麻豆传媒

Dr Michael Ashworth joined 麻豆传媒 Law School in August 2023 as a Lecturer in Public Law. His expertise lies in medical regulation, with a primary emphasis on socio-legal, theoretically-informed approaches to analysing regulatory dilemmas. He received his PhD from the University of Bristol Law School in 2019, which was funded through an Economic and Social Research Council 3 + 1 studentship, including an MSc in Socio-Legal Studies. He has previously studied at University College London and the University of Sussex.

Michael has teaching experience in the fields of public law, medical law, and socio-legal studies. At 麻豆传媒 Law School, he has taught Constitutional Law, Administrative Law & Human Rights, and Medical Law and Bioethics.

Before joining 麻豆传媒 Law School, Michael worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate on a Wellcome Trust project (Investigator Award, 2017-2023) at Kent Law School, entitled “Law, knowledges and the making of ‘modern healthcare'”, led by Professor Emilie Cloatre. Outside of academia, Michael has worked with the Human Dignity Trust (London), the United Nations Development Programme (Belmopan), and the British High Commission Belize.

RESEARCH AREAS

• Healthcare regulation.
• Medical pluralism.
• Global health.
• Media, governance, and health.
• Foucault and governmentality studies.
• Science and technology studies (STS).
• Socio-legal methodologies and methods.

Michael's broad research interest lies in analysing state responses towards unproven, uncertain and/or otherwise contested knowledge, particularly in healthcare contexts. Currently, his research interrogates regulatory dilemmas and tensions surrounding the professionals, practices and products associated with traditional, complementary and alternative medicine.

DOCTORAL SUPERVISION

Michael is happy to discuss potential doctoral supervision on socio-legal, critical, interdisciplinary or otherwise theoretical projects focussed on regulatory issues in medicine and healthcare (national, comparative, regional or global).

Michael teaches the following modules:

• Constitutional Law
• Administrative Law & Human Rights
• Medical Law & Bioethics

• Articles

  • Ashworth M, Cloatre E. . Social Theory & Health 2024, 22, 301-319.
  • Ashworth M. . Social & Legal Studies 2024, 33(6), 863-883.
  • Ashworth M, Cloatre E. . International Journal of Law in Context 2022, 18(4), 476-498.
  • Cloatre E, Urquiza-Haas N, Ashworth M. . Osiris 2021, 36, 328-348.
  • Ashworth M. Affective governmentality: Governing through disgust in Uganda. Social & Legal Studies 2017, 26(2).