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2024

  • The Centre was visited by Carolyn Sutherland from Monash in April 2024, connecting with colleagues and participating in a PhD seminar.

2023

  • From 2021 – 2023, LEAD hosted a research project by Dr Hannah Saunders which sought to create an evidence-led model of good practice on appearance-inclusive workplaces. The project included significant empirical work and co-creation by both employer representatives and people with lived experience of visible difference. Hannah is now leading the policy and education function for a global charity, which is about to launch an employer training programme based partly on this research.
  • Lizzie Barmes and Kate Malleson published the following Oxford Human Rights Hub blog in August 2023.
  • In April 2023, David Oppenheimer, Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Anti-Discrimination and Equality Law, was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow via QMUL’s Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, participating in a range of activities and meetings with students and colleagues.’

2021

2020

  • Autumn
    Lizzie Barmes and Kate Malleson were each consulted as experts for the Review of Sexual Harassment in Victorian Courts and VCAT (due for publication in March 2021)
  • 8 June
    Lizzie Barmes conducted a training session for the judges of the Employment Appeal Tribunal on her ongoing work on NDAs
  • Spring 2020
    Please see the outcomes and future plans from this major research project undertaken at the Queen Mary School of Languages Linguistics and Film, 'Accent Bias Britain’ (to which Christina Perry has contributed and for which Lizzie Barmes serves as an Advisory Board member)
  • 5 February
    Lizzie Barmes gave a public seminar for the Industrial Law Society in Bristol on ‘Silencing at Work: UK Experience of NDAs in the Settlement of Sexual Harassment Cases’

2019

  • August
    Lizzie Barmes, Professor of Labour Law at the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London, and Codirecter of the School of Law Centre for Research on Law, Equality and Diversity (LEAD), has written a blog for the Oxford Human Rights Hub on a recent Parliamentary report on the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) in discrimination cases, particularly as they apply to settlement.

  • April
    On 11 April 2019, LEAD held a joint seminar with the Centre for Sexuality, Race and Gender Justice, University of Kent and the Judicial Diversity Initiative on ‘Current Issues in Judicial Diversity’. It included papers by Kcasey McLoughlin (Lecturer in Law, University of Newcastle, Australia) and Lewis Graham (PhD student, University of Cambridge). Discussants were Hilary Sommerlad (University of Leeds) and Rosemary Hunter (University of Kent), followed by a Roundtable discussion of current research on the judiciary and judicial diversity.
  • January
    The Centre hosted an interdisciplinary workshop on Gender segregation and deconstruction in the UK organised jointly by LEAD and the School of Law, Politics and Sociology, Sussex University. The workshop was attended by participants from law, sociology, linguistics, politics and other disciplines from around the UK and overseas. The discussion covered a range of issues relating to the challenges to conceptions of gender which are emerging. It explored the question of how this trend can be reconciled with the growing pressure for greater binary gender-differentiation in services, employment and facilities. The workshop asked what the implications are of these trends for the wider gender equality project, specifically for enhancing the agency, freedom and capabilities of women and girls.

2018

  • November
    On 11 November 2018 LEAD collaborated with Jane McNeill QC, Camilla Palmer QC and YESS (Your Employment Settlement Service) to hold a Second Roundtable on Dispute Resolution in the Workplace. Gill Dix of ACAS spoke before a roundtable about current dispute resolution challenges in the employment and equality field.

  • October
    Lizzie Barmes submitted written evidence to the Women and Equalities Select Committee Inquiry into Enforcement of the Equality Act 2010: the law and the role of the EHRC.

  • September Speaker at the International Courts and the African Woman Judge: Unveiled Narratives Book Launch
    The Centre hosted the launch of the book International Courts and the African Woman Judge: Unveiled Narratives (Routledge, 2018). The book examines the life and professional accomplishments of seven women judges from African countries who have served or are serving on international courts and tribunals. Read more here.
  • March
      Lizzie Barmes submitted written evidence to the Women and Equalities Select Committee Inquiry into Sexual Harassment in the Workplace.

2017

  • December
    Stuart Goosey was recently awarded his PhD for his thesis on ‘A Pluralist Theory of Age Discrimination’, supervised by Professors Barmes and Malleson. Stuart’s thesis was examined by Professor Colm O’Cinneide at the Faculty of Laws, UCL and Professor Jonathan Wolff at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University. 
  • October
    On 3 October 2017 LEAD collaborated with the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) and YESS (Your Employment Settlement Service) in organizing a round table about employment dispute resolution. There was a wide range of participants who brought distinctive experience and expertise, for example from the Employment Tribunals, TUC, Citizens Advice Bureaux, the Equality and Diversity Forum and the Free Representation Unit. We hope now to build on this in further collaborative work on enhancing employment dispute resolution and raising workplace standards.
  • September
    Four of the papers from the LEAD Diversity and Legal Reasoning workshop have now been published in feminists@law
  • April
    The JUSTICE Working Party on judicial diversity, which included LEAD member Professor Rosemary Hunter, published its report 'Increasing judicial diversity': The report gave practical recommendations, exploring the structural barriers faced by women, people from visible ethnic minorities and those from less advantaged socio-economic backgrounds in reaching the bench. It also explained why diversity is a vital constitutional issue, calls for systemic changes to increase accountability and improve recruitment processes, and proposes more inclusive routes to the senior bench.
  • March
    In March 2017 Lizzie Barmes was awarded the 2017 Hart Socio Legal Book Prize for Bullying and Behavioural Conflict at Work: The Duality of Individual Rights (OUP, 2016).

2016

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