Research Staff

Our staff research across a range of disciplines, adopting a range of theoretical, doctrinal and socio-legal approaches. Alongside our traditional strengths in human rights, criminal justice, legal education and corporate / and insolvency law, we have emerging new areas of strength in corporate social responsibility, oil and gas regulation, medical law and ethics, refugee and asylum law, international environmental law, international security and humanitarian law, and intellectual property law.

Jingchen Zhao

Jingchen Zhao a Professor of Law at Nottingham Law School. Jingchen’s research specialism is within corporate law, corporate social responsibility and corporate governance.

Tom Lewis

Tom is Professor and Director of Nottingham Law School’s Centre for Rights and Justice. He teaches Public Law and Human Rights at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Mark Chadwick

Mark is a senior lecturer at Nottingham Law School. He teaches International Criminal Justice (LLB and LLM), International, European and Comparative Law (LLB) and European Union Law (GDL). Mark is the Course Leader for the LLB International Law course.

Jane Ching

Jane Ching, professor of professional legal education. Research and consultancy on lawyers' education, training and continuing education at national and international level.

Loretta Trickett

Helen O'Nions

Helen O'Nions (Dr)

Vasileios Adamidis

Vasileios Adamidis, Nottingham Law School, research-active in the field of Legal History

Elspeth Berry

Elspeth Berry (Ms)

Ruth Brittle

Dr Ruth Brittle is a lecturer at Nottingham Law School with research interests in children's rights, refugee and asylum law and international human rights. She is a non-practising Solicitor.

Simon Boyes

Janice Denoncourt

Janice Denoncourt (Dr)

Jonathan Doak

Sophie Gallop

Sophie Gallop, Lecturer/Senior Lecturer

Austen Garwood - Gowers

Helen Hall

Rev’d Dr Helen Hall, Senior Lecturer, Academic Undergraduate Programmes

Pamela Henderson

Jane Jarman

Jane Jarman is Professor of Law at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University.

Alexandra Kastrinou

Alexandra Kastrinou is the Course leader for all Nottingham Law School’s LLM programmes.

Peter McTigue

Dr Peter McTigue

Professor Paula Moffatt

Paula Moffatt

David Ong

David's main role at NLS is to be a leader in research and teaching in the fields of Public International Law and Environmental Law, focussing on the new LLM degree scheme in Oil, Gas and Mining Law, as well as PhD supervision in all these fields.

Rebecca Parry

Seema Patel

Dr. Hakan Sahin

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer

Dawn Sedman

Dr Dawn Sedman, teaching staff and researcher in the area of international criminal law and human rights.

Morgan Shimwell

Morgan Shimwell is a Lecturer in Law at Nottingham Law School. His role involves teaching undergraduate students and is the co-module leader of the first year module Public Law and Research Skills. Morgan also acts as a personal and academic tutor, currently for two groups of first year students on the LLB and LLB with Criminology courses.

James Thornton

Dr Thornton is Lecturer in Law at Nottingham Law School. His chief area of interest is criminal law, which he teaches on the undergraduate LLB and postgraduate GDL programs.

Richard Watkins

Dr Richard Watkins joined Nottingham Law School as Lecturer in Law in September 2019. Richard completed his PhD in Law at the University of Nottingham. His research, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, focused on the question of how to guarantee soldiers' right to life under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights. At NLS Richard teaches Trusts, Land and International, European and Comparative Law on the undergraduate LLB programmes, as well as Equity and Trusts on the GDL course. Richard is also module leader for GDL research projects.

Gary Wilson

Gary Wilson (Mr)

Dr Andrii Zharikov

Dr Andrii Zharikov is a Lecturer in Law at Nottingham Trent University. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

The following members of staff are also currently engaged in supervising postgraduate research students:

Dr Adam Buick
Dr Wei Chuyi
Dr Graham Ferris
Dr Daniel Gough
Dr Kemi Olorundami
Dr Kirsty Welch

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