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Dr Serena Natile receives the IAS Interdisciplinary Research Development Award for the project ‘Pluralising Law and Social Reproduction: Concepts, Methods, Practices’. The IRDA scheme offers up to £5000 to support the development of new interdisciplinary research ideas and collaborations at ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ.

For their final lecture, Labour Law in Context students had the opportunity to learn about the Modern Records Centre (MRC) archives and explore historical documents through a hands-on interactive exercise. Founded in 1973 and located adjacent to the ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ campus Library, the MRC is the main British repository for national archives of trade unions and labour relations.

The Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE) will be hosting a book launch of Finance Law by Professor Stephen Connelly on Thursday 20 November 2025 at 5pm in S0.11 at ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ Law School.

University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ celebrated recognition across four categories at the 2025 Times Higher Education (THE) Awards, held on 13 November 2025 at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. School Tasking, created by Dr Ali Struthers, was shortlisted in the Widening Participation or Outreach Initiative of the Year and ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ Mediation, created by Professor Jane Bryan, was shortlisted in the Outstanding Support for Students category.

The South African Banned Persons Memory Project (SABPMP) was initiated to preserve the stories of those silenced under apartheid’s Suppression of Communism Act. Through 179 filmed and recorded interviews; the project documents the lives of formerly banned persons, capturing personal accounts of isolation, resilience, and resistance.

The Government has announced plans to reform weddings law in England and Wales in a move set to completely overhaul how and where couples can marry. This is the biggest change to weddings law in over two hundred years.

Dr Serena Natile will deliver a session on ‘Revisiting Wages for Housework’ at the Resonate ESRC Festival of Social Science, taking place on Monday 3 November 2025 in Leamington Spa. The event will consider the potential of utopian/dystopian evolutions of work, and how we might shape the future for human wellbeing. Join University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ researchers for an evening of short talks from diverse perspectives of ‘Our Working Lives’.

The GLAM-E Lab, based at the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ, has collaborated with Amgueddfa Cymru Museum Wales to bring open access to Wales’ national collections.

A report by Dr Rachael Blakey has found that the ‘one-lawyer-two-clients’ format of family law support ‘can be highly effective in facilitating an agreement between certain divorcing or separating couples’.

The New England Foundation for the Arts has awarded Dr. Carolina Alonso Bejarano’s collaborative project ELMO-MENTO a 100,000 USD National Dance Project Grant to support the creation and U.S. touring of the piece.

[Art by Peter Quach]

We are excited to share that Dr Rachael Blakey has been shortlisted for the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Peter Birks Prize for her monograph, . The prize recognises outstanding legal scholarship published by Early Career Academics.

James Harrison from ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ Law School and co-author Mark Wielga (from Nomogaia) have been awarded this year’s best scholarly article prize by the Business and Human Rights Journal. The article compares the effectiveness of six grievance mechanisms that allow workers and communities to complain about human rights abuses that corporations have allegedly perpetrated against them.