Children and the Law Research Group Membership

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Enquiries about the CLRG should be directed to the Co-Directors.

Co-Directors

Who Research
Dr Hannah Hirst

Hannah is currently working on three research projects:

  • Exploring Trans Children's Participation in Clinical Decision-Making (SLSA Funded (2024-2026)).
  • COMPaSS Project (2024-2025).
  • Children's Rights and the 'Power' of ‘Power Over’ (2024-2025).
Dr Jonathan Collinson  Jonathan is currently completing a monograph entitled The Best Interests of the Child in Digital Data Protection: Theory and Practice in the Face of Indeterminacy (OUP) and is planning research on the way that children feature in the work of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI).

Members

Professor Sara Fovargue The Future of Human Reproduction - Wellcome funded (2022-2025) 
Professor Kathryn Hollingsworth Kathryn has been teaching and researching issues relating to family law, particularly relating to children, for over 20 years.
Dr Caterina Milo Caterina is working on a project on the ethics and law of informed consent in the abortion context and a co-production project on the experience of loneliness in the birthing journey from an interdisciplinary standpoint.
Ms Penelope Russell  Analysis of wills 1600-1850 (2024-2025).
Professor Dawn Watkins Dawn's current project FORTITUDE, funded by a €2 million grant from the ERC, aims to work with to improve children’s legal capability.

Our member's selected publications