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| Baumberg Geiger, Ben | Re-thinking Incapacity: Evidence-based perspectives on work, benefits and disability | Active | December 2017 | ESRC | University of Kent (Partner: Demos) | Examines the Work Capability Assessment, which assesses eligibility for the main out-of-work disability benefit, Employment and Support Allowance, and considers how seven other countries assess incapacity. Finds several lessons for the UK and recommends steps towards a new incapacity assessment. | https://www.rethinkingincapacity.org/about-the-project/ | |||
| Behrens, Rob | Public Trust and the Ombudsman: A study of the key elements of public trust from the perspective of an ombudsman practitioner | Active | December 2017 | The European Network of Ombudsmen in Higher Education | n/a | What are the key elements of public trust? What role do independence and transparency play in generating or sustaining public trust? What does ‘active trust’ and ‘trustworthy behaviour’ look like concretely? | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/current-research-profile-rb-trust-0610152.pdf | |||
| Bennett, Claire | Women’s Asylum Appeals Project | Active | August 2016 | Nuffield Foundation | National Centre for Social Research | Investigates how women’s asylum cases are dealt with on appeal, whether current guidance is followed and what support is available to women – focusing especially on those which are subsequently overturned at appeal. | http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/womens-asylum-appeals-project-waap | |||
| Byrne, Seamus | Other Children, Other Voices: Education and Exclusion and the Duty to Progressively Realise Children’s Rights | Active | September 2018 | University of Liverpool | University of Liverpool | Examines the concept of ‘progressive realisation’ of children’s rights. In the examination of this concept, the researcher adopts the phenomenon of school exclusions in England as a case study. | https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/law/research/phd-students/seamus-byrne/ | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/oct-2016-seamus-byrne.pdf | ||
| Craven, Richard | The protection of workers on government contracts | Active | April 2017 | British Academy; Leverhulme | University of Leicester | An empirical study of labour policies in local government procurement. | http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/law/people/richard-craven | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/oct-2016-richard-craven.pdf | ||
| Creutzfeldt, Naomi and Gill, Chris | Research into access to justice for vulnerable and energy-poor consumers in the European energy market | Active | September 2017 and August 2020 | ESRC | University of Westminster; Queen Margaret University | Is alternative dispute resolution (ADR) resulting in more accessible justice? This project will address this question and, specifically, examine whether ADR provides access to justice for vulnerable consumers in the European energy market. | https://esrcjustenergy.wordpress.com | |||
| Dagilyte, Egle; Greenfields, Margaret; Partner NGOs: Roma Support Group (London) and Derby Roma Community Care | Access to welfare benefits for EU/EEA Roma migrants in the UK after the 2014 benefit reforms | Active | November 2015-2017 (currently writing up) | Seed-funding from SLSA small grant and Bucks New University | Anglia Ruskin and Bucks New University | Exploring (qualitative methods) Roma family experiences of impact of welfare benefit changes on household circumstances; migration intention and ‘knock-on’ effects re engagement in safeguarding procedures resulting from destitution. Considering level of cultural knowledge of welfare benefits staff; stereotypes impacting on service delivery. | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/ukaji-live-projects-june-2017-profile-ed-mg.pdf | |||
| Doyle, Margaret | Children's and Young People's Participation in SEN Decision-making and Dispute Resolution | Active | Oct 2017 - July 2018 | ESRC Impact Fund and Garden Court Chambers | University of Essex/UKAJI | Decisions made by local authorities on special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) provision for children and young people reflect many aspects of concern in administrative justice – the quality of initial decision-making, accountability of public bodies, and mechanisms by which people can challenge and appeal such decisions. This knowledge exchange project explores participation in mediation of SEND disputes. To what extent are children and young people participating in decision-making in mediation to resolve disputes about their support for special educational needs and disabilities? How can mediation processes and practices be adapted to enable children and young people to participate meaningfully in mediation of SEND disputes? | ||||
| Driessens C, Smith P, Crepaz-Keay D, Kingdon D, Pilgrim D, Kendrick T | The effect of Community Mental Health Services in England | Active | May 2017 - May 2020 | Nuffield Foundation | University of Southampton | Explore whether administrative data sources can provide reliable longitudinal data to study the real world experiences of community mental health (CMH) service users in England. | http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/effect-community-mental-health-services-england | |||
| Elkington, Ossian Leo | Examining the dissatisfaction responses of HE students in England following first-tier and second-tier complaint outcomes | Active | September 2016–2022 | Queen Margaret University | Queen Margaret University | persist through the OIA’s internal and external review procedures and others do not. Within consumer behaviour literature, the dissatisfaction responses of HE students following a first-tier complaint and the factors influencing these responses has remained largely unexplored. This study will therefore examine how the assessments and attitudes of higher education students, following the completion of a first-tier complaint (i.e. a university complaint), influence their dissatisfaction responses. This study will contribute to procedural justice literature by examining the relationship between assessments of procedural justice in the OIA’s complaints scheme and the dissatisfaction responses of higher education students. | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/ukaji-ossian-elkington-research-profile-submission.pdf | |||
| Fennell, Phil | Personal Welfare Disputes in the Court of Protection | Active | September 2016 | Nuffield Foundation | Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University | Aims to provide an overview of the typical welfare work of the Court of Protection (COP); observe COP hearings and compare its processes with tribunals; interview COP and tribunal litigants for their perspectives on policy concerns; use surveys and focus groups to seek practitioner views on policy concerns and proposals for changes. | http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/personal-welfare-disputes-court-protection | |||
| Fitzpatrick, Ciara | Social Control and the Contemporary Social Security System 2010-2015 | Active | October 2017 | PhD funding (Department of Education and Learning, Northern Ireland) | Ulster University | The research aims to investigate social control in the contemporary social security system in Britain, through an in-depth analysis of the growth of the doctrine of conditionality in legislation and policy and will specifically focus on the implications for unemployed claimants. | http://www.ulster.ac.uk/lawclinic/research-students/ | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/current-research-profile-cf.pdf | ||
| Garthwaite, Kayleigh | Local Health Inequalities in an Age of Austerity: The Stockton-on-Tees Study | Active | Leverhulme | Durham University | Effects of austerity and welfare reform on health inequalities. Part of a five-year project investigating local health inequalities in an age of austerity in Stockton on Tees, England. | https://www.dur.ac.uk/health.inequalities/ | ||||
| Gill, Chris | Administrative Justice and the Control of Bureaucratic Decision-Making | Active | University of Glasgow PhD Scholarship | PhD - University of Glasgow. School of Law | Explores the idea that courts, tribunals, and ombuds schemes (collectively, redress mechanisms) exercise both ex post and ex ante control over bureaucratic decision-makers. | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/current-research-profile-c-gill.pdf | ||||
| Greenfields, Margaret et al | Roma Families and Social Work/Youth Offending Engagement | Active | Autumn 2014-2017 | Seed-funding from Bucks New University and ‘in kind’ resource support for interviews/transcription from University of Manchester (MigROM project) and University of Derby | Bucks New University | Exploring (qualitative methods) Roma family experiences of engagement in safeguarding procedures and youth justice proceedings; approach to/attitudes engaging with local authority social services departments and YOT. | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/ukaji-live-projects-june-2017-profile-mg.pdf | |||
| Hood C, McLean I, Johnson P | History of the United Kingdom's Planning and Control of Public Expenditure | Active | April 2017 - April 2020 | Nuffield Foundation | All Souls College Oxford, Nuffield College Oxford, Institute for Fiscal Studies | Aims to describe and assess the operation of public expenditure control in the UK between 1993-2015 by looking at the statistical record of UK spending plans and outturns and documents relating to the design and efficacy of different spending control regimes in operation. | http://nuffieldfoundation.org/history-united-kingdoms-planning-and-control-public-expenditure | |||
| Irvine, Charlie | Mediation and Justice: An Empirical Investigation | Active | August 2020 | University bursary | PhD, Queen Margaret University | Considers the alleged gap between mediation and justice. The empirical element will involve examining outcomes for those taking small claims whose cases are mediated and those who continue to a Proof hearing. | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/current-research-profile-c-irvine.pdf | |||
| Kirkham, Richard | Scrutinising the Legitimacy of the Ombudsman Sector (5 current projects) | Active | Various | University of Sheffield School of Law | 1) The impact of judicial scrutiny of ombudsman decision-making 2) the regulatory framework introduced under the ADR Directive 3) The transposition and growth of ombudsman model in Jamaica 4) The limitations of the ombudsman model, using Thailand as a case study, with Jiraporn Sudhankitra 5) Organising a global collection of empirical studies on the public services ombudsman institution with Marc Hertogh | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/current-research-profile-rk.pdf | ||||
| Kirton-Darling, Ed | The Social Welfare Inquest: Death, Accountability and Administrative Justice | Active | November-2015 (ongoing) | Self funded (building on ESRC funded PhD scholarship) | Kent Law School | My research investigates the role of the inquest as part of administrative justice, with particular focus on the ‘social welfare inquest’. | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/ukaji-live-projects-june-2017-ekd-profile.pdf | |||
| Landman, Todd | The Rights Track | Active | September 2018 | Nuffield Foundation in first year, ESRC for second year. | University of Nottingham | This project will establish a free website resource of twelve podcasts on systematic social science research on human rights. | http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/rights-track | Recording the final episode of series II, 03.10.17, with Heidi Beirich at the Southern Poverty Law Centre, and then we have secured an additional year of funding to do a series on anti-slavery scholarship and advocacy | ||
| Lee, Robert and Tkacukova, Tatiana | Litigants in Person in Birmingham Civil Justice Centre: Access to Legal Information and Advice | Active | January–November 2016 | Supported by Centre for Professional Legal Education and Research, University of Birmingham | Birmingham Law School, Birmingham City University | operation, a mixed methods study to explore the experience of LiPs, both prior to litigation and at the hearing stage, and in particular the difficulties they encounter with legal discourse. | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/current-research-profile-tt-rl-june-2017.pdf | |||
| Marshall, Emma | Extending access to ‘Exceptional Case Funding’ (ECF) applications for legal aid in the context of clinical legal education | Active | September 2017 – March 2018 | The South West Doctoral Training Partnership/ Economic and Social Research Council | University of Exeter | assesses the role that university legal clinics have in supporting individuals to access ‘Exceptional Case Funding’ (ECF) applications areas of legal aid that would otherwise be out-of-scope. | ||||
| McBurnie, Gavin | An Investigation into the Impact of Health Ombudsman Schemes on the Delivery of Healthcare – an International Comparison | Active | September 2020 | Fee waiver/Self | Queen Margaret University | There is increasing academic interest in ombudsmanry but little empirical research on how health ombudsmen deliver their statutory obligations or strategic aims to improve services. This research aims to examine the means by which health ombudsmen attempt to achieve their objectives and how these means are received by health bodies. | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/current-research-profile-g-mcb-revised.pdf | |||
| McGregor, Lorna; Sunkin, Maurice | Human Rights, Big Data, and Technology | Active | ESRC | University of Essex, Human Rights Centre | Drawing on the wide range of expertise of its interdisciplinary researchers and partner organisations, the project considers whether fundamental human rights concepts and approaches need to be adapted to meet the rapidly evolving technological landscape. | |||||
| McKeever, Grainne; Allamby, Les; McCord, John | The Impact of Litigants in Person on the Northern Ireland Court System | Active | April 2016 - April 2018 | Nuffield Foundation | Ulster University and Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission | Research to better understand the characteristics of the population of Litigants in Person (LiPs) as they progress through the courts in Northern Ireland, and by designing and evaluating a specific initiative that would address their needs | http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/impact-litigants-person-northern-ireland-court-system | |||
| McVie S et al | Analysing Multi-Dimensional and Multi-Scale Inequalities in Scottish Society | Active | Oct 2017 - Sept 2020 | ESRC | University of Edinburgh | Exploring the causes and consequences of social inequalities in Scottish society in multiple forms and at different levels both spatially and socially | http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=ES%2FP009301%2F1 | |||
| Morris, Kate; Churchill, Harriet | Exploring the dissemination of lessons from research to the Judiciary | Active | November 2017 | Nuffield Foundation | University of Sheffield Dept of Sociological Studies | Identify and document existing arrangements and mechanisms for disseminating research to the judiciary; producing a guide on dissemination opportunities | http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/exploring-dissemination-lessons-research-judiciary | |||
| Mullen, Tom; Gill, Chris, Vivian, Nial | Scotland’s Model Complaint Handling Procedures: Exploring Recent Developments and the Usefulness of Complaints Data for Administrative Justice Research | Active | 1 February 2017 – 31 August 2017 | UKAJI/ Nuffield Foundation | University of Glasgow; Queen Margaret University | scale exploratory case study research into Scotland’s newly simplified complaints handling and reporting landscape | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/current-research-profile-tm-cg-nv.pdf | |||
| O’Brien, Charlotte | Realising EU welfare rights: administrative gatekeeping and the accessibility of EU law | Active | April 2016 | ESRC | York Law School, University of York | Investigates how easy it is to use the rights granted by EU law in the UK, to test how well EU citizenship rights work in practice, and to test the values of social and administrative justice in EU law. In collaboration with Ripon Citizens Advice Bureau, the Principal Investigator (PI) will set up a specialist advice and advocacy service on EU welfare claims. | http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/project/75108F2A-9C8E-4EAC-AA19-D3B6C9B1B796 | |||
| Richards Z, Hertogh M | Through the Eyes of Bureaucrats: Legal Consciousness and Administrative Justice | Active | 2019 | N/A | Keele University & Groningen University, Netherlands | a compilation of international studies from reputable socio-legal scholars, which consider the relationships between public officials’ attitudes towards law and administrative justice goals | ||||
| Sargeant, Christopher | Holding persons to account for their actions in respect of a death in prison custody | Active | June 2017 | AHRC | PhD – Cambridge University Law School | Examines whether those existing accountability mechanisms are effective and to consider how they can be improved. Scrutinises the way effectiveness of a complex accountability framework is assessed in the existing research. | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/current-research-profile-c-sargeant.pdf | |||
| Stuckler, David | Social Welfare and Public Health: Analysing Quasi-natural Experiments from the 2007 Recession | Active | Wellcome Trust | Bocconi University | Does investing in social protection improve public health? Which social protection programmes, if any, have a significant effect? The project seeks to understand how social protection programmes affect public health and which specific investments are the most effective. | http://www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/funding/social-welfare-and-public-health-analysing-quasi-natural-experiments-from-the-2007-recession.html | ||||
| Thomas, Robert and Tomlinson, Joe | Judicial Review in Immigration | Active | Oct 2017-Jan 2019 | Nuffield Foundation | University of Manchester and University of Sheffield | How is the system of immigration judicial review operating in practice? The 16,000 immigration judicial reviews lodged each year are pushing at the limit of what the judicial system can cope with. However, policy-makers lack a detailed understanding of this area of litigation | ||||
| UCC Child Law Clinic | Child-friendly Public Services | Active | First phase completed | Children’s Commissioner | Univ College Cork, Ireland – Child Law Clinic | Designed to advance the promotion and protection of children’s rights in the administrative actions and decision-making processes of public bodies and to improve children’s access to public services. | http://www.ucc.ie/en/childlawclinic/resources/ | |||
| Watkins, Dawn | Law in Children’s Lives | Active | 2014-2017 | ESRC and The Legal Education Foundation | University of Leicester | Seeks to investigate and explore children’s understanding of law in the context of their everyday lives. An unusual and pioneering feature of this study has been the creation and use of a digital game as a means of gathering research data from 634 children aged 8-11 years, from 8 primary schools in Leicester and Leicestershire | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/watkins-research-profile-template-final.pdf | |||
| Webster, David | A Critical Analysis of the Use of Disallowances and Sanctions in the UK Unemployment Benefit System | Active | not applicable | University of Glasgow | Aims to provide a comprehensive critical re-evaluation of the use of disallowances and sanctions in unemployment benefits. The objective is to find out what the disallowance/sanction system has done in quantitative terms and to relate this to changing labour market conditions, to establish whether stated rationales survive scrutiny of outcomes. | http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/research/urbanstudies/projects/ukbenefitdisallowances/ | Working on the 1930's data at present 5.10.17 | |||
| Welbourne, Penelope; Bates, Philip | Parents who lack capacity in public law proceedings | Active | August 2016 | Nuffield Foundation | Plymouth University | Aims to explore the feasibility of carrying out an in-depth study that would look at the way courts and key professionals manage conflicting pressures in cases where parents lack capacity in care proceedings, and identify how these parents can be best supported while meeting other priorities, such as those relating to child welfare proceedings. | http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/getting-it-right-time-parents-who-lack-litigation-capacity-public-law | |||
| Yeandle S et al | Sustainable Care: connecting people and systems | Active | 2017-2021 | ESRC | University of Sheffield | Explore how care arrangements, currently 'in crisis' in parts of the UK can be made sustainable and deliver wellbeing outcomes, to advance understanding of sources of economic and social sustainability in care | http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.718769!/file/Overview-Sustainable-Care-research-programme-2.pdf | |||
| Agapiou, Andrew; Clark, Bryan | Construction clients and mediation: a follow-up study of attitudes and experiences | Completed | July 2012 | Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors Research Trust | Strathclyde University | To fill a gap in the literature and chart Scottish construction participants’ awareness, attitudes and experiences relative to mediation. | https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/agapiouandrewdr/ | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/oct-2016-aagapiou-completed-research.pdf | ||
| Ahmed, Masood | An Investigation Into The Nature and Role of Non-settled ADR in the English Civil Justice system | Completed | December 2016 | University of Leicester | University of Leicester | Explores what is meant by 'successful' ADR | http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/law/people/masood-ahmed | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/oct-2016-masood-ahmed.pdf | Will be published in the International Journal of Procedural Law later this year | |
| Boyron, Sophie | Making mediation a viable alternative to judicial review | Completed | October 2016 | ESRC | University of Birmingham Law School | Explores the challenges and scope for embedding the practice of mediation in judicial review and public law litigation. | http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/law/staff/profile.aspx?ReferenceId=3802 | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/oct-2016-sophie-boyron.pdf | ||
| Cortes, Pablo | Incentives for Effective Consumer Redress in the EU | Completed | September 2016 | Nuffield Foundation | University of Leicester | Evaluating main consumer ADR schemes in Italy, Spain and the UK in sociolegal context with particular reference to new European legislation, ODR and best practice for processing complaints online | http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/incentives-effective-consumer-redress-eu | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/ukaji-current-research-profile-pc.pdf | ||
| Creutzfeldt, Naomi | Trusting the middle-man: Impact and Legitimacy of Ombudsmen in Europe | Completed | September 2016 | ESRC FRL Scheme | University of Oxford, Socio-Legal Studies Centre | Compares levels of perceived procedural fairness and trust in ombudsman systems in France, Germany and the United Kingdom | https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/trusting-middle-man-impact-and-legitimacy-ombudsmen-europe | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/current-research-profile-n-creutzfeldt6.pdf | ||
| Cullen, Mairi Ann, Professor Geoff Lindsay, Dr Gavan Conlon, Dr Stephen Cullen, Dr Ioanna Bakopoulou, Dr Vasiliki Totsika | Review of Arrangements for Disagreement Resolution (SEND) | Completed | March 2017 | Department for Education | Warwick University | To support Ministerial commitments to conduct a review of the disagreement resolution arrangements and to conduct a pilot to test the expansion of the powers of the First-Tier Tribunal (SEND) to make non-binding recommendation on health and social care aspects of EHC plans. | http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/cedar/research/current/disagreementresolution | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/current-research-profile-ma-cullen.pdf | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-disagreement-resolution-arrangements-in-england-review | http://www.addaction.org.uk/sites/default/files/public/attachments/delivering_family_interventions_through_social_investment.pdf |
| Daly, Stephen | Administrative Rule-making in Tax Law | Completed | February 2017 | University of Oxford; professional body | University of Oxford | Examines administrative rule-making in tax law | http://oxford.academia.edu/StephenDaly | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/oct-2016-stephen-daly.pdf | ||
| Gill, Chris and Creutzfeldt, Naomi | The ‘ombuds watchers’: dissatisfaction, collective dissent, and legal protest amongst users of public services ombuds | Completed | 2014-2017 | Oxford University's ESRC Impact Acceleration Account | University of Westminster and Queen Margaret University | Examines activist consumer groups who have set up online protest groups to highlight concerns about the operation of ombudsman schemes and campaign for change | https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-and-subject-groups/online-critics-ombudsmen | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/current-research-profile-tm-cg-nv.pdf | ||
| Gill, Nick; Burridge, Andrew | Fair and Consistent? Are asylum appeal hearings the same wherever they are heard? | Completed | July 2016 | ESRC | University of Exeter | Procedural consistency in asylum appeals | http://geography.exeter.ac.uk/asylumappeals/ http://www.esrc.ac.uk/news-events-and-publications/impact-case-studies/halting-unfair-fast-tracking-of-asylum-claims/ http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=ES%2FJ023426%2F1 | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/oct-2016-gill-and-burridge.pdf | ||
| Gulland, Jackie | Constructing incapacity for work: conditionality in sickness benefits since 1911 | Completed | December 2015 | Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship | University of Edinburgh | The history of incapacity benefits in the UK from 1911 until the present day. Set firmly in the context of the current debate on welfare reform, the project has sought to uncover the hidden conditionalities attached to claims for incapacity benefits across the twentieth century since the first sickness benefit scheme in 1911. | http://www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk/constructingincapacity/ | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/current-research-profile-jg.pdf | ||
| Hambly, Jessica | Advocacy and adjudication in asylum tribunals | Completed | May 2017 | ESRC Scholarship (PhD) | University of Bristol. School of Law | A socio-legal, empirical study of advocacy and decision-making in asylum tribunals, bringing together and developing existing work on asylum law and policy with literature on identity, advocacy and judging. | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/law/people/jessica-c-hambly/research.html | |||
| Le Sueur, Andrew | Administrative Justice in Jersey | Completed | September 2017 | States of Jersey/Jersey Law Commission | Jersey Law Commission/School of Law, University of Essex | The project is examining the work of the various tribunals set up by Jersey Laws, the role of the Royal Court in hearing statutory appeals and applications for judicial review, and the work of the States of Jersey Complaints Board. | https://jerseylawcommission.org/current-reform-projects/ | https://jerseylawcommission.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/jsylawcom_topicreport_adminredress_final.pdf | Report ready in October - 5.10.17 | |
| Leith, Philip; Dickson, B; Morison, J; Wheeler, S; Lynch, M | Rewarding Merit in Judicial Appointments? | Completed | Northern Ireland Legal Services Commission (no profile links) | Queen's University Belfast | Explores how the idea of “merit” as a governing factor in judicial appointment is seen as working in practiceand aims to develop an understanding of how gender is perceived to operate in the appointments process and how barriers to recruiting women can be further broken down. | https://www.nijac.gov.uk/publication/qub-research-rewarding-merit-judicial-appointments | ||||
| May, Charlotte | Mediation in the Court of Protection | Completed | January 2017 | Self-funded | Specialist mediator and local authority solicitor specialising in adult social care | Examines the use of mediation in the Court of Protection, how often it is used, examples of mediated cases, timing, risks and benefits and obstacles to mediation in CoP cases. | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/current-research-profile-c-may-2.pdf | |||
| McGregor, Lorna; Shipman, Shirley; and Murray, Rachel | The Role of National Human Rights Institutions in Providing Access to Justice | Completed | June 2016 | Nuffield Foundation | University of Essex | This project will examine the roles that National Human Rights Institutions in Europe do, and should, play in dispute resolution. | http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/national-human-rights-institutions-and-access-justice | |||
| McKeever, Grainne | Modeling legal participation: from tribunals to courts | Completed | May 2016 | British Academy/Leverhulme | Ulster University | The research investigates whether it is possible to measure empirically the legal participation of individual litigants in court processes. The objective is to establish comparative differences between courts and tribunals, to identify the participative value to litigants of legal support and to identify alternative indicators of participation for court litigants. | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/current-research-profile-g-mckeever.pdf | |||
| Morrison, Alan | Mapping the Administrative Justice and Tribunals Landscape in Scotland | Completed | November 2015 | STAJAC | The Scottish Tribunals and Administrative Justice Advisory Committee (STAJAC) | Mapping the administrative justice and tribunals landscape in Scotland. The reportsets out all the public bodies (both devolved and reserved) which take administrative justice decisions within each subject area in Scotland. | http://www.adminjusticescotland.com/2015eventreports.htm | |||
| Sigamany, Indrani | A Critical Examination of Forest Rights Legislation, Indigenous Access to Justice, and Land Expropriation | Completed | August 2016 | Self-funded | Centre for Applied Human Rights, York Law School, University of York | To examine the internal land displacement debate within a normative framework, and critically examine the effects of national legislation on the lives of mobile indigenous people. I explore the impact of the Forest Rights Act (2006) of India, on the lives of a specific pastoral community in northern India. | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/current-research-profile-final-is.pdf | |||
| Simpson, Mark | Social citizenship in the devolutionary state: the case of lone parents in Northern Ireland | Completed | December 2016 | PhD | PhD, University of Ulster | Seeks to establish the standard of living identified by the state as the minimum acceptable for citizens in 2015 through legislation and international agreements. It then interrogates the extent to which this model of social citizenship is within the reach of all citizens by examining the circumstances of lone parents. | http://www.ulster.ac.uk/socsci-phd/mark-simpson/ | |||
| Skelcher, Chris | Shrinking the state: reforming arm's length bodies in an age of austerity | Completed | January 2016 | ESRC | University of Birmingham, INLOGOV | Track the implementation of the Coalition Government's reform and compare this with developments internationally. It will consider the legal, constitutional and administrative issues involved, but also the broader politics involved in reshaping and shrinking the state | http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/project/C8E36C45-39FE-41FC-8BEA-DD270CFBD008 | Final Report Link - http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/government-society/departments/local-government-studies/research/projects/2013/shrinking-the-state.aspx | ||
| Threipland, Charlotte | A Place To Call Home – A Report into the Standard of Accommodation provided to Children in Need in London | Completed | December 2015 | Strategic Legal Fund for Vulnerable Young Migrants | Hackney Migrant Centre and Hackney Community Law Centre | The standard of accommodation provided to children “in need” under section 17 Children Act 1989. Intended impact is to support strategic litigation against local authorities with respect to sub-standard accommodation provided under section 17 of Children Act 1989. | http://www.hclc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/A-Place-To-Call-Home-Electronic-Report1.pdf | |||
| Tkacukova, Tatiana | Access to Justice and Communication Challenges for Litigants in Person | Completed | July 1905 | Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship for Career Development; Centre for Forensic Linguistics, Aston University | School of English, Birmingham City University | Explores communicative, cognitive, conceptual and procedural difficulties of litigants in person; communication challenges of judges in semi-represented and fully unrepresented cases; professional ethics for solicitors/barristers in semi-represented cases; institutional communication and the role of courts in access to justice for litigants in person | http://www.bcu.ac.uk/research/our-people/t-z/tatiana-tkacukova | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/oct-2016-tatiana-tkacukova.pdf | ||
| Walsh, Ben | An exploration of how the views of children and young people are addressed in Special Educational Needs Mediation | Completed | April 2016 | n/a | Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge | A qualitative study to explore perspectives of parents, LAs, advocates and mediators on the ways in which the views of children and young people are addressed in mediation of SEN cases under the new SEND Code of Practice, emerging from The Children and Families Act 2014. | https://administrativejusticeblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/current-research-profile-final-bw.pdf |
The Current Research Register
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To search: type whatever you are looking for into the ‘Search’ box. For example, if you are looking for all research by a given author, type their name or part of it. Or, typing ‘Irel’ will select all the entries that relate to Ireland, whether as subject-matter, or location of the research, or source of funding.The search is instant, carried out as you type.
The ‘Column visibility’ options turn individual columns on and off – for example, if details of the funder are unimportant to you, you can elect not to see that column.
Selecting one of the ‘+’ symbols in a green circle against individual entries, will display more information and URLs for the work and/or for the researcher.