Warwick Law School News

Dr Serena Natile receives the IAS Interdisciplinary Research Development Award for the project ‘Pluralising Law and Social Reproduction: Concepts, Methods, Practices’.

The project will result in a hybrid workshop organised at the University of Warwick in June 2026. The workshop will be organised around the streams of concepts, methods, and practices with the purpose to develop an interdisciplinary, anti-colonial, and contextual approach to law and social reproduction. The project examines not only how the law enables the global unequal distribution of social reproduction labours, but also whether an imaginative engagement with the law from the margins can help us to conceptualise, and valorise, social reproduction as a site of resistance. The outputs for this project will include a collaborative academic article, an online library of resources, a policy toolkit, and the creation of a Warwick-based research cluster on law, work and social reproduction.

The project will be led by Serena in collaboration with Donatella Alessandrini (Loughborough), Johanna Del Pilar Cortes Nieto (Universidad del Rosario and Warwick alumna), Shirin Rai (SOAS), the Pluralising Social Reproduction Approaches network, the Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development (WICID), and will see the participation of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender (CSWG) and our WLS gender cluster.

The IRDA scheme offers up to £5000 to support the development of new interdisciplinary research ideas and collaborations at Warwick and the next call for applications will open on 02/02/2026 with a deadline for submissions on 16/03/2026.

Congratulations Serena.

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Find out more about the other academics at Warwick in receipt of the award.