Family, Regulation and Society Network

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The Network on Family, Regulation and Society, is a collaboration of academics from family law and related disciplines from the Universities of Exeter, Bristol and Cardiff. In response to the increasing diversity of family life, the network is engaged in a socio-legal research agenda to explore the implications of these changes for the regulation of family and personal relationships in law and policy. In so doing, it aims to ensure that family policy can be built on high-quality evidence and critical scholarship.

As one of the academics involved in the Network comments, "Our network addresses the legal and policy implications of profound recent changes in family life, locating these within a national, international, and comparative context. Family policy is hotly debated in politics and problems can arise when debates are reduced to highly emotive commentary without the research evidence to back it up. This area of law and policy affects so many people in very personal, sensitive, and intimate ways, and it is critically important that high-quality research informs the debate."

The Network gratefully acknowledges the support of its funding partners, including AHRC, Department for Education, Department for Work and Pensions, ESRC, The Family Justice Council, The Leverhulme Trust, The Ministry of Justice, Nuffield Family Justice Observatory, The Nuffield Foundation, The Socio Legal Studies Association, and The Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, for individual research projects.

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University of Exeter
Streatham Campus
Northcote House
Exeter
EX4 4QJ