Articles and insights
As the Hub’s workstreams develop, we anticipate that we will create a series of thought-leadership projects that have outputs such as White Papers, case studies, blogs and articles to guide practitioners in different areas of professional practice, covering the broad span of the Hub’s work.
The different outputs will be created from our own research and also with partner organisations, considering topics ranging from the future of legal practice to leadership, and best practice in career and skill development.
By way of example, outputs created by Dr Nigel Spencer, Director of the Hub for Professional Practice, and Frances Ridout, Deputy Director, in collaboration with partner organisations and colleagues, cover a range of topics:
Thought leadership outputs
- Skills for the future of legal practice: an evolving framework for changing professional identities, created with Fractal Knowledge.
Blogs
- Changes to the nature of work, career and skill development for lawyers and the rise of “Lifelong Learning”.
- Creating legal practitioners of the future and the importance of workplace-focused education.
- The changing business models in the professional services sector, and the changing nature of career pathways.
- The Queen Mary Legal Advice Centre, with Frances Ridout
- Has the Time Come to End Anonymity on Social Media?
Book chapters
- The Provision of Immigration Advice and Services by University Law Clinics, The Clinical Legal Education Handbook, Edited by Linden Thomas and Nick Johnson, 2020 - open access publication
- Regulation of Barristers and University Law Clinics, The Clinical Legal Education Handbook, Edited by Linden Thomas and Nick Johnson, 2020 - open access publication
- Do Lawyers Need to Learn to Code? A Practitioner Perspective on the “Polytechnic” Future of Legal Education, Modernising Legal Education, Edited by Catrina Denvir, 2019 – Cambridge, CUP, pp. 18-37 (N. Spencer and A. Smith).
Articles
- The importance of ‘acting yourself into new ways of thinking’: preliminary findings on the impact of embedding workplace experiences in law degrees to positively impact student skills growth, degree results and employment outcomes before and during a global pandemic
- "The 4th UK and Ireland Best Practice Street Law Conference 2019”, Frances Ridout, The International Journal of Public Legal Education Vol 4 No.1 (2020)
- "Immigration University Clinics and regulation: a working case study", Frances Ridout, Deirdre Gilchrist, Jeremy Dunn, The International Journal of Clinical Legal Education Vol 25, No 3 (2018) 135-149
- "Review of Street Law: Democracy for all – Learners Manual”, The International Journal of Public Legal Education Vol 2 No. 1 (2018).
Case studies
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