Rosie Harding

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Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Professor Harding is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in any of the following areas:

- Mental Capacity and Disability Law, especially research involving questions of everyday decision-making, dementia, intellectual disability, powers of attorney, advance directives and end of life decision making.
- Older persons rights, especially research focused on older person’s attitudes to human rights, and the arguments for and against a new international convention on the rights of older persons.

She is especially interested in supervising research involving empirical socio-legal methods. Potential research students are welcome to contact her by email to discuss their research proposals prior to submitting a formal application.

Current PhD Students:
- Alex Cisneros ‘Vulnerability, Deprivation of Liberty and the Liberty Protection Safeguards’
- Dhanishka Seneviratne ‘Vulnerability, Relationality, and Disability-Selective Abortions: Assessing the effects of responsive state action in the conflict between disability rights and reproductive choice’ (ESRC Funded)
- Sumaiyah Kholwadia ‘Legal and Policy Barriers Impeding Muslim Women's Right to Spiritual Equality’ (AHRC funded)
- Aman Thakur ‘Developing disability assessment policies in light of the United Nations Convention for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’.
- Ketevan Khomeriki ‘Reconceptualising mental health law through experiences of people with psychosocial needs in Georgia’ (ESRC funded)

20042023

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Christel McMullan

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Philip Newsome

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Melanie Calvert

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Anna Rowe

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Jamie Coleman

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Elizabeth Peel

  • University of Worcester
  • Aston University
  • Loughborough University

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Elin Haf Davies

  • Aparito
  • Aparito Limited

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Chris Beasley

  • University of Adelaide

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Gary Price

  • Patient Partners
  • University of Birmingham

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Chris Frost

  • Aparito Limited

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David Cowan

  • University of Bristol

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Alan Boyd

  • University of Manchester

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Jaime Lindsey

  • University of Essex

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