School of Law
The School of Law within the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law at the University of Bristol has a strong concentration of socio-legal scholars. Their research focuses on the ways in which legal and regulatory systems operate in particular social and political contexts.
Role in the project
Professor Morgan will contribute to the planning, design and analysis of a governance framework for implementing the action plan for Aquatest's long-term uptake. She will focus in particular on transferability and accountability in different political contexts.
People involved
Professor Bronwen Morgan
Task Leader
Bronwen Morgan joined Bristol's Faculty of Social Sciences and Law as Professor of Socio-Legal Studies in the School of Law in August 2005. Previously, she was the Harold Woods Research Fellow in Law at the Centre for Socio-legal Studies and a Tutorial Fellow and Lecturer at the university of Oxford.
She has a PhD from the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Department at the University of California at Berkeley and a law degree from the University of Sydney, where she worked as an Associate Lecturer after working at the High Court of Australia.
Her most recent research project was jointly funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and Arts and Humanities Research Council and entitled 'The Commodification of Water, Social Protest and Cosmopolitan Citizenship'. The project explored the links between the status of 'global consumer' and patterns of global governance around water in the context of private sector participation in water delivery to households, its consequences and social protest.
More broadly, her research focuses on:
- The political economy of regulatory reform
- The intersection between regulation and social and economic human rights, and global governance.