Dr Barbara Hughes-Moore

Early Career Researcher and Lecturer in Law at Cardiff University.

Dr Barbara Hughes-Moore is an Early Career Researcher and Lecturer in Law at Cardiff University. She graduated with an LLB in Law in 2014 and was awarded a PhD in Law and Literature in 2020, both from Cardiff. Subsequently, she worked as an Associate on the Health Law in Wales project, led by Professor John Harrington and funded by a Welsh Government Sêr Cymru award.

The project investigated whether Welsh health law can be invented on the basis of values.

Barbara’s research interests include law and literature, criminal legal theory, and Gothic fiction, and her work has been published in the Journal of Law and Society and the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly. She has co-designed and taught on law and drama in collaboration with Professors Harrington and Ambreena Manji and the Sherman Theatre’s community programme.

She is also the Reviews Editor for the Cardiff-based literary journal, Romantic Textualities, and is a published theatre critic.