Professor Sarah Blandy
School of Law
Emerita Professor
+44 114 222 6776
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School of Law
Bartolome House
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND
- Profile
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- Professor, School of Law, University of Sheffield, 2012-2020
- Co-Director of the FreeLaw legal advice clinic
- Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, conferred in 2019 for contribution to the social sciences
- Member of the Socio-Legal Studies Association
- Qualifications
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- LLB, University of Warwick
- Solicitor of the Supreme Court
- Research interests
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My research is socio-legal, interdisciplinary and empirical. It focuses on collective and individual property rights, and the spatial boundaries of law in relation to fortified homes and gated communities.
I am a member of the Utopian Legalities, Prefigurative Politics, and Radical Governance group, and of the International Research Forum on Multi-owned Properties:
- Publications
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Books
Edited books
Journal articles
Chapters
Conference proceedings papers
Dictionary/encyclopaedia entries
- Research group
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My following supervisees have successfully completed their PhDs
Molly Matthewman, whose research investigates the role of law in graduate housing in London ('Generation Rent'), and the relationship between tenure, identity and home.
Richard Goulding, funded by ESRC / White Rose, whose research investigates the financial, legal and social geographies of low income urban housing in Britain.
Edward Mitchell, funded by ESRC, whose research investigates the role law plays in retail-led urban regeneration schemes, through an actor network approach.
- Grants
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Title/Description: Awarding Body: People Involved: Dates: Amount: Advisory Board member for research project on Materialising Kinship: Cycles of life at the Norwegian cabin Norwegian Research Council Marianne Lien, University of Oslo and Simone Abram, University of Durham 2016-2020 贈667,000 Invited seminar on 'Enduring Property Relations' Modern Law Review
Professor Susan Bright (University of Oxford) and Professor Sarah Nield (University of Southampton) May 2016
贈5000 Homelessness Prevention for Women and Children Who Have Experienced Domestic and Family Violence: Innovations in Policy and Practice Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Dr. Angela Spinney, Swinburne University, Australia 2010-2012
AUS $101,570
- Teaching interests
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I enjoy teaching at all levels, and aim to convey my enthusiasm for the subjects I teach and to encourage students in creative thinking and critical analysis. I bring a socio-legal focus to my teaching based on my research, so that the material covered is related to the real world.
- Professional activities and memberships
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Recent invited papers and keynote lectures
- Commonhold finances, and preventing insolvency, Law Commission consultation event on Reinvigorating Commonhold, Manchester, 19 February 2019
- The wrong starting point? Multi-owned properties and the English leasehold system; common problems across jurisdictions, International Research Forum on Multi-owned Properties, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 17-18 January 2019
- Property 'from the ground up', International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain, 24 November 2018
- Understanding space in law: gardens and gardening, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, 19 February 2018
- Copropri辿t辿 in England and Wales, S辿minaire sur la copropri辿t辿 (workshop on multi-owned property), PUCA, Paris, 26 January 2018
- The Dynamics of Enduring Property Relations (with Susan Bright and Sarah Nield) keynote talk at the annual conference of Australasian Teachers of Property Law, Curtin University, Perth, Australia, 26-29 September 2017
- Defended homes and enclaves: causes and consequences, research seminar at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia, 20 September 2017
- 'Sharing in the high-rise: law and place', keynote talk at the Symposium on Comparative Social Sustainability: Condominium Law, Living and Landscapes, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Europe), Barcelona, 21-22 November 2016
- 'Ownership and belonging in urban green space' (with Simone Abram, Anthropology, Durham), Symposium on Legal Strategies for the Development and Protection of Communal Property, School of Law, University of Sheffield, 23-24 May 2016.
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