Role
Pamela is a senior lecturer at Nottingham Law School, and the course leader for the Professional Doctorate in Legal Practice.
Pamela has taught across a range of subjects at all levels, from undergraduate, to postgraduate, research and practitioner level, including:
- LPC: Business Law and Practice; Tax; Public Companies and Equity Finance; Debt Finance and Banking; Business Accounts; Written and Oral Skills
- GDL: Equity and the Law of Trusts; Contract Law
- LLB: Equity and the Law of Trusts; Legal Method; Applied Legal Knowledge (Civil Practice)
- Prof Cert TMP & ITMA Intensive: Interviewing and Advocacy
- Research skills e.g. project proposals, critical literature reviews, qualitative methodologies, research methods and design, data gathering and analysis, thesis and viva preparation
She also supervises students on research-based courses.
Career overview
Pamela was a solicitor with Nabarro Nathanson before joining Nottingham Law School. Her practice experience includes corporate finance, commercial property and mining law. She has taught on a wide range of courses at Nottingham Law School, including at undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral level. She is also the school's co-ordinator for the Employer Challenge initiative, which gives all our students the opportunity to engage in work-like experience with external employers as part of their course.
Research areas
Pamela is the Deputy Director of the NLS Centre for Legal Education and the Deputy Director of Doctoral Programmes (Law). She is also the Course Director for the Doctorate in Legal Practice and Doctorate in Published, Creative and Established Works in the Law School.
Pamela's main area of research interest is legal education, especially at the vocational and practitioner career stages. She was commissioned by the Solicitors' Regulation Authority to undertake a comprehensive, research-based review of its CPD Framework for solicitors. She has also undertaken consultancy work and research for a number of regulators, both nationally and internationally.
Pamela's research also involves work on SCALE-UP and higher education pedagogies.
External activity
Pamela is currently a member of the Training & Education Steering Group for the Law Society of England & Wales.
Press expertise
- Legal education, including pedagogy, regulation and reform – undergraduate, postgraduate and practitioner levels
- Workplace learning, especially in relation to early career lawyers
- Routes to qualification
- Continuing professional development for lawyers
Course(s) I teach on
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Postgraduate research | Full-time / Part-timehttps://www.ntu.ac.uk/course/nottingham-law-school/res/phd-research-degrees-in-law