Family, Relationality and Kinship
We bring together academics from various schools and disciplines at Sussex who are researching topics broadly related to the family and personal relationships.
Collaborate with us
We welcome contact from academics from any discipline who are working on related topics, including academics from Sussex, other universities and independent researchers.
We are also interested in establishing contacts with non-academics working in areas that may be impacted by our research. This includes legal professionals, educators, social workers, relationship counsellors and mental health professionals.
Contact us at family@sussex.ac.uk if you are interested in working with us.
We collaborate with the following research centres:
- Centre for Gender Studies
- Sussex Centre for Human Rights Research
- Centre for Cultures of Reproduction, Technologies and Health
- Andrew and Virginia Rudd Centre for Adoption Research and Practice
- Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth
- Centre for Sexual Dissidence.
Selected grants and publications
Read about our selected grants and publications.
- Grants
- It's (NOT) just blood: Identifying gaps and exploring the intersections of menstrual health, adolescent’s rights, and environmental sustainability – Awarded by International Development Challenge Fund (IDCF) & Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP); PI Dr Chi Eziefuela (BSMS); CO-I Dr Maria Federica Moscati; Prof. Maya Unnithan, January 2020
- ’We exist too’: Young Trans Perspectives on Legal Gender Recognition Laws in England and Wales – Awarded by the SLSA; PI: Dr Maria Federica Moscati; Co-I Dr Peter Dunne, University of Bristol, January 2019
- Publications
- Bremner, P, Gay and Lesbian Collaborative Co-Parenting in New Zealand and the United Kingdom: ‘The Law Doesn’t Protect the Third Parent’ 2020 Social and Legal Studies29(4):507-526, with Surtees N,
- Bremner, P, Birth registration: ‘coherent and certain’ or ‘an occasion for exquisite embarrassment and confusion’? 2020 Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law
- Bremner, P, Collaborative co-parenting and heteronormativity: recognising the interests of gay fathers 2017 Child and Family Law Quarterly 29:293-312
- Bremner, P, Surrogacy and Single Parents Following Re Z 2017 EDINBURGH LAW REVIEW 21(2):281-286
- Bremner, P, Lesbian parents and biological fathers – leave to apply for contact 2014 Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 36:79-81
- Moscati, F, Family Mediation: Contemporary Issues, London: Bloomsbury Professional (Co-edited with Marian Roberts). 2020
- Moscati, F, ‘Negotiating within legal ambiguity: same-sex partners, family disputes and negotiation in Italy’, in Moscati, Palmer and Roberts (eds) Comparative Dispute Resolution, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 146-157. 2020
- Moscati, F, ‘We have method but still there is so much to do: mediation for gender and sexually diverse relationships’, in Roberts and Moscati (eds) Family Mediation: Contemporary Issues, Bloomsbury, pp. 227-250. 2020
- Moscati, F, ‘Dispute Resolution, Domestic Violence and Abuse between Lesbian Partners’, in C. Ashford and A.Maine (eds) Research Handbook on Gender, Sexuality and the Law, Edward Elgar Publishing , pp. 270-282. 2020
- Moscati, F, 'R (on the Application of Begum) v Governors of Denbigh High School' in Helen Stalford; Kathryn Hollingsworth, and Stephen Gilmore, (eds.) Rewriting Children’s rights judgments. From Academic Vision to New Practice, Hart, Oxford, pp.352-361. 2017
- Moscati, F, Same-Sex Couples and Mediation in the EU, (edited) for EU Commission - DG Civil Justice – Project: Litigious Love: Same-Sex Couples and Mediation in the EU. Printed by Wildy, Simmonds & Hill. ISBN 9780854901661. 2015
- Moscati, F, Pasolini’s Italian Premonitions: Same-Sex Unions and the Law in Comparative Perspective, London: Wildy, Simmonds & Hill. 2014