Dr Maria Moscati 

Maria Federica Moscati (Marica) joined the University of Sussex in 2015. She holds a PhD from SOAS and is an Italian advocate and trained mediator.  She has previously convened and lectured at SOAS, Queen Mary and UCL - University of London, and at the University of Shantou in the People’s Republic of China. Before undertaking her doctorate, she practised as family lawyer, and worked for Save the Children Italy where she specialised in children’s rights. Her main research interests lie in issues relating to Dispute Resolution, Access to Justice, Comparative Family Law, Children's rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, Reproductive and Health Cultures, and their intersection. She has designed and launched the Mediation Clinic at Sussex, and an interdisciplinary learning initiative on Dance in Law, Politics and Sociology. She is co-director of the Centre for Cultures of Reproduction, Technologies and Health at University of Sussex;  co-editor for EUP of the book series Comparative Legal Studies, Society and Justice; chair of the Family, Relationality and Kinship research group at the University of Sussex; member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Comparative Law. She is Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. For her research on mediation and non-heteronormative families she has been awarded the National Mediation Award for Diversity and Inclusion 2022. Maria Federica combines academic interests with activism in support of LGBTIQ+ people, and children.