Postgraduate Research Student & Graduate Teaching Assistant
Liverpool Law School
matilda.clough@Liverpool.ac.uk
Biography
Tilly obtained her Postgraduate Law LLM (General) at the University of Liverpool, for which her research covered a mixture of medical, international and charity law. She became a PhD candidate and Graduate Teaching Fellow at the School of Law and Social Justice in September 2019. Tilly works within the University’s Widening Participation and Outreach team, helping to run the Sutton Trust funded Pathways to Law programme. She also is involved in the IntoUniversity team, teaching secondary school pupils about law. Tilly teaches on the second-year module Equity and Trusts.
Research
Tilly’s research interests lie predominantly in charity law, educational law and policy and the sociology of elite education. In this intersection, her thesis explores the charitable status of independent schools and whether this charity status can be justified.
This research includes discussion of inequality and social mobility surrounding the state and private education sector, alongside in-depth research on the public benefit requirement for independent schools.
Working thesis title
An Investigation into the Charitable Status of Independent Schools
Dates of study
PhD Start Date: September 2019
PhD Completion Date: December 2023
Supervisors
Dr John Picton (Liverpool Law School) and Dr Eleanor Drywood (Liverpool Law School)
Research Summary
This research includes discussion of inequality and social mobility surrounding the state and private education sector, alongside in-depth research on the public benefit requirement for independent schools.
Publications
M Clough, ‘Removing charitable status is not a magic wand’ (2020)
https://www.pepf.co.uk/opinion/tilly-clough/
M Clough, ‘The Impact of COVID-19 on Educational Inequality and the Attainment Gap’ (2020)
Conference Papers Presented
Conference Paper: ‘Fee-paying independent schools and charitable status’ in Special Event: The Material Basis for Elite Education: Capital, Charity and the State’, British Sociological Association Conference 2020.
Podcasts
Sustainable and Resilient Cities: Liverpool Podcast (1 October 2020)