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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 and Kate Malleson, with Saphié Ashtiany, are investigating: (a) the genesis of the general positive action provisions in the Equality Act 2010, sections 158 and 159 and (b) how these measures have operated in practice. Both aspects involve semi structured interview studies with a range of participants, the latter particularly in the legal sector. The overall aim is to extract learning about the use of law to promote equality.

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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