Bev Clough
@bevclough.bsky.social
Prof Law & Social Justice, MMU. Feminist legal theory and critical disability studies. Health and Care. Current work- Doulas; Legal geography of home. Disability, Law and Justice (Hart) Series Editor. Medical Law Review Book Reviews Editor.
For strategic thinking purposes, would be useful to know from UK HEI-based researchers: does your HEI place restrictions on applications to charitable funders? If so, which funders, which schemes, since when & with what rationale? DM and email (m.finn@ucl.ac.uk) replies also welcome if you prefer.
I don’t know whether you know this but my book is Open Access and you can read it for free on your kindle via Amazon (where it is the number one health policy download!). Also totally open access with extra resources online at jimcrowintheasylum.com
Jim Crow in the Asylum | Emory Center for Digital Scholarship - Manifold Scholarship
<h3>Untangling the relationship between race and psychiatry in the American South</h3> There is a complicated history of racism and psychiatric healthcare in the Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama...
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Latest blog post from our birth doula project, with update on activities so far and next steps @annanelson95.bsky.social There is still time to submit an expression of interest for focus groups so please do share birthdoulas.mmu.ac.uk/2026/02/17/p...
Project Update - Birth doulas
As the project continues apace, we wanted to take a moment and reflect on the research so far and on our next steps. Our Research So Far In September we launched two surveys, one for […]
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We have now started the next stage of our project: focus groups with (1) birth doulas, (2) healthcare professionals involved with birth and (3) people who have used or considered using a doula during birth in the past 5 years. Please do share with networks! @annanelson95.bsky.social
We are delighted to share this upcoming event from the Sylvia Pankhurst Network. Join us for an inspiring discussion exploring intersectional feminism, resistance, and transformative justice, featuring two powerful voices in activism and community work! Details below👇
Aiming to read more in 2026? We have some amazing books awaiting review for Medical Law Review. Please do share with networks and PhD students- always very happy to support ECRs through the reviewing process. 📚
Good reading. 'How the financial problem is described is not neutral. It reflects and reinforces a particular way of understanding what a university is....If the financial situation is framed as a classic demand-and-cost problem....the obvious actions are to emphasise tight cost controls'. 1/4
WEEKEND READING: What if, in trying to ‘fix’ universities, we are quietly unmaking them? - HEPI
Join HEPI and Advance HE for a webinar onTuesday, 13 January 2026, from 11am to 12pm, exploring what higher education can learn from leadership approaches in other sectors. Sign up here to hear this a...
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We were delighted to host a book launch yesterday for Dr Senthorun Raj’s new book, ‘The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law’. Congratulations @senthorun.bsky.social!
Dr Cecilia Flores Elizondo in full flow discussing her project, 'Receivers of Justice in the Global Just Transition'. This event was the conclusion of a pilot photovoice study funded by an internal research acceleration grant.
Earlier this month, Professor Annapurna Waughray spoke at a Parliamentary Briefing on Caste Discrimination, convened at Westminster by the APPG on Dalits and ACDA. Have a read over the Metropolis news item on the November 2025 briefing below 👇 mcrmetropolis.uk/professor-wa...
Professor Waughray and Campaigners Urge End to Caste Discrimination - Metropolis
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We were thrilled to welcome Dr Bharat Malkani (Cardiff) for our final MLS Seminar of the semester. Bharat gave an excellent talk on “Racial Justice and the Limits of the Law”.
A massive well done to Dr Cathy Jacquiss, who passed her viva today!🎉 Cathy gave an excellent defence of her thesis, 'Hostility, Resistance and Hope: The Operation of Space and Affect in LGBTQ+ Asylum Litigation'.
Book Launch: Threads of Labour: Tapestry of an Ex-Industrial Community, by Lisa Taylor Thursday 20th November 2025, 6:00pm-7:30pm (GMT). In person at The Leeds Library Threads of Labour examines how art & industrial heritage foster cohesion in post-industrial communities. isrf.org/events/threa...
Threads of Labour | 20th November 2025
An in-person & online book launch and conversation with Dr Lisa Taylor, author of 'Threads of Labour: Tapestry of an Ex-Industrial Community'.
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Huge congratulations to @sammorgn97.bsky.social who successfully passed her PhD viva last week! 🎉👏 The title of Sam's thesis is ‘The Production of Law Through Space and Affect: Examining LGBTQI+ Rights Strategic Litigation and Activist Practice in the Caribbean’
Researching a legal moment that was supposed to change everything - whether it did or not? The call for papers for 'Moments of Rupture' is open until 23 October! Free, online conference in November, hosted by the Open Universities legal histories research cluster. #LegalHistory #cfp
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Moments of Rupture Online 20-21 November 2025Some legal and social changes are so profound that they create what seem to be moments of rupture: breaks between the ‘before’ and ‘after’. These moments c...
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Recent blog post for BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health contextualising our birth doula project- with @annanelson95.bsky.social blogs.bmj.com/bmjsrh/2025/...
Exploring the role of birth doulas as liminal actors in medical law and regulation - BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health blog
By Beverley Clough and Anna Nelson Birth doulas are not medically trained, but are seen as a source of physical and emotional support for the birthing person. Doula UK, the largest UK Doula Organisati...
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Dr Tamsin Paige giving a fascinating talk at MLS on 'Fines Do Not Make for Fine Law'.
People often express concerns that birth doulas are entirely unregulated, but the reality is a little more nuanced - as @bevclough.bsky.social & I unpack here: birthdoulas.mmu.ac.uk/2025/09/22/b...
Birth Doulas and Regulation: A Socio-Legal Approach - Birth doulas
One of the claims which is often made by those expressing their concerns about birth doulas is that doulas are ‘unregulated’. The purpose of this post is not to provide […]
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Sharing our surveys for birth doulas and for healthcare professionals (both broadly defined) for a project with @annanelson95.bsky.social on birth doulas and medical law. Please share widely!
Sharing our surveys for birth doulas and for healthcare professionals (both broadly defined) for a project with @annanelson95.bsky.social on birth doulas and medical law. Please share widely!
Great to see our research bulletin for Spring/Summer 📚
Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · last yr.⚠️Manchester Law School's Research Bulletin for Spring/Summer 2025 is finally out! Click this link to see all of the great work done by colleagues: drive.google.com/file/d/1PeOD... #lawschool #researchlaw #bulletin #mmu #ManMetProud
🚨 New Book Alert! 🌍📘 Ash Murphy’s Climate Change at the UN Security Council: Protecting Pacific and Caribbean Island States is out now with Routledge (2025). A vital read on climate, security & small island states. Available here: www.routledge.com/Climate-Chan...
Climate Change at the UN Security Council: Protecting Pacific and Caribbean Island States
This book examines the operation of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to better understand the motivating factors that underpin its activation of Article 39. Arguing that climate change shoul...
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🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨🚨🚨 The United Nations is calling for the UK Government to stop the Universal Credit (PIP) Bill because it will 'deepen the signs of regression' in disabled people's human rights. tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/...
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Always a highlight of the year! So lovely to spend time writing with colleagues
Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · last yr.Day two of the Business and Law Faculty Writing Retreat. Huge thanks to Prof Gary Warnaby for organising such an inspiring event! We are also grateful to Prof Dominic Medway for his insightful talk on sustaining a research career through enthusiasm and collaboration.
🚨New from Dr. Zainab Naqvi (MMU Law): 'Colourism and Law in the UK: A Story of Colonial Indifference?' Published in Frontiers in Sociology (June 2025) Available here: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... This powerful piece argues that UK law remains blind to colourism. #colourism #race&law
Frontiers | Colourism and law in the UK: a story of colonial indifference?
In this paper I explore legal and judicial responses toward skin tone and colourism in the UK. I argue that despite incidents involving colourism coming befo...
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Despite my best efforts, we are back here… if anyone is looking for a socio-legal / medical law researcher do let me know! Particularly interested in all things #childbirth, #obstetricviolence #reproductivetechnology and #consent but absolutely not fussy at this stage 📚
This was such a wonderful session! Blown away by the brilliant research my colleagues are doing, and the engaged and reflective questions from the audience ❤️
Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · last yr.This morning's panel on 'Reimagining rights and identities: Critical perspectives on social justice' at the Faculty of Business and Law Research Conference 2025 Dr Jen Neller @jenneller.bsky.social Dr Caroline Redhead Dr Hasret Cetinkaya Sam Morgan, PhD Candidate @sammorgn97.bsky.social
1) You can read @senthorun.bsky.social book open access here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo... The book argues:
The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms
The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms
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Senthorun S. Raj@senthorun.bsky.social · last yr.My book is published! It’s a critical take on how emotions shape conflicts about LGBT rights and repair in equality law, gender recognition, bans on conversion practices, and sex education in schools. You can download it free via @edinburghup.bsky.social: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...
This morning's panel on 'Reimagining rights and identities: Critical perspectives on social justice' at the Faculty of Business and Law Research Conference 2025 Dr Jen Neller @jenneller.bsky.social Dr Caroline Redhead Dr Hasret Cetinkaya Sam Morgan, PhD Candidate @sammorgn97.bsky.social
