Michaelmas 2026 Faculty Research Showcase

To celebrate and highlight new departmental research projects that are starting this term, the Faculty of Law will be holding a Research Showcase. 

The event will take place in the Law Board Room, St Cross Building, and online over Teams in Week 7, Thursday 26th November between 12:30 and 14:00. The in-person event will include catering.

Faculty Research Showcase Teams Link

The speakers will introduce their projects, with time allocated for Q&A after each talk. We have confirmed the following speakers:

Cara Hunter is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the Centre for Criminology. She will present on her research project 'Punishment and Nationhood: Exploring Penal struggle in ‘Brexit Britain'', which will run from September 2026 to August 2029.

Binesh Hass is a Departmental Lecturer in Law and Tutorial Fellow in Law at Wadham College, who will present on his British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Research Project 'Mental Capacity and the Rule of Law', which will run from October 2026 to September 2027.

Sabina Barone is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. She will present on her research project 'Coding Belonging: Biometric IDs, diasporic lives, and migration management between Senegal and Guinea', which will run from November 2026 to October 2029.