The Law unit of assessment includes the work of the School of Law, the Ulster University Law Clinic, the Transitional Justice Institute and the Legal Innovation Centre.
Law invites research proposals for projects in several thematic areas including Law and Social Justice. Our interest and expertise in social justice cuts across multiple policy areas, including social security, access to justice, poverty and destitution, administrative justice, immigration and asylum, devolution, human rights, family law and clinical legal education.
We are interested in proposals that examine the contemporary legal issues within these (and related) policy areas, including through the processes of judicial review, administrative decision-making and tribunals as well as proposals exploring innovative methodological approaches, particularly those focused on empirical and participatory research, and through different theoretical lenses such as citizenship and participation.
The following staff are interested in supervising in these areas:
Prof Grainne McKeever; Dr John McCord; Dr Mark Simpson;
Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick Dr Shauna Page Dr Charles O’Sullivan
Applicants are encouraged to contact potential supervisors in good time to discuss draft research proposals.
Allocation of supervisors will be made during the selection process. The supervisory team will depend on the proposal. We list a number of named supervisors on the web pages for contact purposes but please note they may or may not be included on any supervision team.
We welcome interdisciplinary research proposals and may appoint supervisors from outside the law unit of assessment.
A sound research proposal should be about 2000-3000 words. Please see our guide to putting a proposal together. It should have the following headings:
1) A tentative title
2) Research question(s) and any related hypotheses
3) Literature review/survey of existing scholarship
4) Methodology
5) Contribution of the conclusions
6) Assessment of feasibility
For general enquiries please contact the Research Director for Law, Prof Rory O’Connell or one of our PhD coordinators, Prof Cath Collins, Dr Thomas Hansen
Law invites research proposals for projects in several thematic areas including Law and Social Justice. Our interest and expertise in social justice cuts across multiple policy areas, including social security, access to justice, poverty and destitution, administrative justice, immigration and asylum, devolution, human rights, family law and clinical legal education.
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