Centre for Law, Society and Popular Culture: July News

Professor Pippa Catterall presented on her recent co-authored report on ‘Queering Public Space’ at webinars for international infrastructure group Arup and the international architectural practice WilkinsonEyre. She also published ‘Changing the narrative: Planning for how women use space’ on the Women in Planning blogpost.

Professor Steve Greenfield gave a lecture to The European Law Students’ Association (ELSA) on ‘Regulating the UK Entertainment Industry (Post) COVID’ and was interviewed for The Junction on the super league. He also chaired a panel at our Westminster Conference  Advancing Conversation about EDI in football event and wrote on the Tour de France for The Conversation.

We noted previously the great news that we had received £88,300 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for the Soho Poly. We are delighted to share further funding successes this month. First, Dr Matthew Morrison and Professor Guy Osborn were awarded £1,761 by the British Academy/AHRC for their ‘Soho after COVID’ project for the Being Human Festival 2021. This ties in with their ACC funded project ‘The Cultural Impact of COVID-19 on London Arts Venues’. 

We also had some more success on capital funding for the Soho Poly along with our colleagues Jules Attanyake and Jordan Scammell from the Development Team. As Jules writes: “We welcomed our first donation today from The John Coates Charitable Trust for £5,000, and are greatly anticipating more donations from donors this year, after spending 2 years building on our incredible artistic legacy from the Soho Poly.” Find out more about the funding campaign and how to make a donation on the University website. 

With the Olympics starting on 23 July, we celebrated our Olympic history, and in particular Harry Edward, the first black British Olympian, with a lightbox in our 309 Regent Street foyer. During Euro 2020, Guy Osborn’s work on ticket touting was also used for a piece in The Athletic.