Professor Anna Lawson, who is blind, co-directs the Centre for Law and Social Justice at the University of Leeds and co-directed the Centre for Disability Studies from 2015-2023. Her work focuses on disability equality and human rights at international, national and local levels with a particular focus on issues of equality, accessibility and inclusion.
She has led a range of multinational research projects on disability rights and justice, including a European Research Council Advanced Grant on Inclusive Public Space. Anna regularly works closely with inter-governmental organisations, national governments and local government. She is an active member of a range of disabled people’s organisations and the patron of the National Association of Disabled Staff Networks.
Anna is one of the founding editors of the new Hart Series on Disability, Law and Justice, and Fellow of the British Academy and the Academy of Social Sciences. In recognition of her work on disability equality, she was awarded the international Bob Hepple Memorial Prize by the Equal Rights Trust and Industrial Law Society in 2016.
