Profile
Dr Ali Struthers is a Reader at Warwick Law School with research interests in legal education, children’s rights, and widening access to legal education and the profession. She has written in the areas of children's rights in education, children's privacy and safeguarding, as well as around legal education and outreach for younger audiences. She is the creator of the hugely successful primary schools outreach project, School Tasking, which takes the joy of the TV show, Taskmaster, and uses it to inspire and engage younger audiences in learning about the law.
Research
Publications
Struthers, A. & K. Jones, ‘School Tasking in UK Primary Schools: Widening access through early intervention and gameful design’ (2025) Journal of Further and Higher Education (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2025.2497049)
Struthers, A. & R. Brittle, ‘Human Rights Education and Safeguarding: Mapping the landscape in England and Scotland) (2025) Human Rights Education Review (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/25355406.2025.2452120)
Struthers, A., ‘They Did Not Ask For This Life’: A Child Rights Approach to Photographing the Children of Celebrities (2024) 32(1) International Journal of Children’s Rights 198-218
Struthers, A. & S. McConnell, ‘Improve Children’s Legal Knowledge and Skills Through School Tasking: Your time starts now.’ (2023) The Law Teacher, DOI: 10.1080/03069400.2023.2282860
Struthers, A., ‘Protecting Invisible Children in England: How human rights education could improve school safeguarding’ (2021) 4(3) Human Rights Education Review 45-64
Struthers, A & J. Mansuy, ‘‘British Values Are Also Values All Around the World’: Teaching Fundamental British Values through a human rights lens’ (2020) 12(3) Journal of Human Rights Practice 696-710
Struthers, A. & D. Webber, ‘Critiquing Approaches to Countering Extremism: The Fundamental British Values Problem in English Formal Schooling’, (July 2019) (Successful bid to write peer-reviewed article for the Commission for Countering Extremism to feed into review of the Prevent Strategy)
Struthers, A., ‘Debunking the “Criminals’ Charter”: Education as an antidote to human rights sensationalism’ (2017) 2 European Human Rights Law Review 169-179
Struthers, A., ‘The Underdeveloped Transformative Potential of Human Rights Education’ (2017) 9(1) Journal of Human Rights Practice 68-84
Struthers, A., ‘Teaching British Values in Our Schools: But why not human rights values?’ (2017) 26(1) Social and Legal Studies 89-110
Struthers, A., ‘Copyright Protection for Magic Tricks: A danger lurking in the shadows?’ (2017) 39(3) European Intellectual Property Review 136-145
Struthers, A., ‘Breaking Down Boundaries: Voice and participation in English primary classrooms’ (2016) 24(2) The International Journal of Children’s Rights 434-468
Struthers, A., ‘Human Rights: A Topic Too Controversial for Mainstream Education?’ (2016) 16(1) Human Rights Law Review 131-162
Struthers, A., ‘Building Blocks and Beyond: How Human Rights Education in Initial Teacher Education May Help to Change the Human Rights Landscape in Scotland’ (2015) 47(2) Scottish Educational Review 5-19
Struthers, A., ‘Human Rights Education: educating about, through and for human rights’ (2015) 19(1) The International Journal of Human Rights 53-73