I graduated in Law from Northumbria University in 2009 and qualified as a solicitor in 2011.
I have 10 years' experience in legal practice specialising in personal injury and commercial litigation with regional, national and international law firms Ward Hadaway, DWF LLP and Womble Bond Dickinson.
I have taught law at universities since 2013. I joined York St John University Law School in 2019, returning to my native Yorkshire after 14 years in the North East. I led on the design of our new MLaw suite of programmes, having previously designed and led the former Legal Practice Course.
I am the course lead for the MLaw Legal Practice.
I also lead York St John Law Clinic in which students give legal advice and assistance to members of the public and small businesses, under the supervision of experienced lawyers.
I have 13 years' experience of teaching in higher education, with several of those years including responsibility for leadership and course design.
I am passionate about ensuring our courses embed skills and attributes that can manifestly enhance our students' life chances, and this underpins my aim that our teaching and assessment be authentic and enable students to gain practical experience.
I frequently teach modules such as Tort, Litigation, Personal Injury, Commercial Law and Intellectual Property in addition to supervising students in clinic and on dissertations relevant to my areas of expertise.
I have a particular interest in researching clinical legal education and am studying for a doctorate of education in that field, focusing on how we ensure reliability and validity when assessing skills in a live client environment such as university law clinics.
I frequently attend International Journal of Clinical Legal Education conferences and have presented papers at conferences in Czechia, Turkey, Canada and Newcastle.
