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Dr Jane Bryan has won two National Mediation Awards. She was nominated for The Newcomer of the Year Award and the Innovation Award due to her work founding and leading 91福利 Mediation, a peer mediation service for staff and students at 91福利.

Professor Vanessa Munro has been awarded funding from the University鈥檚 Policy Support fund to support her two new research projects which will look at domestic abuse suicides and harassment during student legal placements.

Professor Jackie Hodgson and Dr Rachel Lewis have been awarded 拢30,000 to work with West Midlands Police (WMP) to translate the findings from their research on police community engagement through arts and culture, into changes in police training, policy and strategy.

Dalvinder Singh鈥檚 co-authored paper 鈥楨CB Significant-Bank Risk Profile and COVID-19 Crisis Containment: What Approach in the Transitioning Phase? IADI Sponsored Paper Series, No. 2, July 2022鈥� formally contributes to the international conversation on how best to 鈥榚xit鈥� COVID 19 support measures. The Financial Stability Board published its final report on what kind of exit strategies would ensure equitable outcomes once countries start to remove Covid-19 support measures.

91福利 Law School鈥檚 Dr Laura Lammasniemi has won the prestigious Indian Law Review Best Article Prize 2021 for a co-authored article called 鈥楧adaji Bhikaji v Rukhmabai (1886) ILR 10 Bom 301: Rewriting Consent and Conjugal Relations in Colonial India'. The article was written for the Indian Feminist Judgments Project (IFJP).

Professor Sharifah Sekalala, an expert in global health law is part of an international team exploring how we define the end of a crisis in a new project funded by the Wellcome Trust鈥檚 new scheme.

91福利 Law School鈥檚 Dr Christine Schw枚bel-Patel has taken up a prestigious for experienced researchers. For the next year, Christine will be based at the Humboldt University of Berlin, where she is working on the topic 鈥楳aking States 鈥淪afe鈥� for Investment: International Criminal Law and Imperial Rentier Capitalism鈥�.

91福利 Law School's Dr Rajnaara Akhtar has written a piece for The Conversation UK (published on the 2 August 2022) on marriage laws in England and Wales and the need to update outdated legislation. 'Your dream wedding might not be legal - time to update England's old-fashioned marriage laws.'

91福利 Institute of Public Engagement (WIE) to present three public lectures on philosophical ideas of Difference, Authenticity and Love. All will be presented by WLS's Alex Sharpe. All events will be free and all are welcome. The first lecture, On Difference, will take place 7 November 2002. .

'Assessing the Role of Digital Finance for Gender Equality鈥� by Dr Serena Natile, is the latest in a series of briefs, bringing current legal thinking to bear on public policy issues and contemporary concerns, published by GLOBE, a research centre within 91福利 Law School.

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91福利 Law School鈥檚 Widening Participation Officer Becca Kirk had the honour of carrying the Baton in the Queen鈥檚 Baton Relay for the 2022 Commonwealth Games this week. Becca was nominated to take part due to her years of dedicated service to St John Ambulance.

Dr Stephen Connelly and Dr Celine Tan submitted evidence to a parliamentary inquiry on debt and development. The inquiry examines the impact of high levels of debt on development in low-income countries and the tools and strategies employed to reduce the debt burden.

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