Elaine joined Northumbria University in 2011, having graduated from Hull University with a first class LLB (Hons) degree and worked in practice as a commercial & intellectual property solicitor. Within five years, she was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship and won Law Teacher of the Year.
She specialises in contemporary research methods, including experimental narrative research and autoethnography. She writes about clinical legal education, business law clinics, mental health & disability, and the prospects and perils of autoethnographic research. Her work has been published in the Law Teacher, International Journal of Clinical Legal Education, Journal of International and Comparative Law, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, Journal of Legal Education, and Journal of Organizational Ethnography.
Elaine serves on editorial boards and reviews for a diverse range of publications. She supervises PhD students on the Professional Doctorate in Law programme and has acted as an external examiner across law and education disciplines.
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