Professor Richard Collier
Professor of Law and Social Theory

  • Email: richard.collier@ncl.ac.uk
  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 6655
  • Address: Newcastle Law School
    Newcastle University
    Newcastle Upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU

Background

LLM, MA, PhD, FRSA

Roles and Responsibilities

Deputy Research Director (2007–to date)
University Institute for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities Steering Group (2009>)
Co-ordinator of External Funding (2005–to date)
Degree Programme Director (LLB) (2002-2005) and Third Year Tutor (2002-4)
School (previously Departmental) Research Committee (1995-date)
School Ethics Committee (2008-date)
Departmental Dissertations Co-ordinator (2003–date, 1994 – 2001)
Personal Tutor
Member of Steering Group of the University Research Institute in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (NIASSH) (2002 - 2005, 2009>)
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Teaching and Learning Committee (incl. External Examination Sub-Group) (2002-5)
University Teaching and Learning Committee Programme Approval Panel (2002-5)
School Teaching and Learning Committee (2002-5).
Faculty College of Reviewers (2004-)
Departmental Seminar Series co-ordinator (2001-2003, 2005).
Management Committee Centre of Gender and Women's Studies, University of Newcastle (1995 - 2005).
University Appointments Committee (1997-2000).
University Staff Student Committee (1992 - 1999)
University Examination Adviser (1997)
Alumni Co-Ordinator (1996 - 1999)
Departmental Profile Committee (1999-2000)
Head of Department's Consultative Committee (1994 - 1995)
Departmental Postgraduate Committee (1994 - 1995)
Chair and Secretary of Newcastle Law School Staff/Student Committee (1990-1994, 1996)
Undergraduate and Postgraduate Faculty Brochure Co-ordinator (1990-1993)
Schools Liaison Team (1990-1993)
Member of Departmental Teaching Observation Team

Qualifications

Ph.D. 'Family, Law and Gender' Awarded July 1991, University of Leicester.
Awards: University of Leicester Research Scholarship
M.A. (Socio-Legal Studies) Awarded with Distinction 1986, University of Sheffield
Awards: ESRC Quota Award
LLB. (Hons) 1983, Upper Second, University of Sheffield
FRSA

Previous Positions

University of Newcastle Reader, 1995-1999
Lecturer, 1990 - 1995
University of Warwick Lecturer, 1988 - 1990
University of Leicester Research Scholar, 1985 – 1988
(Forthcoming, Senior Research Fellowship, National Centre of Gender Excellence (GEXcel) Sweden, Linköping University/Örebro University, 2011).
(Senior Research Fellowship, ‘Thank-Offer to Britain Fellowship’ 2007-8)
(Visiting Professor, Center on Children & Families, University of Florida, Levin College of Law, USA, 2007)
(Visiting Professor, School of Law, Emory University, Atlanta, USA, 2007)
(Visiting Fellow, Socio-Legal Research Centre, Griffith University, Australia, 2006)
(Visiting Parsons Fellow, University of Sydney, Australia, 2004)
(Visiting Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia, 2004)
(Visiting Lecturer, University of British Columbia, Canada, 2004)
(Visiting Professor, Dorothea S. Clarke Scholar, Law Faculty, Cornell University, USA, 2000)
(Visiting Lecturer, Amherst College, USA, 2000)

Memberships

Editorial Board Member Social and Legal Studies: An International Journal (1999-present): Editor 2001-2004.
Executive Committee Member (1999 - present, 1992 - 1996) and Secretary (April 1994-6) of the Socio Legal Studies Association (SLSA)
Member of ESRC Advisory Group (2003-6), Gay and Lesbian Marriage: Socio-Legal, Familial and Cultural implications in England 2003-6: Centre for Research on Family, Kinship & Childhood Department of Sociology and Social Policy University of Leeds.
Member of ESRC Advisory Group (2004-7) Masculinities in Transition: Identity, Home and Workplace: University of Sheffield, Department of Sociology.
Member European Men’s Health Institute (2000) and Thematic Research Network (funded by EC Research Directorates) ‘The Social Problem and Societal Problematisation of Men and Masculinities’.
Editorial Board Entertainment and Sports Law Journal
Society of Legal Scholars (formally the Society of the Public Teachers of Law)
Member of the Legal Education Groups and UK/Canadian Legal Studies Group
Invited Consultant (1997-2000): Lord Chancellor's Department: Evaluation of Information Meetings: Family Law Act 1996.
• Member of ISA/Research Committee of the Sociology of Law (RCSL) Working Groups on (i) Gender and Law, (ii) Working Group for the Comparative Study of the Legal Professions, (iii) Law and Popular Culture
• Member of the Legal Education Group and UK/Canadian Legal Studies Group
• Member, University of Cambridge Socio-Legal Group
• Member of Sub-Committee of American Law and Society Association (LSA) (Conditions of Academic Work) 1998-9
• Member, International Co-operation Group on Fatherhood, ZIF/Centre for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University, Germany

Honours and Awards

University of Leicester Research Scholarship Ph.D. 'Family, Law and Gender' Awarded July 1991, University of Leicester.
ESRC Quota Award M.A. (Socio-Legal Studies) Awarded with Distinction 1986, University of Sheffield
Masculinity, Law and the Family (1995) received an 'Honorary Mention' for the 1995 Oxford University Press/Socio-Legal Studies Association Prize for the Most Distinguished Contribution to Socio-Legal Studies published in the preceding year.
FRSA

Research Interests

Primary areas of research interest lie in the field of law and gender, with a particular focus in the past on issues around men and masculinities. The work encompasses primarily (although not exclusively) the fields of Law, Families and Social Change (e.g. work on fatherhood and law) and Gender and Crime/Criminology. I am presently researching the book 'Family Men: Fatherhood, Law and Gender from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present' and conducting a research project on male lawyers, masculinities and work-life balance in the legal profession entitled 'Fathers, Lawyers and Work-Life Balance: Managing the Downturn'. Collaborations, funding, and anticipated developments are detailed elsewhere under ‘Research Plans’.

Books

• Men, Law and Gender: Essays on The ‘Man' of Law 2010, Routledge, London and New York, 292pp plus preface and acknowledgements [monograph].

Fragmenting Fatherhood: A Socio-Legal Study, 2008, Hart Publications, Oxford 324pp [plus preface and acknowledgments. Co-written with Sally Sheldon [monograph].

• Fathers’ Rights Activism and Law Reform in Comparative Perspective, 2006, [co-edited with Sally Sheldon] Hart Publications, Oxford, 173 pp plus preface and acknowledgements [edited collection].

• Masculinities, Crime and Criminology: Men, Corporeality and the Criminal(ised) Body, 1998, London and New York, Sage 224 pp plus preface and acknowledgements [monograph].

• Masculinity, Law and the Family, 1995, London and New York, Routledge 331pp plus preface and acknowledgements [monograph].

Work in Progress:

• 'Family Men: Fatherhood, Law and Gender from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present' [monograph – see Research Plans]

Articles and Contributions to Collections

• “Masculinities, Law and Personal Life: Towards a New Framework for Understanding Men, Law and Gender” Harvard Journal of Law and Gender , in press, 2010 (22,000 words) [article based on invited presentation given at Harvard Law School, March 2010].

• “Fathers, Masculinities and Personal Life” in M.Fineman and M.Thomson (eds) Masculinities and Law in press (8,000 words) [article based on invited presentation at 2009 Symposium, Law School, Emory University, USA, September 2009].
• “Identity Matters: Class, Culture and Legal Academics – In Search of Another Voice”, 2010, in F.Cownie (ed) Stakeholders in the Law School Oxford, Hart Publications, pp15-35.
• “Fathers and Birth” in F. Ebtehaj, J.Herring, M.Johnson and M.Richards (eds) Birth Rites and Rights, Oxford: Hart (7000 words) [in press, forthcoming 2010]
• “Fathers’ Rights, Gender and Welfare:Some Questions for Family Law”, 2009, vol 31(4) Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 357-371
• “The Fathers Rights Movement, Law Reform and the New Politics of Fatherhood: Reflections on the UK Experience”, 2009, vol 20, Journal of Law and Public Policy, pp 65-110 [based on public lecture presented at the Center for Children & Families, University of Florida, 2007].
• “Fatherhood, Law and Fathers’ Rights: Rethinking the Relationship Between Gender and Welfare”, 2009, in J.Wallbank, S.Choudhry and J.Herring (eds) Rights, Gender and Family Law, London, Routledge-Cavendish, pp119-144.
• “On Reading Personal Life” in S.Horlacher (ed) Constructions of Masculinity in British Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present, Dresden TU, Dresden, in press, 2010, forthcoming (8500 words)
• “Rethinking Father’s Rights”, 2009, vol 39 Family Law [January] pp 45-50.
• “Engaging Fathers? Responsibility, Law and the ‘Problem of Fatherhood”, 2008, in J.Bridgeman, C.Lind and H.Keating (eds) Responsibility, Law and the Family Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing, pp 169-191.
• “The Outlaw Fathers Fight Back: Fathers’ Rights Groups, Fathers 4 Justice and the Politics of Family Law Reform – Some Reflections on the UK Experience”, 2006, in R.Collier and S.Sheldon (eds) Fathers’ Rights Activism and Law Reform in Comparative Perspective Hart Publications, Oxford, pp 53 – 79.
• “Fathers’ Rights, Fatherhood and Law Reform – International Perspectives”, 2006 (co-written with S.Sheldon) in R.Collier and S.Sheldon (eds) (eds) Fathers’ Rights Activism and Law Reform in Comparative Perspective, Hart Publications, Oxford, pp 1 – 27.
• “Feminist Legal Studies and the Subject(s) of Men: Questions of Text, Terrain and Context in the Politics of Family Law and Gender”, 2006, in A.Diduck and K.O’Donovan (eds) Feminist Perspectives in Family Law Cavendish, London pp 235 - 251.
• “Peter’s Choice: Changing Representations of Lawyers and Legal Academics – Work, Identity and Lifestyle in the New Economy”, 2006, in S.Greenfield and G.Osborn (eds.) Studies in Law and Popular Culture: Routledge Research Monographs London, Routledge pp 31-64
• “Fathers 4 Justice, Law and the New Politics of Fatherhood”, 2005, vol 17 (4) Child and Family Law Quarterly pp 1-29.
• “Be Smart, Be Successful, Be Yourself….’: Representations of the Training Contract and the Trainee Solicitor in Advertising by Large Law Firms”, 2005, vol 12 (1) International Journal of the Legal Profession pp 51-92.
• “The Liberal Law School, The Restructured University and the Paradox of Socio-Legal Studies”, 2005, vol 68 (3) Modern Law Review pp 475-494.
• “Review: Gender, Sexuality and Violence in Organizations”, 2005, vol12 (6) Gender, Work and Organization (November) pp 593 – 595.
• “Restructuring the Universities, Remaking the Legal Academy?’, 2005, in R.Hunter and M.Keys (eds.) Changing Law: Rights,Regulation and Reconciliation Oxford, Oxford University Press pp 77-104.
• “We’re All Socio-Legal Now?’: Legal Education, Scholarship and the Global Knowledge Economy – Reflections on the UK Experience”, 2004, vol 26 (4) Sydney Law Review(50th Anniversary Special Issue) pp 503-537.
• “Reflections on the Relationship Between Law and Masculinities: Rethinking The ‘Man Question’”, 2003, Current Legal Problems vol 56 pp345-402 – subsequently reprinted in Evans and Jamieson (ed) Reader in Gender and Crime Buckingham: Open University Press, 2008.
• “Men, Masculinities and Crime'', 2003, The Blackwell International Companion to Criminology, C. Sumner (ed) Oxford, Blackwell, pp285-308.
• “Introduction to ‘Gothic Horror: The Law School, Legal Education and the Knowledge Economy” Introduction, ‘Debate and Dialogue’, 2005, vol 14(2) Social and Legal Studies pp 259-265.
• “In Search of the ‘Good Father’: Law, Family Practices and the Normative Reconstruction of Parenthood”, 2003, in Family Law: Processes, Practices and Pressures J. Dewar and S.Parker (ed.) Kluwer (reprinted from Sarat and Ewick, ed. below).
• “The Changing University and the (Legal) Academic Career - Rethinking the 'Private Life' of the Law School”, 2002, Legal Studies vol 22 (1) pp 1-32.
• “Masculinities”, 2002, Sociology vol 36 (3): pp737-42
• “Male Bodies, Family Practices”, 2002, in A. Bainham, S. D. Sclater and M. Richards (eds.for the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group) Body Lore and Laws, Hart Publishers/Cambridge Socio-Legal Group, London pp 149-169.
• “A Hard Time to be a Father?: Law, Policy and Family Practices”, 2001, Journal of Law and Society vol 28 (4) pp520-545
• “'Rat boys' and 'little angels': corporeality, male youth and the bodies of (dis)order”, 2001, in R.Holliday and J. Hassard (eds.) Contested Bodies London, Routledge pp21-35.
• “In Search of the ‘Good Father’: Law, Family Practices and the Normative Reconstruction of Parenthood”, 2001, Studies in Law, Politics and Society vol 22 ed. A. Sarat and P. Ewick) pp133-171.
• “Dangerousness, Popular Knowledge and the Criminal Law: A Case Study of the Paedophile as Socio-Cultural Phenomenon”,2001,in P. Alldridge and C. Brants (eds.) Personal Autonomy, the Private Sphere and the Criminal Law: A Comparative Study (Oxford and Portland Oregon, Hart Publishing) pp 223-245.
• “Anxious Parenthood, the Vulnerable Child and the ‘Good Father’: Reflections on the Legal Regulation of the Relationship Between Men and Children”, 2001, in J. Bridgeman and D. Monk (eds.) Feminist Perspectives on Child Law London, Cavendish pp 107-129
• “Gender, Law and Divorce”, 2000, Chapter 30 (Vol 3) of the Final Report submitted to the Lord Chancellor's Department for England and Wales, Information Meetings and Associated Provisions Family Law Act 1996 J.Walker, ed. London. Lord Chancellor's Department) pp685-711.
• “The Challenge of Social, Legal and Policy Change” (co-written with J.Walker and N.Timms), 2000, Chapter 1 (Vol 1) of the Final Report submitted to the Lord Chancellor's Department for England and Wales, Information Meetings and Associated Provisions Family Law Act 1996 Walker, J. ed. London. Lord Chancellor's Department pp 5-17.
• “Straight Families, Queer Lives? Heterosexual(izing) Family Law”, 2000, in C. Stychin and D. Herman (eds.) Sexuality in the Legal Arena London, The Athlone Press pp 164-179.
• “‘The Dashing of a ‘Liberal Dream’?: The Information Meeting, the ‘New Family’ and the Limits of Law”, 1999, vol 11 (3) Child and Family Law Quarterly pp 257 – 270.
• “Feminising the Workplace'? (Re)constructing the 'good parent' in employment law and family policy”, 1999, in A. Morris and T. O'Donnell (eds) Feminist Perspectives on Employment Law, London: Cavendish: pp161-181.
• “Men, Heterosexuality and the Changing Family: (Re)Constructing Fatherhood in Law and Social Policy”, 1999, in C. Wright and G. Jaggar (ed.) Changing Family Values, London and New York: Routledge: pp38-58.
• “Law, Sex Difference and the Body”, 1999, vol 5(2) Res Publica pp217-225.
• “From 'Women's Emancipation' to 'Sex War'?: Beyond the 'Masculinized Discourse' of Divorce”, 1999, in S.D. Sclater and C. Piper (eds.) Undercurrents of Divorce Aldershot: Dartmouth: pp123-144.
• “Nutty Professors, Men in Suits and New Entrepreneurs: Corporeality, Subjectivity and Change in the Law School and Legal Practice”, 1998, Social and Legal Studies vol 7 (1): pp27-53
• “ (Un)Sexy Bodies: The Making of Professional Legal Masculinities”, 1998, in C.McGlynn (ed) Legal Feminisms: Theory and Practice Aldershot: Dartmouth: pp2 – 21
Sections of this text have been selected for inclusion in M.Cottier and A.Büchler (eds), Legal Gender Studies – Rechtliche Geschlechterstudien Konzepte Entwicklungen und Perspektiven – eine kommentierte Quellensammlung Inhaltsverzeichnis Basel: Helbing und Lichtenhahn [this is the first sourcebook on gender, sexuality and law of its kind in Switzerland, introducing students of law and gender studies in German-speaking countries to the field].
• “After Dunblane: Crime, Corporeality and the (Hetero)Sexing of the Bodies of Men”, 1997, Journal of Law and Society vol 24 (2): pp177-199 [this article has subsequently been republished in S.Tomsen (ed) Crime, Criminal Justice and Masculinities, International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology – Second Series London, Ashgate, 2008 and L.Moran (ed) Sexuality and Identity: International Library of Essays in Law and Society London, Ashgate, 2006.
• ''Coming Together?': Post-Heterosexuality, Masculine Crisis and the New Men's Movement”, 1996, Feminist Legal Studies vol 4 (1): pp3 – 48.
• “Just (More) Boys Doing Business'? Gender, Sex and the 'Masculinity Turn' in Criminology”, 1996, Social and Legal Studies vol 5: pp271-278.
• “Waiting Till Father Gets Home....': The Reconstruction of Fatherhood in Family Law”, 1995, Social and Legal Studies vol 4 (1): pp5 –30 [this article has subsequently been republished in S.Boyd and H.Rhoades ( (ed) Law and Families: International Library of Essays in Law and Society London, Ashgate, 2006.
• ''A Father's 'Normal Love'?: Masculinities, Criminology and the Family', 1995, in R. Dobash, R.Dobash and L. Noakes (eds) Gender and Crime, Cardiff: University of Wales Press: pp202 - 227.
• ''Ten Years On: What Is To Be Done About Law and Order'?: Review Article'', 1994, Northern Ireland Law Quarterly, vol 45 (3): pp308-316.
• “The Campaign Against the Child Support Act 1991: 'Errant Fathers' and 'Family Men'', 1994, Family Law, July: pp384 - 387.
• ''The Art of Living the Married Life': Representations of Male Heterosexuality in Law”, 1992, Social and Legal Studies vol 1 (4): pp543 - 563.
• “Masculinism, Law and Law Teaching”, 1991, International Journal of the Sociology of Law vol 19: pp427-451

Articles/Work in Progress
• “Men, Gender and the Changing Family” in Craig Lind, Jo Bridgeman, Heather Keating (eds) Transforming Families, Regulating Responsibilities (working titles), Aldershot: Ashgate, publication scheduled 2010.
• “Fathers’ Rights, Responsibility and the Politics of Equality: Reformations of Fatherhood in Late Modernity” in U.Mueller and M. Oechsle (eds) Fatherhood in Late Modernity Barbara Budrich Publishers, Leverkusen/Farmington Hills) (8000 words, publication scheduled 2010)
• “’Conduct Unbecoming’: Gender, Class and the Post-Industrial City – On the Law of The Likely Lads” (with A.Oshsner, University of Basel) in J.Sibley and P.Robson (eds) Law and Justice on the Small Screen (publication scheduled 2010)

Other Outputs: Reports, Media, Shorter Pieces, Reviews & Misc.

The Fathers’ Rights Movement and Law Reform: A Research Report to the British Academy – February 2008 (see Research Awards, above, unpublished report).
• Male Lawyers and the Negotiation of Family Commitments: A Research Report to the British Academy – February 2004 (see Research Awards, above) pp169, unpublished report
• “Fatherhood”, “Fathers’ Rights Movement” and “Gender”, 2008, three chapter sections in P.Cane and J.Conaghan (ed.) The New Oxford Companion to Law Oxford University Press.
• “Custody”, “Divorce”, “Family Law”, 2008, three chapter sections in M.Flood, J.Gardiner and K.Pease and K.Pringle, (eds) The International Encyclopaedia of Men and Masculinities, 1 Vol London, Routledge.
• Interview with Richard Collier by Sabine Durant, “What Are Fathers’ For” The Guardian 3 January 2009 pp 4-5, Family section.
• Interview with Richard Collier, “Who’s the Daddy?” The Irish Times 27 January 2009.
• Interview with Richard Collier, Expresso, Newspaper, Portugal, 28 February 2009.
• Interview with Richard Collier about his Research by Joanne Mortimer. “Sand in the Blackberry: Male Lawyers and Work-Life Balance” Link: the Official Magazine of the Association of Women Solicitors, Issue 24 Winter 2006/7 pp 26 – 30
• “‘Unfamiliar Territory”, 2006,, co-written with S.Sheldon, The Guardian, Society section, p 6, 1 November 2006.
• “Do Men Want a Life Outside The Office?” The Times 10 May 2005 p 8 Law Section
• “Ladies Only? The Legal Profession and Work-life Balance” The Lawyer May 2005
• “Research Capacity, Critical Social Science and Socio-Legal Studies: Reflections on a Growing Debate” (2004, Summer) Socio-Legal Studies Association Newsletter pp1-3
• “The Uncertain Future of (Critical) Socio-Legal Studies” (2003, Spring) Socio-Legal Studies Association Newsletter pp3-4.
• “Changing Universities” (Soapbox Article) (2001) Times Higher Education Supplement (October)
• “Masculinities and Violence” Criminal Justice Matters, vol 42 Winter 2000 pp12-14.
• “Masculinities and Crime” Criminal Justice Matters, vol 34 Winter 1998/1999
• “Child Support, Class Subversion, Crass Scapegoating”, 1994, Achilles Heel vol17: pp18-22:
• “Families Need Fathers”, 1994, Achilles Heel, 17:
• “The New Man: Fact or Fad?”, 1992, Achilles Heel vol 13: pp34 - 38.

BOOK REVIEWS incl (selected):
‘Gender, Sexuality and Violence’ (2005) Gender, Work and Organisation
'Changing Violent Men' (2000) Child and Family Law Quarterly
'Bodies of Law' (1998) Journal of Law and Society
'Criminological Theory: Context and Consequences' (1998) Web Journal of Current Legal Issues:
'The English Legal System in Context' (1998) Web Journal of Current Legal Issues
‘Law’s Desire’ International Journal of the Sociology of Law
'Lone Fathers and Masculinities' (1996) Journal of Gender Studies
'Regulating Divorce' (1997) International Journal of Law and the Family
'The Making of Men' (1995) Journal of Biosocial Science
'The Presence of the Past: Male Violence in the Family' (1995) International Journal of Law and the Family
‘Silent Revolution’ International Journal of Law and the Family
Forthcoming:
‘Fathers’ Rights in America’ (2009) Sociological Enquiry
‘The New Politics of Masculinity’ (2009) Feminist Theory

Current Work

Commissioned Work in Progress – see above under Forthcoming Publications

Dissemination I : Funded Invitations [Innvited Plenary/Keynote Conference Addresses and Public Lectures, indicated by * below]

• *2010 “Socio-Legal Studies, Law and Fatherhood” delivery of the Inagural Annual Law and Society Lecture, Dublin City University [April 2010, rearranged to 2011 date tbc].
• 2010: Invited Participant, ‘Battle of Ideas’, London [forthcoming, October 2010, funded].
• 2010: Invited Paper, ‘Fathers, Gender and Welfare’, Law School, University of Stirling [forthcoming, date tbc]
• 2011: Invited Paper, ‘Fathers, Gender and Welfare’, Law School, University of Edinburgh [forthcoming, February]
• * March 2010: “Towards a New Framework for Understanding Men, Law and Gender” Harvard Law School, Harvard University, USA [invited presentation to Harvard Symposium on Law and Gender].
• September 2009: Invited Paper ‘Separation, Fatherhood and Emotion’, University of Sheffield, [funded]
• September 2009, Invited Workshop Presentation, ‘Masculinities, Law and Fatherhood’ Masculinities and Law Workshop, Emory University, USA.
• * June 2009: Invited Conference Plenary, ‘Constructions of Masculinity in British Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present: An International Conference’ University of Dresden, Germany 17-19 June 2009.
• * April 2009: Invited Keynote Address, Child Welfare Network Conference, University of Cardiff, paper entitled ‘Law, Men and Gender: Rethinking the Terrain’ 22 April 2009.
• April 2009: Invited Paper Presentation, ESRC Seminar Series, ‘Gender and Parenting’, Changing Parenting Culture, University of Cambridge, 3 April 2009 (ESRC Research Seminars Competition 2007/8) [funded]
• May 2008: Invited paper entitled ‘Fatherhood, Emotion and Popular Culture’ Law and Popular Culture’, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain [funded].
• March 2009: Invited Paper Presentation, ‘Fathers’ Rights, Feminism and Law’ Feminist Legal Research Unit, Law School, University of Liverpool, 18 March 2009.
• * October 2007: Invited Public Lecture entitled "The Fathers Rights Movement, Law Reform and the New Politics of Fatherhood: Reflections on the UK Experience" Visiting Professor, Center on Children & Families, University of Florida Levin College of Law, USA, 23 October [funded].
• * October 2007: Invited Public Lecture entitled ‘Fathers’ Rights Groups: Emotion, Protest and Gender Politics’, School of Law, Feminist Legal Theory Project Emory University, Atlanta, USA. Delivery of 15 October 2007 [funded].
• * June 2007: Invited Plenary Address, paper entitled ‘I’m Not Mad, I’m Not Unreasonable, I’m Angry’: Fathers’ Rights, Law Reform and Masculinities’ delivered to the International Men and Madness: Masculinity, Psychopathology and Mental Disorder in Modern Culture Conference, English Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, 28-30 June 2007 [funded].
• * April 2007: Invited Conference Address, International Co-operation Group on Fatherhood, paper entitled 'Fatherhood in Late Modernity: Cultural Images, Social Practices, Structural Frames', ZIF/Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University, Germany, April 2007: Delivery of Paper ‘Fathers’ Rights and Responsibilities: Rethinking Fatherhood’ [funded].
• April 2007: Invited Session Participant: the book R.Collier and S.Sheldon, (eds) Fathers’ Rights Activism and Law Reform in Comparative Perspective (2006) Hart Publications, Oxford was the subject of an ‘Author Meets Readers’ session at the Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Kent, 3-5 April 2007.
• April 2007: Invited Seminar paper entitled ‘Fragmenting Fathers?’’ (with S. Sheldon), delivered at the University of Bristol, Faculty of Law, April 25th 2007 [funded].
• November 2006: Invited Lecture, Socio-Legal Research Centre, Griffith Law School Nathan/Gold Coast paper entitled ‘Fathers’ Rights, Law and the New Politics of Fatherhood: Reflection n the UK Experience’, 15 November 2006.
• July 2006: Invited Speaker,’ Rethinking Equality and the Subject(s) of Men: Feminist Legal Scholarship, Family Law and the Politics of Fathers’ Rights’ International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, ‘Revisiting Equality’, 10-12 July 2006.
• * February 2006: Plenary Address paper entitled ‘Why Research Legal Education? Restructuring Universities, Reshaping the (Legal) Academy – Reflections on the Uk Experience’ to the European Law Faculties Association 10th Anniversary Conference, ‘Researching Legal Education: Who Teaches Law? Where is Law Taught? How is Law Taught?’ University of Leuven, Belgium, 9-11 February 2006 [funded].
• * December 2005: Keynote Address, ‘The Legal Profession and Work-life Balance’, Legal and Professional Services Sector Hudson Human Capital Solutions Conference, London, 2 December 2005 [funded].
• September 2005: Invited Speaker, paper entitled ‘Fathers’ Rights Activism and Legal Reform’ ESRC Workshop, Keele Management Centre, September 2005 [funded]
• * March 2005: Keynote Address, paper entitled ‘Male Lawyers and Work-Life Balance’ The Women Lawyer Forum, Millennium Hotel London, March 2005 [funded]
• December 2004: Invited paper entitled ‘Male Lawyers and Work-Life Balance: Please Send Me Evenings and Weekends’, Queen Mary College, University of London, December [funded].
• * September 2004: Keynote Address, paper entitled ‘Researching Men and Masculinities: The Possibilities – and Limits – of Textual Analysis’ at the Launch of AHRB Research Centre in Law, Gender and Sexuality Colloquium, ‘Text and Terrain: Legal Studies in Gender and Sexuality’, 24-25 September 2004 [funded]
• * May 2004: Keynote Address, Paper entitled ‘Beyond Backlash?: Caped Crusaders, Law and the New Politics of Fatherhood’, Feminism, Law and Social Change: (Re)Action and Resistance, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada, May [funded]
• April 2004: Invited paper entitled ‘Theorizing Men, Law and Gender’ (Visiting Parsons Scholar), Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, Australia, March [funded].
• March 2004: Invited paper entitled ‘Representing Lawyers’, Department of Law, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, March [funded].
• March 2004: Invited paper entitled ‘Be Smart, Be Successful, Be Yourself: Male Lawyers, Work and Family’, Australian Family Law Workshop, Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne, Australia, March [funded].
• December 2003: Invited paper entitled ‘Regulating the Gendered Body: Consumption, Identity and Law’, University of Keele, December [funded].
• * July 2003: Invited plenary address, Paper entitled ‘Once in a Lifetime?: The Liberal Law School, the New Knowledge Economy and the Uncertain Future of (Critical) Socio-Legal Studies’, Australasian Law Teachers Association (ALTA) Conference, 8-9 July, Brisbane, Australia [funded]
• * March 2003: Invited paper entitled ‘Reflections on the Relationship Between Law and Masculinities: Rethinking The ‘Man Question’, Public Lecture 2003 Current Legal Problems Series London, March.
• January 2003: Invited paper entitled ‘Selling a Career as a Corporate Lawyer’, University of Durham, January.
• October 2002: Invited paper entitled ‘Money, Sex, Power, Travel’, Invited Speaker, Institute for Advanced Legal Studies/Legal Skills Seminar Series, October [funded].
• July 2002: Invited paper entitled ‘Imaging Law, Imagining Lawyers’, International Working Group for the Comparative Study of the Legal Professions, Aix en Provence, France, July.
• May 2002: Invited paper entitled 'Academic Life and Work-Life Balance', University of Strathclyde, May.
• July 2000: Invited Lecture, paper entitled 'Beyond 'Men and Change', 'Fathers and Families': Reconceptualising Equality within Family Policy Debates', University of Sorbonne, Paris, France [organised by Cornell University, USA],2000 [funded]
• September 2001: Invited Speaker paper entitled 'Men, Fatherhood and Change', European Studies Research Institute, Centre or Policy Studies, University of Salford ‘Progressing Gender Relations in Europe: Questions of Equality in Paid and Unpaid Work', UK [funded]
• * May 2000: Invited Paper entitled 'Fatherhood, Families and Change', Dorothea Clarke Public Lecture Cornell University Law School, New York, USA [funded].
• * March 2000: Public Houston Lecture, Paper entitled ‘Fatherhood and Family Policy', Amherst College, USA [The Houston Lectureship brings to Amherst distinguished scholars whose work touches on the theme of law and social justice] [funded]
• January 2000: Invited paper entitled 'New Directions in Criminology', University of Sheffield, Law School, UK [funded].
• October 1999: Invited paper entitled 'Gender, Equality and Family Policy', University of Lancaster, Law School, UK [funded].
• April 1999: Invited Paper entitled 'Law, the 'Good Parent' and the 'New Fatherhood', Centre for Research on Family, Kinship and Childhood', University of Leeds ESRC Seminar Programme, UK [funded].
• March 1999: Invited paper entitled 'Heterosexualities and New Family Policy', London Legal Theory Seminar, London School of Economics, UK [funded].
• March 1999: Invited paper entitled 'Sidney Cooke, the Dangerous Paedophile and the 'Child Killer', University of Leicester, UK [funded].
• February1999: Invited paper entitled ''Work' and 'Family Life': Conceptual Issues', University of Portsmouth Business School, UK [funded].
• * October 1998: Invited Plenary Speaker, paper entitled ‘Gender and Law in the UK: Themes, Issues and Recent Developments’, ‘Gender and Law in Higher Education’ Programme, funded by the Swedish government/UMEA University, Sweden, at University of Helsinki, Finland, October 1998 [funded]
• March 1998: Invited paper entitled 'Post-Divorce Fatherhood', Centre for Legal Studies, University of Sussex, UK.
• March 1998: Invited paper entitled 'Men, Heterosexuality and the Politics of Divorce', Feminist Legal Research Unit Seminar Programme, Faculty of Law, University of Liverpool, UK [funded].
• * November 1997: Invited Plenary Speaker, paper entitled 'From 'Women's Emancipation' to 'Sex War?': Men, Heterosexuality and the Politics of Divorce', Gendered Persons and Communities in Nordic Legal Discourse, Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, Finland, [Member of Anglo-Finnish research group: work included providing editorial advice on law/gender in socio-legal studies in Nordic countries] [funded]
• January 1997: Invited paper entitled 'The Spree Killing: Masculinities and Corporeality', University of Kent, Law School, UK [funded].
• November 1996: Invited paper entitled 'The Subject(s) of Men: Re Configuring the Relationship Between Law and Masculinities', Centre for Law and Gender Studies, Opening Speaker, University of Bristol, UK [funded].
• November 1996: Invited paper entitled 'Men, The Family and the Crisis of Masculinity', Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge, UK [funded].
• November 1996: Invited paper entitled 'Crime, Corporeality and the Sexed Body', Centre for Gender and Law, University of Keele, UK [funded].
• March 1996: Invited paper entitled '(Re)Constructing Resistance: The Politics of Family Law', London School of Economics, Psychology Department Study Weekend, Windsor Park, UK [funded].
• September 1995: Invited paper entitled "Coming Together?": Post-Heterosexuality, Masculine Crisis and the New Men's Movement', La Trobe University, National Centre for Socio Legal Studies/School of Law and Legal Studies, Melbourne, Australia [funded].
• December 1994: Invited paper entitled 'Gendering Criminology? Yobs, Youth and Moral Panics', University of Nottingham Department of Law, UK [funded].
• November 1993: Invited paper entitled 'Family Men and Errant Fathers', Staff Seminar Programme, University of Edinburgh Centre for the Criminology and the Social and Philosophical Study of Law, UK [funded].
• February 1993: Invited paper entitled 'Fatherhood: Constructing Subjectivity in Law', Staff Seminar Programme, Faculty of Law, University of Leicester, UK [funded].
• January 1992: Invited paper entitled 'Men and Masculinities', Staff Seminar Programme, Law School, Queens University Belfast [funded].
• June 1987: Invited paper, 'On Men and Law', M.A. in Socio Legal Studies Day Conference, Centre for Criminology and Socio Legal Studies, University of Sheffield, UK.

Other: I have, in addition, been invited to speak and participate at a wide range of international and national events, where the invitation has unfortunately had to be declined e.g. Invited to serve as International Observer at the conference: ‘Women, Law and the Nordic Welfare States’ organised by the Nordic Women’s Law Group, Iceland 1999: Invited Visiting Professor, Osgoode Law School, Canada, 2007: Invited Keynote speaker to the II International Colloquium of Studies of Men and Masculinities/I National Congress of the Mexican Academy of Gender studies of Men, Guadalajara, Mexico, June 21-23 2006.

Dissemination II: Other Conference and Workshop Presentations

• March 2010: Participant, Birth Rites, University of Cambridge, 21-23 March 2010.
• February 2010: ‘Fathers and Law’, Staff Seminar Series paper, University of Newcastle.
• September 2009: Paper entitled ‘Fathers’ Rights and Personal Life’ Turning Personal Conference, The Morgan Centre, University of Manchester, 16-17 September 2009.
• September 2008: Participant, Rights , Gender and Family Law, The Oxford Centre for Family, Law and Policy Workshop, University of Oxford, 26 September 2008.
• July 2008: Participant/Speaker, Panel on 'Fathers' Rights and Responsibilities' (with J.Ives, S.Sheldon and H.Draper) at the Gender, Family Responsibility and Legal Change: An International, Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Sussex, Brighton, 10 – 12 July 2008. Paper entitled ‘Fathers’ Rights, Legal Wrongs? Fatherhood, Law and the Politics of Protest’
• June 2007: Paper entitled ‘Remaking the ‘Father Figure’?: Divorce, Law and the ‘New Politics’ of Fatherhood’, Invited Participant on International Panel on Civilising Parenthood (with R.Van Krieken and H.Reece), Berlin Joint Annual Meetings of the Law and Society Association and Research Committee on Sociology of Law (ISA) co-sponsored by Socio-Legal Studies Association (UK), the Japanese Association of Sociology of Law, the Vereinigung für Rechtssoziologie, and the Sociology of Law Section of the German Sociological Association.
• June 2007: Invited Participant on an International Panel on ‘Fatherhood and Law’ at Gender Unbound: An International, Interdisciplinary Conference in Law, Gender, and Sexuality Keele University, Staffordshire, UK, 9-11 July. Delivery of paper entitled ‘Fathers’ Rights and the Policy and Politics of Law Reform’.
• February 2006: Paper entitled ‘Fathers For Justice?’ Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies Seminar Programme, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.
• July 2005: Paper entitled ‘Men, Gender and Work-Life Balance: The Case of the Legal Profession’ Annual Meeting of the Research Committee of the Sociology of Law, International Sociological Association/European Network Law and Society/Society of Law Group of the French Sociological Association, Paris, July.
• June 2005: Paper entitled ‘Loving and Hating Law: Law and the Fathers’ Rights Movement’ Canadian Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia, Canada.
• June 2005: Paper entitled ‘Please Send Me Evenings and Weekends’, Canadian Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia, Canada.
• September 2004: Paper entitled ‘Fathers4Justice, Law and Contact’ Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, Sheffield, UK.
• June 2002: Paper entitled ‘Men, Law and Work-Life Balance’, Joint Meeting of American Law and Society Association/Canadian Law and Society Association, Vancouver, Canada.
• April 2002: Papers entitled ‘Corporate Law: Youth and Consumption’ & ‘We’re all Entrepreneurs Now: A Requiem for (Critical) Socio-Legal Studies’, Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Aberystwyth, Wales.
• June 2002: Paper entitled ‘Selling Law, Gendered Subjects’, Keele 2nd International Gender, Sexuality Law Conference, UK.
• February 2002: Paper entitled 'Changing (Academic) Hearts and Minds?: University Restructuring and the Changing University', 5th Theory in Legal Education Colloquium, Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, London, UK.
• July 2001: Paper entitled 'Women, Men and the Private Life of the Law School', Meeting of the American Law and Society Association Conference/Research Committee on Sociology of Law of the International Sociological Association Joint International Conference, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
• April: 2001: Paper entitled 'Our (Not So) Brilliant Careers', Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference, University of Bristol, UK.
• July 2000: Paper entitled 'In Search of the Good Father': Men, Family Practices and the Normative Reconstruction of Parenthood', International Society of Family Law 10th World Conference, Brisbane, Australia.
• July 1999: Paper entitled 'Family Policy: (Re)Constructing Fatherhood'?, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting.
• June 1998: Paper entitled 'Straight Families, Queer Lives?' Gender, Sexuality and Law: An International Conference, University of Keele, UK.
• June 1998: Paper entitled 'Rat Boys and Little Angels', Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Aspen, Colorado, USA.
• June 1998: Paper entitled 'Reconceptualising Fatherhood in Law and Social Policy', Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Aspen, Colorado, USA.
• March 1998: Paper entitled 'From 'Women's Emancipation' to 'Sex War'?: Men, Heterosexuality and the Politics of Divorce', Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, Manchester, UK.
• April 1998: Paper entitled ‘The Trouble With Boys', British Sociological Association Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh.
• January 1998: Paper entitled 'Men in Law: the Law School and the Legal Profession', Gender, Work and Organisation Conference, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology,UK.
• September 1997: Paper entitled 'Corporeality, male youth and the bodies of (dis)order' 'In the wake of law...', Critical Legal Conference, University College, Dublin, Ireland.
• April 1997: Paper entitled 'Nutty Professors, Men in Suits and New Entrepreneurs', Paper presented to the Socio Legal Studies Association Annual Meeting, University of Wales, Cardiff, Wales.
• August 1996: Paper entitled 'Nutty Professors, Men in Suits and the New Entrepreneurs: Re-Configuring Subjectivity in the Law School', Women in Law Conference, Grey College, University of Durham, UK.
• August 1996:Paper entitled 'The Making of Professional Legal Masculinities: Change and Identity - An 'Anglo' - 'Latin' Encounter, Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.
• July 1996: Paper entitled 'A Lonely Man with a Passion for Guns', Law and Society Association Annual Conference, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
• April 1996:Paper entitled 'Sexing the (Hidden) Bodies of Men', Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Southampton, April.
• June 1995: Paper entitled 'Post-Heterosexuality, Masculine Crisis and the Politics of the New Men's Movement', Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada.
• March 1995: Paper entitled 'Law, Power and Desire For The Other', Socio Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Leeds, UK.
• January 1995: Paper entitled 'Presenting a Paper: Communication Skills', Socio Legal Studies Association Postgraduate Conference, University of Leicester, January.
• November 1994: Paper entitled 'A New Breed of Man?' Masculinities and the Gendering of Criminology', American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, 'Challenges of Crime and Social Control' Miami, Florida, USA.
• September 1994: Paper entitled 'Back to the Woods and On To The Streets: Change and Continuity in Ideas of 'Crisis' and Renewal', Legal Identities/Global Cultures Conference, University of Warwick, UK.
• June 1994: Paper entitled 'The Child Support Act 1991: Mythologies of Family Law', Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Phoenix, United States.
• May 1994: Paper entitled 'Teaching Socio Legal Skills: Family Law', Socio Legal Studies Association One Day Conference 'Exploring the Socio Legal Curriculum: Teaching Socio-Legal Skills', Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, UK.
• March 1994: Paper entitled ''Detached Fathers' and 'Family Men': Representations of Masculinity in the Campaign Against the Child Support Act 1991', British Sociological Association Annual Conference, University of Central Lancashire, UK.
• January 1994: Paper entitled 'Presenting a Conference Paper', Socio Legal Studies Association Postgraduate Conference, University of Strathclyde.
• July 1993: Paper entitled 'A Father's 'Normal Love': Changing Discourses of Paternal Masculinity in Law and Criminology', British Criminology Conference, University of Cardiff ,Wales.
• May 1993: Paper entitled 'The 'Good Father': The Reconstruction of Fatherhood in Legal Discourse', Law and Society Association Annual Conference, University of Chicago, United States.
• March 1993: Paper entitled 'Waiting Till Father Gets Home', Socio Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Exeter.
• January 1993: Paper entitled 'How to Present a Conference Paper', Socio Legal Studies Association Postgraduate Conference, University of Cardiff.
• February 1992: Paper entitled 'Researching Law and Gender', Staff Seminar Programme, Faculty of Law, University of Newcastle, UK.
• September 1991: Paper entitled 'Representations of Male Heterosexuality in Law', Critical Legal Conference, University of Glasgow, UK.
• March 1991: Paper entitled 'Law and Popular Culture: Men's and Women's Popular Magazines', Socio Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Leicester, UK.
• March 1991: Paper entitled 'The postgraduate student experience', Workshop: Socio Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Leicester, UK.
• December 1987: Paper entitled 'Legal Education and Gender', Staff Seminar Programme, Faculty of Law, University of Leicester, UK.
• September 1987: Paper entitled 'Masculinity and the Teaching and Study of Law', Critical Legal Conference, 'Critique in Legal Education, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.
• July 1987: Paper entitled 'The Persona of the Judge', 'On Judges and Judging' Conference, University of Leicester, UK.
• September 1986: Paper entitled 'The Sexual Offences Act 1985', Critical Legal Conference 'Law, Critique and Social Transformation' University of Kent, UK.
• April 1986: Paper entitled 'Prostitution, Masculinity and the Law', ESRC Postgraduate Socio Legal Students Conference, University of Sheffield, UK.

Misc: I have acted as invited Chair/Discussant at numerous conference panels and workshops at both international and national events. In addition to media outputs above I served as BBC Programme Adviser, ‘5 Live Report’ 2008, 2006 and am a regular contact for BBC and other media organisations. I am increasingly approached by the media in connection with my work and have received ‘Proactive Media Relations’ Training, University of Newcastle, September 2008, January 2008: BBC TV Interview ‘Inside Out’ Sept, 2004: BBC TV Interview on crime in Newcastle, May 1993.

Future Research

See above under 'Current Programme'

Research Roles

Research Roles (internal to University) Deputy Research Director, Member School Research Committee, Co-Ordinator of Funded Research, Newcastle Law School Member NIASHH Steering Group

Postgraduate Supervision

Law and gender, with a particular focus in the past on issues around men and masculinities. Law, the Family and Social Change (e.g. work on fatherhood) Gender and Crime Law Schools and Legal Education Present Supervisions: PhD. supervision x 3; M.Phil supervision x 2;

If you would like further information on reading for a research degree at Newcastle Law School please see www.ncl.ac.uk/nuls/postgraduate/research/index.htm

Esteem Indicators

Esteem Indicators etc
• Regular invitations received to address prestigious international and national conferences as plenary/keynote speaker, to participate in workshops/seminars, serve as a Visiting Professor at other institutions and contribute to distinguished international collections, including major disciplinary overviews.

E(Jan 2007 – Jan 2008) British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship, recipient of the Thank-offering to Britain Fellowship

Editorial e.g. Member of Editorial Board (1999 - present): Co-Editor Social and Legal Studies: An International Journal (2000-2004):
Editorial Adviser (2004>) The New Oxford Companion to Law (Oxford University Press)
International Editorial Board Member, Entertainment and Sports Law Law.
Editorial Board, International Journal of Sexualities, Gender and Justice
Wide Range of Invited Plenary/Keynote Addresses & Visiting Academic Appointments, recently:
2007 Invited Visiting Professor, Center on Children & Families, University of Florida Levin College of Law, USA [funded].
2007 Invited Visiting Professor, School of Law, Feminist Legal Theory Project Emory University, Atlanta, USA. Delivery of Public Lecture/Teaching [funded].
2007 Invited Plenary Address, ‘I’m Not Mad, I’m Not Unreasonable, I’m Angry’: Fathers’ Rights, Law Reform and Masculinities’ delivered to the International Men and Madness: Masculinity, Psychopathology and Mental Disorder in Modern Culture Conference, English Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, 28-30 June 2007 [funded].
2007 Invited Conference Address, International Co-operation Group on Fatherhood 'Fatherhood in Late Modernity: Cultural Images, Social Practices, Structural Frames', ZIF/Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University, Germany, April 2007 [funded]
2007 Session Participant: the book R.Collier and S.Sheldon, (eds) Fathers’ Rights Activism and Law Reform in Comparative Perspective (2006) Hart Publications, Oxford was the subject of an ‘Author Meets Readers’ session at the Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Kent, 3-5 April 2007.
2006 Visiting Fellow, Socio-Legal Research Centre, Griffith Law School, Griffith University, Australia November 2006 [funded]
2006 Plenary Address to the European Law Faculties Association 10th Anniversary Conference, ‘Researching Legal Education: Who Teaches Law? Where is Law Taught? How is Law Taught?’ University of Leuven, Belgium, 9-11 February 2006 [funded].
2005 Keynote Address, ‘The Legal Profession and Work-life Balance’, Legal and Professional Services Sector Hudson Human Capital Solutions Conference, London, 2 December 2005 [funded].
2005 Keynote Address, The Women Lawyer Forum, Millennium Hotel London, March 2005 [funded]
2005 Invited Speaker, Fathers’ Rights Activism and Legal Reform ESRC Workshop, Keele Management Centre, September 2005 [funded]
2004 Keynote Address, Launch of AHRB Research Centre in Law, Gender and Sexuality Colloquium, ‘Text and Terrain: Legal Studies in Gender and Sexuality’, September 2004 [funded]
2004 Keynote Public Address, Feminism, Law and Social Change: (Re)Action and Resistance, University of British Columbia, May 2004 [funded]
2004 Parsons Visiting Scholar, University of Sydney, April 2004 [funded]
2004 Visiting Professor, University of Melbourne, March 2004 [funded]
2003 Plenary Address, Australasian Law Teachers Association (ALTA) Conference, July, Brisbane, Australia, 2003 [funded]
2003 Public Lecture 2003 Current Legal Problems Series London, March, 2003 [funded]
2001 Invited Speaker European Studies Research Institute, Centre or Policy Studies, University of Salford ‘Progressing Gender Relations in Europe: Questions of Equality in Paid and Unpaid Work' 2001 [funded]
2000 Dorothea S. Clarke Lecture, Visiting Professor, Law Faculty, Cornell University, USA 2000 [funded]
2000 Public Houston Lecture, Amherst College, USA March 2000 [The Houston Lectureship brings to Amherst distinguished scholars whose work touches on the theme of law and social justice] [funded]
2000 Invited Speaker, University of Sorbonne, Paris, France [organised by Cornell University, USA],2000 [funded]
1999 Invited Plenary Speaker, Centre for Research on Family, Kinship and Childhood (ESRC Programme), University of Leeds, 1999 [funded]
1998 Invited Plenary Speaker: ‘Gender and Law in Higher Education’ Programme, funded by the Swedish government/UMEA University, Sweden, at University of Helsinki, Finland, October 1998 (consultant on 'gender and law'). [funded]
1997 Invited Plenary Speaker: ‘Gendered Persons and Communities in Nordic Legal Discourse’, Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, Finland, November 1997 [Member of Anglo-Finnish research group which explored possibilities of collaborative work: work included providing editorial advice on law/gender in socio-legal studies in Nordic countries] [funded]

Other: Invited to serve as International Observer at the conference: ‘Women, Law and the Nordic Welfare States’ organised by the Nordic Women’s Law Group, Iceland 1999: Invited Visiting Professor, University of Florida, USA 2000 [these had to be declined].

See below for details of other Invited Presentations.

Consultancy/Invited Membership of Advisory Groups & External Appointments
Invited Consultant (1997-2000): Lord Chancellor's Department: Evaluation of Information Meetings: Family Law Act 1996.
[Consultant and member of the Research Programme Team concerned with the evaluation of the Information Meetings Pilots Project funded by the Lord Chancellor's Department (LCD). Author and co-author of two chapters in Final Report. Other work included the preparation of working papers, providing advice on statutory interpretation directly to the LCD and presentation of 'work in progress' reports in connection with the project].

Member of ESRC Advisory Group (2003-6), Gay and Lesbian Marriage: Socio-Legal, Familial and Cultural implications in England 2003-6: Centre for Research on Family, Kinship & Childhood Department of Sociology and Social Policy University of Leeds.

Member of ESRC Advisory Group (2004-7) Masculinities in Transition: Identity, Home and Workplace: University of Sheffield, Department of Sociology.

Member of the International Co-operation Group on Fatherhood (2006>)

Member of European Men’s Health Institute (2000>) and Thematic Research Network (funded by EC Research Directorates) ‘The Social Problem and Societal Problematisation of Men and Masculinities’.

Assessor, ESRC Postgraduate Studentship Competition, ESRC (Research Training and Development)

Member of Network of Excellence ‘Gender and Citizenship in Europe’ (6th Framework Programme of the European Commission)(2005)

External Examiner Appointments Held

2010 Strathclyde University, PhD thesis
2009 – to date Queen Mary College, London, LLB Programme
2009 University of Keele, PhD thesis
2008 ANU, Australia, PhD thesis
2008 University of Keele, PhD thesis
2008 – to date University of Reading, LLB Programme
2007 Murdoch University, Australia, PhD thesis
2007 – to date University of Keele, Masters programme
2007 University of British Columbia, Canada, PhD thesis
2004 – 2007 University of Liverpool LLB Programme
2001 - 2005 University of Brunel, Masters Programme
2002 - 2007 University of Westminster, Masters Programme
2004 University of London, PhD thesis
2003 University of Warwick, PhD thesis
2002 University of Bristol, PhD thesis
2002 University of Melbourne PhD thesis
2000 University of Kent, M.Phil thesis
1999 University of New South Wales, PhD thesis
1998 University of Lancaster, Phd thesis
1997 University of Leicester, MPhil thesis
1997 Queen's University Belfast, MPhil thesis
1997 – 2002 University of Keele, LLB Programme
1998 – 2002 University of Lancaster, LLB Programme
1998 - 2002 University of Lancaster, LLM Programme
1996 University of Lancaster, PhD thesis
1996 Sheffield Hallam University, MA thesis
1995 – 1998 University of Strathclyde, LLB Programme
Examiner in English Legal System for the LLB. (London University) External Programme 1992 - present.
I have also served as Senior Examiner in A'Level Law (English Legal System: AS Paper) and Assistant Examiner (English Legal System) 1992-4.

Professional Associations, Committee Memberships & Participation in academic networks incl

Member of the Executive Committee Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) (1999 – present): Past Executive Member (1992 - 1996) and Secretary (April 1994-6).

Member, University of Cambridge Socio-Legal Group

Member of Sub-Committee of American Law and Society Association (LSA) (Conditions of Academic Work) 1998-9

Invited Participant: Working Group for the Comparative Study of the Legal Professions

The Feminist Legal Theory Project, based at Emory University, Atlanta, USA, October 2007.

International Co-operation Group on Fatherhood, ZIF/Centre for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University, Germany, April 2007

ISA/Research Committee of the Sociology of Law, Law and Popular Culture Network

ISA/Research Committee of the Sociology of Law, Gender and Law Group
AHRC Research Centre on Gender Law and Sexuality (Member Advisory Board)

ISA/Research Committee of the Sociology of Law, Working Group on the Comparative Study of Legal Professions

Center on Children & Families, University of Florida Levin College of Law, USA

Household Research Network, University of Newcastle (launch Jan 2008)

Member European Men’s Health Institute and Thematic Research Network ‘The SocialProblem and Societal Problematisation of Men and Masculinities’.

Other, Misc. Citations/Evidence of Impact:
My work has been cited widely within academic literature and has become a reference point internationally across a range of fields including, but not confined to, law and the family, gender studies, legal education and criminology. Masculinity, Law and the Family (1995) received an 'Honorary Mention' for the 1995 Oxford University Press/Socio-Legal Studies Association Prize for the Most Distinguished Contribution to Socio-Legal Studies published in the preceding year. My work to date has been the subject to many major reviews across a range of journals and it has been singled out as representing an original theoretical contribution to the study of family law, criminology, gender and masculinity studies and legal theory.
Excerpts of my work have been included in a range of Cases and Materials texts incl. Reconstructing Criminal Law (Lacey and Wells, 1998), Family Law, Gender and the State (Diduck and Kaganas, 1999), Australian Family Law in Context: Commentary and Materials: 2nd edition (Parker, Parkinson and Behrens, 1999). Journal articles have recently been republished in two volumes of the International Library of Essays in Law and Society (Ashgate): S.Boyd and H.Rhoades (2006) (ed) Law and Families (R.Collier, 'Waiting Till Father Gets Home....': The Reconstruction of Fatherhood in Family Law' (1995) Social and Legal Studies 4 (1): pp5 – 30) and L.Moran (2006) (ed.) Sexuality and Identity (R.Collier 'After Dunblane: Crime, Corporeality and the (Hetero)Sexing of the Bodies of Men' (1997) Journal of Law and Society 24 (2): pp177-199). Excerpts from the book Fragmenting Fatherhood: A Socio-Legal Study have been chosen for inclusion in the next (6th) edition of the major Family Law Cases and Materials text ‘Family, Law and Society’ (Lord Justice Hale, D.Pearl, E.Cooke, D.Monk)

Funding

2010 Socio-Legal Studies Association Research Grants Scheme, ‘Fathers, Lawyers and Work-Life Balance: Managing the Downturn’ £1,004.60
2007 British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship, ‘Thank-Offer to Britain Fellowship’ (Jan 07 – Jan 08) £28, 164
2006 British Academy Research Grant ‘The Fathers’ Rights Movement and Law Reform’ £6,284
2005 Visiting Fellowship, Socio-Legal Research Centre, Griffith University, Australia $3,500
2004 AHRC Research Leave Scheme, ‘Fatherhood and Law: Critique and Reconceptualization’ (Graded A*) £13,153
2004 Parsons Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, April $1000
2003 Internal Research Fellowship Scheme, University of Newcastle £11,000
2004 British Academy, ‘Male Lawyers and the Negotiation of Work and Family Commitments’ £2,600
2002 Faculty of Law, Environment and Social Sciences (FLESS) Innovation Research Grant, ‘Managing Change in Academic Life’ £2,029
1997-2000 Element of Grant from the Lord Chancellor’s Department costed to Law Department (Family Law Act 1996 Information Meetings Research: grant holder Newcastle Centre for Family Studies) (taken from RAE return 2001) £63,671
1995 British Academy, 'Fathers' Rights, Law and Social Change' £2511

Others
1998 Society of Public Teachers of Law Fund (with Prof.C. McGlynn) £1000
1995 University of Newcastle Research Committee Small Grants £1206
1994 University of Newcastle Research Committee Small Grants £750
1994 Newcastle Law School, Research Development Award £1000

Industrial Relevance

N/A

Patents

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Undergraduate Teaching

Family Law [2008>] (LAW3036 Module Co-ordinator, teacher, lectures and seminars: 20 credits module taught across semesters one and two).
Criminology (LAW3013] Module Co-ordinator seminars: 1990 - 2007: 20 credits, 2009> Lectures and Seminars taught across semesters one and two).
Law Society and Social Change (LAW3021, course leader/sole teacher, lectures and seminars: 1998-2009 20 credits, double-module taught across semesters one and two).
M.A. Gender Studies (Theories of Gender, Gender Research and Project Supervision):
LLM Programme (Research Methods)
Legal Institutions and Method (2 one hour seminars p.a.):
Legal Skills (course work assessment marking).
Current Supervisions: LLB Dissertation Supervisions (number varies by year: average 3):

Postgraduate Teaching

Supervisions: LLB Dissertation Supervisions (number varies by year: average 2-3): Other Postgraduate: PhD. supervision x 3; M.A. supervision x 2;
LLM Programme (section on Research Methods)