Bev Clough

A massive well done to Dr Cathy Jacquiss, who passed her viva today!🎉

Cathy gave an excellent defence of her thesis, 'Hostility, Resistance and Hope: The Operation of Space and Affect in LGBTQ+ Asylum Litigation'.

Threads of Labour | 20th November 2025 An in-person & online book launch and conversation with Dr Lisa Taylor, author of 'Threads of Labour: Tapestry of an Ex-Industrial Community'.

Book Launch: Threads of Labour: Tapestry of an Ex-Industrial Community, by Lisa Taylor

Thursday 20th November 2025, 6:00pm-7:30pm (GMT). In person at The Leeds Library

Threads of Labour examines how art & industrial heritage foster cohesion in post-industrial communities.

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Yes Prof Travis!

Huge congratulations to @sammorgn97.bsky.social who successfully passed her PhD viva last week! 🎉👏

The title of Sam's thesis is ‘The Production of Law Through Space and Affect: Examining LGBTQI+ Rights Strategic Litigation and Activist Practice in the Caribbean’

The Open University Moments of Rupture Online 20-21 November 2025Some legal and social changes are so profound that they create what seem to be moments of rupture: breaks between the ‘before’ and ‘after’. These moments c...

Researching a legal moment that was supposed to change everything - whether it did or not? The call for papers for 'Moments of Rupture' is open until 23 October!
Free, online conference in November, hosted by the Open Universities legal histories research cluster.
#LegalHistory #cfp

Recent blog post for BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health contextualising our birth doula project- with @annanelson95.bsky.social blogs.bmj.com/bmjsrh/2025/...

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

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

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

Surveys are now live - link are in the thread!

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

Great to see our research bulletin for Spring/Summer 📚

Climate Change at the UN Security Council: Protecting Pacific and Caribbean Island States This book examines the operation of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to better understand the motivating factors that underpin its activation of Article 39. Arguing that climate change shoul...

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

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

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨🚨🚨

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

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

Frontiers | Colourism and law in the UK: a story of colonial indifference? In this paper I explore legal and judicial responses toward skin tone and colourism in the UK. I argue that despite incidents involving colourism coming befo...

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

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

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

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

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

The book argues:

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

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

Volume 20 Issue 1 | Medical Law Review | Oxford Academic Publishes articles of international interest providing thorough analyses and comment on topical issues fundamental to the expanding area of medical law. In addition, commentary sections provide in dep...

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

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

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

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

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SURVEY: The impact of the Government’s proposed reforms to disability benefits announced in March 2025 A Women’s Budget Group and Sisters of Frida research collaboration This project The Women’s Budget Group (a feminist economics think tank) and Sisters of Frida (a Disabled women and non-binary people’...

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

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

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Oh thanks for this, Lucy!

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

@bevclough.bsky.social

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

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

Against All Odds: Class and Resistance in the Arts — Poverty Research & Advocacy Network For the second year running, PRAN is thrilled to partner with Writing on the Wall for WoWFEST, Liverpool’s annual literary festival. Join us for a powerful panel on class, creativity, and resistance i...

🚨Some very exciting news! A new event alert!

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

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

For more information and to register, please visit 👇

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

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

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

The CRPD is Here and queer! A lesson in queering human rights law Abstract. This article argues that the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is a queer document. The Convention tackles the issues

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

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