Professor Jen Hendry secures funding to advance research on preventive justice and hybrid orders

Professor Jen Hendry has received AHRC funding to explore the injustices of civil and criminal hybrid orders, aiming to raise public awareness and foster policy change.

Professor Jen Hendry from the School of Law has been awarded Follow-On Funding for Impact & Engagement by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for her new project titled, ‘Problematising Preventive Justice: Exposing the Injustices of Civil/Criminal Procedural Hybrid Orders.’ 

This project builds on Professor Hendry’s previous AHRC Leadership Fellowship project (2019-2022), ‘Everyday Challenges to the Rule of Law: The Case of Civil/Criminal Procedural Hybrids,’ which examines the intersection of civil and criminal law, focusing on hybrid orders that blur the boundaries of procedural justice.

The new project will feature multiple outputs, including a short documentary film, produced in collaboration with Leeds-based Tell Studio, and a monograph already contracted with Bristol University Press.

Professor Hendry emphasises the importance of raising public awareness around hybrid orders, stating:

We are in the critical period for strategic enterprise within this policy space, and it is my great pleasure to partner with these leading organisations to inform knowledge-based interventions.

Time is also ripe for greater public consciousness of this problematic regulatory form. Increasing public awareness of civil/criminal hybrid orders is a central aim of this activity.

Partners in the project include prominent organisations such as JUSTICE, Liberty, Stop-Watch, the Manifesto Club, and the Centre for Crime & Justice Studies (CCJS). These partnerships will support policy-oriented research aimed at fostering a deeper understanding of hybrid orders and their impact on justice.

For further updates, please follow Professor Hendry on X @mortonjen and on Bluesky at @jenhendry.bsky.social.