Dr Lynsey Black is part of a team that has been awarded a British Academy grant under the funding stream 'The Humanities and Social Sciences Tackling the UK’s International Challenges'. The project is led by Dr. Lizzie Seal (University of Sussex), with Dr. Bharat Malkani (Cardiff University), and Dr. Florence Seemungal (University of the West Indies). The project is titled 'Reforming British law and policy on the global death penalty', and draws on law, history and criminology to examine how the UK exported the death penalty to other countries in the colonial era and how it fails to enact full opposition in the present. It also examines historical and contemporary UK-based campaigns for the abolition of the death penalty worldwide. The project looks to identify how law and policy should be reformed to end complicity with the death penalty and the most effective campaigning strategies for global abolition.