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Current projects

Title	Funder	Start date	End date
ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre	Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)	1 May 2022	30 April 2027
The Choreography of Consent: experiments in dance/law research	Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)	1 September 2024	1 March 2026
GreenAWARE: Greenspace Access, Wellbeing, and Resident Equality	Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)	1 June 2024	31 January 2026
Legal Entitlements and Problem-Solving (LEaP)	Cerebra	1 January 2016	31 December 2025
Utilising open data to enhance park safety for women and girls in Bradford		1 October 2024	31 July 2025
Making it to the Registers: Documenting Migrant Carers’ Experiences of Registration and Fitness to Practice	Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)	1 March 2023	28 February 2025
Inclusive Public Space: Law, Universality and Difference in the Accessibility of Streets		1 January 2019	31 December 2024

Past projects

Title	Funder	Start date	End date
Investigating Unexpected Death: Values and Attitudes in Coronial Autopsies	BA / Leverhulme Small Grants	1 April 2019	1 October 2024
TRACTION: Transnational Labour Constitutionalism: Strategic Litigation and the Constitutional Protection of Work	Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)	1 August 2022	31 July 2024
U-LEAD - University of Leeds East Asia Disability Rights Forum		1 January 2018	31 December 2023
Understanding the geospatial and contextual patterns of rural domestic abuse: an exploratory study		1 September 2021	1 October 2023
Investigating Unexpected Death: Values and Attitudes in Coronial Autopsies	BA / Leverhulme Small Grants	1 April 2019	28 February 2023
Co-POWeR: Consortium on Practices for Wellbeing and Resilience in BAME Families and Communities	UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)	12 February 2021	11 February 2023
Evaluating the Operation of Malta's Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics Act 2015: To What Extent Has it Enhanced the Bodily Integrity of Intersex Infants?	BA / Leverhulme Small Grants	1 January 2020	1 January 2023
Everyday Challenges to the Rule of Law: The Case of Civil/Criminal Procedural Hybrids	Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Leadership Fellowship	1 October 2019	31 December 2022
Is informed consent to LGBTQ+ ‘conversion therapy’ compatible with UK and International Human Rights Law?		1 December 2021	31 March 2022
Weight Stigma and Anti-Discrimination Law: Examining Attitudes Towards Weight as a Protected Class	Harvard Catalyst	1 October 2019	30 September 2020
Academic network of European disability experts (ANED)	European Commission	1 January 2008	6 May 2019
The spaces of mental capacity law: moving beyond the binaries	Independent Social Research Foundation	1 January 2018	31 December 2018
Access to Justice for Children with Mental Disabilities		1 May 2013	30 April 2015
Spaces of Indigenous Justice		1 February 2013	28 February 2015
European and International Equality Law		1 October 2007	31 October 2014
Medical Practitioners, Adolescents and Informed Consent		1 January 2011	28 February 2013
Fundamental Rights of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities and Persons with Mental Health Problems		1 July 2010	30 November 2011
Reform of the Human Rights Act 1998		1 May 2009	30 June 2009
Equality and non-discrimination: EU and UN law and policy		1 September 2014	Ongoing
Review of Legislation and Policy Guidance relating to Adult Social Care in Northern Ireland		1 January 2014	Ongoing