Academic Profile

Professor of Law, University of Leeds (2004-2012)
Visiting Fellow, Law Programme – Research School of Social Science, Australian National University, Canberra (Feb-April 2003)
ESRC Research Fellow (2001-2004)
Professor of Law, University of Central Lancashire (1998-2004)

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Law, Social and Political Sciences, St John’s College, Cambridge (1976)
MA Socio-Legal Studies (Distinction), Sheffield University (1979)
PhD Law, Sheffield University (1983)

Teaching and Learning

The modules I teach are:

Undergraduate	Postgraduate & MA
Constitutional Law	Legal Research & Writing Methods
Administrative Law and Justice
Understanding Law

Research Interests

• Contract and Public Law
• Administrative law
• Socio-Legal Studies
• Public services contracting, governance and regulation
• Comparative healthcare governance
• Central-local government relations
• Litigation in business practice and Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Research methods

Member of the Centre of the Study of Law in Society Research Cluster.

Key Publications

Vincent-Jones, P. (2011) Embedding Economic Relationships through Social Learning? The Limits of Patient and Public Involvement in Healthcare Governance in England.) Journal of Law and Society 215-244.

Vincent-Jones, P. (2011) The Democratic Potential of Public Participation: Healthcare Governance in England (with D. Hughes and C. Mullen) Social and Legal Studies, 20(1), 21-38.

Vincent-Jones, P. (2011) Contracts in the English NHS: Market Levers and Social Embeddedness (with P. Allen, S. Doheny, D. Hughes, and C. Petsoulas) Health Sociology Review, 20, 321-337.

Vincent-Jones, P. (2010) From Collaborative to Genetic Governance: The Example of Healthcare Services in England’ (with C. Mullen). In O. de Schutter and J. Lenoble (eds.) Reflexive Governance: Redefining the Public Interest in a Pluralistic World, Oxford, Hart Publishing, pp. 147-178

Vincent-Jones, P. (2009) New Labour’s PPI Reforms: Patient and Public Involvement in Healthcare Governance? (with D. Hughes and C. Mullen) Modern Law Review, 72, 247-271.

Vincent-Jones, P. (2006) The New Public Contracting: Regulation, Responsiveness, Relationality. Oxford: Oxford University Press
ISBN-10: 0-19-929127-6 - http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-929127-6

Recent Invited Papers and Keynote Lectures

The New Public Contracting: A Relational Development’, paper for Relational Contract Theory: A Symposium in Honour of Ian Macneil’, University of Leeds, 29th-30th March 2012.

‘Reflexive Governance as Social Learning in Non-Governmental Organisations: Two Case Studies of the Genetic Approach’ (with C. Mullen), paper for REFGOV Final Conference, Palais des Academies, Brussels 27th – 28th May 2010.

‘Embedding Economic Relationships through Social Learning? Patient and Public Involvement in Healthcare Governance’, Conference on Socializing Economic Relationships – New Perspectives and Methods for Analysing Transnational Risk Regulation, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford, 15th-16th April 2010.

Key Projects/Grants

Title/Description:	Reflexive Governance in European Healthcare
Awarding Body:	European Commission FP6
People Involved:	28 partner institutions in Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Hungary, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Belgium, and the UK.
Years Funded for:	2005-2011
Amount:	€3,900,000 Leeds Budget £135,500

Title/Description:	Regulation and Responsibilisation: The New Public Contracting in Socio-Legal Perspective
Awarding Body:	ESRC
People Involved:	P. Vincent-Jones (Research Fellow)
Years Funded for:	2001-2004
Amount:	£160,000

Title/Description:	Conflict and Co-operation in Contracting for Professional Services: A Comparative Study
Awarding Body:	ESRC Grant - R000 236416
People Involved:	P. Vincent-Jones, D. Campbell and A. Harries
Years Funded for:	1996-1998
Amount:	£47,000

Professional Activities and Recognition

Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Law and Society (September 2002-present).
External assessor for Belgian Science Policy Office, Inter-University Attraction Poles (IAP) Phase VI (2007-2011).

Areas of Research Supervision

Administrative law and contract
Public services regulation and governance
Public procurement and contracting