Professor Simon Halliday
Professor Of Socio-Legal Studies
Law
Personal statement
I joined the Law School at the University of Strathclyde as Professor of Socio-Legal Studies in 2023. Prior to this I worked at York Law School (2011-2023). Before York, I was at the University of Strathclyde (2005-11) and at the University of Oxford (2000-05). During 2016-17, I was also Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Since 2015, I have been a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
I have two main research interests. First, I conduct work on administrative justice, focusing particularly on street-level decision-making and public perceptions of administrative fairness. With Joe Tomlinson and Jed Meers (University of York), I am a founding member of the Administrative Fairness Lab. Second, I conduct work on legal culture, focusing especially on issues of legal consciousness and law in everyday life. In this regard, I have conducted projects relating to environmental, medical and social welfare issues.
Publications
- Just Bureaucracy : Managing Claims Fairly in the Modern Welfare State
- Cichocka Aleksandra, Halliday Simon, Meers Jed, Seyd Ben, Tomlinson Joe
- (2027)
- The importance of assistance for disability benefits claiming : administrative burden, bureaucratic rationality, and the false promise of equality
- Friskney Ruth, Halliday Simon, Meers Jed, MacIntyre Gillian, Seyd Ben, Tomlinson Joe
- Journal of Social Security Law (2026)
- What do the public think about artificial intelligence note-taking tools in social care?
- Meers Jed, Leishman Eppie, Salter Izzie, Halliday Simon, Tomlinson Joe
- European Social Work Research (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1332/27551768Y2025D000000067
- A socio-legal perspective on land market informality and accountability in urban land governance
- Hoddy Eric, Halliday Simon, Ensor Jon, Macome Amelia, Wamsler Christine, Boyd Emily
- World Development Vol 195 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107110
- How does legal culture matter for climate mobilities? A case study in an unplanned coastal settlement in urban Mozambique
- Halliday Simon, Hoddy Eric, Ensor Jonathan, Wamsler Christine, Boyd Emily, Macome Amelia
- Social and Legal Studies Vol 34, pp. 652-672 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639241288822
- Person-centred process? Procedural fairness and Care Act 2014 needs assessments
- Leishman Eppie, Meers Jed, Halliday Simon, Tomlinson Joe
- British Journal of Social Work Vol 55, pp. 2856-2874 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaf076
Professional Activities
- Paper presentation at Social Security Scotland
- Recipient
- 27/11/2025
- Roundtable Discussion about Adult Disability Payment Benefit System
- Recipient
- 18/11/2025
- External PhD Examination
- Examiner
- 28/3/2025
- Strategic Themes: Increasing Policymaker Engagement with Research Funding Workshop
- Participant
- 20/2/2025
- Journal of Law and Society (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 2025
- Procedural Legitimacy Logics in the Digital Welfare State
- Speaker
- 4/7/2024
Projects
- Getting the balance right in private sector evictions in Scotland
- Combe, Malcolm (Principal Investigator) Halliday, Simon (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2028
- Interrupted time series analysis of antidepressant prescriptions in Scotland
- Halliday, Simon (Principal Investigator) Csoban, Tunde (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2025
- Administrative Fairness in Social Care Needs Assessment
- Halliday, Simon (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2026
- Administrative Fairness and Social Security for Adults with Disabilities
- Halliday, Simon (Principal Investigator) Deeming, Chris (Co-investigator) MacIntyre, Gillian (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2025
- Debt by Design: Universal Credit, Deductions and Administrative Justice
- Halliday, Simon (Principal Investigator) Tomlison, Joe (Co-investigator) Meers, Jed (Co-investigator)
- This ESRC studentship project will investigate the lived experience of Universal Credit benefit deductions, exploring its impact on claimants’ lives. In partnership with a prominent legal NGO, the Public Law Project, it will use this analysis to ground policy work to make deductions decision-making fairer.
- 25-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2026
- Over-policed and Under-Protected: Administrative Justice, Criminal Justice, and Positive Obligations to Protect 'Legally Vulnerable' Groups
- Halliday, Simon (Co-investigator) Tomlinson, Joe (Principal Investigator) Meers, Jed (Co-investigator) Martin, Richard (Co-investigator) Cook, Elizabeth (Co-investigator) Weir, Ruth (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
Contact
Professor
Simon
Halliday
Professor Of Socio-Legal Studies
Law
Email: simon.halliday@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3878