Newcastle Law School Research Seminars

First, on Tuesday 5 March at 12.30pmour own Brendon Murphy will present a paper to us as part of confirmation of his PhD research on controlled actions. It would be great to have a strong audience at this presentation to support Brendon.

Second, on the next day Wednesday 6 March at 12.30pm Professor John Flood from the University of Westminster will present a seminar to us on socio-legal research methods. John is an international expert on socio-legal research and was one of the facilitators at a recent workshop at ANU attended by Nicola, Brendon, Sher, Amy and myself. We all found John's work at the workshop to be inspiring, so it is great that he can come up and speak with us. After the seminar, John will also be available to talk with staff interested in pursuing socio-legal research. John's research interests can be found at his website.

Third, on Wednesday 13 March at 11.30amDr Gary Lynch Wood from the University of Manchester will deliver a seminar to us on his socio-legal work on environmental regulation of small to medium businesses in the UK. The details of Gary's seminar are

Title: Understanding SME Responses to Environmental Regulation

Abstract: Interviews with UK manufacturing SMEs confirm, in aggregate, that traditional regulation drives environmental behaviour. Yet, underneath this aggregate picture, there are groups of firms that respond to regulation differently, and within the aggregate and group level pictures differences exist across firms. SMEs thus respond differently, despite there being sufficient similarities across clusters of firms that we can group them into populations, or groups of individual firms. The identifiable differences result from firms capacities and orientations, as these factors determine their receptiveness to regulation. The findings provide a more sophisticated account of SME behaviour than existed previously, and help us understand why and how regulatory measures may underperform.

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/gary.lynch-wood/personaldetails

For more information please contact Dr Jeff McGee.