By Agata Fijalkowski (Leeds Beckett University) and Jane Arnfield (Northumbria University)   Radegast Station Independence Traditions Museum Lodz Poland - Project Ten To Ten 2019 Blueprint Banners by Alfons Bytautus & Jane Arnfield commissioned by Marek Edelman Dialogue Centre Lodz for the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto. Photograph Credit Tony Harrington. [...]

By Hussain Bari, University of Sheffield In 1971, Bangladesh achieved independence in its quest for equality, human dignity and social justice. In the light of those principles, freedom-loving people were embellished with a robust constitution which specifically offers a catalogue of fundamental rights, including the right to fair trial and a cluster of procedural due process [...]

By Clare Williams, University of Kent (@_clare_williams) Figure 1: Mapping a metaphorical journey, copyright Clare Williams, reproduced with kind permission of tl;dr.legal   Deadline anxiety? Rushing to catch up with research? Extra pressure from imagining where you should be now? This post is for you. How would you describe your research journey? Not your topic [...]

By Russell Sandberg, Cardiff University (@sandbergrlaw) Last summer when the initial COVID restrictions were beginning to be relaxed, provisions allowing gatherings for the purpose of the solemnisation of marriage proved problematic. This was because a number of weddings were not covered by such provisions. A number of people have weddings that do not comply with [...]

By Elizabeth Chloe Romanis (@ECRomanis) & Anna Nelson (@Anna_Nelson95) In the previous post in this series we provided an overview of the socio-legal gap that exists between the legal principle that pregnant people have a right to make choices about childbirth and the reality of the contemporary socio-legal context, which means it is difficult for this right to be [...]

By Elizabeth Chloe Romanis (@ECRomanis) & Anna Nelson The second of our COVID-19 birthing workshops focused on the ways in which birthing preferences of pregnant people may have changed in response to the crisis, and the extent to which birthing preferences were respected during COVID-19. The aim was to understand some of the difficulties pregnant people preparing to [...]

By Anna Nelson (@Anna_Nelson95) & Elizabeth Chloe Romanis (@ECRomanis) In the previous post in this series we provided an overview of the problem of unconsented vaginal examinations during labour and reflected briefly on some of the key discussions and themes which emerged during our workshop.  In this blog, we explore each of the three key themes in more [...]

By Anna Nelson (@Anna_Nelson95) & Elizabeth Chloe Romanis (@ECRomanis) COVID-19 had a huge (somewhat inevitable) impact on all medical services. It was alarming, however, how quickly changes were made to pregnancy and birthing services such that the rights and protections that should be afforded to pregnant people were disregarded. A number of issues in care provision that were [...]

By Jessica Smith, University of Kent The UK’s 2021 census has been described as a ‘snapshot’ of pandemic life. But what sort of visual is this snapshot? An advert accompanying the roll-out of the census illustrated how, in the words of the government, ‘the census builds a picture of your community’ which helps to inform [...]