Dr Richard Craven
LLB, LLM, PhD
School of Law
Senior Lecturer in Law
Director of Student Recruitment
+44 114 222 6856
Full contact details
School of Law
AF9
Bartolomé House
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND
- Profile
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I joined the School of Law as a senior lecturer in 2019, having previously held lectureships at the University of Leicester (2015-19) and Northumbria University (2012-15).
My academic interests concern administrative law and market regulation. In my research, I focus on government buying and selling. I have published on various aspects of UK and international public procurement regulation, and I am currently researching the legal side of major government auctions. My research uses empirical methods, qualitative and quantitative, and, related to this, I have a growing interest in the research field of empirical industrial organisation.
My work has attracted prestigious funding, including awards from the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust. I am currently (2021-23) completing a Leverhulme Fellowship.
I am a board member of the Socio-Legal Studies Association, and I am part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s peer review college. In 2023, I will be working with the think tank, Reform, as one of its Reform Scholars.
At Sheffield, I am Director of Student Recruitment. I am also an Associate Fellow of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute.
- Qualifications
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PhD; MSc (Econ); LLM; LLB
- Research interests
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- Administrative law
- Regulation
- Public Procurement Regulation
- Government contracts
- Competition regulation
- Law and economics
- Empirical legal research
- Socio-legal studies
- Publications
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Journal articles
- The legal and social construction of value in government procurement markets. Journal of Law and Society, 47(1), 29-59. View this article in WRRO
- Regulating Complex Contracting: A Socio-legal Study of Decision-Making Under EU and UK law. The Modern Law Review, 81(2), 191-221.
- Public procurement and access to justice: a legal and empirical study of the UK system. Public Procurement Law Review, 6, 227-252. View this article in WRRO
- Managing Dissonance: Bureaucratic Justice and Public Procurement. Regulation and Governance.
- The legal and social construction of value in government procurement markets. Journal of Law and Society, 47(1), 29-59. View this article in WRRO
- Research group
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Areas of research supervision
- Administrative Law
- Regulation
- Public Procurement Regulation
- Empirical Legal Studies
- Grants
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Title/Description Awarding Body People Involved Dates Amounts Research Fellowship: Navigating Dissonance in the Contracting State Leverhulme Trust Dr Richard Craven 2021-2023 £51,117 Economics in Law: Law in Economics Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) Dr Richard Craven and Dr Olivia Hamlyn (Birkbeck) Summer 2019 £1500 Visiting Researcher, Istanbul Bilgi University University of Leicester, Graduate School Sept-Jan 2018 £1000 The Protection of Workers on Government Works Contracts The British Academy and Leverhulme Trust 2015-2017 £9800
- Teaching interests
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Administrative law
Market regulation
- Teaching activities
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Member of the Sheffield Institute for Corporate and Commercial Law (SICCL)
- Associate Fellow at the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI)
- Centre for Criminological Research (CCR)
- Fellow, Higher Education Academy (2015-date)
- Member, AHRC Peer Review College (2015-date)
- Trustee, Socio-Legal Studies Association (2022-date)
- External examiner, University of Nottingham (2019-date)
- Associate fellow, Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (2020-date)
- Visiting researcher, Istanbul Bilgi University (2018–19)
- Special issue editor, Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly (2021)
- Reform scholar, Reform (2023)