Richard Collier is a Professor of Law at Newcastle University, UK. His primary research interests concern questions around law and gender, with a particular focus on issues surrounding men and masculinities, ranging from families, law and social change to legal education, crime and criminology. Richard has published many articles in these and other fields and his books include: Men, Law and Gender: Essays on the ‘Man’ of Law (Routledge, 2010), Fragmenting Fatherhood: A Socio-Legal Study (with Sally Sheldon, Hart, 2008), Masculinities, Crime and Criminology: Men, Corporeality and the Criminal(ised) Body (Sage, 1998), Masculinity, Law and the Family (Routledge, 1995) and Fathers’ Rights Activism and Law Reform in Comparative Perspective (edited with Sally Sheldon, Hart, 2007). He has delivered a wide range of International and National Plenary and Keynote conference addresses and has been Visiting Professor at several Universities. In 2007 was the recipient of the British Academy ‘Thank-Offer to Britain Fellowship’.

Richard is presently researching the book Family Men: Fatherhood, Law and Gender from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present and is conducting a research project on male lawyers, masculinities and work-life balance in the legal profession entitled Fathers, Lawyers and Work-Life Balance: Managing the Downturn. He is an editorial board member of Social and Legal Studies: An International Journal and in 2011 Richard will be spending time as Senior Research Fellow at the National Gender Centre of Excellence (GEXcel) in Sweden.