Our Team
Professor Dame Hazel Genn
Professor Dame Hazel Genn is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies in the Faculty of Laws at UCL. She was Dean of the Faculty 2008-2017 and is currently Director of the UCL Centre for Access to Justice, which she founded in 2013. She is a leading empirical legal researcher and expert on access to civil and administrative justice. Her work has had a global influence on policymakers in relation to the provision of legal aid and the social and health effects of unmet legal need. Between 2016-2018 she developed the activities of the UCL Centre for Access to Justice to include an innovative partnership with a GP practice in East London delivering free social welfare legal advice to low income and vulnerable patients within the practice. She has been appointed to numerous public service roles concerned with the justice system, including the Judicial Appointments Commission (2006-2011) appointing judiciary at all levels including to the Court of Appeal and UK Supreme Court. In recognition of her contribution to the justice system, she was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2000 and appointed DBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2006.
Dr Sarah Beardon
Sarah Beardon is a Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Faculty of Laws. She undertook an interdisciplinary PhD with the UCL Department of Applied Health Research, focussing on health justice partnerships. The project explored different service models and how they can be implemented successfully, drawing on learnings from case studies across England. Previously Sarah worked with the UCL Centre for Access to Justice undertaking a service evaluation and a nationwide mapping study of health justice partnerships. She has held other roles in public health research at the Imperial College London Patient Experience Research Centre and Cancer Research UK.
Dr Matthew Appleby
Dr Matthew Appleby is a clinical research fellow working in early phase clinical trials at the NIHR UCLH Clinical Research Facility. Matthew is also a lecturer in translational neurology and teaches medical students on the UCL MBBS course in Health Justice Partnerships in Primary Care with Prof Genn. Matthew spent some time collaborating with the UCL Centre for Access to Justice, participating in the set-up of the Health Justice Initiative in Newham and wrote the research proposal for the evaluation of the project. He brings to the subject of social welfare legal services in social prescribing his clinical and research experience working in over 30 clinical trials and applying experimental research methods to Health Justice interventional analysis. He has the experience of a day-to-day doctor who frequently refers to legal and welfare advice services to help support patients with chronic neurological and neuromuscular conditions with unmet legal needs.
Tammy Boyce
Tammy Boyce is working with the team at HJP, making links with the NHS and social care. She is co-author of both the Marmot Review 10 Years On and the 2010 Marmot Review. Tammy has worked closely with international organisations, national and local governments and third sector organisations on health inequalities, social justice, health and social care policy and the social determinants of health.
Sarah Ahmad
Sarah Ahmad is a Research Assistant at the UCL Faculty of Laws. She has an MSc in Health Psychology from the University of Bath and brings her experience as a Social Prescribing Link Worker in North London, where she worked with clients with various needs, predominantly social welfare advice and advocacy. Having worked with the NHS and VCS organisations, she is an advocate for overcoming health inequalities through welfare rights and policy change.
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