
Dr Lucy Series
PhD, MSc, BA
Expertise
Lucy is a socio-legal academic, and an expert in mental capacity law, adult social care law, and disability human rights. She currently teaches on the MSc Social Work programme and the undergraduate Disability in Society unit.
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Lecturer
School for Policy Studies
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Biography
My recent monograph, Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution (Bristol University Press, 2022), told the story of how and why we have come to regulate a growing number of care arrangements in 'community' settings as a 'deprivation of liberty', and with what consequences. I argue that 'liberty' is in some ways a distraction from a more productive focus on deinstitutionalisation and securing meaningful homes for people.
I am an interdisciplinary researcher, with a BA in Psychology with Philosophy (Oxford University, 2005), an MSc in Psychology Research Methods (Bristol University, 2007) and a PhD in law (Exeter University, 2013). Prior to my PhD in law, I worked for many years in a range of health and social care settings with people with cognitive impairments and social care needs.
I joined the School for Policy Studies in 2022. I was previously a senior lecturer and senior research fellow at the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University, where I held a Wellcome Society and Ethics research fellowship between 2017-2022, taught health and social care law. Our Nuffield funded research on the Court of Protection formed the basis of an impact case study (2013-2017). At the Centre for Disability Law and Politics, NUI Galway, I worked on international projects concerning disability rights (2013).
Publications
Selected publications
29/03/2022Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution
Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution
Of Powers and Safeguards
Re-imagining Health and Care Law
On detaining 300,000 people: the liberty protection safeguards
International Journal of Mental Health and Capacity Law
Recent publications
01/01/2023Of Powers and Safeguards
Re-imagining Health and Care Law
Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution
Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution
Making sense of Cheshire West
The Legacies of Institutionalisation: Disability, Law and Policy in the 'Deinstitutionalised' Community
On detaining 300,000 people: the liberty protection safeguards
International Journal of Mental Health and Capacity Law
The Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019 (UK) [Comment]
Elder Law Review