What is the Centre for People's Justice?
GO Justice hosts the AHRC-funded Centre for People’s Justice (CPJ), a coalition of over 45 organisations from community, business, philanthropic, cultural, artistic, charitable, legal, government sectors which operates through a consortium of 7 university partners across the UK. These are the Universities of Glasgow, Liverpool, Sheffield, Swansea, Wrexham, Ulster and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies London.
The CPJ pursues change-making research that responds to the public’s need and desire for fairer, stronger and more inclusive societies. Its work seeks to connect the public more closely with the ways in which the law is made, improve accountability for how the law is put into practice, and enhance people’s understanding and use of their legal rights.
The Centre will take a grassroots approach, empowering communities to prioritise and co-produce research that responds to some of the most pressing social and legal issues including food insecurity, low-waged work, tackling violence and conflict and children’s rights. For example, an initial project, ‘The Brown Envelope Project’, will focus on the way in which the public understand and respond to official correspondence from the authorities.
At the University of Glasgow
Leading the University of Glasgow Glasgow team are:
- Professor Nicole Busby, Glasgow Convenor and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead;
- Professor Jacqueline Kinghan, Nicole Marshall and Cameron-Wong McDermott who will head up the CPJ’s work on clinical legal education;
- and Catriona Cannon who is leading the development of the People's Justice Network involving academics and community partners.
Go Justice’s Professor Jacqueline Kinghan, Cameron Wong-McDermott and Nicole Marshall, said: "We are excited to work with such a diverse range of partners and institutions in the Centre for People's Justice. Our work in the Centre will help build capacity for law school clinics, both in the UK and internationally, to develop creative networks to mobilise the law and improve access to justice.”
The Nuclear Justice Project & The Merlin Files
The Nuclear Justice Project represents a deeply collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to social justice, through which veterans, academics, lawyers, journalists, workers and students from different disciplines came together to share expertise.
