Get to Know Robert Dingwall!
Institution(s):
- Nottingham Trent University
- Dingwall Enterprises Ltd
Number of years as LSA member: 35
Number of LSA Meetings Attended: 30
LSA Officer Position(s) and Committees Served:
- Trustee (1999-02)
- Nominations Committee
- Publications Committee
- Annual Meetings Planning Committee
- Herbert Jacob Book Prize Committee
- Harry J. Kalven Jr. Prize Committee
- Stan Wheeler Mentorship Award Committee
Areas of Research:
- Law and Healthcare
- Dispute Resolution
- Legal Profession
- Law and Language
- Tort
- Family and Children
- Regulation
Favorite Topic to Teach or Research: Law and Healthcare
Major Award(s) or Honors:
- Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences
- Honorary Member of the Faculty of Public Health
- Socio-Legal Studies Association – Contributions to the Socio-Legal Community Award (2020)
Unique Fact: “Dingwall has held grants and contracts worth more than £7 million (at 2017 prices) in total from the Leverhulme and Wellcome Trusts, ESRC, NERC, MRC, EPSRC, BBSRC, the EU, the UK Department of Health and various NHS/NIHR programmes, the Ministry of Justice, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and the Food Standards Agency. These have resulted in 30 books and more than 100 scientific papers.”
Top 3 Books or Articles Published:
(R. Dingwall, J.M. Eekelaar and T. Murray), The Protection of Children: State Intervention and Family Life, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1983.
(D. Greatbatch and R. Dingwall) ‘Selective facilitation: some preliminary observations on a strategy used by divorce mediators’, Law and Society Review, 1989, 23; 4: 613 41.
‘The ethical case against ethical regulation in humanities and social science research’, 21st Century Society, 2008, 3; 1: 1-12.
- NHK World Japan – Coronavirus – Global Agenda: World Lockdown – Battling the Pandemic
- Arriang TV – Coronavirus – Managing the Social and Psychological Impact of Self-Isolation
- Wired.com – We Should Deescalate the War on the Coronavirus
- Social Science Space – Coronavirus UK – Models Or Crystal Balls?
To learn more about Robert’s career and his research, visit his website and NTU bio.