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Professor Emily Grabham is Professor of Law & Society at Loughborough University, where she joined in January 2025. Previously, she was Professor of Law at the University of Kent. She also holds a position as Senior Advanced Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. Professor Grabham serves on the UKRI Talent Panel College and UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Panel, and is an advisory board member for The Literary Consultancy.
Professor Grabham's educational background is highly interdisciplinary:
- BA in Law from Cambridge University
- LLM from Queen's University, Canada
- MSc in Gender, Society & Culture from Birkbeck
- MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia
- PhD in Law from the University of Kent
Before entering academia, she worked as an employment and human rights solicitor, providing practical legal experience that informs her scholarly work.
Professor Grabham's research centers on the relationship between law and time, investigating how temporal frameworks shape legal experiences and rights. She is particularly interested in how time affects women's experiences of precarious work and care responsibilities, as evidenced by her monograph 'Women, Precarious Work and Care: The Failure of Family-Friendly Rights.' Her feminist legal scholarship intersects with gender studies, sexuality law, and creative writing approaches to legal scholarship. She co-founded the 'A Day At A Time' project, which explores people's everyday experiences of time during the early Covid-19 pandemic through interdisciplinary collaboration with scholars from cultural studies, environmental humanities, sociology, and organization studies.
Professor Grabham has received significant recognition for her work:
- Philip Leverhulme Prize in Law (2020)
- SLSA Legal Theory and History Book Prize for 'Brewing Legal Times' (2017)
- SLSA Articles Prize for 'Time and Technique: The Legal Lives of the 26 Week Qualifying Period' (2018)
- Canadian Law and Society English Language Article Prize
Her research has been consistently funded by major bodies including the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Economic & Social Research Council, and the Leverhulme Trust. Professor Grabham's interdisciplinary approach, combining legal scholarship with creative writing and arts-led methodologies, has positioned her as a leading voice in socio-legal studies and feminist legal theory. Her current work focuses on developing arts-led collaborations on time, law and social justice, building on her extensive publication record that includes monographs, edited collections, and numerous high-impact journal articles.
