Michael Ashworth
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Michael Ashworth
@michaelashworth.bsky.social
Sociolegal academic at Newcastle Law School. Interested in medical regulation, medical pluralism, and talking about methodology. ENG/PT. 🏳️‍🌈
One of the best parts of this job is having kind and brilliant colleagues send you their fabulous work in the post for you to enjoy. Muito obrigado pelo livro, Pedro!
November 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
🚨You have just 1 week left (deadline 7 July) to get your abstracts in for Newcastle Law School's 2-day methodologies symposium, celebrating a whole gamut of methods, methodologies, and approaches, with fabulous keynotes! 👀

Full details on our webpage: www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/i...
June 30, 2025 at 10:27 AM
My latest article appeared in print last month in Social & Legal Studies 🗣️. It builds on insights from decentred regulation scholarship to reconceptualise British newspaper coverage of CAM as a form of decentred, 'everyday' healthcare regulation: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
January 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
New article co-authored with the wonderful Emilie Cloatre
in Social Theory & Health, where we use homeopathy's defunding from the public health systems of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and 🇫🇷 to explore the unpredictability of law and regulation as techniques of governmentality: doi.org/10.1057/s412...
August 27, 2024 at 9:13 AM