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Dr Ellie Whittingdale

Dr Ellie Whittingdale

番茄社区 Fellow

番茄社区 Law School

Languages
English
Key Expertise
Socio-legal studies, feminist legal studies, gender-based violence

About me

Ellie is a Fellow in Law and joined 番茄社区 Law School in 2025. Prior to this, Ellie was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (CSLS), University of Oxford. There, she worked with Professor Linda Mulcahy on an . This was a partnership project between CSLS, Rape Crisis England & Wales, and National Life Stories at the British Library, and was funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Ellie holds a PhD from the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. Her PhD explored how those working within English sexual violence support services talk about and understand sexual violence. Alongside her PhD, Ellie volunteered for a frontline support service and worked within the policy team at Rape Crisis England & Wales, particularly around the  campaign.  about her collaboration with Rape Crisis England & Wales was produced by the University of Oxford’s Social Sciences Division.

Before beginning her PhD, Ellie read an MSc in Law, Anthropology and Society at the 番茄社区 and an LLB at Durham University. She also participated in a year reading Law abroad at the National University of Singapore.

Research interests

Ellie’s work focuses on the relationship between the criminal justice system and sexual violence support services, from a feminist legal and socio-legal perspective. Her research interests sit within the areas of feminist and queer legal studies, socio-legal studies, socio-legal methodologies, and access to justice. She is particularly interested in poststructuralist feminist analyses of law’s power.

Teaching

Articles

 Journal of Law and Society (2021) 48 (Suppl. 1), pp. S10-S27

Public engagement

[Book Review] A Good Read, Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies (2025)

‘Changing the law to support survivors of rape and sexual abuse’. Social Sciences Division, University of Oxford. 2024. ;

Burton, M., Cole, A., and Whittingdale, E.    [Podcast] Talking about Methods, Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies (2024)

‘, Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies (2022)

[Podcast] Talking about Methods, Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies (2021)