麻豆传媒

Matthew is a Principal Lecturer in Psychology and Chartered Psychologist. His research has focused on the role of natural environments in mental health and wellbeing; our relationships with animals and the natural world; and how we experience and make sense of climate and ecological crisis. He works with a range of qualitative and arts-based research methods, including visual and comics-based research.聽

I trained as an architect and practice as an artist, with an interdisciplinary, research-based practice.

My recent practice and research has explored material poetics, memory, heritage and regeneration. In my PhD, 'D茅tour and Retour: Practices and poetics of salt as narratives of relation and re-generation in Brixton', I developed ideas that linked material cultures of salt through a series of journeys to a 'poetics of re-generation', expanding the language of regeneration and spatialising relational practice to emphasise an ethics of regeneration practices. I'm interested in the material cultures of migration and trade and in the relevance and significance of everyday practices, rituals and engagement with material culture to how places are made and continue to be remade and maintained. My book, Salted Earth: poetics of place and migration through four artistic journeys, will be published by Intellect in May 2026. See聽https://www.intellectbooks.com/salted-earth

My research and practice engages with place, and the public realm. I'm interested in how artistic interventions and critical spatial practices that highlight and reveal poetics of place could contribute to more ethical and effective models of regeneration and heritage practices (including a more ethical engagement with memory traces and their relation to the new).

I鈥檓 a board member of ixia (public art sector support) and am engaged in current research and policy around public art in the UK.

I originally trained in participatory research methods and tools and I bring an in depth knowledge and experience of participation and socially engaged practice to my teaching, research and practice, across architecture, art and design.

Current and recent research projects and networks:

Acts of Transfer 鈥� research project with Dr Lizzie Lloyd, UWE.

A practice-based research project, into the documentation and legacies of socially engaged practice and critical writing about the practice. The project was originally funded by Arts Council England, and the Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics at UoB, and outcomes included 2 symposia at UoB, talks at Arnolfini and workshops at Towner Eastbourne and Fontys University. A book, Acts of Transfer, published by Social Art Publications is available. An exposition on Research Catalogue published by RUUKKU jorunal showcases the films and text聽 outputs: https://ruukku.journal.fi/issue/view/13176

In 2026 we have been awarded Impact Accerlearation Account funding (AHRC) for a next phase of work in partnerhsip with Brighton based arts organisation Quiet Down There.聽

Origination - project with Rebecca Beinart

An ongoing artistic research and practice project in collaboration with my sister, artist Rebecca Beinart, which we have been working on since 2008. Beginning as an investigation into our family history and migrations, growing into a wider project about the materiality, memory, and rituals of migration and diaspora, we have used performance, sculpture, film and other media to explore lost and invisible heritages. Outputs in 2024 included a residency at Fabrica and we have a forthcoming book chapter in the edited book Nomadic Performance Making: Experiences, Environments and Empathy out in 2027. Our current phase of work engages with our Grandmother Margaret Stanton's archive at the Modern Records Centre, Coventry which contains papers related to her activism over 70 years in social justice, antiracist and anticolonial campaigns.聽

A Difficult Place: Cost of Living collaborative film project

This Ignite 3.1 (AHRC impact funding) funded project has worked with people living in the East Brighton area to create a film documenting experiences of the current cost of living crisis. In partnership with Phoenix Food Shop, an affordable food project based in the Phoenix Community Centre, we identified people who are currently using their resources and then worked with these individuals to tell their stories, supported by myself and filmmaker (John Edwards). The resulting film, 鈥楢 Difficult Place鈥�, has been screened in Brighton and at a number of conferences. This project aims to document the experiences that people are going through on a local level and to share these stories more widely so that these stories become more visible and people are not just seen as statistics.

The Salt Art Research Network is an international network of artists and curators working with, or interested in working with salt as material and theme of artistic practice. Members are currently based in the UK and Italy and have affiliations with the 麻豆传媒, Teesside University, Goldsmiths and University of Turin. In 2024 the Network is collaborated with NICHE, Universita Ca鈥� Foscari in Venice for a workshop event and furter research acitvities are planned.

The DISTERRA network聽is funded by the UKRI鈥檚 Arts and Humanities Research Council. It is hosted at the University of Edinburgh and led by Nichola Khan, and Zoha Waseem (University of Warwick). It crosses knowledge boundaries by bringing together transdisciplinary academics, public audiences, artists and creative practitioners to explore 鈥榯errains of disappearance鈥� in forced migration, armed conflict, and environmental crisis across Asia-Europe. Its aim is to link typically separated regional or single-issue fields of inquiry. It brings together transdisciplinary scholarship and a creative arts focus to interrogate migrant disappearances as a generalised Asia-Europe phenomenon, but one with particularity in specific emplaced environments. It expands the priority given to border-related disappearances in migration by examining wider interactions of migration with forced displaced and disappearances as forms of absence in everyday life, including in cities.

Art: Histories, theories and practices of modern and contemporary art, photography, artist's film and video, sound arts, digital media/post-media arts; aesthetics; philosophy of art; practice-based arts research; museums and galleries; art writing; the essay form; philosophies of the image; semiotic and non-representational theories of the image.

Sociology, critical pedagogy, cultural policy: sociology of race/racism; cultural sociology; sociology of art; sociology of taste; sociology of the internet; critical philosophy of race; critical race theory; critical whiteness studies; white complicity pedagogy; critical approaches to UK cultural policy, arts funding policy, art and heritage policy.聽

My research is driven by an anthropological sensibility centred upon what it is to be human. In particular I am interested in projects that query various forms of sensory embodiment, movement (including mobility and migration), the politics of power as they inform the aforementioned, and the politics of knowledge production about the body, movement, and being.

I am open to collaborative projects (groups, grants, team-based fieldwork)

I have worked with various NGOs around the world and am open to working with development organizations on their projects around strategic planning, program design, and monitoring, evaluation and learning.

I am open to mentoring early career researchers (postdoctoral studies). I currently mentor several ECRs working in the Anthropology of Sport at various universities across Europe as part of the International Network of Sport Anthropology and the Commission Chair for the Anthropology of Sport in the IUAES.

I recently brought seven years of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork across three continents to a close. This project problematizes some of the core tenets of development and sport as practiced in the Sport for Development sector.

I am also working on more esoteric questions regarding being and becoming as manifest in the interlocutions of mind, body, and environment through the act of running.

Previous research focused the politics of transnational migration, citizenship and governance through sport, the politics of being Cuban embodied in baseball, and the Anthropology of Sport.

I am a social psychologist interested in how inequalities and systemic forces shape people's body image experiences, as well as how ideas around bodies and appearance are constructed within societies.聽

I completed an MSc in Applied Social Psychology and a PhD in Psychology at the University of Sussex. My doctoral thesis examined how social class contexts, beyond being indicators of access to resources, shape women鈥檚 body image in the UK.

My research interests include:

• Body image experiences amongst people from underrepresented and/or Minoritised groups (e.g., gender, ethnicity and sexual orientations) and in particular, amongst working-class women
• Antiracist approaches to body image research
• Experiences of discrimination and/or dehumanisation in relation to appearance and bodies (e.g., systemic racism, classism, etc.)
• Objectification, sexualisation and the commodification of women鈥檚 appearance and bodies

I also contribute to the following research networks as:

• Management Board member (Communications Lead) - Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender (CTSG), 麻豆传媒
• Committee Member - British Psychological Society (BPS) Psychology of Women and Equalities Section (POWES)
• ECR Rep - Inclusive Digital Societies REG, 麻豆传媒
• External member - Sports, Physical Activity, Health and Exercise Research (SPHERE) Group at the University of Sussex.

Through her practice-based research, Zoe has explored the rural experience and relationship to place, how this forms identity and represents belonging told through story. She is interested in landscape, the concept of wilderness and the search for a primordial connection. Her work in the American desert demonstrates a particular interest in combining a desire to experience the 鈥榮ublime鈥� with the inexplicable seduction of the abyss. She explores the precarious nature of the photographic medium itself, where the truth is always interpreted, testing the narrative potential of photography in relation to its abstract capacities. Zoe is expanding her approach to sound, drawing and text, exploring how the media intertwine with her photographic practice, to express a narrative around territory and cultural identity on UK borders, building on research themes in her practice, of nationhood, landscape and connection to place. Zoe is interested in how the landscape shapes society, how 鈥減lace鈥� is constituted, deconstructed, augmented, discussed, experienced.

My research interests are broadly centred around social geographies of identity, 鈥榬ace鈥�, nation and belonging, with particular focus on the UK. Connected to these broad interests, I am also concerned with legacies of colonialism, intersections of 鈥榬ace鈥� and class, migration, integration, suburban multiculture, and politics of indigeneity, genealogy and relatedness.

Dr. Deanna Dadusc is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Humanities and Social Science. Working at the intersection between sociology, geography and critical criminology, her research brings feminist and decolonial approaches to the study of state and border violence and of the criminalisation of resistance to it. Informed by paticipatory and community-oriented methodologies, Deanna's work has not only been informed by, but has also contributed to, political mobilisations and debates, impacting narratives and practices of civil society organisations.

Her work critically analyses the criminalisation of practices of聽 resistance in聽 Europe, including the criminalisation of migrants' mutul aid and聽 solidarity. She is currently running an AHRC IAA project titled: 'Storytelling the criminalisation of migration: memory, solidarity and resistance', in collaboration with criminalised people on the move. The project is aimed at decentering European narratives and visions on the criminalisation of migration, and to contextualise it within broader colonial and political trajectories. She is currently writing a book in collaboration with Prof. Pierpaolo Mudu titled 'Bordering Resistance' for Routledge, on the criminalisation of migration and solidarity.

In previous years, she dedicated her work to the criminalisation of grassroot home-making, housing struggles and autonomous urban spaces. This led to the publication of several contributions, as well as becoming guest editor for a special issue on the journal 'Citizenship Studies' titled: 'Citizenship as Inhabitance: Migrant Housing Squats as Alternatives to State Accommodation' in collaboration with Margherita Grazioli and Miguel Martinez (2020).

Together with Aila Spathopoulou and Camille Gendrot, Deanna co-coordinates the Feminist No Borders research area of the Feminist autonomous Centre for Research, where they co-organises the annual 'Feminist No Borders Summer School' (now in its 7th edition), as well as several research projects and community courses aimed at bridging struggles for prison abolition and border abolition from feminist perspectives (see ' The Criminalisation of Freedom of Movement' podcast series (supported by the 麻豆传媒 IGNITE fund).聽

At the 麻豆传媒, after being awarder a 'Rising Star Award' for her work on migrant housing struggles and practices of radical home making, Deanna became coordinator of the 'Radical Housing Forum', in collaboration with Sarah Leaney, and, amongst other workshops, they organised two international symposia on the 'Right to Home'.

Between 2018 and 2021, Deanna coordinated the 'Urban Movements and Resistance' research area of the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE - 麻豆传媒). In 2022-2023, Deanna became coordinator of the 'Borders and Migration' research area at the Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics.

Betwenn 2019 and 2022 Deanna participated in the Erasmus+ BRIDGES consortium, which brought together Universities and Civil Society organisations to tackle exclusion and discrimination in Higher Education, by using decolonial, anti-racist and feminist approaches and methodologies.

Over the past years, Deanna was invited to, and participated in, numerous talks, conferences, symposia and workshops, including: American Association of Geographers Annual Conference ; European Group for the Study of Deviance & Social Control; European Society of Criminology ; IMISCOE annual conference; Radical Ecology Seminar Series; Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference; International Conference of Anarchist Geographers and Geographies; International Conference of Critical Geography; Oxford Migration Conference;聽 Squatting in Europe Network Annual Conference.

Anne鈥檚 areas of expertise are welfare reform, labour market policies,聽 social policy and administration, social security, and governence/immigration. Anne has led several research projects funded by the British Academy, the ESRC and the Fulbright Commission.聽

Luis Diaz鈥檚 area of research is the interrelationship between spatial practices and spatial forms. Theories of the everyday (Henri Lefebvre and Michel de Certeau) are used in tandem with linguistic theories (structuralism, semiotics, speech-act theory) to go beyond the limitations of actor-network theory and structure versus agency debates. This approach was developed for his MPhil using housing estates built in Camden during the 1960s and 1970s as case studies (Alexandra Road, Maiden Lane, Highgate New Town). Current research focuses on the arrival sequences in British housing as an area where both an individual user鈥檚 identity and spatial identities are formed. This research has been informed by the work of his undergraduate design studio (Studio 12) which has focused on housing for the last several years. The research aims to demonstrate the importance of architectural form in the framing of agency as well as providing an alternative reading of what constitutes success and failure in the history of twentieth-century housing in Britain.

Other areas of interest are in the history of modernism and modern architecture, modernist painting, theories of movement and experience, fragmented and peripheral urban space, public and social housing, and political and ideological aspects of space and form.

Dr Claire Dungey is a research fellow on the project 'Ageism in Ai: New forms of age discrimination and exclusion in the era of algorithms and artificial intelligence (project PI Maria Sourbati). This research involves doing qualitative interviews with transport/AI developers as well as older participants over 60 using smart technologies and transport services in Brighton and London.聽

Claire is an anthropologist with an expertise within the areas of surveillance, transport and mobility and well as childhood and youth studies.聽

Scholarly bibliography: Claire has a BA, MSc and PhD degree in anthropology from Aarhus University.

Prior to joining the 麻豆传媒, Claire Dungey has done extensive research with families exploring transitions over the lifecourse and future aspirations, e.g. in rural Lesotho (Brunel University London) and south western Uganda (Aarhus University). Her PhD fieldwork is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Uganda on schooling, youth transitions and friendships. In Claire's most recent work at King's College London she explored how family members in Germany monitor their children in real-time using surveillance apps as a form of care, but also how other families resist these technologies and are critical of data capitalism.聽

Claire has also done participatory work within the area of mobility and transport in city contexts in African countries (Tunis, Abuja and Cape Town) involving peer researchers and policy makers in the research project (Durham University).

Areas of interest:

The anthropology of education

The anthropology of futures

Digital Anthropology

Surveillance studies

Mobility studies

I undertake research in the broad field of political ecology. My work is informed by intersectional feminist theory, critical development studies and environmental advocacy-activism around agrarian extractivism, with an empirical focus on responses to displacement, resettlement and dispossession in rural contexts in Indonesia. Current projects include work on the ways that gendered processes of mobility and migrant remittances unsettle linear analyses of dispossession associated with oil palm investment. I am also exploring ways to rethink feminist political ecology through engagement with anti-colonial environmental activisms in Southeast Asia and the practice of feminist political ecology pedagogy and research in diverse activist and professional contexts.

Barbara Grabher works within the field of Event as well as Tourism Studies and hereby contributes to the subfield of Critical Event Studies through her research on event-based regeneration/development and value negiotiations.聽

Strongly informed by an interdisciplinary research approach, her interest lies in the socio-political and socio-cultural significance of events. With a focus on event formats such as the UK City of Culture, European Capital of Culture and Eurovision Song Contest, Barbara Grabher conceptualises events as 'tools for meaning making' (Grabher, 2022: 3), which serve as platforms to negotiate social, cultural and political values in cities, regions and nations.听听

Currently, Barbara Grabher is leading the project "Between Culture and Salt" (2021-ongoing), which explores in what way the concept of the Anthropocene and human-environmental relationships are informing the event-based regeneration process of Salzkammergut European Capital of Culture 2024.聽

Dr David Haines鈥檚 research interests focus on occupational therapy with people with intellectual disabilities (learning disabilities) and in particular those with complex needs, including profound intellectual and multiple disabilities. He is interested in how we can support and enable people with intellectual disabilities to engage in occupations/ activities and how occupational justice can be promoted, in particular through improving the quality of support provided to individuals.

David is currently leading a series of action research projects in collaboration with occupational therapists in Kent Community Health Foundation NHS Trust.聽 They are developing a clinical reasoning/ thinking tool to be used by occupational therapists to think through how best to work with the support networks of people with intellectual disabilities when seeking to get recommendations adopted to improve the quality of support provided. Future projects will validate and evaluate the initial version of this tool.

With a strong grounding in qualitative research, Dr Haines is particularly interested in action research, ethnographic and case study methodologies, narrative research and in finding ethical means of involving those who may not have capacity as research participants in order that their needs may be researched and their support improved.

Emma-Louise Jay is an existential psychologist whose research interests intersect across psychological medicine and philosophy. She wrote her mixed-methods PhD on depersonalization at the Institute of Psychiatry, King鈥檚 College London after completing her MSc. in the Philosophy of Mental Disorder at the same university writing her thesis on the same syndrome.

From 2013 鈥� 2021 Emma lived and worked in Colombia where she took on the role of as post-doctoral psychologist at a leading creative arts university in Medell铆n 鈥� La Colegiatura Colombiana. There she co-developed a research centre focusing on research projects relating to the science of creativity, how we understand identification, and efforts towards developing social leader-led peace efforts in Colombia in the context of the 2016 Colombian peace accord. She also authored an imaginative blog which focused mainly on issues relating to the Colombian political climate.

At the 麻豆传媒, Emma has led module SS572 on Key Theoretical Foundations to Counselling and Psychotherapy since 2021. In this role she enjoys teaching about the many different schools that inform the field of psychotherapy and counselling studies. Despite being drawn to the existential and analytic psychotherapy traditions, she would like to broaden awareness of lesser-known therapies such as 鈥楳orita therapy鈥�, 鈥楲ogotherapy鈥� and 'Milton H. Ericksonian' hypnotherapy in her UK teaching. Emma was also Course Leader for the (Applied) Psychology program from 2021-2024. In 2026/7 she will co-lead a new module with Dr Simone Bol about cultural and cross-cultural psychology.

Emma has been the Research Ethics and Integrity Lead (REIL) for the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the 麻豆传媒 since 2023 where she supports staff and students to gain ethical approval to conduct their research safely and inclusively.聽

Emma鈥檚 research interests include existential psychology and psychotherapy, phenomenology, spiritual and religious experience, German idealism, dissociation, psychological medicine, critical psychology, psychoanalysis, hypnotherapy, the history of psychiatry, cross-cultural psychology and psychology in armed conflict contexts, particularly Colombia. She is the author of many peer-reviewed articles, a blog, and narrative non-fiction. She is currently dipping her toe into autoethnography.

Language(s):

Emma is bilingual (English and Spanish).

Affiliations:

The 麻豆传媒鈥檚 Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE).

Doctoral supervision:

Luis Harrison was recently awarded his PhD researching climate populism in Brasil and Colombia (2026).

Laura Wilson is looking at philosophical cosmopolitanism through a critical neurodivergent lens submitting in mid 2026.

Emma would like to take on doctoral research students who share her research interests, and especially interdisciplinary qualitative researchers working across psychology and philosophy.

Anuschka Kutz is a qualified architect, urbanist, designer and academic. She is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the 麻豆传媒 and since 2014 Visiting Professor at KU Leuven, Belgium, Faculty of Architecture. She is also co-founder and co-director at Offsea / office for socially engaged architecture and urbanism, working on projects that fuse research and practice, with work located in the field of architecture, urbanism and art, with a focus on social engagement and participatory projects. The collaboration fuses practice and research.聽

My research interests lie in the correlation between architecture, urbanism and everyday space and culture. My recent focus has been on urban and rural fragilities and on demographic and societal change. I am intersted in exploring how overriding socio-economic, political and cultural shifts manifest themselves in everyday lives of citizens and how at the same time close-up spatial ethnographic studies of urban and spatial tactics, habits and rituals of citizens can illuminate overriding systemic tendencies, reflecting the macro on the micro scale and vice versa to discern how this may impact on alternative architectural and urban concepts. I use ethnographic approaches to research. My work is cross-disciplinary and I seek to bridge disciplinary divides. I have collaborated with filmmakers, artists, economists, social scientists as well as policial and civic organizations and citizens. I am keen to give voice to unheard voices. My research and practice incorporates social engagements projects and tends to prioritize qualitative research, reflected upon quantitative research.

My research focus is the formation of classed identities. I am interested in the everyday experiences of people who live on council estates and the material and social conditions which produce and legitimate knowledges of these people and this place. My research explores the connections between place and identity through an analysis of the material and social production of the estate as a classed position. I am interested in the role of affect in the formation and reformation of classed selves. Specifically, developing Bourdieu鈥檚 conceptualisation of the habitus to explore the visceral sensation through which the body is disciplined in moments of difference.

My main research interests related to gender-based violence, especially violence against women and girls, with a particular focus on domestic violence and abuse, sexual violence, and so-called 鈥榟onour鈥� crime. I am interested in community and state responses to such violence, especially in relation to the police and the criminalisation of victim-survivors, as well as the evaluation of initiatives designed to address violence against women and girls.

My research interests revolve around three main areas:

1. LGBTQ equality issues and policies from a geographic perspective (locally, nationally, and transnationally);
2. The spaces made and used by LGBTQ communities such as neighbourhoods, bars, and social groups;
3. Issues of body image, shape and size amongst GBQ men, especially in the Bear subculture.

Most of my research has been done in partnership with LGBTQ community groups, charities, and activists from around the world. Through my teaching and research, I want to show and explore how we can use geography to improve LGBTQ lives.

Although my research interests centre on the field of mobilities, this is a broad area of research that incorporates many diverse topics. I have four main areas of interest within his field. Firstly, recent work has focused on intergenerational and gendered mobilities and gender-based violence. Secondly, I have worked for a number of years on mobilities and transport and the ways in which transport intersects with other social issues. Thirdly, my research seeks to understand the significance of urban physical spaces as sites of social interactions and design. Lastly, I continue to pursue new ways of carrying out research through creative research methodologies and methods.聽

Tom's research concerns how the notion of home is conceptualised in sound art, sound studies and immersive media as a form of (auto)ethnographic practice.

He is also a learning technologist with a track record in digital pedagogies, including a pioneering study in mobile learning (the large scale EU-funded international Lifelong Learning SIMOLA project, and its mobile apps Lingobee, and Cloudbank, with the 麻豆传媒 as lead partner) as a form of collaborative cultural practice.

• Film theory鈥�
• Film production鈥�
• Urban Studies听听鈥�
• Cultural Geography鈥�
• Creative media practice聽鈥�
• Sound Design and Sound Art
• Digital Pedagogies
• Lifelong Learning

My research interests are focused on extended reality (XR), through immersive room-based, screen-based, or city-wide mobile media. My work is designed to tell stories about imagined, forgotten, or unremembered others.聽

I have a transdisciplinary practice which investigates and combines areas of British colonial聽history, archival data, computer science, digital geographies, and digital humanities.聽 The focus of the work is on the interplay between spatial memory and physical space in the built environment as an intersectional backdrop to examine contemporary, retro, and historical stories.

Methodologies I use in my practice intersect across practical and theoretical frames such as computer vision, human-to-computer interaction, human-to-human looking, and by extension machines that see.

These methods are highly experimental using media which consists in combination of;

• Photographs
• Moving Image
• Augmented reality
• Virtual reality聽
• Data
• Conversational chatbots
• Frontend programming (HTML CSS JavaScript React)

I came to academia in 2021 after a 25-year career in journalism reporting on justice issues. My research interests span criminal justice, social justice and journalism.

I have a long-term commitment to miscarriages of justice, prisoners' rights, social justice and access to justice and legal aid.

Recent research

My edited collection Murder, Wrongful Conviction and the Law: An International Comparitive Anaysis was published by Routledge in 2023. It featured chapters from experts on miscarriages of justice in 14 countries: France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Spain, US, Argentina, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan.聽 Each contributor was asked to provide an estimate of how many miscarriages of justice there might be in their jurisdiction; how often convictions were overturned; to describe the legal mechanism for the correction of a wrongful conviction; outline arrangements for compensation; identify common causes of miscarriages; and to explore the profile of miscarriages of justice.聽

My most recent book was Justice in the Time of Austerity (Bristol University Press, 2021), and was written with an academic at Cardiff University, Daniel Newman. We conducted over original 200 interviews with people as they went through the justice system over the course of one year in a variety of settings from food banks, asylum seeker destitution services, homeless shelters to MP surgeries and court waiting rooms.

This book, according to聽 Shami Chakrabarti, is a 'call to arms'. 'If you are a tribute of the people who has ever poured scorn on activist lawyers, I dare you to read this. If you are a lawyer, or even even a concerned citizen, who has never felt comfortable with the activist tag, it just may tempt you to reconsider.'

Policy work

In June 2022, I was appointed special adviser to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Miscarriages of Justice then chaired by Barry Sheerman MP and Sir Bob Neill with Glyn Maddocks KC and we run its secretariat. This work is undertaken under the Future of Justice Project and includes the new Westminister Commission on Forensic Science. You can read about our work on the Justice Gap here and in the Times here.聽

Other

I am the founder/ editor of the Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) - an online magazine about 'the law and justice - and the difference between the two'. The Justice Gap has a print magazine,聽Proof. The Justice Gap news reporting scheme is run by a collaboration between four universities: Cardiff, Manchester, University College London and Glasgow.

I am vice-chair of the Legal Action Group which campaigns for access to justice on behalf of people and communities who would otherwise by denied.聽

I am also a patron of Hackney Community Law Centre; and on the advisory board of the legal charity APPEAL which investigates miscarrages of justice.

Journalism

I have written regularly for the Guardian, Observer (www.theguardian.com/profile/jonrobins), Independent and聽Independent on Sunday (www.independent.co.uk/author/jon-robins) as well as the Times,聽magazines and specialist journals.

I am twice winner of the Bar Council's journalist of the year; won the inaugural Halsbury Law award for journalism; and was shortlisted for the Criminal Justice Alliance's journalist of the year award.聽

I鈥檝e written a number of books, including Guilty Until Proven Innocent: the crisis in our justice system (Biteback, 2018) described by the Secret Barrister as 鈥榓 no-holds-barred insight into the serious and often overlooked miscarriages of justice that stalk our聽broken justice system'. The journalist Catherine Baksi called it a book that 'informs, shocks and demands a response. It demands justice.'

• Justice in a Time of Austerity (Bristol University Press, 2021 - with Dr Dan Newman) which featured more than 200 original interviews conducted in food banks, homeless shelters, destitution services for asylum seekers, law centres and citizens advice bureaux, courts waiting rooms.聽Interview on Transforming Society podcast here聽and read about the project in the Guardian here.
• Guilty Until Proven Innocent: the crisis in our justice system (Biteback Press, 2018): This book examines the inability of our justice system to get to grips with miscarriages of justice by looking at cases of serious injustice over the last 20 years (interview on BBC South News here).
• The First Miscarriage of Justice (Waterside Press, 2014): an account of one man鈥檚 43 year campaign to overturn his conviction. The Tony Stock case has been described as 鈥渙ne of the most outrageous miscarriages of justice in modern times鈥� - as mentioned in the House of Commons.
• The Justice Gap: Whatever happened to legal aid? (Legal Action Group, 2008 with Steve Hynes)
• People Power: how to campaign and make a difference (LawPack/ Daily Telegraph, 2008 with Paul Stookes)

Rebecca Searle is a contemporary historian whose work explores the ways in which the study of the past can be used to make critical interventions in the politics of the present. Her research focuses on housing, property and urban change in twentieth and twenty-first century Britain, examining the historical roots of the contemporary housing crisis and the relationship between property development, global finance and the ways housing markets reshape cities.

Her research is developed through collaborations with a range of community organisations, policymakers and local stakeholders. She is particularly interested in forms of co-produced research that bring together academic scholarship and local knowledge to better understand the forces shaping housing and urban development. She founded the 麻豆传媒 Housing Forum, a network bringing together academics, policymakers and community organisations working on housing and urban development in Brighton and Hove.

Rebecca leads Who Owns Brighton, a community research project investigating property ownership and development in the city. Developed in partnership with the Brighton & Hove Community Land Trust and funded by the Civic Power Fund, the project brings together researchers and residents to explore what is being built in Brighton, who benefits from urban development, and how communities can better understand and intervene in the planning process.

Her wider research interests include the history of twentieth and twenty-first century Britain, particularly the history of gender and sexuality, war and conflict, and politics and political movements.

Since the early nineteen-nineties my work in the field of telematic arts explores the emergence of user-determined narratives between remote participants who are brought together within shared telepresent environments. Through the use of live chroma-keying, video projection and videoconference technology these geographically divided audience participants are composited live in intimate social spaces. This is essentially how all my installation projects function, where the public participant plays an integral part within these telematic experiments, whose engagement within them makes the 'Work' and their shared experiences of them creates the 'Art'. As an artist I am both designer of the environment and instigator of the narrative, which I determine through the social and political context that I choose to play out these telematic encounters.

"Sermon aims at expanding the senses of the user, while it is obvious that the other cannot really be touched but that only swift, decisive, possibly tenderly reactive movements can experience the suggestion of touch - a moment of contemplation, as many users observed. The synaesthetical, sensual impression lets the hand and the eye fuse, and it is this effect that characterizes his work."聽Oliver Grau, Media Art Net

Dr Maria Sourbati鈥檚 research expertise lies at the intersection of communication policy, digital media and ageing, smart mobility, and age relations. Her work explores the tensions between policy-driven diffusion of digital technologies and the everyday, locally situated engagement with ICTs. Her research questions are grounded in themes of diversity, access, and media literacy. Her current research examines the social implications of emerging technologies, with particular focus on mobility, ageing, and data practices.

Dr Sourbati鈥檚 work has received funding from national and international research councils, local government bodies, and not-for-profit organisations. She is currently the UK lead for the AGEAI study, a Europe-wide project focussing on age discrimination in Artificial Intelligence. AGEAI investigates discourses and practices surrounding the deployment of AI systems and services across five European countries: Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and the UK.

Dr Sourbati鈥檚 research has been published in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and academic books, and presented at international conferences. She has also contributed to interviews and workshops hosted by media organisations, public sector bodies, and the Council of Europe.

My research focuses on the institutional design and implementation of spatial planning systems, with particular emphasis on governance reform, climate resilience and the integration of artificial intelligence in public decision-making. I examine how planning frameworks coordinate actors, manage regulatory processes and deliver policy outcomes that enhance quality of life across local, national and international contexts.

Recent research includes the development and application of participatory systems thinking in urban climate governance, and the AUCRI-AI project, which investigates how AI-enabled decision-support tools shape climate resilience implementation in UK and South Korean cities. My work also engages with comparative planning systems, regulatory reform and multilateral urban governance processes, contributing to institutional innovation and internationally relevant approaches to sustainable and equitable urban development.

My research is centred very broadly around the psychological side of migration. Using a mixed-methods approach, the majority of my research investigates well-being of ethnic and religious minority groups, particularly refugees. I like to explore these topics from a multidisciplinary and policy-focused perspective, for example by investigating how refugee resettlement policies and support programmes can optimise opportunities and well-being of refugees. I am currently leading an ESRC-funded research project where we explore the link between the use of digital technologies, social relationships, and well-being among unaccompanied refugee children in the UK. A report of the pilot study, funded by eNurture, can be found here. I have conducted research projects in the UK, the Netherlands, Canada, and Chile. I am the founder and lead of the Inclusive Digital Societies Research Excellence Group here at the 麻豆传媒.聽

My research focuses on the intersection between migration, wellbeing, and care and assistance. I use a collaborative, interdisciplinary and mixed-methods approach to understand how people on the move experience and adapt to life in a new country, drawing on both qualitative and quantitative data. I am furthermore interested in how people co-exist and build connections in diverse societies.聽

For my PhD, I examined mental health and psychosocial support for undocumented migrants in the Netherlands and refugees in Uganda, investigating how these forms of care could improve wellbeing and foster social connection.

I am currently part of the ESRC-funded project The Role of Digital Technology in the Social Networks and Wellbeing of Unaccompanied Young Refugees, working together with Dr Linda Tip, Prof Linda Morrice, Elaine Ortiz and Prof Ilse Derluyn. This participatory study examines the impact of digital technology on the wellbeing and social lives of unaccompanied children and young people in the UK.

I aim for my work to contribute to inclusive and evidence-based social and migration policies, and to support organisations working with people in vulnerable positions. I am committed to participatory and ethical research, and I value collaboration between academia, communities, practitioners, and policymakers.

• Race/ethnicity studies (esp. Chinese ethnic identity and transnational migration in the context of 鈥渢radition鈥� revival)
• Mixed research methods
• Critical studies of Chinese citizenship
• Education and social justice (with a focus on critical pedagogy and civic activism in Chinese 鈥渢radition鈥� education)
• Grassroots education movement and Chinese civil society
• Gender studies (esp. Chinese professional womanhood)
• Social theory (esp. Michel Foucault, reflexive modernity, and Chinese sociological theories)
• Comparative history of sociology (focusing on China and the UK)

My academic pursuits are deeply embedded in the intersection of sociology and Chinese studies, with a specialization in the nuanced facets of race and ethnicity. I am particularly drawn to the investigation of Chinese ethnic identity and the intricate patterns of transnational migration, as well as the renaissance of traditional cultural practices within these communities. The methodological approach I adopt is pluralistic, employing qualitative and quantitative research strategies to provide a comprehensive and robust analysis of sociocultural phenomena.

Central to my scholarly endeavors is the critical examination of Chinese citizenship. This inquiry critically intersects with issues of education and social justice, where I focus on the role of critical pedagogy and civic activism in the revival of Confucian education in China. This line of inquiry naturally extends to an examination of grassroots educational movements, which I scrutinize for their capacity to influence and reform Chinese civil society.

Furthermore, gender studies constitute a vital strand of my research, with particular attention to the construction and experience of professional womanhood within the Chinese context. This interest is couched within a broader engagement with social theory, drawing upon the insights of thinkers such as Michel Foucault and the concept of reflexive modernity, alongside indigenous Chinese sociological theories.

Lastly, my academic exploration includes a comparative historical analysis of sociological traditions, with a focus on the intellectual dialogues between China and Britain. This comparative aspect aims to shed light on the divergent sociological pathways and the contextual specificity that shape sociological scholarship across different sociocultural landscapes.

Georgia's research is centred around housing struggles and international development policy, for which she draws upon international practice-based experience. Her current focus is on methods with which to facilitate knowledge exchange between diverse stakeholders, in order to compare hyper-local perspectives on global issues such as rapid urbanisation, housing politics and climate futures. Since 2018, Georgia has worked as a researcher in academia and in consultancy to various departments in UN-Habitat. Her PhD research, completed in 2024, focused on opportunities for localised, social collaboration in claim-making and design for alternative methods of affordable housing production in the domain of international development. Georgia's approach to research involves multi-national fieldwork, community collaboration, and working with large stakeholder networks.

My research focuses on community involvement in town planning, with particular reference to post war New Towns Harlow Hatfield and Crawley. I have explored power dynamics in the planning system, and the social, historical, political, economic and physical background to post war New Towns.

I am a Brazilian lawyer with over ten years of experience, including extensive work with LGBTQ+ organisations in Brazil, advocating for the rights and protection of queer communities. I hold a BA in Law and a master鈥檚 degree in Social Research Methods, and I am currently a PhD candidate in Social Sciences at the 麻豆传媒, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in partnership with the South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership (SCDTP).

My research focuses on transforming public policies to tackle hate crimes against Brazil鈥檚 marginalised LGBTQ+ communities. I investigate the limits of criminal legislation in protecting queer people, and the extent to which hate crime laws have effectively contributed to addressing violence motivated by homophobic and/or transphobic acts.

I am a member of the Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender at the 麻豆传媒, an associate member of the British Society of Criminology, and the Uni Rep Cohort Representative for the South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership (SCDTP) for 2025鈥�2026.

My research interests include critical criminology, socio-legal studies, queer studies, human rights, LGBTQ+ rights, Latin American studies, and research methods.

I have taught in the following modules and welcome invitations to contribute to similar areas:

• Radical Histories: Hate, Trauma, and the Limits of the Law 鈥� Guest lecture, University of Bristol, Nov 2025.

• Research Methods: Interviews, Thematic Analysis, and related qualitative approaches 鈥� 麻豆传媒, 2025鈥�2026

Beatriz鈥檚 research interests go beyond the academic sphere. She is fundamentally an activist academic. She is a member of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPax), The Gender and Development Network (GADN), the Peace Research Seminar (SIP), the Women and Gender Constituency (WGC), one of the nine stakeholder groups of the United Nations Framework for the Convention of Climate Change (UNFCCC), and聽the Women鈥檚 International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), where she is part of the Executive board in both its UK and Spain branches. Since 2020, she actively participates in WILPF鈥檚 WPS, Environment and Climate Justice working groups, and since 2023 she coordinates the research and actions around the Fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty initiative within WILPF Spain.

During the academic year 2022-2023, she is a PRG co-representative at the University鈥檚 Committee of Research Ethics and Integrity (UCOREI).

In early 2023, she co-coordinated the People & Planet鈥檚 petition for a fossil free careers service at the 麻豆传媒, for which, in May 2023, she submitted a motion to the University and College Union (UCU) Brighton branch, which passed unanimously.

She is a feminist, a pacifist, a unionist and an ecologist.

Currently researching the invisibility of sexual and gender-based violence in the Northern Irish conflict (between 1968-1998) and the impact of shedding light on this phenomenon on social policy and policy processes.

I am a PhD researcher and a professional storyteller, interested in particular in聽the folklore, mythology聽and social history of the British Isles; the intersection of stories, landscape and identity; the role of narrative in shaping culture and sense of self; and in using storytelling聽to understand past and present. My PhD uses storytelling practice and existing "eco-storytelling" models to look at the potential to improve community engagement and environmental awareness through聽increased聽awareness of local history, folklore, and one's own personal narratives. I am particularly keen to explore how such models can engage with urban/suburban life and space.

Other interests include the place of myth in subcultural/group identity (especially regarding popular music); the historical insights offered by medieval narratives such as the聽Mabinogion聽and聽Beowulf聽; use of mythology and folklore in fiction; and culture and society in British prehistory.

Sadie Rockliffe is an ESRC SCDTP-funded PhD student researching the lived experiences of visually impaired (VI) individuals in blue spaces, with a focus on wellbeing, interdependence, and accessibility. Her work is informed by therapeutic landscape research, critical disability studies, and blue space geographies, examining how people with VI engage with aquatic environments beyond ocularcentric assumptions.

Sadie鈥檚 PhD will explore how VI individuals navigate and experience blue spaces, particularly within the social practice of outdoor swimming. While blue spaces are increasingly recognised for their therapeutic potential, they are also shaped by systemic exclusions, inaccessible infrastructures, and normative assumptions about ability, movement, and perception. This research highlights how water鈥檚 materiality鈥攊ts movement, unpredictability, and sensory affordances鈥攃reates distinct embodied experiences, often overlooked in mainstream accessibility discourse.

The project is guided by participant-led inquiry, amplifying VI perspectives on blue space engagement. Rather than assuming all VI individuals interact with water in the same way, the research recognises diverse lived realities, shifting sensory capacities, and temporal experiences of sight loss. By centering sociomateriality, interdependence, and fluid accessibility frameworks, this study aims to rethink inclusion beyond static, infrastructure-based models, contributing to a more dynamic, participant-driven understanding of blue space access.

Before arriving at the 麻豆传媒, Sadie spent over 20 years working with governing bodies and local communities to build inclusive accessible events and destination management strategies.

I鈥檓 a disabled feminist academic, working in the subject areas of design justice, disability justice and mobilities. I consider myself to be a maker, designer, artist and disability rights activist. I'm currently in the first year of my PhD studentship at the 麻豆传媒. I am also an associate Lecturer at LCC university (UAL) in London, where I bring my expertise and knowledge of social and design justice to the curriculum. My previous professional experience includes working for large organisations like the NHS and Brighton and Hove city council in various roles relating to health and social care. Since becoming disabled, I have shifted my focus toward activism within the disabled community, especially in the arts scene in Brighton and Hove. I established and events organisation called VisAbility Arts between 2018 and 2021, our mission was to empower artists living with invisible disabilities by creating accessible spaces for them to sell and exhibit their work. Currently, I am a disabled panel member for Brighton and Hove's accessible city strategy, founder of the DiscReg (Disability Culture Research Group) and chair of the 麻豆传媒 disabled and carer's staff network.

My PhD explores鈥痩egacies of oppression that exist within traditional participatory design and research methodologies.My work aims to move beyond prevailing ideologies of inclusivity, particularly those formulated by individuals in positions of power. I instead argue that radical philosophical shifts in thinking are needed, where those who are conventionally designated as the recipients of inclusivity lead the discourse. My work aims to rethink design and research methodologies from an ontological perspective enabling new ways of mobilising marginalised communities. This focus on mobilities over participation enables designers and researchers to practice working within frameworks that actively dismantle these legacies of oppression.