A new Annual Research Report produced by Kent Law School helps highlight the remarkable extent to which our academics collaborate across disciplines and beyond academia.
The report, focusing on research contributions made in 2017/18, reflects the Law School’s pride in being an interdisciplinary centre of critical research and teaching in law. It also helps illustrate the impact of the Law School’s research, indicating how people and organisations around the world have been influenced, informed and inspired by a rich diversity of innovative research projects and collaborations.
Sections within the report include:
- How we change society: a spotlight on Dr Gavin Sullivan’s research on Contemporary Security Law and Practice
- How we communicate research: focusing on Dr Alan McKenna’s research on drones
- Collaboration: highlighting collaborations that have helped shape new approaches to research at the intersections of law, arts and humanities including:
- projects on fascism and anti-fascist resistance led by Dr Rose Parfitt in Mexico, Sweden, Australia and the UK
- architectural projects involving Dr Thanos Zartaloudis in Greece and across Europe
- and a project based in an arts space in Margate involving Professor Maria Drakopoulou and Dr Connal Parsley working with Open School East
- Externally funded projects: These include:
- The Legal Materiality Network led by Dr Hyo Yoon Kang and Dr Sara Kendall and funded by a grant of more than £35,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council
- PRIvacy-aware personal data management and Value Enhancement for Leisure Travellers (PriVELT) involving Lisa Dickson as part of a team that obtained a large grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to work on privacy and and personal data protection for travellers
- Events: highlighting:
- Equity & Trusts Research Network Symposium: Power, Property and the Law of Trusts Revisited: Roger Cotterrell’s Contribution to Critical Trusts Scholarship
- Kent Critical Student Law Conference: Law and Metamorphosis
- Kent Law School Methods Festival
- Research centres and research groups: highlighting the work of the Kent Interdisciplinary Centre for Spatial Studies (KISS) and the Centre for Critical International Law (CeCIL)
- Postgraduate research: showcasing the diversity of research topics – and next steps – some of the Law School’s postgraduate research students have chosen
- Visitors: highlighting a visit from Cressida Heyes, hosted by the Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality, and a visit by Noelia Igareda Gonzalez for a conference on surrogacy organised by Dr Kirsty Horsey
- Publications: highlighting publications by Professor Emily Grabham, Professor Helen Carr and Professor Donatella Alessandrini that were awarded SLSA prizes in 2017 as well as a list of all other publications that came out during this academic year.
To find out more, download a full copy of the Annual Research Report. And for all the latest news about Kent Law School research, explore our website.