Research output per year
Research output per year
Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
I am willing to supervise research students in the following areas:
Gender, law and Religion, particularly from feminist or critical legal perspectives.
Politics of reproductive justice.
'Historical' institutional abuse.
Law, activism and social movements.
I am happy to answer email queries from prospective students before submission of an official proposal.
Research activity per year
I joined Birmingham Law School as a Senior Lecturer in September 2016, having previously lectured at Kent Law School. In 2020-2022, I held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. I tweet at @maireadenright.
I have a range of research interests, grounded in feminist legal theory, and critical theoretical approaches to legal agency, legal pluralism, law-breaking, resistance and disobedience. My research to date has focused, in particular, on how women may strategically manipulate legal processes (contract formation, private law litigation, vernacular dissident legal interpretation and the feminist drafting of legal texts) to resist religious or cultural dispossession. A related strand of my research concerns states’ use of legal discourse to construct and maintain exclusionary politics of national identity, whether with or against religion. My research in this respect has involved close examination of the intersections of law, religious power and gendered national identity projects and the politics of reproductive justice in Ireland (particularly the early family planning movement, abortion rights and reparations for historical obstetric violence).
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Enright, M. (Principal Investigator)
Economic & Social Research Council
1/09/21 → 28/02/23
Project: Research Councils
Enright, M. (Principal Investigator)
Economic & Social Research Council
30/11/20 → 30/04/22
Project: Research Councils
Enright, M. (Principal Investigator)
1/09/20 → 28/02/23
Project: Research
Enright, M. (Principal Investigator)
SOCIO-LEGAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION
1/06/19 → 31/01/21
Project: Research
Enright, M. (Editorial board member)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial board of a journal
Enright, M. (Editor)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial board of a journal
Enright, M. (Chair)
Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Guest lecture or Invited talk
28/02/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
16/01/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
3/11/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media