The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at the School of Advanced Study will be partnering as a co-investigator in the establishment of the Centre for People’s Justice.
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Centre for People's Justice
The Centre for People's Justice will improve law and lives through community-led research. Led by the University of Liverpool, the Centre is the result of a £5.8m investment by partner organisations, including a £4.1m investment by the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council, the largest grant it has ever awarded to a Law School. The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), School of Advanced Study, will co-lead the educational and training activities of the Centre, working in partnership with a wide range of public, private and charitable organisations from across the UK. The Centre's projects will use nonorthodox approaches to legal research, placing emphasis on the arts and creative practices.
I am excited that IALS was invited to join this application and that it has been successful in being awarded AHRC funding following an incredibly competitive process. As a national resource for the promotion and facilitation of legal research with a commitment to national research training, IALS looks forward to partnering on the development of the Centre.Professor Carl Stychin, Director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS)
Learn more about the Centre for People's Justice
The Centre will focus on how law is made, how law is performed in everyday life and how law is understood and applied by the public. It will put people’s everyday priorities, like their jobs, family, safety, community, neighbourhoods, at the heart of research. The Centre will work in close collaboration with people who have real-life experience of challenges that are commonly experienced and urgently need to be addressed: challenges such as poor-quality housing or being without a place to call home; insecure employment and low wages; violence at home or in the community; or missing out on school. It will trial new ways for local communities across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to work in partnership with academics, private sector, philanthropic, charitable and public sector organisations in support of change in law and legal systems that will improve lives.
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