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Research and PhD projects

LEAD postgraduate students

  • Vanessa Ho, thesis title: Leveraging data to challenge inequalities at work (working title).
  • Deborah Lawunmi, thesis title: What is the career experience of Black lawyers in City Law Firms?
  • Sarah Court-Brown, thesis title: Mapping equality in the UK constitution.
  • Jenny Knox was awarded her PhD on 30 June 2024 for her thesis ‘Contesting Austerity: constrained legal creativity’, supervised by Professors Barmes and Malleson.
  • Ksenia Bakina was awarded her PhD on 31 July 2019 for her thesis 'Legal Responses to Online Revenge Pornography: A Feminist Perspective,' supervised by Professors Barmes and Malleson.
  • Camille Joly was awarded her PhD on 31 May 2019 for her thesis on 'The Over Representation of Men at the Top of City Law Firms: Power, Culture, Structure and the Paradox of Time,' supervised by Professors Barmes and Malleson.
  • Stuart Goosey was awarded his PhD on 31 December 2017 for his thesis on ‘A Pluralist Theory of Age Discrimination’, supervised by Professors Barmes and Malleson.

Research

Research into Positive Action under the Equality Act 2010

Lizzie Barmes is completing a book, provisionally called Equality Law and Positive Action in the Legal Profession of England and Wales: Law’s Impact, on the impact in practice of Equality Act 2010, sections 158 and 159, with the legal profession of England and Wales as a case study. This will be followed up by a series of articles on the genesis and implementation of these provisions in the of the Equality Act 2010. These works draw on a series of semi-structured interviews with a wide range of interviewees, comprising those involved in the passage and implementation of the Act, and who have insight into its effects in practice, especially in the legal profession.

Appearance and the Law Discussion Group

In 2022 Hannah Saunders created an Appearance and the Law Discussion Group. This holds bi-monthly online sessions on a range of topics connected with appearance and the law. Recent (or forthcoming)  topics include:

  • modelling good practice for appearance-inclusive workplaces
  • AI and appearance
  • Body modification and the law
  • Body image and art
  • Stigma and visible difference

To join, please email h.saunders@qmul.ac.uk.

Award of ESRC London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership Studentship

Sarah Court-Brown received a LISS DTP award to pursue a MRes in 2017/2018 followed by a PhD under the supervision of Professors Barmes, Malleson and Dr Mario Mendes. Sarah’s research interests concern the influence in the political and legislative fields in modern Britain of ideas and principles about equality.

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