Masters of the Bench

A graduate of the University of Edinburgh, Keele University and the University of Kent, Rosie Harding is Associate Dean and Professor of Law and Society at Birmingham Law School, the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on the place of law in everyday life, with particular interests in capacity law, disability law, gender sexuality and law, health and social care law and human rights. She is general editor of the Law, Society, Policy book series for Bristol University Press. She has held visiting positions at Lund University, Sweden, Flinders University, the University of Adelaide, and the University of Edinburgh. She was Chair of the Socio-Legal Studies Association from 2017 – 2022, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for Law in 2017.

Rosie is also a trustee of Changing Our Lives, a west midlands based charity.