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Exploring issues relating to wellbeing and the law

Richard Collier is exploring a range of issues relating to wellbeing and the law. This draws funded research projects, including a .

Richard looks at wellbeing and mental health in the legal community. His research encompasses legal practice and universities.

Richard is writing a monograph for  (Law and Context series). It brings to these debates around wellbeing a more nuanced understanding of law and legal regulation.

He has also recently completed a study of anxiety amongst junior lawyers. This was funded by the charity  and supported by the . We have uploaded the briefing report).

Richard's working on a new research project. It explores the relationship between men and gender equality and intersections between gender and wellbeing in a UK university.

Funders

2019: 鈥楨ngaging Men in the Gender Equality Agenda: A Case Study of Senior Management and the Intersections of EDI and Wellbeing in a UK University鈥� Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Fund Award, 拢2,354

2018: 鈥楾he Experiences of Anxiety Amongst UK Junior Lawyers鈥� funded by the national mental health charity Anxiety UK, Katherine and Harold Fisher Anxiety Research Fund.

2017-18: , 鈥榃ellbeing, Law and Society: Politics, Policy and Practice 鈥� A Socio-Legal Study鈥� 拢47,587

2014: Research Activities Fund Society of Legal Scholars, 鈥榃ellbeing in the Legal Profession鈥� 拢1,059

Outputs of research

• Book (in progress) Wellbeing, Law and Society: Politics, Policy and Practice, contracted by Cambridge University Press (Law in Context Series)
• 鈥淲ellbeing in the Legal Profession: Reflections on Recent Developments (or, what do we talk about when we talk about wellbeing?鈥� (2016) 23(1) International Journal of the Legal Profession pp 41-60.
• 鈥淣aming Men as Men in Corporate Legal Practice: Gender and the Idea of 鈥榁irtually 4/7 Commitment鈥� in Law鈥� (2015) 83 Fordham Law Review pp 101 鈥� 120.
• 鈥樷�楲ove Law, Love Life鈥�: Neo-Liberalism, Wellbeing and Gender in the Legal Profession - The Case of Law School鈥� (2014) 17(2) Legal Ethics pp202-230
• 鈥楩atherhood, Gender and the Making of Professional Identity in Large Law Firms: Bringing Men into the Frame鈥� (2018) International Journal of Law in Context pp1-20
• 鈥淩ethinking Men, Masculinities and the Legal Academy: Or, Whatever Happened to the 鈥楴utty Professor?鈥欌�� (in press), invited chapter for U.Schultz (eds) Gender and Careers in the Legal Academy, Oxford, Hart.
• 鈥業nterrogating Transnational Masculinities, Fatherhood and the Institution of Men ~Rethinking Gender Equity in Global Finance and Large International Law Firms鈥� (2019) chapter (co-written with Helen Longlands), invited contribution to book The Unsustainable Institutions of Men: Interrogating Transnational Centres, Institutions and Power. Editors: Jeff Hearn, Winifred Poster, Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila
• 鈥淲ork-Life Balance鈥�, 鈥淲ellbeing鈥�(2016) sections in Chis Ashford and Jessica Guth (eds) The Legal Academic鈥檚 Handbook London, Palgrave MacMillan.
• 鈥淩ethinking Men and Masculinities in the Contemporary Legal Profession: The Example of Fatherhood, Transnational Business Masculinities and Work-Life Balance in Large Law Firms鈥� (2013) 13 Nevada Law Journal pp 101-130.
• 鈥楽urviving or Thriving?鈥� Researching wellbeing in the Legal Profession鈥�, Law Society of England and Wales Blog, 13 May 2019, available at
• 鈥楬ow do we tackle the legal profession鈥檚 mental health problem?鈥�, Legal Cheek Blog, 29 April 2019, available at
• 鈥楾he Wellbeing of Legal Academics 鈥� A Missing Piece of the Legal Profession鈥檚 鈥榃ellness Turn鈥�, Socio-Legal Studies Association Blog Post, April 2019, available at
• Research Report: 鈥楢nxiety and Wellbeing Amongst Junior Lawyers: A Research Report to Anxiety UK鈥�, submitted February 2019.
• 鈥楻esearch Project Examines the Wellbeing of Junior Lawyers鈥� (2018), 108 (Winter 2018) Anxious Times, the online magazine of the charity Anxiety UK.
• 鈥楢 Lawyers Guide to Managing Stress and Wellbeing鈥� (2018) Review, Law Society Gazette
• 鈥榃ellbeing and Mental Health in the Legal Community: Making the Connections Between Legal Practice and Law Schools鈥� (2017) SLSA Newsletter, 83 Autumn/Winter 2017 p 12-13
• 鈥榃ellbeing in the Legal Profession: The (Un)Happy Lawyer?鈥� (2015) The Reporter: Newsletter of the Society of Legal Scholars, 51 Autumn pp4-6
• Book chapter (commissioned): for the book Wellbeing in a Changing World: The Impact of Technology and innovation in the Legal Profession, J.Chan and P. Vines (eds) Submission 2019.

Media work

Interview, in Abby Young Powell (2018) 鈥楾he Toxic, Cut Throat: The Work Culture awaiting Junior Lawyers鈥� The Guardian 13 December 2018.

Interview, in Catherine Baksi (2018) 鈥楬elp us at hand for students struggling with Mental health鈥� The Times Brief: Student Law Week 19 February 2018.