Flick Adams

Biography

Flick Adams is an Associate Lecturer at The Open University, a Doctoral Researcher at Keele University and a Facilitator.

They graduated with an LLB Hons in Law and an LLM (Distinction) in Law and Society from Keele University. Flick received an internal doctoral Graduate Teaching Assistantship scholarship (2018 – 2021) and embarked on their PhD studies at Keele in autumn 2018.

They are currently a contributor to the Queer Judgments Project led by Dr Marica Moscati, Dr Sen Raj, and Professor Nuno Ferreira: https://www.queerjudgments.org

Flick is also an Associate Member of The Cornelia Goethe Center for Women's and Gender Studies (CGC) where they were recently Guest Researcher.

Flick recently provided research assistance to Dr Sen Raj for his project ‘Affectively Queer: The Emotional Dynamics of Teaching LGBT+ Rights in Law Schools’ funded by the Association of Law Teachers.

With Dr Fabienne Emmerich, Flick is co-founder and co-facilitator of Read and Resist! a collective and collaborative web-platform that brings together a host of diverse community voices on all aspects of transformative justice. As part of their web platform, they have a monthly open digital reading group (Read and Resist!), a blog (Write and Resist!), a podcast (Listen and Resist!), and a YouTube Channel (Watch and Resist!). You can also follow Read and Resist! on Twitter and Instagram or email at: readandresist20@gmail.com to find out more about how you can get involved.

Research and scholarship

Working title: Defying ‘Placement’ and Redefining Location: Mapping Mobility, Agency, Subjectivity, Embodiment and the Possibilities for (Trans)formation Within and Across Carceral Space from the Spatial, Cultural and Material.

Keywords: Prison Abolition, Queer Abolition, Abolition Feminism, Transformative Methodology, Trans Prison Policies, Carceral Geography, Agency, Subjectivity, Space, Place, and Embodiment.

Flick’s doctoral project examines, through a queer-feminist abolitionist critique, how the prison system in England and Wales constructs and recognises identities, redistributes resources, and locates trans women within the prison – in spatial, cultural, and material terms at the textual level. Flick’s research sits at the intersection of Gender, Sexuality and Law, Socio-Legal Approaches, Carceral Geography and Critical Prison Studies. This is a Law PhD Project funded by a Keele University School of Law Graduate Teaching Assistant faculty scholarship.

Flick’s research interests include:

• Gender, Sexuality and Incarceration/Imprisonment
• Gender, Sexuality and the Criminal Legal System
• Carceral Geography and Carceral Space(s)
• Transgender Prison Policies
• Queer and Feminist Theory
• Prisons, Punishment, State Violence and Abolition
• Transformative Justice
• Disability Justice

Supervisory team

Lead Supervisor: Dr Fabienne Emmerich (Law)
Co-supervisors: Dr Mary Corcoran (Criminology), Dr Jane Krishnadas (Law)

Teaching

Flick is currently an Associate Lecturer at The Open University where they provide distance correspondence tuition on Law, Society and Culture and Criminology. They take an experimental, collaborative, and interdisciplinary approach teaching and learning of law, society, and justice.

Flick engages with all aspects of teaching and learning at undergraduate and postgraduate level across multiple institutions online, in-situ and correspondence across Law and Criminology. Flick is currently finalizing their application for Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

During their time at Keele they delivered teaching and designed learning activities and facilitated learning support and feedback on a host of core and elective modules across disciplines; including Legal Skills and Systems, Gender, Sexuality and the Law, Foundations in Law and Society Research: Theories and Concepts, Socio-legal Studies: Applications and Themes, Disability Law, and Equality, Discrimination and Minorities, and Crime and Justice in a Global Context.public