Newcastle Law School, UK

Thank you to the excellent panelists, panel chairs, and attendees for making this symposium possible, we couldn’t have done any of it without you.

We would like to say a big thank you to the organisers of this amazing symposium, Dr. Michael Ashworth, Professor Gina Heathcote and Helen Hampson, for bringing us together and creating a space for us to reimagine how we think about methodologies within legal research.

We were thrilled to welcome Dr. Tamsin Paige, an Associate Professor at Deakin Law School, as our keynote speaker. Dr. Paige explored how law could be interpreted as stories and the usefulness of storytelling as a method of legal research.

Methodologies Symposium Day 2: Dr. Kay Lalor discussed Alternative legalities and transnational LGBTQI+ rights within international human rights law.

Methodologies Symposium Day 2: Dr. Juliana Santos de Carvalho gave an excellent presentation titled ‘Category is: international law realness’.

Methodologies Symposium Day 2: Dr. Iyan Offor took us on a journey of re-imagination through the presentation ’Solarpunk (Legal) “Worlding”: Crafting Multispecies, Queer, and Hopeful Futures’.

Methodologies Symposium Day 2: Matteo Bassetti, a doctoral researcher at the University of Essex, gave an excellent presentation titled ‘Legal gender recognition beyond recognition - depathologisation as a challenge to States' absolute power to know gender’.

Day 2 of our Methodologies Symposium continued with a panel discussion chaired by Dr. Emily Jones. Drawing on their own methodologies, the panelists explored the topic ‘Queer-as-method’.

Methodologies Symposium Day 2: Afsha Jameel, a doctoral researcher at the University of Leeds, gave on interesting presentation on the use of food as legal method.

Methodologies Symposium Day 2: Puja, a doctoral researcher at the University of Bristol, discussed the use of oral narratives in forest governance legal research as a way of interrogating colonial continuities and legacies within the context of India.

Methodologies Symposium Day 2: Dr. Yoriko Otomo gave an excellent presentation on the use of lore, custom, myths and tradition within legal research.

This was such a beautifully curated panel by @ruthhoughton.bsky.social within a beautifully organised two day Methodologies Symposium. I’m so grateful for the experience. Thank you to everyone involved. 🙏🏻

...featuring our very own Dr Zoe Tongue! @whiterxbbit.bsky.social

Gah I am so sad to be missing this symposium

Day 2 of our Methodologies Symposium continued with a panel discussion chaired by Dr. Neha Vyas, which explored Research Design through oral narratives, customs and food.

Methodologies Symposium Day 2: Dr. Zoe Tongue took us on a journey as we explored Reproductive Utopias.

Methodologies Symposium Day 2: Dr. Cristy Clark delivered an excellent presentation on the politics and methodology of utopian research.

Methodologies Symposium Day 2: Dr. Aislinn Fanning, explored the use of Utopian law-making to re-imagine feminist equality law on the island of Ireland.

Methodologies Symposium Day 2: Dr. Nikki Godden-Rasul and Dr. Ruth Houghton jointly delivered a presentation on the use of Utopianism and Speculative Visionary Fiction as toolkits and methods for Abolition Feminist research.

Day 2 of our Methodologies Symposium has kicked off here at Newcastle Law School with a panel discussion chaired by Dr. Ruth Houghton. Drawing on their own methodologies, the panelists explore ‘Prefigurative Legalities and Utopia as Method’

Our last speaker for the day Eva Perry, a researcher from Manchester Metropolitan University discussed her research ‘Ctrl+Alt+Decolonise: Reimagining Artificial Intelligence Through Indigenous Epistemologies and Data Sovereignty to Challenge Coloniality’

Josephine Sangare, a doctoral researcher at the University of Glasgow, explored a very important topic for our schools and institutions — ‘AI’s infinite wisdom and the challenged role of the educator’

On day 1 of our Methodologies symposium, Jackie Yihengu Lu, a doctoral researcher at QMUL, shared his thoughts on the topic ‘Law as Technology: Rethinking Authorship through Generative AI Methodologies’

Methodologies Symposium Day 1: Our third panel discussion, chaired by
Nifemi Adesina, a Doctoral Researcher at Newcastle Law School, explored two key ideas: Law and technology and Law as technology.

On Day 1 of our Methodologies Symposium, Dr. Shane Burke and Dr. Joy Twenlow presented their work on the use of sound as a methodology for legal research.

On Day 1 of our Methodologies symposium, Professor Richard Mullender explored the topic ‘Deconstruction, Law and Political Philosophy’.

Bernardo de Carvalho Mello, a doctoral researcher at Newcastle Law school, shared his thoughts on the topic ‘Decolonising Discrimination Law through Conceptual Engineering: Towards a Pluriversal Intersectionality’

Methodologies Symposium Day 1: Our second panel discussion, chaired by Ebun Bamigboye, a Doctoral Researcher at Newcastle Law School, explores the question ‘Theorising law without law?’

NCL Law Methodologies Symposium Day 1: Dr. Matilde Arvidsson curated a fascinating workshop on the use of knitting as a methodology within the Anti-surveillance space.

Methodologies Symposium Day 1: Dr. Paola Zichi discussed a very timely approach to archival research within International Law in the presentation ‘Dreaming A Global Feminist Archive: Palestine, International Law and Abolitionist Praxis’