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Human rights and psychiatric practice in relation to involuntary treatment of young people in Europe (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stavert, J., Malmendier-Muehlschegel, A., & Schulze, U. (2025, June). Human rights and psychiatric practice in relation to involuntary treatment of young people in Europe. Presented at ESCAP 2025: 21st International Congress of the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Strasbourg

Aims: International human rights treaties emphasize autonomy and reducing or eliminating psychiatric coercion making which can conflict with involuntary psychiatric treatment. The aim of our workshop is to facilitate a discussion between mental healt... Read More about Human rights and psychiatric practice in relation to involuntary treatment of young people in Europe.

LGBTQ+ Rights in the UK: past, present and future (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Clucas, R. (2025, March). LGBTQ+ Rights in the UK: past, present and future. Presented at LGBT+ History Month Presentation - Brown and Brown LGBTQ+ Teammate Resource Group, Online

Invited LGBT+ History Month Presentation to Brown and Brown LGBTQ+ Teammate Resource Group (US and UK)

The RESIST Project Events. Confronting "Anti- Gender" Mobilizations across Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, and Russia: Challenges and Queer-Feminist Resistances (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Filep, E., Jarosz, S., Kulpa, R., Mayerchyk, M., Plakhotnik, O., Sasunkevich, O. (., & Zabrzewska, A. (2025, March). The RESIST Project Events. Confronting "Anti- Gender" Mobilizations across Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, and Russia: Challenges and Queer-Feminist Resistances. Presented at Confronting "Anti- Gender" Mobilizations across Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, and Russia: Challenges and Queer-Feminist Resistances, Online and Warsaw, Poland

During the event, the RESIST Project Team and our guest speakers led discussions on queer-feminist resistances to “anti-gender” mobilizations in and across Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, and Russia – four distinct national case studies that intersect at a... Read More about The RESIST Project Events. Confronting "Anti- Gender" Mobilizations across Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, and Russia: Challenges and Queer-Feminist Resistances.

The RESIST Project Events. Online Findings Launch: Effects of, and Resistances to 'Anti-Gender' Mobilisations Across Europe (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rodó-Zárate, M., Blidon, M., Akyüz, L., Boulila, S. C., Browne, K., Carastathis, A., Filep, E., & Kulpa, R. (2024, October). The RESIST Project Events. Online Findings Launch: Effects of, and Resistances to 'Anti-Gender' Mobilisations Across Europe. Presented at The RESIST Project Events. Online Findings Launch: Effects of, and Resistances to 'Anti-Gender' Mobilisations Across Europe, Online

The online launch event for the “Effects of, and Resistances to ‘Anti-Gender’ Mobilisations Across Europe”, an output from the Work Package 2 (WP2) of the RESIST Project. Recording of the event available on RESIST Project YouTube Channel: https://www... Read More about The RESIST Project Events. Online Findings Launch: Effects of, and Resistances to 'Anti-Gender' Mobilisations Across Europe.

Fighting intersectional repressions: countering 'anti-gender' violence at the intersection with LGBTQ+ rights (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R., & Filep, E. (2024, October). Fighting intersectional repressions: countering 'anti-gender' violence at the intersection with LGBTQ+ rights. Presented at 'The EU Public Diplomacy. Russia' Project. A Feminist Foreign Policy Perspective on War and Society, Warsaw, PL

'The EU Public Diplomacy. Russia' Project is funded by the EU’s Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI). It aims at creating space for dialogue and strengthening the ties between the EU and selected Russian audiences. As part of the project activities, Dr K... Read More about Fighting intersectional repressions: countering 'anti-gender' violence at the intersection with LGBTQ+ rights.

Dispute Resolution 3.0 (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Clucas, R. (2024, September). Dispute Resolution 3.0. Paper presented at Family Dispute Resolution Symposium, University of Sunderland

Dispute resolution in family law is at a point of crisis. We have sensible and necessary substantive rules such as the Children Act 1989 in England and Wales, and the Children (Scotland) Act 1995, to regulate the operation and dissolution of family l... Read More about Dispute Resolution 3.0.

Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media spaces across the ‘eastern’ and ‘western’ geopolitical imaginations of ‘Europe’. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2024, September). Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media spaces across the ‘eastern’ and ‘western’ geopolitical imaginations of ‘Europe’. Presented at 7th European Geographies of Sexualities Conference (EGSC) 2024, University of Brighton, UK

Anti-feminist and anti-LGBTIQ+ mobilisations have taken roots transnationally, denying individuals autonomy, rights to bodily integrity or self-determination, and attacking selected groups of people (e.g. trans* people, people doing abortion) in orde... Read More about Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media spaces across the ‘eastern’ and ‘western’ geopolitical imaginations of ‘Europe’..

A New Legal Framework – Autonomous Decision Making, Human Rights Enablement and Support For Decision Making (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stavert, J. (2024, July). A New Legal Framework – Autonomous Decision Making, Human Rights Enablement and Support For Decision Making. Paper presented at International Academy of Law and Mental Health Congress 2024, Barcelona, Spain

Even so-called human rights-based mental health and capacity legislation has tended to exclusively focus on authorising and regulating non-consensual interventions and pays little or no attention to the wider needs of persons with mental disabilities... Read More about A New Legal Framework – Autonomous Decision Making, Human Rights Enablement and Support For Decision Making.

Unified Mental Health and Capacity Law: Creating Parity and Non-Discrimination? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stavert, J., & McKay, C. (2024, July). Unified Mental Health and Capacity Law: Creating Parity and Non-Discrimination?. Paper presented at International Academy of Law and Mental Health Congress 2024, Barcelona, Spain

It has been argued that a fusion of mental health and capacity law creates parity and respects nondiscrimination. This approach has been adopted in the Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016, although this legislation is not yet fully in force.... Read More about Unified Mental Health and Capacity Law: Creating Parity and Non-Discrimination?.

UK perspectives & experiences of "Queering the Academy - Policies, Practices, and Barriers" (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2024, May). UK perspectives & experiences of "Queering the Academy - Policies, Practices, and Barriers". Presented at Queering the Academy - Policies, Practices, and Barriers, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, PL

In this invited contribution, Dr Kulpa will share reflections on how EDI (equality, diversity, and inclusion) and decolonialisation work in the UK academic contexts, embedded in the processes of neoliberalization of higher education in the anglophone... Read More about UK perspectives & experiences of "Queering the Academy - Policies, Practices, and Barriers".

Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media debates: lessons and recommendations in the future fight for LGBTIQ+ equalities. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2024, May). Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media debates: lessons and recommendations in the future fight for LGBTIQ+ equalities. Presented at UCU Equality Research Conference 2024, University of Manchester, UK

Anti-feminist and anti-LGBTIQ+ mobilisations have taken roots transnationally, denying individuals autonomy, rights to bodily integrity, and self-determination, and attacking selected groups of people (e.g. trans* people, people doing abortion) in or... Read More about Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media debates: lessons and recommendations in the future fight for LGBTIQ+ equalities..

What the international human rights treaties actually require of us (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stavert, J. (2023, July). What the international human rights treaties actually require of us. Paper presented at UK and Ireland Mental Diversity Law Conference 2023, Nottingham

Across the world mental health and capacity law is often justified on the basis of protecting persons with mental disabilities and wider public safety. In some cases, the use of such laws is rising (Sheridan Rains et al, 2019) and it is becoming incr... Read More about What the international human rights treaties actually require of us.

Scottish Mental Health Law Review (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stavert, J., McKay, C., Scott, J., Martin, K., & Morgan, G. (2022, June). Scottish Mental Health Law Review. Paper presented at World Congress on Adult Capacity, Edinburgh, UK

The Scottish Witch Hunts: the Religious and Legal Contexts (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dodd, L. (2021, October). The Scottish Witch Hunts: the Religious and Legal Contexts. Paper presented at Witches' Stories: Folk healers and midwives accused and persecuted for helping others (1563-1736), Edinburgh [Online]

An examination of the religious and legal contexts for the witch hunts of 16th and 17th century Scotland.

The Scots Law of Intestacy: Whence? Where? Whither? (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dodd, L. (2021, September). The Scots Law of Intestacy: Whence? Where? Whither?. Paper presented at Edinburgh Napier Research Seminar Series, Edinburgh

An overview of the origins of current Scots intestacy law, the major problems posed by the current intestacy regime, and proposals for the possible reform.

Legal Practice in Modern History (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dodd, L. (2021, May). Legal Practice in Modern History. Paper presented at Legal History in Modern Practice, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

The Romans envisioned history as a moral didactic, the purpose of which was to present stories about deeds accomplished by historical figures and to challenge readers to emulate those deeds, often by contrasting, for rhetorical purposes, the supposed... Read More about Legal Practice in Modern History.

The Potential of Friendship: A Case for Social Resilience (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R., & Ludwin, K. (2021, April). The Potential of Friendship: A Case for Social Resilience. Paper presented at 70th Annual Conference of the British Sociological Association, London, UK

The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic mark a crisis of neoliberal ideologies of entrepreneurial individualism underpinning global precarity globally, nationally, and at the level of personal and community networks and relation(ship)s. In Poland a... Read More about The Potential of Friendship: A Case for Social Resilience.