CentreLGS Members at the University of Kent

Titilayo Aderbigbe

Research Student, University of Kent
Research interests: Reproductive health of women and children, gender discriminatory laws and customs affecting women/female children.

Donatella
Alessandrini

Lecturer in Law, University of Kent
Research interests: Development studies, international trade theory and practice, governance.

Kate Bedford

Research Fellow, Law, University of Kent
Research Interests: Development studies, transnational governance, Latin America, sexuality, critical political economy, heteronormativity.

Brenna Bhandar

Lecturer in Law, University of Kent
Research interests: Property, Post-colonialism, Critical Legal Theory.

Senior Lecturer, University of Kent
Research interests:Housing and Social Welfare, poverty, gender and race.

Joanne Conaghan

Professor of Law, University of Kent
Research interests: Labour and employment law, tort, legal theory, feminist legal studies.

Davina Cooper

Professor of Law and Political Theory, University of Kent and Director, AHRC Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality
Research interests:Governance, feminist political theory, local government, social and cultural diversity, cultural geography, lesbian and gay studies, jewish studies.

Teaching Assistant/student, University of Kent
Research interests:Feminist theory, agency, power, sex work, trafficking, empirical studies

Eleanor Curran

Lecturer in Law, University of Kent
Research interests: Hobbes, rights theory and the history of rights theory, political theory, moral theory, legal theory, medical law and ethics, equality.

Anisa de Jong

Centre Co-Ordinator, AHRC Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality, University of Kent

Stacy Douglas

Teaching Assistant, Kent University Research interests:Settler societies, feminist anti-capitalist decolonization, political (re)imaginings

Maria Drakopoulou

Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Kent
Research interests: Feminist Theory, Feminist Jurisprudence, Legal Theory and Philosophy, Legal History, Roman Law, Equity and Trusts

Sonya Fernandez

Research Student, University of Kent
Research interests: legal theory, jurisprudence, feminist theory and the gendered nature of law.

Sarah Forti

Senior Consultant, Gender, Law and Democratisation, University of Kent
Research interests: Women's human rights, international development assistance, gender mainstreaming, gender equality, structural inequalities and social justice in developing countries

Emily Grabham

Research Fellow, AHRC CentreLGS,
University of Kent

Emily Haslam

Lecturer in Law, University of Kent
Research interests: International Law, International Criminal law, civil society

Didi Herman

Professor of Law and Social Change, University of Kent
Research interests: Social movements and law reform, law and religious movements, feminist theory, cultural studies.

Lecturer in Film and Television, Film Studies, University of Kent
Research interests: Reality TV and questions of ethics Reality and gender Identity, Celebrity.

Kirsty Horsey

Lecturer,
University of Kent

Siobhan Hunt

Equalities Advisor, EISS, University of Kent
Research interests: discrimination, equal opportunities and influence of Europe on UK anti-discrimination law and practice.

Rosemary Hunter

Professor of Law, University of Kent
Research interests: Feminist legal scholarship, socio-legal scholarship, empirical research, access to justice, women’s employment (including women in the legal profession and women judges), domestic violence, anti-discrimination law, dispute resolution.

Suhraiya Jivraj

Honorary Research Fellow, CentreLGS & Sessional Teacher, University of Kent
Research interests:Intersection of Gender, Sexuality, Race and Religion; Identity Formation; Queer and Anti-Racist Activism

Toni Johnson

Research Student, University of Kent
Research interests: Sexuality, gender and the law. Lesbian and gay rights, sexualised and racialised identities, refugees, power, governmentality, freedom, the imaginary, national identity, space and narrative.

Fabienne Jung

Research Student, University of Kent
Research interests: Femininity, sexuality, identity, auto/biography, queer theory, women’s studies, cultural studies

Sarah Keenan

Research Student, University of Kent
Research interests: law and sexuality, queer theory, refugees, space, movement, governance, identity, agency

Ellie Lee

Lecturer in Social Policy
University of Kent
Research interests: abortion, contraception, reproductive technologies, motherhood, fatherhood

Robin Mackenzie

Director, Medical Law and Ethics,
University of Kent
Research interests: Reprogenetics, rhetoric of sacralisation, neuroscience, biotechnology, enhancement, addiction. body alteration, care and dying

Stewart Motha

Lecturer in Law, University of Kent
Research interests: Sovereignty, Law Religion and Secularism, Postcolonial theory, indigenous land rights and self-determination, law and war, social movements, globalization, theories of democracy,political philosophy.

Madhumanti Mukherjee

Research Student, University of Kent
Research interests: Gender-based violence; feminist socio-legal perspectives; international law;

Olga Palevich

Research Student, University of Kent

Fiona Purcell

Research Student, University of Kent
Research interests: Medical and employment law; and the impact of gender on healthcare decisions

Research Student, University of Kent
Research interests: International criminal law, humanitarian law, human rights, development.

Sally Sheldon

Professor of Law, University of Kent
Research interests: Fatherhood, gender, reproduction, bioethics, health care law, reproductive technologies.

Axel Staehler

Lecturer in Comparative Literature,
University of Kent
Research interests: Fundamentalism and literature – fundamentalism and (literary) constructions of gender – fundamentalism and law in literature – literature and religious law (e.g. sharia, halacha) – practices of resistance

Manuela Thomae

Research Student, University of Kent

Mima Vicentijevic

Assistant to the Co-ordinator,
University of Kent

Sophie Vigneron

Lecturer in Law, University of Kent
Research interests: Comparative law, particularly private law, Art law

Simone Wong

Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Kent
Research interests: Equity & Trusts; Cohabitation; Human rights; Property; Banking and Finance