Professor Nicolette Priaulx
Professor of Law
- priaulxn@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 5869
- 1.10, Law Building, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AX
Overview
A lecturer in the fields of private law, medical law and socio-legal studies, I am centrally involved in the design and delivery of torts and healthcare ethics and law modules as well as supervising extensively in these specialist areas. Teaching is a genuine priviledge - and is fun. But the lecturing job is composed of a great deal more than teaching design, preparation, the delivery of teaching and extensive assessment. It also includes extensive and time-consuming administrative duties which can be understood as co-running the departments we work in, alongside leading modular teams and training/onboarding new staff, to line managing, acting in a pastoral capacity to a lot of students, and the performance of a large range of citizenship duties that literally make the department and university run. In addition, research activity and outputs are a core expectation for teaching and research staff. Pre-Covid, my research agenda was strong, and was keenly underpinned by a collaborative cross-disciplinary approach. Working collaboratively with actors across a range of fields, including the health sciences, science communication, bioethics and science and technology studies, what binds my academic work together is an enduring fascination with the acquisition and formation of knowledge, the meta-cognitive skills required to appreciate what we know (and what we don't), and the challenges of working across disciplines.
Biography
Honours and awards
Grants and Awards
- Valuing Expertise: Legal, Normative and Social Dimensions, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 2016 W G Hart Legal Workshop (co-organised with Professor Matthew Weait, Portsmouth University), £3000.
- Principal Investigator, BA Small Grants application for £9,883 for project ‘Multidisciplinary Understandings of Legal Academia’ (awarded July 2015; project runs until 31 July 2017).
- Principal Investigator (with co-investigator, Dr Lydia Hayes) of Cardiff University College for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Network Initiator Funding (Law, Experience and Practice: A network for interdisciplinarity in care research) £25,000 (awarded June 2015).
- SRC Training Bursary of £1,000 for course on Systematic Reviews for Policy and Practice (2013).
- Principal Investigator for Law School’s contribution to FP7 European Commission Science in Society Consortium Grant, ETHICSWEB (with Consortium of 11 Universities); total Cardiff grant, £25,000 (Project concluded 2012).
Impact and Media Appearances
- Work cited by the Court of Appeal of Singapore in ACB v Thomson Medical PTE Ltd and others [2017] SGCA 20 (Priaulx, N, “Damages for the 'Unwanted' Child: Time for a Rethink?” (2005) 73 Medico-Legal Journal 152).
- Appearance on Newstalk ZB Radio (New Zealand’s largest radio station) discussing Social Development Minister, Anne Tolley’s comments around reproduction policy.
- Invited to give Oral Evidence for a cross-bench group in Parliament on Abortion on Grounds of Foetal Abnormality (4th Session [Law] 18th March 2013). See my write up about this experience: Pro-Life Inquiries: When is a Parliamentary Inquiry really a Parliamentary Inquiry? Part I; Pro-Life Inquiries: When is a Parliamentary Inquiry really a Parliamentary Inquiry? Part II.
- Written Evidence, Commons Select Committee, All Party Group Inquiry (June 2013). Note that changes have been implemented by the Parliamentary Standards Rules for APPGs and subsequently enforced.
Professional memberships
- Society for the Social Study of Science
- Law & Society Association
- Society of Legal Scholars
Academic positions
I undertook my undergraduate and postgradute studies at the University of Kent (LLB, first class honours, 2000; PhD in Law, 2004, no revisions) and started as a lecturer at Keele Law School in 2004. I moved to Cardiff University in 2007 as a Senior Lecturer, securing promotion to Readership in 2012, and Chair in 2016.
Speaking engagements
Invited
- Priaulx, N, (Key Note) ‘A Bluffer’s Guide to Everything’: Law, Knowledge & Expertise’ The Futures of Legal Education, Legal Education Research Network (LERN), Open University (26 September 2017).
- Priaulx, N, ‘Cross-disciplinary Collaborative Practice’, Interdisciplinary Research: Opportunities and Challenges – Lunchtime Debate Series, Academia Europaea Cardiff Knowledge Hub (9 June 2017).
- Priaulx, N and Jones, N, “The Abortion Act 1967”, Women’s Legal Landmarks, Institute for Advanced Legal Studies (13 April 2017).
- Priaulx, N and Weinel, M, “(Mis)Understanding Behaviour: Law, Science and Expertise’, Behavioural Science in Law & Policy: Evidence, Ethics, & Expertise, Newcastle University (22 – 23 September 2016).
- Priaulx, N, “Law & Society in Transition: Dealing with Emerging Challenges”, Fossilisation & Innovation in Law, Newcastle University (11-12 July 2016).
Committees and reviewing
School Level Citizenship (Examples)
- 2019 - 2020: Director of Research & Innovation (Law), Lead and co-director of the LawLab Research Centre, member of Research Committee, and Chair of RSS committee.
- 2016 - 2019: Member of Research Committee; Lead and co-director of the LawLab Research Centre; Principal Investigator and co-ordinator of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, ‘Law, Experience and Practice’ network.
- 2016 - 2017: Chair of the Law Curriculum Review
- 2013 - 2016: Acting Director of Postgraduate Studies; Deputy Director of Postgraduate Research and Postgraduate Taught; Chair of the Board of Postgraduate Studies
- 2013 - 2015: Organiser (with Stijn Smismans) of the Law Research Seminar series;
- 2013 - 2014: Member of the Senior Management Team; Route Convenor of European Legal Studies, Route Convenor of the Law Pathway of the Social Science Research MSc, and LLM Admissions Tutor.
- 2009 - 2012: Director of the Legal Aspects of Medical Practice Programme
- 2007 - 2012: Postgraduate Steering Committee
University Citizenship
- 2018 - Present: Member of the Social Science Park Working Group (AHSS), and co-opted member of Cardiff UCU Executive.
- 2009 - 2013: Member of University Senate
- 2010 - 2013: Academic Strategy Committee and Senate Panel Student Complaints Committee.
External Citizenship
- Outspoken External Mock REF Assessor (2018) (I will never tire of telling institutions what a waste of time mock REF/REF is, and how it suboptimally duplicates work that has been done by field and sub-field experts such as journal article reviewers, communities of academic practice, as part of the normal production of academic work).
- External Assessor on Promotion Applications for a variety of Institutions (2013 - Present).
- External Examiner for PhD examination; Kent Law School, Emma Topham, Thick and Thin Concepts in Law (April 2017).
- External Examiner for PhD examination; Birmingham Law School, Samantha Schnobel, Prioritising the Best Interests of the Animal and Re-Framing Veterinary Negligence (Dec 2016).
- Internal Examiner (with Professor Carl Stychin as external), for PhD examination of a Cardiff Law Candidate (September 2014; February 2016).
- External Examiner, University of Kent, LLB modules and Medical Law LLM (to May 2014).
- External Examiner, Sussex Law School (CPE/GDL Programme) (Feb 2009 – July 2012).
- Moderator/Examiner for Birkbeck Law School (July 2008 – June 2011).
- External Examiner on MJur Thesis, Durham Law School (2010).
Editorial Roles
- Co-editor (with A. Wrigley) of Ethics, Law & Society Volume V (2013, Ashgate Publishing).
- Editorial Board, The Journal of Medical Law and Ethics (Paris Legal Publishers).
- Editorial Board, Reproductive BioMedicine and Society (Elsevier Publishing).
Broader Citizenship
I regularly review for a variety of grant bodies, journals and publishing houses nationally and internationally. These include,
- The Wellcome Trust, British Academy, Legal Studies, Bioethics, Journal of Medical Ethics, Medical Law International
- Medical Law Review, LP Law Review (Malaysia), Australian Feminist Law Journal, Feminist Legal Studies, Accountability in Research, Int’l Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Science, Technology and Human Values
- Journal of Law and Society, Health Care Analysis, Journal of Forensic Economics, Journal of Legal Economics, Routledge Publishing, Glasshouse Publishing, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press?
Odd Citizenship...
Under the heading of odd citizenship fall items such as being one of the founding members of the Academics for Pensions Justice and broader collaborative work with extraordinary groups across Cardiff University (including two grassroots staff groups, Frontline and Professors at Cardiff, and the Rethinking the University Lecture Series Group).and beyond. What binds together these kinds of activities is a keenness to see a radical transformation of higher education where the wellbeing of people (existing and future) genuinely lies at the heart of what universities are about. Staff are not “costs” and students are not “tuition fee income” - continuing to use this lens for judging the value of people will strip universities of everything that is of enduring value.
Publications
2020
- Priaulx, N., Weinel, M., Leonard-Clarke, W. and Hayes, T. 2020. Fear and loathing in legal academia: Legal academics’ perceptions of their field and their curious imaginaries of how ‘outsiders’ perceive it. British Journal of American Legal Studies 9(1), pp. 17-80. (10.2478/bjals-2020-0006)
- Morrish, L. and Priaulx, N. 2020. Pressure vessels II: An update on mental health among higher education staff in the UK. Technical Report.
2019
- Fox, M. et al. 2019. A new legal framework for abortion services in Northern Ireland [Consultation[]. UK Government.
- Sheldon, S., Fox, M., Herring, J., McHale, J., Priaulx, N., Quigley, M. and Scott, R. 2019. Abortion: a review of South Australian law and practice [Consultation]. The South Australian Law Reform Institute.
- Priaulx, N., Weinel, M., Leonard-Clarke, W. and Hayes, T. 2019. How outsiders see us: Multidisciplinary understandings of legal academia and legal academics. Working paper. Cardiff: LawLab Research Centre.
2018
- Priaulx, N. and Weinel, M. 2018. Connective knowledge: what we need to know about other fields to ‘envision’ cross-disciplinary collaboration. European Journal of Futures Research 6, article number: 21.
- Priaulx, N. 2018. Glass walls: The relevancy of states and strategies of ignorance to the future of healthcare law. Presented at: Re-imagining Health Law Workshop, Birmingham, UK, 11 September 2018.
- Weinel, M. and Priaulx, N. 2018. Higher Education Imitation Game & academic law as discipline. Presented at: SEESHOP, Cardiff, UK, 7 - 9 July 2018.
- Priaulx, N., Ivins, W., De Ribaupierre, H. and Morris, C. 2018. The SPARC prototype: Towards a socio-technical innovation designed to create collaborative connections between experts. Presented at: SEESHOP, Cardiff, UK, 7 - 9 July 2018.
- Priaulx, N. and Weinel, M. 2018. Investigating the nature of ‘shared practice language’ and vectors for its acquisition. Presented at: The Centre of the Study of Knowledge, Expertise and Science Research Group Meeting, Cardiff University, 16 November 2018.
2017
- Priaulx, N. 2017. The social life of abortion law: On personal and political pedagogy. Medical Law Review 25(1), pp. 73-98. (10.1093/medlaw/fww044)
- Priaulx, N. M. 2017. A bluffer’s guide to… everything: Law, knowledge and expertise. Presented at: The Futures of Legal Education, The Open University Law School, Milton Keynes, UK, 26 September 2017. pp. -.
- Priaulx, N. M. 2017. Cross-disciplinary collaborative practice. Presented at: Interdisciplinary Research: Opportunities and Challenges, Academia Europaea Cardiff Knowledge Hub, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, 9 June 2017. pp. -.
- Priaulx, N. 2017. Reproducing the properties of harms that matter: the normative life of the damage concept in negligence. Journal of Medical Law and Ethics 2017(1 Apri), article number: 1.
- Priaulx, N. and Weinel, M. 2017. Building bridges between disciplines: Multidisciplinary understandings of legal academia. Presented at: Law and Society Association, Mexico City, Mexico, 19-23 July 2017. pp. -.
- Priaulx, N. M. and Jones, N. 2017. Dying for our own biographies: The Abortion Act 1967. In: Rackley, E. and Auchmuty, R. eds. Women’s Legal Landmarks: Celebrating 100 Years of Women and Law in the UK and Ireland. Oxford: Hart Publishing
2016
- Priaulx, N., Weinel, M. and Wrigley, A. 2016. Rethinking moral expertise. Health Care Analysis 24(4), pp. 393-406. (10.1007/s10728-014-0282-7)
- Priaulx, N. M. and Weinel, M. 2016. A Hitchhiker’s Guide: law, science and interdisciplinarity. Presented at: Behavioural Science in Law & Policy: Evidence, Ethics, & Expertise, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK, 22-23 September 2016. pp. -.
- Priaulx, N. M. 2016. Pro-Life inquiries: When is a Parliamentary Inquiry really a Parliamentary Inquiry? II. [Online]. Lawyers For Choice. Available at: https://lawyersforchoice.wordpress.com/2016/07/18/pro-life-inquiries-when-is-a-parliamentary-inquiry-really-a-parliamentary-inquiry-ii/
- Priaulx, N. M. 2016. Pro-Life Inquiries: When is a Parliamentary Inquiry really a Parliamentary Inquiry? I. [Online]. Lawyers For Choice: Lawyers For Choice. Available at: https://lawyersforchoice.wordpress.com/2016/07/12/pro-life-inquiries-when-is-a-parliamentary-inquiry-really-a-parliamentary-inquiry-i/
- Priaulx, N. M. 2016. Law & society in transition: dealing with emerging challenges. Presented at: Fossilisation & Innovation in Law, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK, 11-12 July 2016.
- Priaulx, N. M., Weinel, M. and Goldsworthy, C. 2016. Bolitho: Law, medicine and expertise. In: Coggon, J. et al. eds. Ethical Judgments: Rewriting Medical Law. Hart Publishing, pp. 131-137.
2015
- Priaulx, N. M. and Weinel, M. 2015. Multidisciplinary understandings of legal academia. Presented at: Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, USA, 11 - 14 November 2015.
- Priaulx, N. M. 2015. Pre(natal) crime: Pregnant women, substance abuse and the law. Medico-Legal Journal 83(1), pp. 43-46., article number: 540394. (10.1177/0025817214540394)
- Priaulx, N. M. 2015. Exploring the terrain: law, harm and revenge porn. Presented at: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Revenge Porn, Newcastle, 8 June 2015.
2014
- Priaulx, N. M. 2014. Giving a foetus ‘personhood’ will have serious consequences for women. The Conversation 2014(7 Nov)
- Priaulx, N. and Weinel, M. 2014. Behavior on a beer mat: Law, interdisciplinarity and expertise. Journal of Law, Technology and Policy 2014(2), pp. 361-391.
- Priaulx, N. M. 2014. Prosecuting mothers-to-be won't help disabled babies. New Scientist 2014(2 June)
- Weinel, M. and Priaulx, N. 2014. Science communication and expertise. Presented at: Fourth Iowa State University Summer Symposium on Science Communication: Normative Aspects of Science Communication, Aimes, Iowa, 5-7 June 2014.
- Priaulx, N. M. 2014. Policy formation & biomaterials. Presented at: Evolution or Revolution? The Biomaterials Property Debate and Changing Ethical, Legal and Social Norms, Fondation Brocher, Geneva, Switzerland, 16-17 January 2014.
- Priaulx, N. M. and Weinel, M. 2014. Understanding 'understanding' in science communication. Presented at: 4S/ESOCITE Meeting 2014, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 20-23 August 2014.
- Priaulx, N. M. and Jones, N. 2014. Visualising women’s reproductive biographies. Presented at: Medicine, Science and Culture Research Interest Group, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, 15 October 2014.
2013
- Priaulx, N. M. and Weinel, M. 2013. Understanding "understanding" in science communication. In: Goodwin, J. ed. Ethical Issues in Science Communication: A Theory-Based Approach: Proceedings of a Conference at Iowa State University, May 30 - June 1, 2013. Ames, IA: Great Plains Society for the Study of Argumentation, pp. 217-228.
- Priaulx, N. M. and Weinel, M. 2013. Enabling Science Communication: Skilling up audiences to Listen. Presented at: Ethical Issues in Science Communication: A Theory-Based Approach, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA, 30 May - 1 June 2013.
- Priaulx, N. 2013. Negligence is negligence: implications for an egalitarian agenda [Blog]. The Public Life of the Private Law 2013(10 Jul)
- Priaulx, N. M. and Horan, J. 2013. Inquiry on abortion on the grounds of foetal abnormality in England and Wales. London: HM Government.
- Priaulx, N. M. and Weinel, M. 2013. Rethinking moral expertise. Presented at: Bioethical Expertise, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 6-7 June 2013.
- Priaulx, N. M., Weinel, M. and Wrigley, A. 2013. Are moral philosophers moral experts?. Presented at: SEESHOP7, Tempe, Phoenix, Arizona, 20-24 May 2013.
- Hammond-Browning, N. and Stephens, N. 2013. Moving human embryonic stem cells internationally: near-future challenges for the UK Stem Cell Bank and American collaborators. In: Priaulx, N. and Wrigley, A. eds. Ethics, Law and Society., Vol. 5. Routledge, pp. 299-312.
- Priaulx, N. M. 2013. The troubled identity of the bioethicist. Health Care Analysis 21(1), pp. 6-19. (10.1007/s10728-012-0229-9)
- Priaulx, N. M. 2013. The ethics of care: Resetting our social operating system after Rational Man 2.0 and sorting out what we care about. In: Priaulx, N. M. and Wrigley, A. eds. Ethics, Law and Society. Ethics, Law and Society Vol. 5. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 15-36.
- Priaulx, N. M. 2013. Theorising the ethical: Ethics as a shared means to a shared end. In: Priaulx, N. M. and Wrigley, A. eds. Ethics, Law and Society. Ethics, Law and Society Vol. 5. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 113-122.
- Priaulx, N. M. 2013. Governance: Creating an ethical architecture. In: Priaulx, N. M. and Wrigley, A. eds. Ethics, Law and Society. Ethics, Law and Society Vol. 5. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 279-284.
- Priaulx, N. M. and Wrigley, A. 2013. Introduction. In: Priaulx, N. M. and Wrigley, A. eds. Ethics, Law and Society. Ethics, Law and Society Vol. 5. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 3-6.
- Priaulx, N. M. and Wrigley, A. eds. 2013. Ethics, law and society. Ethics, Law and Society Vol. 5. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing.
- Priaulx, N. M. and Weinel, M. 2013. Understanding "understanding" in science communication. In: Goodwin, J. ed. Ethical Issues in Science Communication: A Theory-Based Approach: Proceedings of a Conference at Iowa State University, May 30 - June 1, 2013. Great Plains Society for the Study of Argumentation, pp. 217-228.
2012
- Priaulx, N. M. 2012. Law and order on a beer mat: the intellectual tourist. Presented at: Law and Society Association, Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawai'i, 5-8 June 2012.
- Priaulx, N. M. 2012. Endgame: on negligence and reparation for harm. In: Richardson, J. and Rackley, E. eds. Feminist Perspectives on Tort Law. Feminist Perspectives Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 36-54.
- Priaulx, N. M. 2012. Humanising negligence: damaged bodies, biographical lives and the limits of law. Adelaide Law Review 33(1), pp. 177-198.
- Priaulx, N. M. 2012. On law's promise: thinking about how we think about law's limits. Studies in Law, Politics & Society 57, pp. 201-246. (10.1108/S1059-4337(2012)0000057009)
2011
- Priaulx, N. M. 2011. Vorsprung durch Technik: on biotechnology, bioethics, and its beneficiaries. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 20(2), pp. 174-184. (10.1017/S0963180110000824)
2010
- Priaulx, N. M. 2010. Clinical mishaps and novel injuries in family planning. Medico-Legal Journal 78(1), pp. 21-26. (10.1258/mlj.2009.009003)
- Priaulx, N. M. 2010. Managing novel reproductive injuries in the Law of Tort: the curious case of destroyed sperm. European Journal of Health Law 17(1), pp. 81-95. (10.1163/157180909X12604572349728)
- Priaulx, N. M. 2010. Vorsprung Durch Technik: On biotechnology, bioethics and beneficiaries. Presented at: Centre for Ethics in Medicine Autumn Seminar Series, Centre for Ethics in Medicine, Bristol University, UK, December 2010.
- Priaulx, N. M. 2010. The properties of procreative injury and loss: all too corporeal?. Presented at: Law and Society Association, Chicago, IL, May 2010.
- Priaulx, N. M. 2010. On the perils of being disciplined (or, the value of thinking ethically). Presented at: Theorising the Ethical (held by Culture, Imagination & Practice (CIP), and the Cardiff School of Social Sciences Social Theory Forum, Cardiff University, Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University, UK, March 2010.
2009
- Priaulx, N. M. 2009. Rethinking reproductive injury. Family Law 69, pp. 1161-1166.
- Priaulx, N. M. 2009. Conflicting analyses of wrongful birth: a response to Chris Bruce. Journal of Legal Economics 16(1), pp. 55-68.
- Priaulx, N. M. 2009. Why reproductive autonomy matters. Presented at: Royal Institute of Philosophy Public Lecture Series on Healthcare Ethics and Law, Keele University, May 2009.
2008
- Priaulx, N. M. 2008. Reproductive autonomy. In: Cane, P. and Conaghan, J. eds. The New Oxford Companion to Law. Oxford Companions Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Priaulx, N. M. 2008. Wrongful conception. In: Cane, P. and Conaghan, J. eds. The New Oxford Companion to Law. Oxford Companions Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Priaulx, N. M. 2008. A womb with a mother in view: reflections on conflicting analyses of wrongful birth (a response to Professor Chris Bruce). Journal of Legal Economics 61(1), pp. 55-67. (10.2139/ssrn.1249722)
- Priaulx, N. M. 2008. A letter from the UK: tort law and damages for the unwanted child. Journal of Legal Economics 14(3), pp. 45-71.
- Priaulx, N. M. 2008. Rethinking progenitive conflict: why reproductive autonomy matters. Medical Law Review 16(2), pp. 169-200. (10.1093/medlaw/fwn009)
- Priaulx, N. M. 2008. Testing the margin of appreciation: therapeutic abortion, reproductive rights and the intriguing case of Tysiąc v. Poland. European Journal of Health Law 15(4), pp. 361-379. (10.1163/157180908X378382)
- Priaulx, N. M. 2008. A womb with a mother in view: reflections on conflicting analyses of wrongful birth. Presented at: Western Economic Association, Waikiki, Honolulu (Hawai'i), June 2008.
2007
- Priaulx, N. M. 2007. The harm paradox: tort law and the unwanted child in an era of choice. Biomedical Law and Ethics Library. London: Routledge-Cavendish.
2006
- Priaulx, N. M. 2006. Beyond health and disability: rethinking the 'foetal abnormality' ground in abortion law. In: Biggs, H. and Horsey, K. eds. Human Fertilisation and Embryology: Reproducing Regulation. Biomedical Law and Ethics Library London: Routledge, pp. 205-229.
- Priaulx, N. M. 2006. Beyond stork delivery: from injury to autonomy in reconceptualising 'harm' in wrongful pregnancy. Studies in Law, Politics & Society 38, pp. 105-149. (10.1016/S1059-4337(05)38004-5)
- Priaulx, N. M. 2006. Damages for the unwanted child: time for a rethink?. Presented at: Western Economic Association, San Diego, CA, July 2006.
2005
- Priaulx, N. M. 2005. Health, disability & parental interests: Adopting a contextual approach in the reproductive torts. European Journal of Health Law 12(3), pp. 213-244.
- Priaulx, N. M. 2005. Damages for the "unwanted" child: time for a rethink?. Medico-Legal Journal 73(4), pp. 152-163. (10.1258/rsmmlj.73.4.152)
2004
- Priaulx, N. M. 2004. Joy to the world! A (healthy) child is born! Reconceptualizing harm in wrongful conception. Social & Legal Studies 13(1), pp. 5-26. (10.1177/0964663904040190)
- Priaulx, N. M. 2004. That's one heck of an 'unruly horse': Riding roughshod over autonomy in wrongful conception. Feminist Legal Studies 12(3), pp. 317-331. (10.1007/s10691-004-4989-y)
- Priaulx, N. M. 2004. Horseplay in wrongful conception: paying (conventional) lip service to the principle of reproductive autonomy. Presented at: Working Group on Gender and Law, Annual Meeting - The Politics of Legal Feminism, Anavissos, Greece, July 2004.
- Priaulx, N. M. 2004. Joy to the world! A healthy child is born: reconsidering unconventional tortious justice. Presented at: Law and Society Association, Chicago, US, May 2004.
- Priaulx, N. M. 2004. Damage in wrongful pregnancy: all in the mind, baby, all in the mind!. Presented at: Work in Progress Staff Series, Keele University, March 2004.
- Priaulx, N. M. 2004. The mitigation ethic: a reasonable case of Catch-22?. Presented at: Work in Progress Staff Series, Keele University, December 2004.
2003
- Priaulx, N. M. 2003. Parental disability and wrongful conception. Family Law(Feb), pp. 117-120.
2002
- Priaulx, N. M. 2002. Mental health review tribunals - just how 'speedily'?. Journal of Mental Health Law(July), pp. 219-228.
- Priaulx, N. M. 2002. Conceptualising harm in the case of the 'unwanted' child. European Journal of Health Law 9(4), pp. 337-359. (10.1163/157180902773123969)
- Priaulx, N. M. 2002. Charging for after-care services under section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 - the final word?. Journal of Mental Health Law(Dec), pp. 313-322.
Teaching
At Cardiff School of Law and Politics I am a proud member of a number of vibrant and committed teaching teams that deliver modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. I have extensive experience of programme and module leadership, and the substantive areas of my teaching delivery include torts, healthcare, ethics and the law (of which we offer a wide provision of modules across undergraduate and postgraduate level), postgraduate skills and the dissertation module. I also provide guest lectures on Legal Foundations and make contributions to modules running in other schools.
Funding
Principal Investigator, BA Small Grants application for £9,883 for project ‘Multidisciplinary Understandings of Legal Academia’ (awarded July 2015).
Principal Investigator (with Dr Lydia Hayes, co-investigator) of Cardiff University College for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Network Initiator Funding (Law, Experience and Practice: A network for interdisciplinarity in care research) £25,000 (awarded June 2015).
Academic Director (with Matthew Weait, Portsmouth) of the WG Hart 2016 Workshop at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, £3,000.
Principal Investigator for Cardiff University’s contribution to FP7 European Commission Science in Society Consortium Grant, ETHICSWEB (with Consortium of 11 Universities); total Cardiff grant, £25,000 (Project concluded 2012).
Projects
Multidisciplinary Understandings of Legal Academia
September 2015 – September 2017 - Funded by BA/Leverhulme Small Grant
Building upon earlier work in respect of barriers to interdisciplinary understanding, but the critical importance of collaborative work for justice and effective regulation, this project forms the first part of a capacity building exercise in opening up key opportunities for lawyers to engage and collaborate with other disciplines. Funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grants Scheme, this project seeks to gain an understanding of how non-legal academics understand the variety of skill sets and expertise that lawyers have to bring, as well as their understandings of what legal academics do. The hypothesis is that in the absence of interdisciplinary engagement with lawyers or familiarity with legal studies, non-legal academics are likely to draw upon stereotypical ideas of lawyers and lawyering. The project involves a web-based survey, working with focus groups, and a strong dissemination programme in exploring with different groups the results of our survey. While useful as a potential tool for highlighting connections and disconnections between disciplines generally, my hope is to use the results as a foundation for better communicating the range of skills, interests and project work that goes on within the legal academy and creating opportunities for collaborative interdisciplinary work.
LEAP: Law, Experience and Practice: A network for interdisciplinarity in care research
September 2015 – April 2017 – Funded by Cardiff University College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Drawing in a broad range of scholars from across the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, with engagement from the healthcare sciences, the LEAP network constitutes a reflexive learning forum. Interdisciplinary practice raises fundamental epistemic challenges which must be addressed in order to tackle complex social and regulatory needs. The LEAP network brings together different skills and know-how from across AHSS to develop collective expertise. Our aim is the future design of research which addresses questions of how to embed care within communities that are characterized by inequality, yet are increasingly deprived of caring resources in the context of demographic change and austerity. These communities may be spatially constituted, for example in de-industrialised towns or in private domestic households. They may be communities of occupational care providers/care-givers; or they may be communities characterized by individual disadvantage on the basis of age, race, disability or gender. The overarching aim of the network is to develop an interdisciplinary capability to enable research around care to translate into practice, capable of reaching and engaging intermediaries and end-users.
Led by Nicky Priaulx and Lydia Hayes, the LEAP network constitutes a strategic investment on the part of the Cardiff University College for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and will run across a two year period commencing in September 2015.
Event Organisation
In conjunction with my role as Director of LawLab, PI for the LEAP network and my portfolio as Chair of Curriculum Review (Law) I have led a large number of workshops and events at Cardiff and beyond. These include,
- Cross-disciplinary Collaboration Workshop, SEESHOP 2018, Cardiff University (2018).
- Valuing Expertise: Legal, Normative and Social Dimensions, 2016 W G Hart Legal Workshop (co-organised with Professor Matthew Weait, Portsmouth University), Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London (2016)
- Exploring Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity – Public Engagement Event sciSCREEN – showing of ‘Arrival’, Cardiff University (2017).
- The Future of Legal Academia: Transformations and Innovations (June 2017) (co-organised with Dr Lydia Hayes and Professor Russell Sandberg) – Two Day, Cardiff (2017).
- Theory Informing Practice – Practice Informing Theory – Exploring the Everyday of Medical Decision-Making, Cardiff (2017).
- Gender Matters: Exploring the Experience(s) of being a Female Academic in Higher Education (co-organised with Dr Katy Greenland), Caridff (2017).
- Building Interdisciplinarity: Project Plans and Ideas (February 2017) (lead organiser, with Dr Lydia Hayes, Dr Steve Smith and Professor Rob Evans).
- Connecting Research with Policy in Wales: Health, Disability & Social Care (November 2016) (lead organiser, with Dr Lydia Hayes).
- Practicing Collaborative Interdisciplinarity: Ways and Means, LawLab, 21 April 2016.
- Regulatory narratives around New and Emerging Technologies, LawLab, 19 February 2016.
- Choosing to Care and Caring to Choose: An Interdisciplinary Conversation (lead organiser with co-organisers, Dr Lydia Hayes (school of law and politics, Cardiff University) and Dr Dikiaos Sakellariou (school of healthcare sciences, Cardiff University), June 2015.
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Regulating Innovation (co-organised with A Krajewska), Cardiff University, Senate Chamber, February 2015.
Supervision
I welcome enquiries from prospective students who are interested in the intersection between legal studies and theories of expertise/knowledge, and interdisciplinarity and law.
Past projects
I have successfully supervised hundreds of projects at undergraduate and master's level, as well as successfully supervising three PhD students to completion, 2 in law (Dr Tom Hayes, 2016 and Dr Hephzibah Egede, 2016) and one co-supervised PhD student from the School of Social Sciences (Chris Goldsworthy, 2017). All three PhD students have successfully secured full-time work in Higher Education (Cardiff University, University of Buckingham, Oxford University).