowledge sharing and mutual learning between countries North and South, it is breaking down silos between researchers, activists and affected communities. The Centre is generating contextualised knowledge and actionable solutions contributing to transformative change that leads to equitable and sustainable food systems globally.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":50.8667576,"longitude":-0.0905336},{"infrastructure_id":"3938","name":"Academia and Activism Network","town":"Brighton","postcode":"BN1 9RH","tags":["law","cultural-studies","museum-studies","human-rights","gender-sexuality-studies"],"addr1":"University Of Sussex","addr2":"Sussex House","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Academia and Activism network aims to promote the cause of indigenous peoples around the globe, highlight issues of human rights, justice, social and gender equality, holistic development, provide an up-to-date report on the regions and people members support and share workshop, conferences, field work and current events.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":50.8667576,"longitude":-0.0905336},{"infrastructure_id":"3971","name":"Centre for Mechanism and Institution Design","town":"York","postcode":"YO10 5NB","tags":["design","law","political-science","economics","policy","development-studies","science","game-studies"],"addr1":"","addr2":"","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The University of York, particularly its Economics Department, upholds a strong commitment to economic theory, demonstrated by the establishment of the Centre for Mechanism and Institution Design in 2012. This Centre specialises in research concerning Mechanism Design, Market Design, and Institution Design. Its key objectives include supporting research and promoting its dissemination via visitors, workshops, and other activities.
\nThe Centre is the host of the Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design, published by the Society for the Promotion of Mechanism and Institution Design. Established in 2012, the Centre operates in the interdisciplinary field encompassing Economics, Game Theory, Politics, Law, Computer Science, and Mathematics.
\nThe Centre’s focus lies in the study and design of mechanisms for numerous resource allocation issues, spanning across diverse topics such as auctions, job matching, organ exchange, voting systems, taxation and welfare systems, risk control, environmental issues, financial regulations, international trade rules, and anti-corruption measures, among others.
\nThe Centre's objectives are to:
\nThe Centre engages in numerous activities and collaborations to achieve these objectives.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.9590555,"longitude":-1.0815361},{"infrastructure_id":"3978","name":"Ada Lovelace Institute","town":"London","postcode":"EC1M 4EH","tags":["law","health","policy","human-rights","technology","data-science","social-science-keyword","participatory-research","social-justice","biometrics-keyword"],"addr1":"Nuffield Foundation","addr2":"100 St. John Street","country":"United Kingdom","description":"The mission of the Ada Lovelace Institute is to ensure that data and AI work for people and society. Members believe that a world where data and AI work for people and society is a world in which the opportunities, benefits and privileges generated by data and AI are justly and equitably distributed and experienced.
\r\nRecognising the power asymmetries that exist in ethical and legal debates around the development of data-driven technologies, the Institute focuses not on the types of technologies one wants to build, but on the types of societies one wants to build.
\r\nThrough research, policy and practice, the Insitute aims to ensure that the transformative power of data and AI is used and harnessed in ways that maximise social wellbeing and put technology at the service of humanity.
\r\nStay up to date with the Institute's latest on Bluesky!
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5187656,"longitude":-0.1313963},{"infrastructure_id":"3981","name":"Cyberpsychology Research Group","town":"Nottingham","postcode":"NG1 4FQ","tags":["law","criminology","health","technology","media-studies","science","psychology","social-science-keyword"],"addr1":"50 Shakespeare Street","addr2":null,"country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Cyberpsychology Research Group is very active in undertaking and disseminating research in the area of the psychology of the Internet and digital technology use. The group’s research spans psychosocial implications of Internet and technology use across various channels and applications (e.g., smartphones, gaming, social networking), the use of technologies to inform mental health, education, and research, cybersecurity, as well as augmented and virtual reality applications.
\r\nWork by the group has appeared in major international journals such as Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, Computers in Human Behavior, Addiction, and Addictive Behaviors, and is regularly featured on national and international media, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the BBC.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":52.95801315,"longitude":-1.1520148456185568},{"infrastructure_id":"3982","name":"Sexual Offences, Crime and Misconduct Research Unit (SOCAMRU)","town":"Nottingham","postcode":"NG1 4FQ","tags":["law","criminology","cultural-studies","science","psychology","social-science-keyword"],"addr1":"50 Shakespeare Street","addr2":null,"country":"United Kingdom","description":"The Sexual Offences, Crime and Misconduct Research Unit (SOCAMRU) was set up in 2007 to build upon the collaborative relationship between ongoing research within the Psychology Division at NTU and HMP Whatton. HMP Whatton is one of the largest prisons in Europe, housing approximately 840 prisoners who have all been convicted of a sexual offence: the prison houses predominantly male prisoners with a small population of transgender prisoners.
\nSOCAMRU’s primary aim is to conduct and facilitate applied forensic research in the area of sexual crime, with the unit sitting at the juxtaposition between the domain of prison, police and criminal justice practitioners and that of academia.
\nSOCAMRU has continued to broaden its focus and develop new collaborations and working relationships; members of SOCAMRU work with prison management, forensic and clinical psychologists, police and probation services within HMP Stafford, HMP Ryehill, HMP Grendon, HMP Nottingham, HMP Lowdham Grange, Rampton High Secure hospital and HMP Whitemoor. SOCAMRU also collaborates with a number of charities and public-sector organisations, including the NSPCC, NAPAC, Lucy Faithfull Foundation, the Corbett Network for Prisoner Reintegration, Nottinghamshire police and probation services.
\nCurrent research includes:
\nThe Centre provides integrative perspectives on research impact relating to harm, poverty and inequality, social exclusion, migration, social justice, and socio-legal studies. The centre is collectively dedicated to advancing critical scholarship, implementing rigorous and innovative methodologies, researching and evidencing injustice, actively influencing policy agendas, and informing positive social action.
\r\nThe UK Association for Buddhist Studies aims to act as a focus for Buddhist Studies in the UK. UKABS is open to academics, post-graduates, and unaffiliated Buddhist scholars, as well as interested Buddhist practitioners.
\r\nThe association oversees a journal: Buddhist Studies Review, holds an annual conference, and helps to inform people of the ongoing work of others in the study of Buddhism, including relevant conferences, visiting scholars, seminar series, etc.
\r\nUKABS also organises an annual Scholar/Practitioner workshop which aims to bring together academics and practitioners (and those who are both!) to share talks and conversations about important Buddhist topics. They are informal, collegiate events, where everyone is welcome.
\r\nThe Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context (CLSGC) is a home for multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research into the global dimensions of law and society.
\r\nAt its core, the Centre aims to work towards a better theorisation of law in its changing social contexts, exploring the challenges posed for this endeavour by law’s increasingly important global dimensions. Members conceive this as an open collaborative project, welcoming the insights of socio-legal and doctrinal scholars working in any area of law. They understand ‘global context’ broadly, encompassing transnational, international, regional, supra-state, and (where relevant) sub-state phenomena. The Centre aims to combine both contemporary and historical approaches, recognising that the global dimension of law and society is, in many respects, not a new phenomenon. Centre researchers undertake collaborative research and supervise postgraduate research.
\r\nFrom 2018 to 2021 the Centre focused on the following three research themes:
\r\nThe Centre for Commercial Law and Financial Regulation (CCLFR) was founded by the School of Law and ICMA Centre in 2011 as a forum for stimulating and conducting research and fr disseminating knowledge on international commercial law and financial regulation. Our academic staff contribute regularly to policy development and law reform, by acting as consultants to governments, commissions and practitioners, and by engaging in debate through conferences and public fora. From its creation a core part of CCLFR’s mission has been to combine excellence in research with excellence in teaching. It is a leading centre for postgraduate studies in commercial law, providing a stimulating environment in which students benefit from learning from leading academics who regularly invite experienced practitioners to participate in their teaching provision. A focus on international, comparative and multi-disciplinary perspectives is a key characteristic of teaching within CCLFR, and its students have access to modules run not only by the School of Law, but also by ICMA, Henley Business School, and the Department of Economics.
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\r\nWe welcome collaborations from outside academia as the Centre will serve as a hub of expertise for research, policy makers, practitioners, journalists, campaigners and
others who can benefit from our work.
The Brigstow Institute's vision is to transform the way people research all aspects of what it means to be human in the 21st century. This is done by enabling more equitable and relevant research that includes diverse voices and knowledge.
\r\nBrigstow brings researchers from different disciplines together with a range of partners across the city and beyond to experiment in new ways of living and being. Brigstow's research is underpinned by a commitment to a distinctive way of working that foregrounds interdisciplinary, co-produced research with – and not just for – external partners, and an emphasis on ‘critical making’ as a research methodology.
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\r\nIn the specific context of Law at Leeds, Law and Social Justice provides a vibrant and productive research home for a significant number of academics and researchers, as well as recognising and building upon the School’s long tradition in these areas both academically and in terms of its engagement with local communities. It seeks to make an impact within the local and global community.
\r\nThe research group promotes all research in law and social justice whether doctrinal, empirical, socio-legal, interdisciplinary, theoretical, inter-theoretical, or policy focused, and our research is national and international in its scope. We foster an active and flourishing academic environment for teaching and research.
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","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":54.982902655555584,"longitude":-1.6136325095461164},{"infrastructure_id":"4361","name":"Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment","town":"Oxford","postcode":"OX1 3QY","tags":["law","political-science","economics","development-studies","sustainability","geography"],"addr1":"University Of Oxford","addr2":"Dysons Perrins Laboratory","country":null,"description":"The Smith School at Oxford University focuses on integrating business and enterprise into the discourse surrounding climate change and sustainability. Its research, teaching, and partnerships support the vision of a Net Zero future. The Smith School is driven by individuals who bring fresh perspectives to the table.
\r\nThe vision of the Smith School is to achieve a net-zero emissions future and establish a sustainable global economic and financial system. This entails preserving the planet's health and creating a more prosperous and equitable world. The school accomplishes this through its world-leading research, teaching, and partnerships, which offer business-oriented solutions to stabilize the climate and protect the natural world. Education plays a vital role in their mission, equipping the next generation through undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as empowering business leaders through executive education. The Smith School also hosts public lectures, academic conferences, and brings together partners from the business, finance, and enterprise sectors worldwide.
\r\nEstablished in 2008, the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment owes its existence to the generous support of Sir Martin and Lady Elise Smith and their family. Recognising the importance of involving the business community in addressing climate change and environmental sustainability, the school aims to bridge the gap between academia and industry.
\r\nThe school's research draws upon the expertise of its multidisciplinary researchers, who collaborate with like-minded academics from various departments within the University of Oxford. Many staff members hold joint appointments or affiliations with other institutions within the university, such as the School of Geography and Environment, the Saïd Business School, the Institute of New Economic Thinking, the Economics Department, the Law Faculty, and the Oxford Martin School.
\r\nLocated within the School of Geography and the Environment, the Smith School benefits from its close association with the department's Environmental Change Institute and the Transport Studies Unit. This proximity provides invaluable access to their exceptional teaching resources and expertise.
\r\nResearch strands include:
\r\nThe Bonavero Institute is dedicated to fostering world-class research and scholarship in human rights law, to promoting public engagement in and understanding of human rights issues, and to building valuable conversations and collaborations between human rights scholars and human rights practitioners.
\r\nThe Institute pursues its mission by approaching human rights in a broad manner, including its various formulations in moral and political theory, social and political practice, and international, regional, and domestic law, as well as the institutional frameworks and conditions conducive to their realisation.
\r\nThe Institute is committed to building and enhancing human rights expertise in early career scholars, practitioners (including judges, lawyers, governmental and non-governmental organisations, and politicians) and members of civil society, with a particular focus on scholars and practitioners working in understudied regions outside North America and Western Europe.
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\r\nHuman rights law operates on multiple levels, ranging from national constitutions and statutes such as the UK's Human Rights Act 1998 to European Treaties and International Conventions.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.7587075,"longitude":-1.2556685},{"infrastructure_id":"4380","name":"Business Law Research Group","town":"Oxford","postcode":"OX1 2JD","tags":["law"],"addr1":"University Of Oxford","addr2":"University Offices","country":null,"description":"In this expansive field, colleagues and, in many cases, groups in the UK are engaged in alternative dispute resolution, banking law, commercial law, company law, financial regulation, insolvency law, law and finance, restructuring law, securities law, takeover regulation, and tax law.
\r\nWhile primarily focused on English law, their work increasingly encompasses comparative and international perspectives, with a particular emphasis on the EU and the US, as well as Commonwealth legal systems and growing markets like China, India, and Brazil. Interdisciplinary research is a significant aspect, fostered through strong collaborations with economist colleagues at the Saïd Business School. They organise a vibrant Business Law Workshop series on Wednesday lunchtimes and maintain an active schedule of conferences.
\r\nThe Business Law group at Oxford maintains strong research ties with the legal profession, engaging both practitioners and members of the judiciary in seminars and conferences. They receive research funding from the government and supplement it with grants and donations from various sources. Group members actively contribute to policy-related work for organisations such as the Commonwealth Secretariat, the European Commission, and the European Securities and Markets Authority.
\r\nOxford's Business Law group has formed a strategic alliance with Columbia Law School, which includes a faculty exchange program and has led to numerous joint conferences and research projects. They also have a thriving doctoral program, with many graduates now serving as colleagues at Oxford and other universities.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.7587075,"longitude":-1.2556685},{"infrastructure_id":"4381","name":"British Centre for Durkheimian Studies (BCDS)","town":"Oxford","postcode":"OX1 2JD","tags":["history","law","museum-studies","anthropology-ethnography","religious-studies","sociology","book-studies"],"addr1":"University Of Oxford","addr2":"University Offices","country":null,"description":"Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) was a French philosopher and sociologist whose work on religion, society, and social interactions continues to have a lasting impact. His influential 1912 book, \"The Elementary Forms of Religious Life,\" remains a crucial framework for understanding the relationship between religion and various cultural aspects such as national, ethnic, and civic identity. Despite the indirect acknowledgment by many post-structuralist and post-modernist thinkers, Durkheim's ideas remain fundamental in French theoretical and sociological materials.
\r\nThe British Centre for Durkheimian Studies, founded by Durkheim expert W.S.F. (Bill) Pickering in 1991, serves as a central forum and hub for the study of religion. It is now located within the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford, supporting and promoting research in various Durkheimian disciplines, including religion, anthropology, sociology, law, and politics. The Centre actively publishes significant monographs, edited volumes, and dedicated journals, primarily through its long-standing partnership with Berghahn Books. Additionally, the Centre provides social theory of religion courses at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels.
\r\nOriginally established in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in 1991, the British Centre for Durkheimian Studies was transferred to the Faculty of Theology and Religion in 2017. This move aims to highlight the Faculty's pivotal role in advancing Durkheimian studies in the UK, particularly in the realm of theoretical research on the social aspects of religion.
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\r\nThrough Conferences, Workshops, Discussion Forums, and an Online Papers and Materials Database, the CCLP facilitates the exchange of views on competition law and policy among scholars and practitioners.
\r\nIn collaboration with the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, the CCLP organises the annual Antitrust Enforcement Symposium. It also features the 'Guest Lecture Programme,' where prominent practitioners and academics discuss recent topics in competition law and policy. Additionally, the Centre offers training programs for competition officials and operates a voluntary program on 'The Value of Competition.'
\r\nMoreover, the CCLP houses a research project focusing on Competition Policy and Economic Inequality.
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\r\nThe Institute focuses on research and teaching in comparative law and European Union law, and it leads the Law Faculty's Comparative and European Law Research Group. It includes the Centre for Competition Law and Policy, a specialised unit dedicated to research and teaching of competition law and policy at the University of Oxford.
\r\nThe Institute plays a crucial role in teaching comparative law, EU law, and competition law at Oxford. Its members oversee relevant undergraduate and graduate courses, and the IECL contributes a designated module on 'comparative methodology' to the Faculty's 'Course in Legal Methods' for research students. Additionally, the Institute manages the popular four-year undergraduate program, Law with Law Studies in Europe, which involves a year at one of Oxford's partner universities in continental Europe. It prepares Oxford students for their third year abroad and welcomes incoming exchange students who study for the one-year Diploma in Legal Studies in Oxford.
\r\nThe Institute's research agenda is driven by the interests and activities of its members. While its traditional strength lies in the study of various European jurisdictions and comparisons between them, its scope has expanded to include other legal systems worldwide and engagement with comparative law in regions such as Asia. The Institute's work also embraces the emerging field of 'comparative common law' and covers both private and public law with relevant methodological expertise.
\r\nRegarding EU law, the Institute's members cover a wide range of topics, from fundamental constitutional questions to the internal market's black letter law, EU private law, and issues of state aid and competition. With Brexit making EU law a 'foreign' legal order from the UK's perspective, the Institute's unique combination of skills in comparative and EU law positions it well to navigate the fast-moving developments and serve as a beacon of EU law scholarship outside the European Union itself.
\r\nThe Institute hosts regular seminars and conferences that often lead to publications in the series by Hart Publishing. It also fosters strong academic connections with institutions and researchers worldwide on behalf of the Law Faculty, resulting in collaborative projects. The sought-after Academic Visitor program welcomes around twenty post-doctoral researchers each year, enabling advanced research in comparative and/or EU law and contributing to the academic community at Oxford. The Institute is also open to exploring long-term affiliations with post-doctoral researchers who hold external research grants in the relevant fields and will provide support for appropriate grant applications.
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\r\nThe Centre provides high-quality graduate education in criminology to students worldwide, offering both master's and doctoral programs. These degrees are available to full-time and part-time students.
\r\nThe Centre for Criminology is a prominent institution for social inquiry and graduate education in criminology and criminal justice. Its staff and students are dedicated to comprehending and addressing contemporary public policy challenges across different areas of order, justice, and control.
\r\nCriminology is regarded as a \"meeting place\" within the Centre, where staff members, originally trained in history, law, politics, international relations, psychology, and sociology, explore questions of order, justice, and control. This exploration takes place in conjunction with broader social sciences, social and political theory, and topics such as decolonisation, gender, political economy, race, and the future of a planet affected by climate change.
\r\nResearch and policy engagement conducted by Centre staff focus on the following areas, which also serve as themes for doctoral research supervision:
\r\nApproaching these topics, the Centre adheres to several orientations and intellectual commitments unique to criminological research at Oxford:
\r\nThe Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX) employs an interdisciplinary approach, integrating methods of inquiry and analysis from legal scholarship and the social sciences.
\r\nThe Centre emphasises public and patient engagement and outreach, with a focus on responsible innovation that addresses the requirements and concerns of various stakeholders. It ensures compliance with legal obligations and prioritises the public interest as well as the needs of future generations.
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\r\nTheir current areas of focus range from CRISPR and assisted reproductive technologies to COVID track and trace systems, Big Data analytics, AI, machine learning, and renewable energy sources. The group is concerned with the impact of these technologies on various aspects of daily life, local communities, and future societies. The Oxford Law Faculty offers a wide range of events, student opportunities, research projects, and other related activities in the field of Law and Technology.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.7587075,"longitude":-1.2556685},{"infrastructure_id":"4398","name":"Centre for Socio-Legal Studies","town":"Oxford","postcode":"OX1 3UQ","tags":["law"],"addr1":"University Of Oxford","addr2":"Manor Road Building","country":null,"description":"For fifty years, the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies has led research on the nature and role of law in society. Their researchers examine law as a historically and culturally specific form of social organisation, taking various shapes within and across societies. The expert staff at the Centre bring together diverse disciplinary expertise, including law, sociology, anthropology, politics, international relations, human rights, economics, geography, and art history, to explore the intersection of law and society.
\r\nThe Centre's staff specialises in theoretically informed studies of law in action. Their work extensively utilises techniques such as interviewing, participant observation, focus groups, surveys, discourse analysis, and statistical analysis of data. Numerous associate research fellows and academic visitors also collaborate with the Centre's staff, contributing to its wide range of academic activities.
\r\nThe Centre boasts a substantial group of socio-legal students, forming the largest assembly within a single academic unit in the UK. In the Centre's informal and relaxed environment, experienced Professors, Associate Professors, and Post-doctoral fellows teach and supervise graduate research students at both master's and doctoral levels. The students come from diverse international backgrounds, bringing fresh and exciting ideas to the research clusters. Their dedication and enthusiasm greatly contribute to the Centre's success. Moreover, the Centre serves as an excellent platform for post-doctoral scholars seeking specialised mentoring, project development, academic experience, and career advancement.
\r\nThe Centre's staff and students share several core values. They aim to foster the development of early career academics and build capacity in the field. Additionally, they strive to create a safe and inclusive environment for all colleagues, regardless of gender, age, religion, or ethnic identity.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.7587075,"longitude":-1.2556685},{"infrastructure_id":"4402","name":"Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)","town":"Oxford","postcode":"OX1 2JD","tags":["history","law","political-science","economics","policy","philosophy","anthropology-ethnography","science","engineering","psychology","war-studies","conflict-studies-keyword","security-studies-keyword"],"addr1":"University Of Oxford","addr2":"University Offices","country":null,"description":"The Changing Character of War Centre (CCW) is an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Oxford, located at Pembroke College and the Department of Politics and International Relations. In addition to research projects, CCW provides tailored policy advice.
\r\nCCW is generously funded by the Ax:Son Johnson Foundation (Sweden), with specific projects receiving grants from the UK Government and the US Government.
\r\nCCW has examined armed conflict and its consequences since 2003, bringing together scholars from various disciplines, including History, Politics, International Relations, Law, and Philosophy. CCW has established connections with Anthropology, Psychology, Economics, and other Oxford centres of excellence such as the Centre for International Studies, Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict, Oxford Internet Institute, and Blavatnik School of Government. Collaborations have also been formed with scientific disciplines such as computer science, mathematics, and engineering, recognizing the impact of new technologies on modern armed conflict. The examination of change occurs through practice analysis, conceptual development, and theoretical foundations.
\r\nCCW has forged partnerships with institutions worldwide that research all aspects of war and its effects. To enhance the quality and impact of research, visiting research fellows, including academics and qualified practitioners, are invited to engage in joint projects. Non-resident fellows collaborate on specific projects. CCW has partnered with institutions and individuals globally, including the Netherlands Defence Academy, SAIS at Johns Hopkins, the NATO Defence College, the Norwegian National Defence University and Staff College, Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, and CMI Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation. Additionally, CCW contributes to the academic community by organizing events open to faculty members and students, supervising DPhil candidates, participating in the Foreign Service Programme, and contributing to master's and undergraduate teaching.
\r\nThe research conducted by CCW aspires to achieve the highest quality and rigor, addressing significant themes and challenges related to armed conflict and analysing the dynamics of change. While primarily focused on armed conflict, CCW collaborates with other disciplines and fields to enhance understanding and depth of knowledge.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.7587075,"longitude":-1.2556685},{"infrastructure_id":"4404","name":"Ethical Web and Data Architectures Programme","town":"Oxford","postcode":"OX1 3BD","tags":["art","law","information-studies","philosophy","technology","science","architecture"],"addr1":"University Of Oxford","addr2":"Old Indian Institute Building","country":null,"description":"Three decades ago, the World Wide Web was introduced as an open, universal platform, accessible to anyone possessing a computer and modem. Recently, it has strayed considerably from its original principles and is now dominated by platform companies generating substantial profits.
\r\nOriginally intended to usher in a Digital Enlightenment, what transpired is the extensive collection of personal data, employed for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) purposes. This data targets advertising and influences content preferences. The individual's personal data becomes a source of value extraction, without long-term control or influence over the use of their data.
\r\nAs the rest of the world's population gains online access, researchers must construct digital infrastructures that encourage human development, individual autonomy, and self-determination in the emerging digital societies. This will involve redesigning the information architectures of the web and deploying new legal and regulatory systems.
\r\nThe Ethical Web and Data Architectures Programme’s work revolves around four key areas:
\r\nThis programme unites researchers from Oxford's Department of Computer Science, Faculties of Law and Philosophy, the Oxford Internet Institute, and the Blavatnik School of Government.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.7587075,"longitude":-1.2556685},{"infrastructure_id":"4420","name":"Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice in Health and Social Care","town":"Oxford","postcode":"OX1 2JD","tags":["law","health","economics","philosophy","ethics","medical-humanities"],"addr1":"University Of Oxford","addr2":"University Offices","country":null,"description":"The Collaborating Centre, located at St Catherine's College in Oxford, has been established to promote the advancement of values-based practice through shared learning. It serves as a hub for a diverse range of individuals and organisations dedicated to different aspects of values-based practice in the healthcare field, with a particular emphasis on mental health, social care, and the expansion of values-based approaches into other healthcare domains, such as surgery.
\r\nThe primary objective of the Centre is to foster collaborations among individuals and organisations striving to enhance the utilisation of values in health and social care, facilitating the development of more effective methodologies.
\r\nThe Centre primarily focuses on values-based approaches, fostering strong connections with other relevant resources for working with values, such as ethics, law, health economics, decision analysis, and various aspects of the medical humanities. Additionally, it actively promotes collaboration with evidence-based practice. The Centre operates on the principle that values-based and evidence-based approaches are equally important in the realm of clinical care.
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\r\nThe goal of the Centre is to foster and support debates and in-depth rational reflection on practical ethics. It does not endorse any particular philosophy, approach, solution, or viewpoint as a whole, although individual members may present arguments to facilitate dialogue, engagement, and reflection. The Centre's focus is on advancing the method of rational analytic practical ethics, with a Socratic vision that emphasises inclusivity. The aim is to encourage debates between different ethical approaches, resolve disagreements, and identify areas of consensus.
\r\nPractical ethics should not only deepen knowledge through rational ethical reflection and dialogue, but also inspire personal transformation, leading to improved lives for individuals and others.
\r\nHumanity has thrived and reshaped its world, developing increasingly powerful technology with immense potential for immediate benefits as well as ultimate harm. This success has given rise to novel problems and challenges, for which traditional institutions and norms were not originally designed. These include climate change, environmental degradation, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, global inequality and poverty, cross-continental migration and multiculturalism, overuse of antibiotics, worldwide spread of infectious diseases, genetic engineering, biomedical life extension, cognitive and moral enhancement, and artificial intelligence. The fate of humanity in the 21st century and beyond will depend, to a greater extent than ever before, on the choices made by human beings—both leaders and citizens of nations. It is the values, principles, and broader ethics of these individuals that will shape their decisions. The Centre’s objective is to facilitate the development of practical ethics and enhance its effectiveness in guiding human choices.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":["Unfunded fellowships","Prizes"],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.7587075,"longitude":-1.2556685},{"infrastructure_id":"4426","name":"Commercial Law Centre","town":"Oxford","postcode":"OX1 2JD","tags":["law"],"addr1":"University Of Oxford","addr2":"University Offices","country":null,"description":"The Commercial Law Centre is located at Harris Manchester College. Centre fellows engage in diverse research activities related to Commercial Law.
\r\nThe Centre's objective is to create a conducive environment for high-quality research in various aspects of national, international, transnational, and comparative law, pertaining to commerce and finance. It also focuses on emerging markets. The Centre supports interdisciplinary research in these fields and facilitates interaction among academics, practitioners, and policymakers worldwide. Its aim is to foster and encourage future researchers in this vital domain of legal scholarship.
\r\nThe Commercial Law Centre extends a warm welcome to visiting researchers and offers programs for visiting academics and junior academics.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.7587075,"longitude":-1.2556685},{"infrastructure_id":"4427","name":"Computers and Law Research Group","town":"Oxford","postcode":"OX1 2JD","tags":["law","information-studies","technology","science"],"addr1":"University Of Oxford","addr2":"University Offices","country":null,"description":"Legal systems worldwide are undergoing transformative changes due to new technologies and alternative business models. Utilising innovative technologies can reduce costs, enhance the efficiency of legal services, and improve access to justice for citizens.
\r\nThe increasing integration of AI, machine learning, and digital technology into modern life gives rise to legally significant events that may challenge the existing legal framework. As a result, both legal professionals and computer scientists need to grasp the digital context and understand the potential legal implications of design choices.
\r\nThe University encompasses various research streams addressing these challenges and exploring the optimal approaches to tackle them. The Law Faculty, in particular, focuses on the interdisciplinary field of Law and Computer Science, which offers exciting research opportunities. The Faculty houses the Computers and Law Research group, which is engaged in several significant grant-funded projects. It also facilitates vibrant and engaging discussion groups for sharing and discussing research findings.
\r\nFurthermore, in collaboration with the Faculty of Computer Science, the University offers a postgraduate course in Law and Computer Science. This course welcomes law students pursuing the BCL, MJur, and MLF degrees, as well as Computer Science students in their fourth year or MSc program.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.7587075,"longitude":-1.2556685},{"infrastructure_id":"4437","name":"Family and Medical Law Research Group","town":"Oxford","postcode":"OX1 2JD","tags":["law","ethics"],"addr1":"University Of Oxford","addr2":"University Offices","country":null,"description":"The Family and Medical Law Research Group explores diverse facets of life's value. The research, conducted by faculty members, postdoctoral researchers, and research students, encompasses a broad range of topics.
\r\nOn the Group’s website there is information about the research projects undertaken by different faculty members, as well as details about graduate research students and their completed DPhil projects. Additionally, recorded lectures, interviews, and podcasts are available for exploration.
\r\nThe research group provides undergraduate and graduate courses. 'Family Law' and 'Medical Law and Ethics' are potential options for undergraduate students in their Final Honours School. Graduate students pursuing the BCL and MJur degrees have the opportunity to study 'Medical Law and Ethics'.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.7587075,"longitude":-1.2556685},{"infrastructure_id":"4439","name":"Future of Plastics Programme","town":"Oxford","postcode":"OX1 3BD","tags":["law","information-studies","economics","development-studies","sustainability","technology"],"addr1":"University Of Oxford","addr2":"Old Indian Institute Building","country":null,"description":"The pervasiveness of plastic, a material integral to human lives, is unfortunately echoed by the omnipresence of discarded plastic. With an annual production exceeding 350 million tonnes, only a minority of these plastics are recycled, and many are persistent materials not intended for degradation.
\r\nPlastic pollution, evident globally on land and in the seas, is a direct consequence of the remarkable durability of modern plastics. Nonetheless, plastics are crucial for achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with applications in lightweight transport, water purification, high-performance electronics, food waste reduction, effective insulation, and essential medical devices.
\r\nTransforming the lifecycle of plastics towards a more circular model – one that eliminates waste through design for disassembly and re-use – holds the potential to address many of these issues whilst preserving the valuable contributions of plastic to the SDGs. Addressing the issues with current plastic production, use, and disposal necessitates transcending entrenched disciplinary boundaries and robust engagement with the manufacturing and end-user industries. This programme aims to assemble experts to innovatively address the technical, economic, and legal aspects surrounding a future plastic economy that bolsters, rather than hampers, the SDGs.
\r\nThe intention is to develop new materials for application in those plastic sectors presenting significant challenges. This involves exploring the relatively unexamined concept of chemical recycling, where plastics are reduced to their base ingredients for re-use. This method could enable multiple recycling cycles for the same plastics without diminishing their beneficial properties. In the long term, the goal is to develop packaging that is both recyclable and biodegradable.
\r\nAlongside the new materials, an implementation roadmap will be developed to identify strategies for overcoming the market, regulatory, and societal obstacles to their broad adoption. The roadmap will be refined with input from stakeholders, including industry, NGOs, international bodies, and academia.
\r\nThe primary objective is transitioning to a new plastic economy, where future plastics are fully recyclable and ultimately degradable. Implementing interventions to transform technology, law, social policy, human behaviour, and economics, as well as prototyping patented materials and products, will be vital to this goal. The vision is a future that mitigates environmental harm and pollution without sacrificing the manifold benefits that plastics provide.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.7587075,"longitude":-1.2556685},{"infrastructure_id":"4444","name":"Global Criminal Justice Hub","town":"Oxford","postcode":"OX1 3UL","tags":["law","criminology"],"addr1":"University Of Oxford","addr2":"St. Cross Building","country":null,"description":"To foster global understanding and dialogue on criminal justice responses to various crimes, such as cybercrime, human trafficking, justice for migrants and asylum seekers, conflicts, aggression, and war crimes, law enforcement in developing democracies, and the worldwide use of judicial and non-judicial executions.
\r\nCriminology and criminal justice, until recently, have primarily focused on local or national contexts. This emphasis is justified due to the fact that criminal law is largely constrained by national boundaries. However, with the increasing impact of mass migration and globalisation on every aspect of modern life, including food, neighbours, finances, friendships, reading material, and travel destinations, it is unreasonable to assume that criminal justice remains unaffected. Not only are certain crimes, such as terrorism, cybercrime, trafficking, and drug offenses, global in nature, but criminal justice agencies and institutions are also increasingly operating across borders and exerting influence far beyond their own territories. Consequently, criminal justice has not only expanded, but it has also undergone changes in its impact and, to some extent, its rationale.
\r\nIn June 2016, the Centre established the Global Criminal Justice Hub as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations, aiming to facilitate collaborative exchanges with universities worldwide. In 2018, the inaugural Global Criminal Justice Early Career Conference was held, which included students from Monash University and Hong Kong University. Additionally, the Hub's DPhil students were given the opportunity to participate in the Monash University intensive writing program at Prato, where they could prepare articles for publication. In 2019, the Hub welcomed its first visiting fellow, a human rights lawyer, co-founder, and director of the Indonesian legal aid organization LBH Masyarakat, through the Global Criminal Justice Hub. Moreover, the HUB co-hosted a two-day symposium on sentencing in Africa.
\r\nFor additional details or to contribute to these initiatives, please reach out to the Criminology team. They have a specific focus on raising funds to aid students from the global South in attending Oxford, whether it be through the MSc course or as research students in the DPhil program.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.7587075,"longitude":-1.2556685},{"infrastructure_id":"4451","name":"Institute for Ethics in AI","town":"Oxford","postcode":"OX1 2JD","tags":["art","law","health","political-science","human-rights","philosophy","ethics","ai","wellbeing-keyword","human-centred-ai-keyword","ai-regulation-keyword","ai-ethics-keyword"],"addr1":"University Of Oxford","addr2":"University Offices","country":null,"description":"The Institute for Ethics in AI brings together leading philosophers and experts in the humanities with AI developers and users in academia, business, and government. The ethics and governance of AI is a thriving field of research at Oxford University, and the Institute aims to build upon this foundation.
Part of the Philosophy Faculty, the Institute is located in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities at the University of Oxford. It was established in June 2019 through a generous donation from Stephen A. Schwarzman and officially launched in February 2021 with a panel event focused on AI in a Democratic Culture.
The Institute's core belief is that a robust and rigorous approach to the various challenges and opportunities presented by Artificial Intelligence requires a strong grounding in philosophy and the humanities. Two fundamental themes emerge as the pillars of the Institute's work: human rights, which encompass essential ethical principles safeguarding human dignity, and democracy, the political system that best upholds human rights and other valuable objectives like peace.
\r\nFour decades ago, philosophers played a significant role in shaping the field of medical ethics. Now a critical juncture has been reached where a similar ethical intervention is necessary to address the questions arising from the rise of AI.
\r\nEach day brings new instances of ethical dilemmas posed by AI, ranging from facial recognition and voter profiling to brain-machine interfaces and weaponised drones. Additionally, ongoing discussions explore the global impact of AI on employment. This work is both urgent and important, and members aim to promote it internationally while incorporating it into their research and teaching at Oxford.
\r\nResearch themes at the Institute encompass:
\r\nThe Intellectual Property Discussion Group (IPDG) provides a forum to facilitate the exchange of ideas between students, faculty members and practitioners on topics relating to intellectual property law, although the group welcomes cross-disciplinary participation. It is primarily intended as a platform for research students to present their work, hold discussions and gain feedback in an informal environment; however, members welcome all students interested in intellectual property law to join them and learn with them.
\r\nAn IPDG meeting typically features a 30-40 minute presentation followed by a discussion. The IPDG meets several times a term.
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\r\nIt organises a termly Invited Speaker Series and the annual International Intellectual Property Moot. Additionally, the Centre hosts academic visitors and research students on a yearly basis. Centre members have established long-lasting and collaborative relationships with prominent intellectual property practitioners through the Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice. Currently, they are also involved with the new MSc in Intellectual Property. The Diploma is a part-time vocational program offered by the Law Faculty in collaboration with the University and the Intellectual Property Lawyer's Association.
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\r\nIt utilises various branches of philosophy to investigate questions regarding communal living and the understanding of societal institutions. Oxford has been a prominent centre for jurisprudence since H.L.A. Hart assumed the role of Professor of Jurisprudence in 1952. Even after seven decades, the University of Oxford remains a leader in this field, housing the largest group of jurisprudence scholars globally, engaged in research projects of significant breadth and depth.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.7587075,"longitude":-1.2556685},{"infrastructure_id":"4464","name":"Law in Societies Research Cluster","town":"Oxford","postcode":"OX1 2JD","tags":["law"],"addr1":"University Of Oxford","addr2":"University Offices","country":null,"description":"The Law in Societies Cluster offers a platform for Wolfson Fellows, external speakers, and an academic and public audience to explore diverse aspects of law and legal phenomena. It serves as an interdisciplinary forum, fostering exchanges between lawyers, political scientists, sociologists, human geographers, anthropologists, historians, and philosophers. This collaborative environment generates new ideas and promotes debates on the rules, both formal and informal, that have shaped social order in various cultures and contexts throughout history.
\r\nThe Law in Societies Cluster organises a range of events, including one public lecture per term. The autumn lecture focuses on the intersection of law and political science, while the winter lecture explores law and humanities themes. Additionally, a summer lecture, co-hosted with the Centre for Socio-legal Studies, features a distinguished international scholar.
\r\nFurthermore, the cluster facilitates panel discussions, \"author meets reader\" sessions, and produces a series of podcasts available on a dedicated website. These podcasts provide concise summaries of the key ideas discussed during public events, including interviews with guest speakers. The cluster also aims to organise film screenings and reading groups whenever suitable opportunities arise.
\r\nTo support graduate students across various fields whose research relates to socio-legal issues, the cluster sponsors a multidisciplinary discussion group within the college. This group allows students to share and discuss their work with peers conducting cutting-edge research using different perspectives and methodologies.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.7587075,"longitude":-1.2556685},{"infrastructure_id":"4470","name":"Refugee Studies Centre (RSC)","town":"Oxford","postcode":"OX1 3TB","tags":["law","health","political-science","development-studies","refugee-studies-keyword"],"addr1":"University Of Oxford","addr2":"Queen Elizabeth House","country":null,"description":"The purpose of the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) is to enhance understanding of the causes and impacts of forced migration in order to improve the lives of vulnerable individuals worldwide. It was established in 1982.
\r\nDecades after its founding, the study of forced migration has gained recognition as an academic discipline, embraced by numerous educational institutions globally. There is an increasing need for impartial and critical research on the factors influencing and resulting from the displacement of populations. The Refugee Studies Centre remains at the forefront of shaping crucial debates in this field.
\r\nTo achieve this prominence, the RSC engages in three interconnected activities: research, teaching, and outreach.
\r\nThe RSC conducts independent and interdisciplinary research on the factors influencing and resulting from forced displacement. The Centre promotes scholarly discussions and collaboration among academics from various institutions and university departments.
\r\nThe Centre's teaching program supports the development of future scholars and fosters a culture of critical reflection within the broader humanitarian community.
\r\nThe RSC engages in a diverse range of publications, informational resources, and networking initiatives to facilitate meaningful connections with academics, policymakers, and practitioners. Ongoing activities and accomplishments are detailed in an Annual Report and the RSC newsletter.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":1,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.7587075,"longitude":-1.2556685},{"infrastructure_id":"4471","name":"Net Zero Recovery Programme","town":"Oxford","postcode":"OX1 3BD","tags":["law","political-science","economics","policy","development-studies","sustainability"],"addr1":"University Of Oxford","addr2":"Old Indian Institute Building","country":null,"description":"In response to the economic impact of COVID-19, governments have introduced extensive fiscal stimulus packages. There is optimism that these measures could also facilitate climate change action, but this isn't an automatic outcome.
\r\nGovernments are providing substantial support to the private sector, which presents an opportunity to promote sustainable recovery. They could condition bailouts and recovery packages on the businesses' adoption of credible net-zero strategies, thereby enabling countries and organisations to meet their obligation to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 as stipulated in the Paris Agreement.
\r\nThe initiative plans to unite researchers from law, public policy, climate science, and sustainable finance fields to identify the sectors and regions where this conditionality might be most influential. They will create template sets of minimum criteria for the required net-zero commitments, particularly for sectors that are hard to abate and have high emissions, such as shipping, aviation, steel, and cement.
\r\nThe initiative also aims to leverage the widespread public demand to 'build back better' following the COVID-19 pandemic, presenting an economic and legal argument to policymakers for integrating net-zero plans into their COVID-19 stimulus packages.
\r\nThe current period presents an immense opportunity to initiate the transition to a net-zero economy, due to the general aim of economic recovery, increased public awareness of climate change, humanity's relationship with nature, and the focus on net-zero commitments in the lead-up to COP 26 in November 2021. The initiative seeks to present this case to governments while simultaneously developing templates and legal mechanisms to facilitate their action.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.7587075,"longitude":-1.2556685},{"infrastructure_id":"4489","name":"Oxford Centre for the Study of Social Justice (CSSJ)","town":"Oxford","postcode":"OX1 2JD","tags":["history","law","political-science","economics","policy","philosophy","sociology","social-history"],"addr1":"University Of Oxford","addr2":"University Offices","country":null,"description":"The Centre for the Study of Social Justice serves as a platform for Oxford's esteemed group of political theorists to share expertise, collaborate on research projects, and promote their work to the wider academic and policy-making community.
\r\nSocial justice encompasses various philosophical, practical, theoretical, and applied questions, both on a global and domestic scale, and throughout history. The Centre for the Study of Social Justice offers a unique opportunity for intellectual exchange on this politically significant subject.
\r\nLocated within the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, the Centre aims to establish connections and foster collaboration among different aspects of the theoretical study of social justice. It also seeks to engage with other disciplines, including Philosophy, Law, Economics, Sociology, and Social Policy, as well as the policy-making sphere.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.7587075,"longitude":-1.2556685},{"infrastructure_id":"4492","name":"Oxford Constitutional Studies Forum","town":"Oxford","postcode":"OX1 2JD","tags":["history","law","constitutional-studies-keyword"],"addr1":"University Of Oxford","addr2":"University Offices","country":null,"description":"This is an era of unprecedented constitutional challenges and turmoil: Throughout the world, globalisation, populism, environmental degradation, inequality, democratic decay, and authoritarian regression are revealing the tensions within the constitutional frameworks of democratic nations.
\r\nOxford's Constitution Studies Forum facilitates and disseminates the University's extensive expertise in global constitutional matters in the fields of Politics, Law, Government, and History. Harnessing this exceptional range of knowledge, the forum analyses these global challenges, bringing together scholars and policymakers, and providing a platform through which Oxford's research can reach a wider audience.
\r\nThe Oxford Constitutional Studies Forum is funded by the John Fell Fund of the University of Oxford until 2024.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.7587075,"longitude":-1.2556685},{"infrastructure_id":"4493","name":"Oxford Human Rights Hub","town":"Oxford","postcode":"OX1 3UL","tags":["law","political-science","human-rights"],"addr1":"University Of Oxford","addr2":"St. Cross Building","country":null,"description":"The Oxford Human Rights Hub (OxHRH) aims to unite academics, practitioners, and policy-makers worldwide to promote the comprehension and safeguarding of human rights and equality. Through active exchange of ideas and resources, it endeavours to enhance the understanding of human rights principles, develop innovative policy approaches, and influence the evolution of human rights law and practice.
\r\nThe Oxford Human Rights Hub endeavours to establish a global community focused on human rights issues by enhancing understanding of human rights law and practice.
\r\nIt utilizes technology to create an extensive and freely accessible body of research and learning tools for students, teachers, academics, and advocates of human rights, both in Oxford and beyond.
\r\nThey are pioneers in leveraging digital technology to enhance access to human rights information and knowledge through the following content.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.7587075,"longitude":-1.2556685},{"infrastructure_id":"4500","name":"Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation","town":"Oxford","postcode":"OX1 1HP","tags":["law","political-science","economics","policy"],"addr1":"Said Business School","addr2":"Park End Street","country":null,"description":"The Centre for Business Taxation (CBT) is an independent research centre based in the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. Its objective is to promote effective business taxation policies. The CBT collaborates closely with other university departments, such as the Faculty of Economics, the Faculty of Law, and the Blavatnik School of Government. It conducts and publishes research on the impact of taxes on businesses.
\r\nThe CBT is led by a Director, supported by an Assistant Director, and programme directors who are professors from Oxford, Warwick, and Munich. The research team comprises experts in academic research and tax policy, with backgrounds in economics and law. The Director and the Steering Committee determine the CBT's research program based on academic merit and policy relevance.
\r\nEstablished in 2005, the CBT initially received significant funding from a diverse group of donors, including members of the Hundred Group. Some of these companies, along with others, continue to support the CBT.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.753714,"longitude":-1.2684693},{"infrastructure_id":"4504","name":"Private Law Research Group, Oxford","town":"Oxford","postcode":"OX1 2JD","tags":["law"],"addr1":"University Of Oxford","addr2":"University Offices","country":null,"description":"Private law is a prominent area of expertise at Oxford University. The community of private law scholars, comprising numerous postgraduate students, conducts groundbreaking research across various subjects and employs diverse methodologies.
\r\nThe Obligations Discussion Group and Property Law Discussion Group, led by postgraduate students, hold established online events that attract participants from around the world. Additionally, a newly established Private Law Postgraduate Research Student Discussion Group brings together students from Oxford and other institutions to present their work and engage in discussions on postgraduate life.
\r\nFaculty members frequently collaborate with other groups and centres at Oxford to organise events and conferences. Many events are open to everyone and everyone is welcome to browse the upcoming events related to the Private Law Research Group.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.7587075,"longitude":-1.2556685},{"infrastructure_id":"4506","name":"Public Law in Oxford","town":"Oxford","postcode":"OX1 2JD","tags":["law"],"addr1":"University Of Oxford","addr2":"University Offices","country":null,"description":"The Oxford Public Law Community comprises scholars specialising in constitutional and administrative law, environmental law, and civil procedure.
\r\nIf individuals possess ideas they wish to share, the community welcomes their input. It adopts a comprehensive approach to public law, encompassing its doctrinal, comparative, historical, theoretical, and sociological dimensions.
\r\nDistinguished speakers from various parts of the world are attracted to their community, bringing together graduate students and faculty members. Typically, speakers present their recent publications or drafts.
","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.7587075,"longitude":-1.2556685},{"infrastructure_id":"4517","name":"Sustainable Oceans Programme","town":"Oxford","postcode":"OX1 3BD","tags":["art","law","political-science","development-studies","sustainability","science","earth-science-keyword"],"addr1":"University Of Oxford","addr2":"Old Indian Institute Building","country":null,"description":"The world's largest ecosystem, the ocean, is experiencing significant decline due to collective mismanagement and climate change effects. This deterioration poses grave threats to human survival, encompassing food security, health, fisheries preservation, environmental regulation, and economic expansion.
\r\nWhile many marine species are critically depleted, there have been relatively few extinctions thus far. However, this may soon alter. Overexploitation of marine resources, adverse climate change effects on the oceans, and additional human impacts on marine habitats signify that the opportunity to rectify the course is dwindling.
\r\nA crucial juncture is at hand: the system is not entirely in uncontrollable decay, and restoration remains feasible. The forthcoming years will be pivotal in discovering solutions for the multitude of problems confronting the oceans.
\r\nAn immense challenge lies in the fact that governance is antiquated, predominantly sectoral, fragmented, and not uniformly governed by conventions. This hampers integrated management of human activities and marine biodiversity conservation, along with the ecosystem services they provide. Transitioning the oceans from decline to recovery is a vastly complex issue, involving numerous intersecting elements, including socioeconomic drivers, climate change, geopolitical and legal issues, and policy and enforcement shortcomings.
\r\nThe central research question for this project is: 'How can the oceans be managed optimally?'
\r\nThis project employs a multidisciplinary approach to instigate breakthroughs in global ocean management, leveraging new technologies such as Earth observation, deep-submergence vehicles, computer modelling advancements and machine learning. These methods are utilised to bridge knowledge gaps and devise new marine management strategies, human activity surveillance, and regulatory enforcement.
\r\nA key part of the project aims to overcome obstacles in sustainable ocean management, addressing crucial areas such as fisheries management, seabed extraction, biodiversity and ecosystem services mapping and protection, technological solutions for regulatory enforcement, and necessary governance and legal framework amendments for effective regulation, especially in areas beyond national jurisdiction. This work will contribute to discussions surrounding a new implementation agreement for the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, expected to extend beyond 2017 and 2018.
\r\nThis five-year project seeks to direct marine resource management towards sustainable and economically beneficial exploitation while maintaining biodiversity and associated ecosystem services for future generations.
\r\nThe Oxford Martin Programme on Sustainable Oceans is well-positioned to aid in rectifying humanity's relationship with the oceans by developing novel management tools and providing policymakers with the knowledge necessary for improved ocean governance.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.7587075,"longitude":-1.2556685},{"infrastructure_id":"4518","name":"Tax Law Research Group","town":"Oxford","postcode":"OX1 2JD","tags":["law"],"addr1":"University Of Oxford","addr2":"University Offices","country":null,"description":"Taxation lies at the heart of state sovereignty, exerting influence over markets, society, and the daily lives of taxpayers. Tax scholarship delves into significant matters of justice and efficiency, encompassing queries regarding regulatory framework and enforcement. Profound transformations in recent years at national, regional, and global scales have presented considerable challenges for tax legislation and policies. In light of these advancements, tax scholarship has expanded its scope beyond the nation-state to embrace cross-border and international perspectives in devising effective, efficient, and equitable tax mechanisms.
\r\nThe Tax Law Research Group unites members of the academic community at Oxford, spanning various disciplines including law. It serves as a central platform for engaging with researchers and institutions worldwide.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.7587075,"longitude":-1.2556685},{"infrastructure_id":"4519","name":"Technological and Economic Change","town":"Oxford","postcode":"OX1 3BD","tags":["art","law","information-studies","political-science","economics","policy","development-studies","philosophy","technology","ethics","data-science","social-science-keyword","ai","cyber-security-keyword","international-studies-keyword","legal-studies"],"addr1":"University Of Oxford","addr2":"Old Indian Institute Building","country":null,"description":"The dramatic progression of computing capabilities has spurred significant advancements in machine intelligence, evidenced by self-driving vehicles and the reshaping of long-standing business structures, signalling the impending revolutions.
\r\nDevelopments in genetic sequencing and nanomaterials promise to revolutionise health, medicine, and agriculture. Robotics, the internet of things, and 3D printing are set to alter manufacturing, supply chains, and control systems. Concurrently, the efficiency enhancement of renewable energy sources and the urgent need to cut carbon emissions are driving radical shifts in energy, transport, food, and other sectors.
\r\nEmerging technologies may disrupt economic growth, investment, savings, consumption, employment, income, pensions, careers, and productivity in ways not yet fully understood. The implications for the global economy, markets, cities, and societies are still largely unknown.
\r\nThe Technological and Economic Change programme seeks to identify these technological disruptors and assess their impact on the global economy and society. This programme distinguishes itself by merging the expertise of top scientists and technology professionals with economists and social scientists.
\r\nThe programme collaborates with researchers from the School's Technology and Employment programme in a consortium for the Horizon 2020 funded 'Tecnnequality' research project. This project strives to comprehend how technological innovations influence social inequalities and labour market outcomes in the EU, and explores policy and institutional strategies to mitigate technology-driven disparities.
\r\nThe research, focused predominantly on the world's largest economies (USA, China, India, Japan, UK and Europe), endeavours to answer various critical questions, such as:
\r\nThe programme aims to offer new insights into the nature of rapid technological and economic change and its implications for policy makers, governments, businesses, investors, and societies. It will provide perspectives on education, skills, and infrastructure, and examine potential changes needed to intellectual property, competition, and regulation frameworks to boost productivity, savings, investment, and equitable growth. It will also investigate whether traditional GDP and productivity measures sufficiently account for the different dimensions of progress and technological change.
\r\nThe Oxford Martin Programme on Technological and Economic Change forms part of a research partnership between the Oxford Martin School and Citi, which has generously funded research on Technology and Shared Prosperity.
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\r\nA substantial revamp of the existing global food system is required to address the challenge of nourishing a growing world population in a healthy, equitable, sustainable, and resilient manner. The research encompasses the scientific, economic, social and environmental aspects of food production and consumption, as well as the impact of food on health, sustainability, and economic development.
\r\nThrough the integration of existing research, support for new interdisciplinary initiatives, and facilitation of collaborations between academia, government, civil society and the private sector, the programme provides novel insights and proposes efficient solutions to the challenges of feeding the global population.
\r\nOxford Martin School
University Of Oxford
Old Indian Institute Building
34 Broad Street
Oxford
OX1 3BD
The Oxford Institute for Science, Innovation and Society conducts studies, provides education, and devises policy suggestions concerning the effects of scientific and technological evolutions in contemporary societies.
\r\nThe changes in science and technology form the crux of the transformations witnessed by humankind in the 21st century. It is critical to foresee, comprehend, and guide these changes at the earliest. Overarching concerns encompass matters of emerging technology, transition of infrastructure, governance and regulation, and the formation of publics.
\r\nThe Institute possesses first-rate abilities (both academic and practical), merging research, practice, and education across a variety of domains, ranging from intellectual property rights in the life sciences to governance of climate geoengineering.
\r\nThe research conducted includes the Future of Cities, Resource Stewardship, Food Governance, Climate Alternatives, and BioProperty.
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\r\nLHub offers opportunities for networking, research collaboration, and experimentation in creative methodologies and emerging topics of law and the humanities. It also extends support to scholars, acknowledging the challenges of interdisciplinarity. In this context, it has partnered with other organizations to found the Global Mentorship Program in Law and the Humanities that will start operating in the academic year 2025/26. It is also undertaking a mapping project in collaboration with Mapping the Humanities, to showcase and promote the rich activity in the field of law and the humanities.
\r\nTaking an open collaboraitve approach, LHub welcomes contacts and ideas from scholars, creators, artists, practitioners, curators, educators, librarians, community leaders, institutions, and curious persons and groups, in and outside the UK, for projects at the many meeting points between law and the humanities, which may be promoted in collaboration with LHub.
\r\nLHub has created a digital Ideas Box, open for initiatives and contributions.
\r\nIt manages a mailing list for the law and the humanities community, which can be joined here.
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Set up in September 2023, the Hate Crime Research Group aims to contribute to academic knowledge on hate crime, and inform policy and practice in order to tackle the problem of hate crime. The group provides a forum for NTU academics, researchers, ECRs and PGR students who work in diverse disciplines such as criminology, law, sociology, psychology, education, politics and international relations to share information about hate crime, with a view to developing critical analysis and debate, and offer opportunities for collaboration. The group promotes knowledge exchange activities with policy makers and practitioners in order to inform policy and practice on hate crime.
\r\nThe aims of the Hate Crime Research Group include:
\r\nThe Hate Crime Research Group brings together NTU academics, researchers, ECRs and PGR students to discuss research, develop research ideas and facilitate collaboration on hate crime. Specifically, the group focuses on examining the causes, consequences and responses to hate crime both nationally and internationally. Correspondingly, the Hate Crime Research Group has two key aims: advance understanding of hate crime and promote knowledge exchange:
\r\nAim 1: Advance understanding of hate crime by producing and disseminating theoretical and evidence-led research.
\r\nAim 2: Knowledge exchange with policy makers, practitioners and diverse communities.
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\r\nWe are a collaborative project with local, national and international partners, providing a forum for research, debate, education, knowledge exchange and impact on human rights and social justice, and working for realisation of human rights and social justice through policy, practice, advocacy and law reform.
\r\nThe Observatory is committed to:
\r\nOur Network engages directly with a variety of issues connected with migration and refugee studies. It embraces an enriching interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity, with researchers and practitioners from social anthropology, refugee studies, English literature, sociology, history, political science, computer science, media studies, psychology, law, languages, and business studies, among other disciplines.
\r\nFrom whatever disciplines we come, whatever research partnerships we form, our work centres on the predicament and opportunities of migrants and refugees, national, regional and global. Our research includes, for example, studies into refugee entrepreneurship and their integration into the labour market; migrants as political agents; housing for forced migrants; the experience of asylum seekers in asylum accommodation; migrant children in education; as well as computing models for managing migrants’ data.
\r\nWe work together with colleagues in other universities and research centres across the world, as well as with government agents, practitioners in charitable and public policy sectors, on projects of mutual interest.
\r\nIn addition, we run a series of seminars and lectures, as well as a Summer School, to share and discuss our research and knowledge about migration and refugees.
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\r\nJMCE NEXT-REL aims to strengthen teaching, research and outreach activities of King’s College London at the intersection of legal, social and political science approaches to EU governance. It aims to be a catalyst for joint activities of staff and students studying the European Union across the Dickson Pool School of Law and Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy. As the only Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in the academic and political hub of London to focus on EU-UK future relations, the centre will continue to create opportunities for discussion between scholars, officials, civil society practitioners and the wider public about contemporary issues arising from European governance and EU-UK relations.
","entanglement_score":1,"law_entanglement_score":2,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":51.5143394,"longitude":-0.1075027},{"infrastructure_id":"4587","name":"Environment & Threats Research Area, Bournemouth University","town":null,"postcode":null,"tags":["law","policy","public-engagement-keyword","environmental-sciences"],"addr1":null,"addr2":null,"country":null,"description":"The aim of the Environment & Threats Strategic Research Area is to promote, foster and undertake research and postgraduate study that will enable us to better understand key environmental threats facing society by working with a multidisciplinary team to devise solutions to these threats that takes into account their scientific, legal, economic, health and wellbeing, and political aspects.
\r\nEnvironmental threats include the consequences of polluting activities and the prevention of harm. These threats pose questions with regard to the search for appropriate scientific, economic, legal and political solutions.
\r\nThe nature of environmental harm can be deeply deceptive. In particular, remote external hazards can be hard to accommodate within normal legal regimes and timeframes. Generally the law works effectively by applying justice based on notions, operating through recognised rights and obligations frameworks.
\r\nFrom the outside it may seem that the problems that are encountered in the field of environmental law are simply conflicts between different interest groups. This perspective is far from the truth, as key issues in environmental law cross boundaries between science, economics and political science.
\r\nThese issues include sustainable development - particularly in the light of global warming and climate change - the regulation of agencies, and the influence of EU and international law on the UK's environmental law. Sustainable development sets the challenge of protecting the environment and of securing the market economy. How to reconcile economic growth and sustainable environmental policies is the challenge of our time.
\r\nTo get involved with our research, please contact us by email: EnvironmentThreatsSRG@bournemouth.ac.uk
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Through seminars, conferences and the hosting of visiting fellows the Cnetre promotes interdisciplinary research in law and the humanities.
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\r\nActivities of the centre include organising the Theory Meets Practice and Film Matters seminar series and coordinating the Entertainment and Sports Law Journal. Current activities include the Lost in Music project and Disrupting the Everyday, which includes the Soho Poly Project, Found Sounds and Ghost Gigs and work on gigs at the University between 1970 and 1992.
\r\nWestminster Law School
4 Little Titchfield Street
London
W1W 7BY
The Centre for Penal Theory and Ethics brings together leading scholars to explore central issues surrounding punishment and its justification. The Centre runs workshops and conferences, disseminating the outcomes of its work in a variety of venues, including the Centre’s own book series with Hart/Bloomsbury. The Centre seeks to contribute to the progress of young researchers and PhD students working in these areas and is alive to the value of interdisciplinary and of comparative approaches.
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\r\nOur methodologies assume that knowledge about the law is inseparable from a range of sometimes competing or conflicting discourses such as philosophy, religion, history, feminism and critical theory, art, theatre, media, cultural studies, sociology, government and politics.
\r\nOur main focus over the last two and a half decades has been social justice, often with an emphasis on law’s relationship with vulnerability and pluralism. Social justice projects seek to transform the law and redress social injustices, with real world impacts such as improved protection for women survivors of domestic violence, measures to reduce economic inequality, legal reform to recognise indigenous knowledges and fairer treatment for asylum seekers, consistent with international human rights norms.
\r\nThis research cluster provides an open and collaborative space for research into law and history. It takes a broad and interdisciplinary approach, with an emphasis upon diverse methodologies and theoretical approaches. We organise a range of events including an annual conference. Our events bring together academics, archivists, PhD students, and independent researchers interested in legal histories. Most events are online and free to attend, ensuring accessibility for early-career, international, and unfunded participants.
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","entanglement_score":2,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":53.8057925,"longitude":-1.555111},{"infrastructure_id":"4599","name":"International Justice Arts Network","town":null,"postcode":null,"tags":["law","criminology","cultural-studies","museum-studies","language","literature","policy","philosophy","creative-writing","drama-theatre","creative-industries","dance","social-justice","aesthetics","criminal-justice","visual-arts","humanities-and-social-sciences-keyword","music"],"addr1":null,"addr2":null,"country":null,"description":"We are an international network of artists, activists, academics, therapists, and practitioners working across the non-profit and GLAM sectors, united by a shared commitment to social justice.
\r\nThrough creative collaboration, practice, and research, we challenge the structural marginalisation of justice-affected individuals, raise awareness of injustice at all levels, and promote the transformative power of the arts in addressing trauma and inequality.
\r\nWe support ethical, non-exploitative, and non-extractivist practices that centre lived experience. We work to shift public perception and dominant narratives, and to reimagine justice through creativity. Together, we build space for international exchange, co-production, and mutual support – amplifying a global movement that believes in the power of the arts to envision and enact more just futures.
","entanglement_score":3,"law_entanglement_score":3,"funding_activities":[],"relationships":[],"latitude":null,"longitude":null},{"infrastructure_id":"4600","name":"UCL Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism","town":"London","postcode":"WC1H 0EG","tags":["law","democracy-keyword","rule-of-law-keyword"],"addr1":"University College London","addr2":"Bentham House","country":null,"description":"The Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism, based at the UCL Faculty of Laws, seeks to advance scholarly knowledge of democratic governance, the rule of law, and constitutionalism. As a research community with a global perspective, our key focus is understanding how to achieve constitutional resilience in electorally competitive political systems. We run conferences, seminars, lectures, workshops, in addition to research projects across several research streams. We also host postdoctoral research fellows, PhD students, and visiting academics.
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\r\nStay up to date with the project’s latest on Bluesky.
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\r\nIAL offers memberships to individuals and institutions looking to remain connected and active in this field.
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\r\nHOMELandS is underpinned by transnational and comparative perspectives that aim to bridge traditionally segregated research on different migrant groups by focusing on diverse urban spaces. The centre holds regular events to stimulate dialogue between academics from a range of disciplines and wider communities, including activists, NGOs, creative practitioners and policymakers.
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\r\nWelcome to the website of the Imagination Research Network at QMUL. The Network is a varied bunch, with scholars coming from all disciplines – and including the humanities and social sciences, as well as the sciences – interested in conversations about imagination, including its connections to media, form, and technology; to emotion, politics, and ideology; to surveillance, fantasy, and placebo; to deception, pretence, and the counterfactual; to fiction, the future, and play; to belief, sympathy, and creativity; to speculation, utopia, and dreaming; to memory, narrative, and social change; and too much else besides. They are especially keen to think about imagination across time – from Ancient History to Sci-Fi Futures – and across space, and thus in many different places and traditions. Within QMUL, its Members come from the School of History, Law, Arts, Economics and Finance, Politics and International Relations, and more.
\r\nThe Network was launched on 20 May 2024, with ‘Imagination Day’ – a whole-day discussion of two recent books: Professor Lorna Hutson’s (Oxford) England’s Insular Imagining (2023) and Professor Helen Hackett’s (UCL) The Elizabethan Mind (2022).
\r\nIf you have suggestions for Network events, please contact the Convenor of the Network, Professor Maks Del Mar.
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\r\nWe host research talks, reading groups, and work-in-progress sessions on a variety of topics, such as:
\r\nWe have recently hosted events on colonial legalism, legal pluralism, and differences between legal and historical approaches to the past.
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Kings Place
90 York Way
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N1 9AG
The Centre for AI, Culture and Society (CAICS) at Oxford Brookes University combines computational and sociological expertise to offer insights into the connection between digital design and human and cultural impact. Its methods include algorithmic development, citizen science, simulations, art practice, and social impact assessments. The centre addresses challenges across a range of technology categories, including autonomous vehicles, social and developmental robotics, and machine learning. CAICS conducts foundational research on moral agents and social norms, while pursuing and supporting ethical AI research of the highest quality. It is committed to the research and development of ethical and trustworthy intelligent software solutions for business, organisations, and society.
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