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Michael Ashworth

@michaelashworth.bsky.social
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Sociolegal academic at Newcastle Law School. Interested in medical regulation, medical pluralism, and talking about methodology. ENG/PT. 🏳️‍🌈

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oxfordcsls.bsky.social @oxfordcsls.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
In this week's Frontiers' 📕 Methodological Musings section, Richard Mullender (Newcastle Law School) reflects on how deconstruction can be used to understand cross-pressures in law.  📖 Read the full article here:  frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/law-cross-pr...
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Law, Cross-Pressures, and Deconstruction - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies
In this Methodological Musings post, Richard Mullender reflects on how deconstruction can be used to understand cross-pressures in law.
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Cambridge University Press - Law @cambup-law.cambridge.org · 14/01/2026
Examines the European Commission’s concerns around the economic power of the US and China, its own security vulnerabilities, and how dependent it is upon technologies produced outside of its territory. 'Geopolitical Union' by Benjamin Farrand, Coming Soon #LawSky #EU cup.org/49d4mO9
"Geopolitical Union: Europe's Attempt to Take Back Control of Technology Regulation" by Benjamin Farrand
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Michael Ashworth @michaelashworth.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Hahahaha
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Emily Jones @emilyjones.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Join us on the 22nd October 2025 from 1-2pm UK time for this talk by Professor Susan Marks (LSE) on: 'If the World Is a Family, What Kind of Family Is It?' This event will be held online and in person and all are welcome. To register, please go to: www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/i...
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Newcastle Law School, UK @research-nulawuk.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Thank you to the excellent panelists, panel chairs, and attendees for making this symposium possible, we couldn’t have done any of it without you.
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Law's a Drag @lawsadrag.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Coming up this week! Book your tickets for our big gay cabaret here: www.eventbookings.com/b/event/law-... 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🏳️‍🌈💋💖🎉
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Law's a Drag:
Law's a Drag Presents:
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Michael Ashworth @michaelashworth.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
São Paulo, here I come! 🇧🇷
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 22/07/2025
How many Britons believe in supernatural creatures or phenomenon? Hypnotism: 60% say definitely/probably real Karma: 38% Ghosts: 38% Telepathy: 30% Reiki: 30% Astrology: 23% Witches: 21% Speaking to dead: 20% Magic: 19% Crystal healing: 17% Loch Ness monster: 12% Vampires: 8% Werewolves: 8%
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Michael Ashworth @michaelashworth.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
🚨You have just 1 week left (deadline 7 July) to get your abstracts in for Newcastle Law School's 2-day methodologies symposium, celebrating a whole gamut of methods, methodologies, and approaches, with fabulous keynotes! 👀 Full details on our webpage: www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/i...
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Newcastle Law School, UK @research-nulawuk.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Call for papers! We're hosting a symposium exploring legal methods and methodologies in September and the call for abstracts is now open. We're excited that ‪@pagingdrpaige.bsky.social‬ & Prof Linda Mulcahy will be joining us as keynotes! How to submit and event details in the link
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Methodologies Symposium 'Law is but let me explain it once more' - Newcastle Law School - Newcastle University
Exploring diverse, plural, interdisciplinary, critical, decolonial, anti-colonial and socio-legal methodologies alongside doctrinal and mainstream approaches.
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Call for papers for a major two-day conference on Legal Methodologies exploring the nature of the discipline, with really important keynote speakers. Any abstracts, if you are interested in participating, to be emailed to law.research@ncl.ac.uk by 7 July.
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Michael Ashworth @michaelashworth.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Our inaugural workshop for SMI, a LatAm/European ECR socio-legal network, is days away - and we couldn't be more thrilled! Generously funded by @slsauk.bsky.social 's International Collaboration Grant and Max Plank Law, and supported by Universidad de O'Higgins, Chile. www.ncl.ac.uk/law/research...
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Socio-legal Methodological Interrogations (SMI)
Socio-legal Methodological Interrogations: a LatAm-European ECR Network is funded by the SLSA International Collaboration Grant and Max Planck Law, and supported by Universidad de O'Higgins, Chile.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/04/2025
Interest in the anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin is resurging as conservative influencers promote it — and spread misinformation about it.
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Why the Right Still Embraces Ivermectin
Five years after the pandemic began, interest in the anti-parasitic drug is rising again as right-wing influencers promote it — and spread misinformation about it.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Begging public health leaders to understand the basic fundamentals of misinformation.
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Michael Ashworth @michaelashworth.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
My latest article appeared in print last month in Social & Legal Studies 🗣️. It builds on insights from decentred regulation scholarship to reconceptualise British newspaper coverage of CAM as a form of decentred, 'everyday' healthcare regulation: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Michael Ashworth @michaelashworth.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
New article co-authored with the wonderful Emilie Cloatre in Social Theory & Health, where we use homeopathy's defunding from the public health systems of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and 🇫🇷 to explore the unpredictability of law and regulation as techniques of governmentality: doi.org/10.1057/s412...
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