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
- Person-centred process? Procedural fairness and Care Act 2014 needs assessments
- Leishman Eppie, Meers Jed, Halliday Simon, Tomlinson Joe
- British Journal of Social Work (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaf076
- Reforming the Public and Private Law of the Tenement
- Carr Daniel J, Halliday Simon
- Juridical Review Vol 2025, pp. 1-24 (2025)
- An ‘interface first’ bureaucracy : interface design, universal credit and the digital welfare state
- Meers Jed, Halliday Simon, Tomlinson Joe
- Social Policy and Administration Vol 59, pp. 119-134 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.13053
- Governmental influence over rights consciousness : public perceptions of the COVID-19 lockdown
- Halliday Simon, Jones Andrew, Meers Jed, Tomlinson Joe
- Journal of Law and Society Vol 51, pp. S83-S101 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12498
- 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, pp. 1-21 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639241288822
- Thought styles on administrative justice systems
- Arvind TT, Halliday Simon, Stirton Lindsay
- Socio-Legal Generation Essays in Honour of Michael Adler (2024) (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-67244-6_6
Professional Activities
- External PhD Examination
- Examiner
- 28/3/2025
- Procedural Legitimacy Logics in the Digital Welfare State
- Speaker
- 4/7/2024
- Governmental Influence over Rights Consciousness
- Speaker
- 26/6/2024
- What is Bureaucratic Justice (and why does it matter)?
- Speaker
- 13/6/2024
- Conducting qualitative interviews
- Speaker
- 8/5/2024
- Research Masters Dissertation Examination
- Examiner
- 10/4/2024
Projects
- 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
- Administrative fairness in the digital welfare state
- Halliday, Simon (Principal Investigator)
- 20-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
- From Everyday Forms of Resistance to Transformational Climate Change Adaptation of the Urban Poor (TRANSIST)
- Halliday, Simon (Principal Investigator)
- 20-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2024
- Administrative Fairness in the Digital Welfare State
- Halliday, Simon (Co-investigator) Tomlinson, Joe (Principal Investigator) Meers, Jed (Co-investigator) Seyd, Ben (Co-investigator) Cichocka, Aleksandra (Co-investigator) Bins, Reubin (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2024
Contact
Professor
Simon
Halliday
Professor Of Socio-Legal Studies
Law
Email: simon.halliday@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3878