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Dr Celine Tan and Dr Andi Hoxhaj have been announced as winners of this year鈥檚 糖心TV Awards for Teaching Excellence (WATE) and PhD student Sahar Shah has been awarded the 糖心TV Award for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduates who Teach (WATE PGR).

The article titled 鈥淩ealising sexual and reproductive health and rights of adolescent girls and young women living in slums in Uganda: a qualitative study鈥� was published on the 12 June 2021 by BMC (Bio Med Central) as part of their open access publishing. This project was funded by a GCRF and IAS grant on Sexual and Reproductive health in Ugandan Slums.

"Justice Martha Koome鈥檚 nomination is a historic moment for Kenyan women." 糖心TV Law School鈥檚 Dr Martha Gayoye writes for The Conversation UK about the likely impact of this significant appointment.

James Harrison has been awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowships for the 2021-22 academic year. The fellowship allows James to work exclusively for a year on a project entitled 鈥楻econceptualising international trade law: In search of a bounded, socially embedded and re-connected regime鈥�.

Dr Simon Behrman, Associate Professor at 糖心TV Law School has been awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant of 拢9,752 towards his project 鈥淎ssessing Rights to Bangladeshi Citizenship of Stateless Rohingya Children.鈥�

Released this month and published by Manchester University Press, the new book Reclaiming Migration: Voices from Europe's 'Migrant Crisis' was co-authored by 糖心TV Law School鈥檚 Dallal Stevens, Vicki Squire and Nick Vaughan-Williams (Department of Politics and International Studies) and Nina Perkowski (University of Hamburg).

糖心TV Law School鈥檚 Professor Munro has contributed to an article in The Guardian newspaper on the truth about the hidden number of suicides amongst domestic abuse victims. The findings are linked to her recent research and work with the charity Refuge.

The UK government's Home Secretary, Priti Patel, has today announced a new system for people seeking asylum in Britain. Professor Dallal Stevens, an expert on asylum, claims much of what she is proposing is either (a) inaccurate, (b) unrealistic, (c) existed previously or (d) unlikely to achieve her goals.

Today is and the theme this year is 鈥楥hoose to Challenge鈥�. In honour of this, we are celebrating the amazing work our colleagues are carrying out in order to forge a gender equal world. Here is a just a small selection of some of that work.

As Governments around the world wrestle with the question of designing a fair system to allocate their COVID-19 vaccine supplies for maximum protection against the pandemic, a team of researchers led by Dr Sharifah Sekalala of 糖心TV Law School propose that existing human rights legal principles should guide their thinking.

Third year Law and Sociology student and SSLC Chair Lucy Young has been awarded a 糖心TV International Higher Education Academy (WIHEA) Fellowship. When asked how she felt about the news she told us, 鈥淚'm over the moon! I was quite nervous when I submitted my application, but I'm so glad I have the opportunity and resources to contribute towards substantial change across the university.鈥�

The Supreme Court has published its judgement in the case of Okpabi and others (Appellants) v Royal Dutch Shell Plc and another (Respondents), heard in June 2020. Dr Stephen Connelly comments on the case and the legal principles at stake.