Care, Health, and Human Flourishing
Birmingham Law School research theme
We explore challenges in the evolution of health and social care law and policy. Our researchers have highlighted the need for protections and safeguards and suggested new legal and policy developments. Some of our colleagues current and recent projects can be found on these pages.
Staff researching in this theme
Staff researching in this theme
- Kate Bedford's research focuses on law and development, and gender and political economy. She also researches gambling law and regulation.
- Charlotte Bendall is a generalist family lawyer, whose interests lie both in adult relationships and the law around children, and she is currently conducting research into grandparents' experiences of seeking contact with grandchildren.
- Janine Natalya Clark's research interests include war, transitional justice, resilience and posthumanism.
- Sean Coyle’s research interests encompass jurisprudence, natural law theory and medieval philosophy.
- Amber Dar's research focuses on regulation and responsibility for innovation in healthcare for children, partnerships between health and law.
- Fiona de Londras' work concerns the role and function of rights in contentious policy fields, inquiring into how (if at all) rights shape the making of law and policy in complex contexts of, for example, counter-terrorism, reproductive rights, and the implementation of international legal standards.
- Hailemichael Teshome Demissie's area of research interest is the human-centric regulation of emerging technologies.
- Angela Eggleton is an interdisciplinary researcher focussing on the regulation of emerging technologies.
- Mairead Enright works on gender and the law, with a particular focus on reproductive rights and historical injustice.
- Rosie Harding uses empirical and conceptual socio-legal methods to investigate the place of law in everyday life, with a focus on social justice, family law and disability law.
- Atina Krajewska is a health lawyer specialising in global health law and sexual and reproductive justice, developing the sociology of health law.
- Jean McHale's research is in the area of Health & Care law
- Kirsty Moreton’s research focuses on healthcare law and ethics primarily involving capacity and decision-making involving children, in the context of trans healthcare, end of life, religious belief, and disagreement between parents and clinicians. Within criminal law her focus is on sexual offences, women’s offending and the intersection of mental health and criminality.
- Laura Noszlopy works with with sociolegal, ethnographic, and other qualitative approaches to understanding law and policy in practice.
- Emma Oakley's research uses socio-legal approaches to investigate legal and regulatory decision-making
- Lucía Berro Pizzarossa is a British Academy International Fellow at Birmingham Law School and an Affiliated researcher of the Global Health and Rights Project at The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.
- Muireann Quigley's research focuses on law, regulation, and policy relating to bodies, biomaterials, and biotechnologies.
- Samantha Schnobel's research focuses on torts and regulation, in particular the theoretical and doctrinal nature of obligations, and the regulation of human and nonhuman animal bodies.
- John Tingle's research focuses on the legal aspects of patient safety, nationally and globally.