I am Head of Legal Pedagogy and Innovation at Manchester Law School, where I lead the strategic development of curriculum, assessment, and digital futures across undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional legal education. My work sits at the intersection of legal education, professional regulation, socio-technical change, and academic leadership, with a particular focus on professional judgement, ethical reasoning, accountability, agency, and equitable outcomes. 

My leadership has centred on building future-facing legal education that is both critically informed and institutionally embedded. I have led the development of a school-wide strategy for digital and techno-legal futures, embedding LawTech, digital capability, and AI-aware learning across core undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional provision. My approach is socio-technical rather than tool-led: I am interested not only in what technologies do, but in how they reshape legal cognition, responsibility, ethics, and professional formation.

Alongside this, I have led major work on curriculum and assessment redesign, progression, belonging, and equitable outcomes. My practice draws on critical pedagogy, learning theory, assessment scholarship, and socio-technical theory to design legal education that supports confidence, metacognition, self-efficacy, and reflective professional judgement. This work has contributed to sustained improvements in student experience, continuation, progression, and graduate outcomes, while keeping equity at the centre of educational change.

My wider scholarship and external engagement connect legal education to professional practice, regulation, and justice systems. I work on legal competence, AI-mediated legal help, access to justice, and the changing sociotechnical conditions of legal practice, including how professional judgement and accountability operate when legally significant work is distributed across organisational and technological systems.