I am Professor of Legal Education, Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and immediate past Chair of the Association of Law Teachers.

I was admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court in 1981 and worked in private practice for 15 years. I joined the University of Portsmouth in 2001 as a Senior Lecturer tasked with the development and accreditation of a suite of qualifying Law Degrees. I was appointed Head as the Department was formed in 2008 and remained so until 2021.

I was appointed Professor of Legal Education at the University of Portsmouth in 2021. I have just completed a new book entitled Wellbeing and the Legal academy due to be published by Springer later this year and jointly edited with Dr. Emma Jones of Sheffield Law School.

My research primarily focuses on issues of well-being and motivation in legal education and practice. My current research interests include:

• The promotion of work-life balance in University Law Schools
• Intentional curriculum design for well-being in Law Students
• Understanding how coaching supports a positive response to rejection in the workplace
• Sleep disturbance, mental health, well-being, and educational impact in UK university students
• The link between well-being and ethics, particularly in the recent High Court decision in the Solicitors Regulation Authority v James and its implications

I am investigating how principles of positive psychology may influence the well-being of staff and students in Higher Education. Currently, I am co-leading an international research team that is gathering and analyzing the perceptions of well-being of academic staff in Law Schools to understand more about the current social contexts in HE and ensure support for improved student well-being can be provided without this being at the expense of staff well-being.