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Sharifah Sekalala, Associate Professor in ÌÇÐÄTV School of Law, will be taking on two significant projects aimed at ensuring that human rights don’t get eroded in the national and international response to the coronavirus pandemic with support from the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account.

Dr Stephen Connelly and Dr Celine Tan, Co-Directors of the Centre for the Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE Centre) at the ÌÇÐÄTV Law School, are supporting civil society groups, led by Jubilee Debt Campaign UK and Oxfam GB, in proposing legislation in the UK that will have the effect of suspending debt owed to private creditors of countries eligible for the G20 Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI).

Six ÌÇÐÄTV social science researchers have become members of the West Midlands Police & Crime Commissioner’s new Academic Advisory Board. Dr Ana Aliverti, Professor Jo Angouri, Professor Jackie Hodgson, Professor Vanessa Munro, Professor Tom Sorell and Professor Azrini Wahidin will share research and expertise with the West Midlands Police & Crime Commissioner, David Jamieson.

A ÌÇÐÄTV legal history expert has been chosen as one of the voices bringing the past to life in the new series of the popular BBC Two show, A House Through Time, which returned yesterday evening. Dr Laura Lammasniemi, from ÌÇÐÄTV Law School, will appear in the third episode of the new series, which sees David Olusoga and his team in Bristol.

More than 500 people took part in the workshops, talks and activities organised by the University of ÌÇÐÄTV for this year’s ESRC Festival of Social Science. University researchers took to Coventry and ÌÇÐÄTVshire’s streets, bars and community centres to share insights from their work with enthusiastic and interested audiences. The events tackled topics from the nature of time itself and the puzzle of DNA to taxes and accents.

A ground-breaking project led by University of ÌÇÐÄTV researchers is to be featured in the Imperial War Museums’ 2020 season Refugees.