Dr Alison Tarrant
Lecturer in Law
Overview
My research fields are social care and social care regulation in the Welsh and UK contexts and international disability human rights. I have a particular interest in how language, law and policy shape identities and use various qualitative methods to undertake socio-legal research including textual analysis and interviews.
I obtained my PhD in 2019. My thesis examined how the concept of independent living devised by the disabled people’s movement has been absorbed and deployed in Welsh policy and social care law. I am a qualified (non-practising) solicitor and worked in the regulatory and insurance fields before leaving practise to undertake my PhD. I have also worked in the policy and campaigns teams of a number of large non-governmental organisations.
I teach on the LLB modules Torts and Equity & Trusts. I lead and teach the LLM module Social Care Rights and the Law and undertake some teaching on the LLM module Themes in Socio-Legal Research. I have also taught on the LLB modules Legal Foundations and the LLM module International Human Rights Disability Law.
Publication
2022
- Tarrant, A. 2022. Devolution and the difficulty of divergence: the development of adult social care policy in Wales. Critical Social Policy (10.1177/02610183221145404)
- Tarrant, A. and Goodall, C. 2022. Welcome break? Holidays and recreation as eligible needs under the care act 2014. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 44, pp. 544-546. (10.1080/09649069.2022.2136707)
- Tarrant, A. 2022. Independent living as a counter-narrative: a work of resistance and repair. International Journal of Disability and Social Justice 2(1), pp. 48-73.
2021
- Tarrant, A. 2021. Adult social care reform in Wales. Cardiff: Wales Governance Centre, Cardiff University. Available at: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/2569623/Tarrant-2021-Social-Care-Reform-in-Wales-Final.pdf
- Tarrant, A. and Hayes, L. 2021. Exposure to coronavirus in adult social care settings: A matter of safety or safeguarding?. Public Law
2020
- Hayes, L., Johnson, E. and Tarrant, A. 2020. Professionalisation at work in adult social care. GMB. Available at: https://www.gmb.org.uk/sites/default/files/Professionalisation_at_Work_0309.pdf
- Hayes, L., Tarrant, A. and Walters, H. 2020. Care and support workers' perceptions of health and safety issues in social care during the COVID-19 pandemic: Initial findings. University of Kent. Available at: https://media.www.kent.ac.uk/se/11148/CareworkersHealthandSafetyreport15042.pdf
- Tarrant, A. 2020. Personal budgets in adult social care: the fact and the fiction of the Care Act 2014. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 42(3), pp. 281-298. (10.1080/09649069.2020.1796224)
2019
- Tarrant, A. 2019. When resistance meets law and policy: disabled people and the independent living counter-narrative in Wales. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
2018
- Tarrant, A. 2018. Action on disability: the right to independent living (Welsh government, 2018). Rhydian: Online Journal 2, pp. 31-39.
2017
- Kakoullis, E., Series, L. and Tarrant, A. 2017. Comments on the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Draft General Comment No. 5 (2017) Article 19 CRPD: Living independently and being included in the community. Documentation. United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner. Available at: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CRPD/Pages/WSArticle19.aspx
2016
- Tarrant, A. 2016. Supporting people: older people's services. Welsh Government.
Articles
- Tarrant, A. 2022. Devolution and the difficulty of divergence: the development of adult social care policy in Wales. Critical Social Policy (10.1177/02610183221145404)
- Tarrant, A. and Goodall, C. 2022. Welcome break? Holidays and recreation as eligible needs under the care act 2014. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 44, pp. 544-546. (10.1080/09649069.2022.2136707)
- Tarrant, A. 2022. Independent living as a counter-narrative: a work of resistance and repair. International Journal of Disability and Social Justice 2(1), pp. 48-73.
- Tarrant, A. and Hayes, L. 2021. Exposure to coronavirus in adult social care settings: A matter of safety or safeguarding?. Public Law
- Tarrant, A. 2020. Personal budgets in adult social care: the fact and the fiction of the Care Act 2014. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 42(3), pp. 281-298. (10.1080/09649069.2020.1796224)
- Tarrant, A. 2018. Action on disability: the right to independent living (Welsh government, 2018). Rhydian: Online Journal 2, pp. 31-39.
Monographs
- Tarrant, A. 2021. Adult social care reform in Wales. Cardiff: Wales Governance Centre, Cardiff University. Available at: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/2569623/Tarrant-2021-Social-Care-Reform-in-Wales-Final.pdf
- Hayes, L., Johnson, E. and Tarrant, A. 2020. Professionalisation at work in adult social care. GMB. Available at: https://www.gmb.org.uk/sites/default/files/Professionalisation_at_Work_0309.pdf
- Hayes, L., Tarrant, A. and Walters, H. 2020. Care and support workers' perceptions of health and safety issues in social care during the COVID-19 pandemic: Initial findings. University of Kent. Available at: https://media.www.kent.ac.uk/se/11148/CareworkersHealthandSafetyreport15042.pdf
- Kakoullis, E., Series, L. and Tarrant, A. 2017. Comments on the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Draft General Comment No. 5 (2017) Article 19 CRPD: Living independently and being included in the community. Documentation. United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner. Available at: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CRPD/Pages/WSArticle19.aspx
- Tarrant, A. 2016. Supporting people: older people's services. Welsh Government.
Thesis
- Tarrant, A. 2019. When resistance meets law and policy: disabled people and the independent living counter-narrative in Wales. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Teaching
I teach on the LLB modules Torts and Equity and Trusts. I lead and teach the LLM module Social Care Rights and the Law and undertake some teaching on the LLM module Themes in Socio-Legal Research. I have also taught on the LLB modules Legal Foundations and the LLM module International Human Rights Disability Law.