Staff Profile:Dr Nicola Barker

Name:

Dr Nicola Barker

Job Title:

Lecturer

Responsibilities:

Areas of Interest:

Family Law, Gender, Sexuality and Law, Human Rights, Administrative Law, Welfare Law

Research groups / Centres:

Publications:

• Book: Not the Marrying Kind: Feminist Critiques of Same-Sex Marriage (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2012)

• 'Ambiguous Symbolisms: Recognising Customary Marriage and Same-Sex Marriage in South Africa' International Journal of Law in Context (forthcoming 2012).

• 'Sheffield City Council v E and Another' in Rosemary Hunter, Clare McGlynn, Erika Rackley (eds) Feminist Judgments: From Theory to Practice (Hart Publishing, 2010), pp.351-362 (co-authored with Marie Fox)

• 'From Social Security to Individual Responsibility: Sanctions, Conditionality, and Punitiveness in the Welfare Reform Bill 2009 (Part One)' (2009) 31(3) Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law pp321-332 (co-authored with Sarah Lamble)

• Book Review: Conjugal Rites: Marriage and Marriage-like Relationships before the Law. Heather Brook, 2007. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, (2009) 24(62) Australian Feminist Studies pp477-479

Response to the DWP consultation paper: No one written off: reforming welfare to reward responsibility (July 2008) (co-authored with Kate Bedford, Helen Carr, Emily Grabham, Sarah Lamble, and Jenny Smith). Available at: http://www.kent.ac.uk/clgs/centre-files/consultation_responses.html

• 'Same-Sex Relations' in Peter Cane and Joanne Conaghan (eds.) The New Oxford Companion to Law (Oxford University Press) (2008)

• 'Sex and the Civil Partnership Act: The Future of (Non)Conjugality?' (2006) 14(2) Feminist Legal Studies pp241-259

• 'For Better or For Worse? The Civil Partnership Bill [HL] 2004' (2004) 26(3) Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law pp313-324

Qualifications:

LLB, PGDip (Social Science Research Methods), PhD

Biographical details

Nicola Barker is a lecturer in law. Prior to joining Reading Law School in September 2011, she worked at Keele University as a lecturer in law (2005-2011) and graduate teaching assistant (2002-2005). Nicola has held visiting scholarships at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (April - July 2010), the University of California, Berkeley (February - March 2010), and Cornell University (September 2003).