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Dr. Joanna Gilmore is a Senior Lecturer in Law at York Law School, University of York. Her expertise spans public order law, counter-terrorism, human rights, and community-based responses to police misconduct. She holds degrees from Newcastle, Manchester, and York Universities, including a PhD (2013) on protest regulation under the Human Rights Act 1998. Her career includes roles at the University of Manchester (2012–2013) before joining York as Lecturer (2013–2021) and Senior Lecturer (2021–present).
Her research focuses on protest policing, with notable projects including the socio-legal study of the 1984–85 miners’ strike and analysis of anti-fracking protests. She collaborates with organizations like Liberty and the Century Foundation, and co-founded the Northern Police Monitoring Project. Her work has influenced UN interventions, parliamentary debates, and media coverage (e.g., The Guardian, BBC Newsnight). She leads initiatives to improve access to higher education and the legal profession.
Key projects include British Academy/Leverhulme-funded research on legal solidarity during the miners’ strike, ESRC-funded work on wrongful convictions, and interdisciplinary studies on protest trials’ democratic potential. She teaches Criminal Law, Counter-Terrorism, and Law & Society modules, and serves on editorial boards and advisory groups.
