Research Team
Professor Marie-Andrée Jacob | Principal Investigator
University of Leeds
Marie-Andrée Jacob is a professor of law at the University of Leeds. Marie's work focuses on relationships between knowledge claims from medicine, law and the state. She has written on consent, kinship, healthcare law, research ethics and integrity, medical regulation, and on how activities sit on the border between legality and illegality. Her ethnography of an organ transplantation bureau, Matching Organs with Donors, was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2012. She has acted as general editor for The Sociological Review (2017-22) and has co-edited with Anna Kirkland the international Research Handbook on Socio-Legal Studies of Medicine and Health (2020), the first resource of its kind bringing together scholars working on law, society and medicine from different jurisdictions and career stages.
Dr Priyasha Saksena | Co-Investigator
University of Leeds
Priyasha Saksena a legal historian whose research focuses on the historical development of legal concepts and institutions within the British Empire. Priyasha is particularly interested in the relationship between international law and colonialism, and her doctoral dissertation was a history of the doctrine of sovereignty in colonial South Asia. She joined the School of Law in March 2019 and prior to that was a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History.
Professor Nasreen Ali | Co-Investigator
University of Bedfordshire
Nasreen Ali is a professor of Public Health Equality and Course Lead for the MSc Public Health at the University of Bedfordshire. Nasreen's research aims to improve the health and social care outcomes for marginalised and disadvantaged communities across the life-course by influencing policy, design and delivery of inclusive and responsive services, locally, nationally and internationally.
Dr Amrita Limbu | Research Fellow
University of Leeds
Amrita Limbu is a Research Fellow, Making it to the Registers project, Centre for Law and Social Justice, University of Leeds. Amrita’s research focuses on migration, labour, transnational families, emotions, and analysis of migration policies. Her PhD investigated emotions and affective family relations across two migration pathways of education migration to Australia and labour migration to Qatar from Nepal.
Rukia Saleem
University of Bedfordshire
Rukia is a multi-lingual research assistant with extensive experience of managing charities, research fieldwork and community engagement. Her research fieldwork is primarily on improving health and social care outcomes for marginalised and disadvantaged communities.
She is founder and project manager for A Creative Expression Ltd which is an organisation set up to advance in life and help children, young people and the community in Luton. She is a member of 'Bury Park ' (Luton) Female Washing and Shrouding Group, A Tutor of Science of Tajweed (Quran recitation) and Team Member for PACT: Prison Advice and Care Trust.
Georgi Minchev | Research Assistant
University of Leeds
Georgi Minchev is a student on the three-year Law LLB programme at the University of Leeds. He was recruited as a Research Assistant to create a website for the 'Making it to the Registers' project.