Dr Catherine Kelly
BA/LLB (Hons) (A.N.U.), MSc(Oxon.), DPhil(Oxon.)
Current positions
Reader in Law
University of Bristol Law School
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Positions
University of Bristol positions
Reader in Law
University of Bristol Law School
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
History of Psychiatric Injury in Tort
Principal Investigator
Description
This is a detailed historical study of the law in this area, examining rarely considered first instance decisions and primary source material.Managing organisational unit
University of Bristol Law SchoolDates
01/07/2019 to 01/09/2022
Colonial Innovation
Principal Investigator
Description
This project will examine reward systems for scientific innovation and invention in the 18th and 19th centuries. It will use archival materials to demonstrate the existence of reward systems alongside…Managing organisational unit
University of Bristol Law SchoolDates
01/07/2019 to 01/09/2021
Law, Medicine and State Building in Britain’s Settler Colonies, 1780-1850
Principal Investigator
Description
Law, Medicine and State Building in Britain’s Settler Colonies, 1780-1850, will examine the development of laws related to health in settler colonies and explore previously unexamined relationships of significance between…Managing organisational unit
University of Bristol Law SchoolDates
01/01/2017 to 01/09/2020
Re-Imagining the Diary: Writing and well-being for ‘busy’ people
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Re-imagining the Diary reflects on the past, present and future of diary-writing and its relation to what we now refer to as “well-being”, particularly how the diary as a form…Managing organisational unit
School of EducationDates
09/01/2019 to 30/06/2019
Publications
Recent publications
17/11/2020Who’s Afraid of Imaginary Claims? Common Misunderstandings of the Origin of the Action for Pure Psychiatric Injury in Negligence 1888-1943
Law Quarterly Review
‘In Our Daily Struggles’
Life Writing
The COVID-19 pandemic and the challenge for innovation policy
Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly
The Legal Duty of Candour in Healthcare: The Lessons of History?
Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly
Medical Doctors and Persuasion
History