SLSA E‐Newsletter
| Date | 01 June 2019 |
| Published date | 01 June 2019 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12165 |
Socio-Legal
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SO CI O -L EG A L NE W SL ET T ER • NO8 5 • SU MM E R 2 01 8
N E W S L E T T E R
TH E N E W S L E T T E R O F T H E S O C I O - L E G A L S T U D I E S A S S O C I A T I O N SU M M E R 2018
No 85
SLSA 2018 BRISTOL
From 27–29 March the University of Bristol Law School
hosted our annual conference in the beautiful Wills
Memorial Building. The event attracted 475 participants
from the UK and abroad.
Over 500 paper abstracts were submitted and about 20 posters
displayed. The organising committee awarded a total of 15
bursaries to postgraduate researchers and displaced scholars.
There we re 36 st reams an d seven current topic s essions
throughout the three days and, between sessions, delegates
were able to mingle in the Great Hall and visit the publishers’
stands set out there.
PGRs were well catered for with a networking scheme run
by Jess Mant during the coffee breaks. Jess also organised a
resilience workshop on the morning of day one with guest
convenors Lydia Bleasdale and Sarah Humphreys (University of
Leeds) to eq uip PGRs wi th addition al skills to meet the
challenges of postgraduate study.
On the s ocial side, t here w ere fou r confe rence t ours
throughout the three days, a drinks reception (after a well
attended plenary discussion) and a fully booked conference
dinner in Bristol Museum at which SLSA chair Rosie Harding
announced the winners of our annual prizes (see page 5 for
details) including the Prize for Contributions to the Socio-Legal
Communi ty 2017 which we nt to Pr ofessor Mike Adle r
(Edinburgh University) (see page 3 for this year’s call for
nominations). All of these activities were greatly enjoyed by
conference participan ts who also appreciat ed the spirit of
collaboration and the new friendships engendered by the paper
panels and streams.
SLSA 2018 Plenary Panel. From left: Lois Bibbings, Ambreena Manji,
Joanne Conaghan, Carl Stychin and Dave Cowan
Organisers received much positive feedback. In particular,
Bronwen Morgan, Professor of Law at the University of New
South Wales (UNSW) Law School, commen ted:
‘Congratulations on a fantastic conference – I very much want to
convey to both of you how brilliant I thought it was … And my
colleague from UNSW who had not visited Bristol before was
equally impressed – so you catered to the new and the familiar
with equal panache.’
The conference website is still live with full details of
plenary panel spe akers and stream s and current to pics –
wwww.slsa2018.com – and the book of abstracts is available
here: www w.slsa2018.co m/conference- programme. If y ou
haven’t attended an SLSA annual conference before, do peruse
these materials and then block out 3–5 April 2019 and start
planning y our trip t o Leeds (a nd see bel ow left fo r the
announcement of the venues for 2020 and 2021).
It has been a privilege and a pleasure for the University of
Bristol Law School organising committee to serve the socio-legal
community.
Devyani Prabhat and Janine Sargoni
FUTURE SLSA EVENTS
Annual conferences
Next yea r’s annu al confe rence is being ho sted by Leeds
University from 3 to 5 April 2019. The organisers are Amanda
Keeling and Imogen Jones.
We are delighted to announce that our 2020 conference will
be held at Portsmouth University and Cardiff University is
hosting SLSA 2021: dates will be announced in due course.
LSAANZ 2018
Along with the Canadian Law and Society Association, the
SLSA Exec is delighted to be co-sponsoring the Law and Society
Association of Australia and New Zealand (LSAANZ) Annual
Conference at the Legal Intersections Research Centre in
Wollongong, Australia, 12–15 December 2018. Exec deputy
chair Jen Hendry is on the planning committee for this event.
The call for paper s is current ly open. See
wwww.uowblogs.com/lsaanz2018. Closing date: 6 July 2018.
SLSA postgraduate conference 2019
This free two-day networking event for postgraduates will be at
Warwick University, 3–4 January 2019. The organiser is Vanessa
Munro. Further details will be published in due course.
See page 4 for details of our 2018 seminar competition winners.
Disclaimer
The opinions expressed in articles in the
Socio-Legal Newsletter are those of the authors and not
necessarily those of the SLSA.
SLSA EXEC NEWS
At the SLSA AGM in Bristol, a number of new members
joined the Executive Committee.
We are delighted to welcome Roxanna Dehaghani (Cardiff),
Smita Kheria (Edinburgh), Antonia Layard (Bristol), Jess Mant
(Leeds, and former PGR rep) and Flora Renz (Kent).
At the AGM, Mark O’Brien (Oxford Brookes) stepped down
after serving eight years on the Exec, five of them as treasurer.
The Exec would like to extend particular thanks to him for his
commitment to the association over such an extended period in
one of the most onerous roles on the committee.
As a result of the recent changes to Exec membership, we
now have a number of new postholders. Elen Stokes (Cardiff)
has stepped into the treasurer role; Flora Renz has take over as
recruit ment secr etary; S mita Khe ria is Scotti sh rep and
international liaison officer; Jess Mant is social media officer;
Colin Moore (Kent) is data protection officer; and the two new
PGR reps are Tahir Abass (Leeds) and Rachael Blakey (Cardiff).
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© Socio-Legal Studies Association 2018 ISSN: 0957-7817
SLSA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
2017—2018
CHAIR
Rosie Harding
University of Birmingham
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r.j.harding@bham.ac.uk
VICE-CHAIR
Jen Hendry
University of Leeds
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j.hendry@leeds.ac.uk
SECRET
ARY
Neil Graffin
Open University
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neil.graffin@open.ac.uk
TREASURER
Elen Stokes
Cardiff University
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stokese1@cardiff.ac.uk
MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY
Maebh Harding
Warwick University
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maebh.harding@warwick.ac.uk
PUBLISHER LIAISON
Naomi Creutzfeldt
University of Westminster
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n.creutzfeldt@westminster.ac.uk
Newsletter sponsorship
The Socio-Legal Newsletter is sponsored
by a consortium of law schools interested
in promoting socio-legal studies in the UK.
If your institution would like to become
involved in this initiative, please contact
SLSA chair Rosie Harding
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r.j.harding@bham.ac.uk.
Newsletter academic sponsors 2016—2019
are: Birkbeck; Cardiff Law School; Centre
for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford; Keele
University; Kent University; Leeds Beckett
University; the LSE; Newcastle University;
Northumbria University Newcastle; QMUL;
Queen’s University Belfast; University
College London; University of Birmingham
University of Exeter; University of Leeds;
University of Leicester; University of
Liverpool; University of Nottingham;
University of Sheffield; University of
Strathclyde; University of Sussex; University
of Westminster; University of York; and
Warwick Law School.
The newsletter is also sponsored by the
Journal of Law and Society.
. . . n e w s l e t t e r s p o n s o r s . . . n e w s l e t t e r s p o n s o r s . . .
John Harrington
Cardiff University
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harringtonj3@cardiff.ac.uk
Ed Kirton-Darling
Kent University
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e.kirton-darling-
276@kent.ac.uk
Antonia Layard
Bristol University
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antonia.layard@bristol.ac.uk
Vanessa Munro
Warwick University
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v.munro@warwick.ac.uk
Devyani Prabhat (Bristol 2018
conference organiser)
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devyani.prabhat@bristol.ac.uk
Janine Sargoni (Bristol 2018
conference organiser)
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janine.sargoni@bristol.ac.uk
Ilke Turkmendag
Newcastle University
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ilke.turkmendag
@newcastle.ac.uk
Tom Webb
Lancaster University
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t.webb@lancaster.ac.uk
DATA PROTECTION OFFICER
Colin Moore
Kent University
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c.r.moore@kent.ac.uk
RECRUITMENT SECRETARY
Flora Renz
Kent University
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f.renz@kent.ac.uk
LEEDS 2019
Amanda Keeling
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a.keeling@leeds.ac.uk
Imogen Jones
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i.jones2@leeds.ac.uk
SLSA EXECUTIVE MEMBERS
Diamond Ashiagbor
IALS, University of London
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diamond.ashiagbor@sas.ac.uk
Emilie Cloatre
Kent University
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e.cloatre@kent.ac.uk
Kevin Crosby (2017 conference
organiser)
Newcastle University
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kevin.crosby@newcastle.ac.uk
Roxanna Dehaghani
Cardiff University
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fatemi-dehaghanir@cardiff.ac.uk
SCOTTISH REP/INTERNATIONAL
LIAISON
Smita Kheria
Edinburgh University
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smita.kheria@ed.ac.uk
EDITOR: NEWSLETTER, WEB,
eBULLETIN
Marie Selwood
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marieselwood@btinternet.com
SOCIAL MEDIA OFFICER
Jessica Mant
Leeds University
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j.l.mant@leeds.ac.uk
GRANTS COMMITTEE CHAIR
Jess Guth
Leeds Beckett University
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j.guth@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
POSTGRADUATE REPRESENTATIVES
Tahir Abass
Leeds University
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lwta@leeds.ac.uk
Rachael Blakey
Cardiff University
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blakeyrj@cardiff.ac.uk
WEBMASTER
Jed Meers
University of York
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jed.meers@york.ac.uk
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