{"id":8150,"date":"2025-01-09T11:24:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T11:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/?p=8150"},"modified":"2025-02-19T21:48:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T21:48:28","slug":"professor-amanda-perry-kessaris-elected-fellow-of-the-design-research-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/professor-amanda-perry-kessaris-elected-fellow-of-the-design-research-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Amanda Perry-Kessaris\u00a0elected Fellow of the Design Research Society"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kent Law School\u2019s\u00a0Professor Amanda Perry-Kessaris<\/a>\u00a0was recently\u00a0elected Fellow of the Design Research Society<\/a> in recognition of her pioneering work on the application of design-based methods to enhance legal research, education and practice.<\/p>\n

Her contributions to design in legal research include Doing Sociolegal Research in Design Mode<\/em><\/a> (2021), supported by a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship, which was the first ever exploration of how design research can enhance legal research; and a series of events in which design research methods were used to prompt and facilitate others to use model-making<\/a>, curated objects<\/a>, and exhibition<\/a> to enhance their research.<\/p>\n

Her contributions to design in legal education include Design in Legal Education <\/em><\/a>(2022) co-edited with Emily Allbon, which was the first volume exploring the contribution that design knowledge and techniques can make to legal education; and the integration of design knowledge and techniques into the Research Methods in Law module that is compulsory to all postgraduate research students at Kent Law School.<\/p>\n

Her contributions to design in legal practice include a series of collaborations with non-government actors in Europe and India<\/a> to show how prototyping might support participatory research around the sensitive topic of hate crime; and an on-going collaboration with civil society actors to explore how designed immersive inter-species council experiences might activate public imagination in preparation for a possible citizens assembly for the future of Cyprus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can find out more about Amanda\u2019s work via her blog, Approaching Law<\/a> and her video archive<\/a>, and by listening to this episode of the Legal Design Podcast<\/a>. Most of her academic publications are freely available via SSRN<\/a>.<\/p>\n