Dr Flora Renz is a socio-legal scholar whose research interests lie broadly in the area of gender, disability and social and legal inequalities. Her approach to law is influenced by feminist theory and critical disability studies; it uses a mix of empirical methods and theoretical analysis. Her publications include the monograph Gender Recognition and the Law: Troubling Transgender Peoples' Engagement with Legal Regulation (Taylor & Francis, 2024). Flora’s work on trans issues, including the regulation of single-sex spaces, access to health care and the introduction of third gender markers has been published in leading legal journals including the Journal of Law and Society and Feminist Legal Studies and has been referred to in high quality news sources including The Guardian, BBC News and Channel 4 News. Flora’s work with Dr Avi Boukli on the public health dimension of LGBT people as human trafficking victims/survivors has been cited by the UNODC.

Flora is currently leading a British Academy funded research project on gender and disability classification in wheelchair rugby. 

Before joining King's College London Flora worked at the University of Kent and City, University of London.

PhD supervisions

Flora currently has capacity to take on PhD supervisions. 

Membership of professional bodies 

Flora is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 

Research interests 

Flora’s research is broadly concerned with the interface between structural inequalities, law, gender and disability. Her recent monograph provided an in-depth analysis of how medically defined gender norms become embedded in the legal regulation of gender markers in England and Wales, based on interviews with trans and non-binary people. Drawing on research from biomedical sciences and Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Feminism, Flora has also published on how legal personhood engages with disability at the interface of disabled bodies and mobility aids like wheelchairs and prosthetics, which forms part of a wider research project on the legal regulation of assistive technologies.

From 2023-2025 Flora worked with Dr Carin Tunaker on a ‘LGBTQ+ Youth Homelessness Review’ commissioned by the Albert Kennedy Trust. Flora’s focus was on the intersecting legal, social and medical inequalities that lead to increased rates of homelessness for young, disabled LGBTQ+ people.

From 2018-2022 Flora was a Co-I with Professors Davina Cooper (PI), Emily Grabham and Elizabeth Peel on the ESRC funded socio-legal project The Future of Legal Gender. Drawing on prefigurative methodologies, this project asked whether government should retain the current system of a legal gender assigned at birth and what the continuing relevance of this is in different legal and social areas such as single-sex spaces.

Teaching interests 

• Medical ethics
• Disability
• Gender
• Criminal law