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Davina Cooper is a Research Professor focused on Law and Political Theory. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work examines concepts related to transformative politics, state activism, and experimental communities. Between 2018 and 2022, she led the ESRC-funded project Future Legal Gender, which explored the implications of abolishing legal sex and gender status. Most recently, she embarked on a two-year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship titled 'Gender Conceptual Imagination', aimed at enhancing the understanding of methodological and theoretical approaches to gender. She has a rich publishing record, with notable books including 'Feeling Like a State: Desire, Denial, and Recasting Authority' (Duke, 2019) and 'Everyday Utopias: Conceptual Life in Promising Spaces' (Duke, 2014). Cooper directed the AHRC Research Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality from 2004 to 2009 and served as Research Dean in the Faculty of Social Science at Keele from 2000 to 2003. She has also been a specialist advisor to the Education Employment Parliamentary Select Committee and is a founding editor of an interdisciplinary book series on Social Justice. Cooper's research of the past 30 years focuses on conceptual innovation and methodologies that support new conceptual thinking, with an emphasis on state and non-state governance, particularly as it relates to gender, sexuality, and religion.
King's College London • London, ENG
Leading research projects in law and political theory with a focus on gender and state relationships.
Keele University • Keele, ENG
Oversaw research initiatives within the Faculty of Social Sciences.
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