The number of asylum appeals increased 264% in the last year. You can read my analysis of the situation on the @UKCLA blog here. In short, I think there are four key points… 1/5

Excellent start to The SLS sponsored collaborative workshop for PGRs and ECRs in public law, labour law, migration & asylum, and human rights we’re holding at Durham Law School today. Special thanks to Jessie Blackbourn and Elizabeth O'Loughlin for a great job on the organisation!

And a great end to a wonderful collaborative workshop, sponsored by The SLS and hosted by Durham Law School . Thanks so much everyone for coming and sharing your research with us.

I have a new article, based on a survey experiment with landlords, in the Modern Law Review with Jed Meers, Prof Charlotte O'Brien and Alice Welsh. It's available open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

I have a new article (with Jed Meers and Simon Halliday) in Social Policy & Administration. It sets out a typology of key choices officials face when building digital welfare service interfaces. It’s available open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sp…

Naoise Coakley, a researcher at the Administrative Fairness Lab, has written a great piece on the backlogs in autism assessments, which have hit crisis levels in areas like York. It is well worth reading: essexcaji.org/2024/07/02/nao…

Had a great writing retreat day at York (minus the terrible weather)!

GWAAAARN OLLIE WATKINS! What a stunning goal 😍😍😍

Surprisingly sunny PhD graduation yesterday! I got to celebrate with some wonderful people 💫

The race riots of 2024. Context and language matter.

#Lancaster says refugees are welcome here. Fascists are not ✊🏽

I’ve never ever felt unsafe in Newcastle. But now, being South Asian, i’m not looking forward to being back this weekend. I have many Muslim friends, some wear hijabs, and this is terrifying.

These. THESE are ordinary people with legitimate concerns. Bristol, Liverpool, Walthamstow, Oxford, Newcastle, anti racists came out up & down the country - legends every single one of you❤️ #r4today

So much about the immigration and asylum system is just completely unknown to people day to day. Some examples:

The political and media class is complicit in this racist, Islamophobic violence. They stoke division because they don’t want us to remember this truth: the enemy of the working class travels by private jet, not migrant dinghy. Me for the The Guardian: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The hypermasculine far right: how white nationalists tell themselves they are ‘protecting’ women and children when they riot theconversation.com/the-hypermascu…

We are currently recruiting for a postdoctoral researcher to join European Research Council (ERC) PatentsInHumans project closing date 26 September and full details below- please get in touch with any questions! All_Institute European Research Council (ERC) MU School of Law & Criminology MU Research

Learning more about the great research done as part of the Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre at the Inaugural Annual Conference today in Leeds! I’ll be presenting some of findings from our project at the Administrative Fairness Lab York Law School - ‘Vulnerability as a Concept of Public Law’

Had such a great time today at the Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre conference particularly thought provoking presentations from Roxanna Dehaghani Revolving Doors Ailbhe O'Loughlin Dr Angela Paul lots to think about and what an exciting time to be researching vulnerability and policing! 📚🚔

The Administrative Fairness Lab research group, based at the University of York, has a new website: administrativefairnesslab.com We'll keep this site updated with the latest research, policy analysis, and news from the group.