Project Commenced: 1 Feburary 2019

Project Completion Date: 30 June 2021

 

Project Title
Health Governance After Brexit: Law, Language and Legitimacy

 

Project PI/s
Professor Tamara Hervey (PI) Dr Mark Flear (Co-I, PI on QUB side)

 

Awarding Bodies
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

 

Other staff or partners involved
Dr Matthew Wood (Co-I) Dr Ivanka Antova (RF)

 

Project Overview
Professor Tamara Hervey, from the University of Sheffield’s School of Law, is leading a two-year project with Queen’s University Belfast looking at post-Brexit governance in an area that was critical in the referendum debates: health and the NHS. The project is part of the ESRC's Governance after Brexit programme. The project team is Professor Hervey; Dr Matthew Wood (University of Sheffield's Department of Politics) and Dr Mark Flear (Queen's University Belfast's School of Law); and Dr Ivanka Antova (Queen's University Belfast's School of Law). Guided by co-producers from the health policy sector, we are analysing the implications for health and the NHS of new post-referendum legal texts as they emerge. We are also gathering views from the public in the North of England and Northern Ireland using ‘hit and run’ street conversations – a novel form of ethnographic research. We are comparing the legal language, the elite language used in health contexts, and the language of the public, focusing on metaphors and stories, to uncover the extent to which post-Brexit health governance can be said to be legitimate.

 

Any relevant links to website or project output
HGAB Website (includes project outputs): https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/law/news/health-governance-after-brexit-law-language-and-legitimacy HGAB Twitter: @brexithealthlaw Professor Tamara Hervey: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/law/people/law-academic-staff/tamara-hervey Dr Mark Flear: https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/mark-flear Dr Matthew Wood: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/politics/people/academic-staff/matthew-wood Dr Ivanka Antova: https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ivanka-antova