Charlotte 

KELLY

Charlotte Kelly is a DPhil candidate at University of Oxford and a recipient of the ESRC 1+3 Studentship and Balliol College Dervorguilla Scholarship. In her DPhil, Charlotte explores how the legal construction of the image of the adolescent in Singapore and Malaysia has changed in the span of time from the late colonial period to the present day, and what factors account for these changes.

Charlotte’s broader research interests include reform in family law in England, with a particular focus on how it serves children, comparative child protection law, a sociological analysis of children’s leisure culture, and exploring the intersection between transcultural psychiatry and socio-legal research. She is keenly active in the Oxford Disability Law and Policy Project, organising and presenting a paper at the inaugural conference and working on multiple committees to integrate disability studies into the law curriculum.

Charlotte completed her BA (Law) at Trinity College, Cambridge in 2014. In 2014-15, funded by the Hollond Fund Travelling Studentship, she completed her LLM (Asian Legal Studies) at the Faculty of Law National University of Singapore (NUS). While studying, Charlotte worked as a research assistant at the Van Vollenhoven Institute at Leiden University, looking particularly at Indonesian law, and have assisted in socio-legal research and publishing at NUS. She has contributed to law and development projects in Cambridge, and volunteered in providing legal advice at the Citizens Advice Bureau. She regularly gives short lectures to school children from non-traditional backgrounds aspiring to come to Oxford, under the Pathways scheme.

Family Law, Comparative Child Protection Law, Intersection between Transcultural Psychiatry and Socio-Legal Research