About
Dr Flora Renz is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent’s Kent Law School and Co-Director of the Centre for Sexuality, Race and Gender Justice. She previously held a Lecturer position at City, University of London (pre-2017) and completed a PhD at Kent Law School (2012–2017) on the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and transgender legal consciousness. Her education includes an M.Res in Social Science Research Methods (Law) at Keele University and an LLB from the University of Leeds.
Research Interests: Flora’s work focuses on gender, disability, and legal/social inequalities, informed by feminist and critical disability studies. Her monograph Gender Recognition and the Law (2024) examines transgender engagement with legal systems. Current projects include legal regulation of assistive technologies and gender-disability classification in parasports (wheelchair rugby). She co-led a study on LGBTQ+ youth homelessness (2023–2025) and contributed to the ESRC-funded Future of Legal Gender project (2018–2022).
Teaching & Supervision: Teaches criminal law, equality law, and gender/trans/disability topics. Supervises research in feminist/queer theory and critical disability studies.
Professional Roles:
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Editorial Board Member, feminists@law
- EDI Advisory Board Member, AdvanceHE
Key Contributions: Her work on legal gender markers and single-sex spaces has been cited by The Guardian and UNODC. Recent publications analyze disability, gender, and cyborg theory in legal personhood and explore post-decertification legal frameworks.
