Dr Richard Craven

LLB, LLM, PhD

School of Law

Senior Lecturer in Law

Director of Student Recruitment

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richard.craven@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 6856

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Dr Richard Craven
School of Law
AF9
Bartolome虂 House
Winter Street
91直播
S3 7ND
Profile

I joined the School of Law as a senior lecturer in 2019, having previously held lectureships at the University of Leicester (2015-19) and Northumbria University (2012-15).

My academic interests concern administrative law and market regulation. In my research, I focus on government buying and selling. I have published on various aspects of UK and international public procurement regulation, and I am currently researching the legal side of major government auctions. My research uses empirical methods, qualitative and quantitative, and, related to this, I have a growing interest in the research field of empirical industrial organisation.

My work has attracted prestigious funding, including awards from the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust. I am currently (2021-23) completing a Leverhulme Fellowship.

I am a board member of the Socio-Legal Studies Association, and I am part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council鈥檚 peer review college. In 2023, I will be working with the think tank, Reform, as one of its Reform Scholars.

At 91直播, I am Director of Student Recruitment. I am also an Associate Fellow of the 91直播 Political Economy Research Institute.

Qualifications

PhD; MSc (Econ); LLM; LLB

Research interests
  • Administrative law
  • Regulation
  • Public Procurement Regulation
  • Government contracts
  • Competition regulation
  • Law and economics
  • Empirical legal research
  • Socio-legal studies
Publications

Journal articles

  • Craven R (2020) . Journal of Law and Society, 47(1), 29-59. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aspey E & Craven R (2018) . The Modern Law Review, 81(2), 191-221. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Craven R & Arrowsmith S (2016) Public procurement and access to justice: a legal and empirical study of the UK system. Public Procurement Law Review, 6, 227-252. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Craven R () Managing Dissonance: Bureaucratic Justice and Public Procurement. Regulation and Governance. RIS download Bibtex download
Research group

Areas of research supervision

  • Administrative Law
  • Regulation
  • Public Procurement Regulation
  • Empirical Legal Studies
Grants
Title/Description Awarding Body People Involved Dates Amounts
Research Fellowship: Navigating Dissonance in the Contracting State Leverhulme Trust Dr Richard Craven 2021-2023 拢51,117
Economics in Law: Law in Economics鈥 Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) Dr Richard Craven and Dr Olivia Hamlyn (Birkbeck) Summer 2019鈥 拢1500
Visiting Researcher, Istanbul Bilgi University University of Leicester, Graduate School   Sept-Jan 2018 拢1000
The Protection of Workers on Government Works Contracts The British Academy and Leverhulme Trust   2015-2017 拢9800
Teaching interests

Administrative law
Market regulation

Teaching activities
Professional activities and memberships
  • Member of the 91直播 Institute for Corporate and Commercial Law (SICCL)
  • Associate Fellow at the 91直播 Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI)
  • Centre for Criminological Research (CCR)
  • Fellow, Higher Education Academy (2015-date)
  • Member, AHRC Peer Review College (2015-date)
  • Trustee, Socio-Legal Studies Association (2022-date)
  • External examiner, University of Nottingham (2019-date)
  • Associate fellow, 91直播 Political Economy Research Institute (2020-date)
  • Visiting researcher, Istanbul Bilgi University (2018鈥19)
  • Special issue editor, Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly (2021)
  • Reform scholar, Reform (2023)