Dr Amanda Keeling

Profile

I completed my LLB at King’s College London in 2007 and went on to study an MA in Human Rights at University College London.  After my MA I worked for several third sector organisations and NGOs in the human rights field, before joining the Cambridge Intellectual and Developmental Disability Research Group as a research assistant.

I joined the school in September 2015 from the University of Nottingham, where I had been studying for my PhD. 

Research interests

My broad research interest is in adult safeguarding and disability law, taking socio-legal empirical approach.  My research explores the role of law in our society; how it shapes professional practice, how it is interpreted by non-lawyers, particularly social care and health practitioners, and the impact of this practice on disabled people. More recently, I have moved to exploring questions around State interventions in the lives of people experiencing homelessness, particularly the intersection of safeguarding policy and the operation of Public Space Protection Orders.

My recent work on the COALITION project exploring accessible legal information with Professor Rosie Harding (Birmingham) has resulted in a number of templates for researchers on accessible research, and for legal practitioners to communicate with clients.

Student education

I teach across a number of our undergraduate and postgraduate modules.

Undergraduate:

- Law and Society

- Disability Law

- International Human Rights Law

Postgraduate:

- International Human Rights and Disabled People

Research groups and institutes

• Centre for Disability Studies
• Disability Law Hub
• Centre for Law and Social Justice

Current postgraduate researchers

• Alice Lemkes