Dr Alison Tarrant

Lecturer in Law

School of Law and Politics

: TarrantAE2@cardiff.ac.uk
: +44 29208 74580

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.

Date
Type

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.

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.