Kent Law School PhD scholar Lara Tessaro scooped the research poster prize at this year’s SLSA conference.
Lara’s PhD thesis, titled ‘Cosmetic Compositions: enacting matter, time and law with Canadian cosmetic product labelling’, examines material and temporal enactments of cosmetics regulation in Canada, with a focus on cosmetic product labelling.
The Socio-Legal Studies Association hold a conference each year with the objective of disseminating knowledge in the field of socio-legal studies. This year’s conference was hosted virtually by Cardiff University.
Lara also presented her work at a themed panel on ‘Registering the Everyday: Documents, Bureaucracy, and the Socio-Legal’, organised by recent KLS graduate Dr Jess Smith.
Lara began her thesis at Kent Law School in 2019 and was awarded a Vice Chancellor’s scholarship. She is supervised by KLS Professor Emily Grabham and KLS Professor Emilie Cloatre. Lara is also a Graduate Teaching Assistant, teaching constitutional and administrative law on the Public Law 1 module – LW588.
In 2020, Lara was awarded a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship in 2020 by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). This scholarship (colloquially called “big SSHRC”) is worth $35K Cdn (approx £20k) per year over three years. As Bombardier scholarships are only tenable in Canada, Lara accepted, in its place, a SSHRC doctoral fellowship of $20K Cdn per year for four years.
