Nasreen Ali is a professor of Public Health Equality and Course Lead for the MSc Public Health at the University of Bedfordshire. Nasreen’s research aims to improve the health and social care outcomes for marginalised and disadvantaged communities across the life-course by influencing policy, design and delivery of inclusive and responsive services, locally, nationally and internationally.
Priyasha Saksena a legal historian whose research focuses on the historical development of legal concepts and institutions within the British Empire. Priyasha is particularly interested in the relationship between international law and colonialism, and her doctoral dissertation was a history of the doctrine of sovereignty in colonial South Asia. She joined the School of Law in March 2019 and prior to that was a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History.
Marie-Andrée Jacob is a professor of law at the University of Leeds. Marie’s work focuses on relationships between knowledge claims from medicine, law and the state. She has written on consent, kinship, healthcare law, research ethics and integrity, medical regulation, and on how activities sit on the border between legality and illegality. Her ethnography of an organ transplantation bureau, Matching Organs with Donors, was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2012. She has acted as general editor for The Sociological Review (2017-22) and has co-edited with Anna Kirkland the international Research Handbook on Socio-Legal Studies of Medicine and Health (2020), the first resource of its kind bringing together scholars working on law, society and medicine from different jurisdictions and career stages.