Appointments and qualifications

Appointments

  • 2006-date Reader (2012-date) Cardiff School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University

  • 2006 Tutor, University of Manchester

  • 2003 Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Manchester

Qualifications

  • 2008 Postgraduate Certificate in University Teaching and Learning, Cardiff University

  • 2007 PhD, European Public Law, ‘Good Governance and Legitimacy in the EU: the role of Article 226 EC’, University of Edinburgh

  • 2003 LLM Masters in Public Law (with Distinction), King’s College London

  • 1996 2:1 LLB (Hons) Law Degree, King’s College London

Teaching Experience

Undergraduate

  • I have designed a range of courses and introduced a number of innovative teaching methods in: Administrative Law (25-50 students: all lectures, seminars, formative and summative assessments and feedback, on-line quizzes and resources), Public Law (compulsory module, 350 students: lectures, tutorials, on-line assessments, formative and summative assessments and feedback), EU Law (compulsory module, 350 students: lectures, tutorials, formative and summative assessments and feedback), and Legal Foundations (seminars).

  • I have supervised undergraduate dissertations on EU administrative law.

  • My current main (undergraduate) teaching responsibilities are Public Law (Module Convenor lecturer/tutor) and Administrative Law (Module Convenor, lecturer and tutor).

  • Personal Tutor: pastoral care, referencing, revision and feedback support for 36 students.

Postgraduate

  • Programme Director, LLM European Legal Studies.

  • Co-Module Leader and tutor on LLM European Legal Studies on the European Law and Governance Module (interdisciplinary module taught across law and political science).

  • I supervise and assess postgraduate dissertations (3-4 per year) on a range of topics (e.g. ethics and EU law, competition law enforcement, legitimacy and EU, transparency, European Parliament, EU voting behaviour, gender and the EU Institutions, EU environmental law, impact assessments and judicial review, Brexit).

Administrative roles

  • Chair, Postgraduate Examinations Board (4 exam boards per year, leading a team of professional service staff, responsible for disciplinary actions and School Representative at University Appeals Committee). Impact: drafted a new policy on unfair practice procedures to introduce greater consistency in decision making.

  • Research Mentor to two junior colleagues, proving research leadership and advice on career progression and writing / publishing. Impact: successful negotiation of probation for mentees.

  • Staff Recruitment: shortlisting / interviewing for academic posts.

  • Member, REF Selection Panel (internal assessment and mentoring of colleagues work in preparation for REF 2021). Impact: contribute to REF submission strategy.

  • Programme Director, LLM European Legal Studies, leading a programme of 6 modules (includes student admissions, open days, marketing and allocation of dissertation supervisions). Impact: streamlining dissertation allocation process; contributing to design of admissions criteria; ensuring adherence to MoU with University of Amiens / Toulouse.

  • Module Convenor (Public Law leading a team of 6 tutors). Impact: Redesigned course, introduced on-line problem-solving assessment techniques, mentored junior colleagues and PhD tutors, and managed and trained part-time tutors.

  • Module Convenor (Administrative Law leading a team of 2). Impact: redesigned course, introduced flipped classrooms, on-line problem solving techniques and assessments, peer to peer marking, group presentations (and grading), project work and mooting.

  • Co-Director of Postgraduate Studies (2013-2014): leading a team of 3 academics and 4 professional service staff. Impact: developing PhD applications, managing introduction of University PhD progression systems, and introduction of PhD funding schemes (AHRC Doctoral Training Consortium and ESRC). PhD numbers have increased following the roll out of these funding schemes.

  • REF Selection Panel (2012-2014 and 2016-2021): peer-reviewing work for selection in REF 2014 / 2021.

  • Teaching Mentor (2012-14): mentoring junior colleagues for excellence in teaching. Impact: successful progression of mentees to Higher Education Academy Fellow status.

  • Chair, Student Progress Monitoring and Support Committee (2010-2013), leading a team of 2 academic staff and 2 professional service staff, responsible for decisions on student disciplinary cases for non-attendance and offering supported returns for those with extenuating circumstances.

  • Year Director, Level 6 (2010-11): Impact: introduced teaching ‘levels’ into law school, introduced innovative teaching practices (eg flipped classrooms, peer assessment, group assessment, problem based learning in lectures, portfolios), participated in teaching related policy development (teaching consistency, assessment criteria, student feedback and assessment).

  • University Citizenship

  • Independent Examiner and Chair, PhD Progress Reviews, and Vivas.

  • Open days (undergraduate and postgraduate).

  • Peer Reviewer of colleagues teaching and feedback (internal review purposes).

  • Member of Teaching and Learning Quality Committee (2008-2010). Impact: Chaired Working Group for the Law School Workload Matrix (aimed at introducing greater recognition of innovative teaching and learning activities within the matrix, 2010/11).

  • Working Group for Pastoral Care (reviewing the personal tutee policy): Impact: introduced ‘taster sessions’ for new first years students 2008/9).

  • Member of Jean Monnet Centre for European Law and Governance, participation at public lectures, workshops and seminars and hosting visiting scholars. Impact: stimulating research collaboration and research environment.

  • Member of COREPER, the interdisciplinary European scholars reading group.

  • Chair, Research Surgeries – designed to facilitate better publications / outputs and give constructive feedback for work in progress of colleagues. Impact: increasing quality of publications for REF.

  • National and International Esteem Indicators / Public Engagement/ Service to wider discipline

  • Advisor to European Parliament, Legal Affairs Committee: Commissioned reports, presentations and workshops on effective enforcement of EU law and recognition of administrative right for citizens 2010 - date. (see publications list).

  • Peer Review of book proposals/ publications for: Oxford University Press, Routledge, Hart Publishing, Edward Elgar Publishing on a range of books from textbooks on Public, Administrative and European Law, both national and international, to scholarly monographs including viability of books and published book reviews.

  • Peer Review of journal articles: for the top European (national and internationally based) journals: European Law Journal, European Law Review, Common Market Law Review, Journal of Contemporary European Research, Modern Law Review (2007-date).

  • Peer Review of grant proposals for the National Polish Science Centre (European and administrative law), 3 in 2016/2017, 2 in 2017/2018.

  • Steering Committee, Public Law Wales, (2007-2012) a forum which organises public engagement talks with academics and practitioners on public, administrative and EU law.

  • I have hosted visiting scholars at Cardiff University as part of the Centre for European Law and Governance (Dr Nikos Vogiatzis, University of Liverpool and Prof Karsten Engsig Sørensen, University of Aarhus).

  • I have presented papers at international and national conferences and workshops (see publications list).

Prizes and Honours

2015 Visiting Research Fellowship, University College Dublin (hosted by Prof. Imelda Maher).

  • 2006 College of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Edinburgh Scholarship Prize, £10,000, plus University of Edinburgh PhD programme fees for 1 year.

  • 2003 Public Law Scholarship Award, University of Manchester (co-financed by the British Academy), funding for PhD studies (£20,000, plus University of Manchester PhD programme fees for 2 years).

Continuing Professional Development

Writing: the Art of Productivity (2018), Nvivo for Qualitative Researchers (2018), Learning Design Research (2018), Project Management (2018), Qualitative Methods in Social Science (2017), Unconscious bias (2016), Research Leadership and Management Training (2016), Information Security Training (2016), Research Away Day (2016), Innovations in Lecturing Workshop (2014), PCUTL Mentor Workshop (2013), Hear from the Experts: ERSC and AHRC Workshop (Apr 2013), Equality and Diversity Training (2013), Mid-Career Workshop: Expanding your expertise as a Social Science Researcher (Mar 2013), Assises de la Justice, European Commission, Brussels, (Nov 2013), FP7 (European Framework Funding) Grant Writing Workshop (Mar 2012), Teaching for Employability, Cardiff (Sep 2010), Teaching workshop series: Assessment and Feedback, Cardiff (Jun 2010), Teaching Away Day, Curriculum Review and Assessment Techniques, Cardiff (May 2010), Teaching Away Day, Feedback and Assessment Criteria, Cardiff (May 2009), Postgraduate Certificate in University Teaching and Learning (2006-2008), Equal Opportunities and Diversity Training, Cardiff (Mar 2007), Elite Interview Training (2004).

  • Membership of Professional Bodies and Learned Societies

  • Fellow, Higher Education Academy (2008-)

  • Steering Committee, Public Law Wales (2007-2012)

  • Member, Administrative Law Discussion Forum (2012-)

  • Member Society of Legal Scholars (2006-)

  • Member University Association of Contemporary Studies in Europe (2006-)

  • Member European Union Studies Association (2010-)

  • Member European Community Studies Association – Canada (2010-)

  • Member ReNeual Network (2010-)

  • ComplianceNet (2018-)