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Nicola Harris

Ms Nicola Harris

(she/her)

Senior Lecturer and Director of Scholarship

School of Law and Politics

Email
HarrisN11@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 29208 76136
Campuses
Law Building, Room 3.47, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AX

Overview

I am the Director of Scholarship at the School of Law and Politics and module leader for both Criminal Litigation and Conference Skills on the Bar Training Course. I am also Joint Module Lead for Crime, Law and Society on the LLB.

BA (Hons) Law Cantab, MA Criminology Toronto. Barrister (non-practising).

After practising as a Barrister for many years, I joined the staff at the Centre for Professional Legal Studies in 2014.

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Office: Law Building Room 3.47

Publication

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Teaching

I currently teach:

  • Advocacy (BTC)
  • Conference Skills (BTC)
  • Crime, Law and Society (LLB)
  • Criminal Litigation (BTC)
  • Criminal Law (LLB)

Biography

I studied Law at Cambridge University then obtained my Master’s degree in Criminology from the University of Toronto as a Commonwealth Scholar. I returned from Canada to qualify for the Bar at the Inns of Court School of Law and was subsequently called to the Bar.

I specialised in criminal work, first in pupillages in specialist sets in London, then as a tenant at 33 Park Place and then as a member of Apex Chambers, the first specialist criminal set on the Wales and Chester Circuit.

I have been accredited as an Advocacy trainer by the Advocacy Training Council and Bar Standards Board, am an External Examiner and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

My scholarship interests focus on criminal justice, skills teaching, client communication, and assessment methods.

Conference presentations include:

2021 "Criminal Defence as a Vulnerable Profession: implications for teaching and learning", Association of Law Teachers Conference

2019   “Using Multimedia to deconstruct the assessment”, Advance HE Learning and Teaching Conference, Northumbria University (with Dr Ilona Johnson)

2019   “Building Space for empathy and emotion in legal skills teaching”, Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference, De Montfort University

2018   “Enhancing assessment and feedback quality through the use of multimedia technology” Centre for Education Innovation Summer Conference, Cardiff University. (with Dr Ilona Johnson)

2016   “Assessing Advocacy: Listening to the Student Experience”, International Advocacy Teaching Conference, Nottingham Law School

2015   “Legal and Ethical Issues in Dentistry”, Wales Deanery School of Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education, Gwent Study Day.