Meet a selection of our faculty members and discover the team dedicated to supporting your journey.
Working closely with our academic and support staff, our Campus Director Elaine Dean helps create a safe, welcoming and inclusive environment for all students, staff and visitors.
Our lecturers bring a wealth of industry and professional experience into the classroom, combining academic expertise with real world insight to deliver an engaging and enriching learning experience.
Supporting the student experience further, our Campus Hub Team is on hand as your first point of contact, delivering a welcoming, accessible and responsive service.
Elaine oversees the commercial, operational and administrative affairs of the Campus, ensuring delivery is of a high-quality student experience, promoting the University's mission and strategic ambitions and ensures a positive and inclusive campus environment for students, visitors and staff. Elaine has a wealth of commercial and operational expertise from higher education and private sectors, having managed operations at Burberry plc before holding a number of leadership roles at the University of Bradford.
Law
Laura is the Programme and Student Lead for the LPC and SQE at our Leeds, Newcastle and Sheffield campuses. She graduated with an LLB and completed her LPC at The University of Sheffield. Laura trained and qualified at a firm in Manchester, practising in defendant motor insurance litigation and clinical negligence claims. After several years in Manchester, she moved back over the Pennines and worked as a Visiting Lecturer for The University of Law, before joining as a permanent lecturer in 2021. In addition to her role as PSL, Laura teaches dispute resolution and personal injury and clinical negligence on the LPC and SQE courses.
Heather is the Programme and Student Lead for the Conversion courses at our Leeds, Newcastle, Sheffield and Hull campuses. Heather qualified as a solicitor in 2012 and gained higher rights of audience (civil and criminal) in 2014. As head of the advocacy department at a national UK law firm, she was responsible for a team of around 30 advocates. As an advocate, Heather conducted county court hearings across a variety of civil cases. In addition to her role as PSL, she enjoys teaching tort law on the conversion course and civil litigation and evidence and civil skills on the BPC.
Dr Clare Young is the Campus Manager at The University of Law's Sheffield Campus. She holds a PhD in Management from the University of York, and her research involved exploring how human resource practitioners apply and make sense of employment laws. Clare is also a dual-qualified solicitor. She trained and practiced employment law at Boyes Turner LLP in Reading, and then moved to Melbourne, Australia, where she specialised in employment and commercial law. She teaches Employment Law on the LLB and LPC programmes, Corporate Governance to postgraduate students and is a Masters dissertation supervisor.
Support Services
Our Campus Hub Team is there to connect you with the information, support and services you need to succeed at every stage of your student journey.
In addition to providing guidance and support, they coordinate both university-wide and local campus events that foster a strong sense of belonging, support well-being and enhance student engagement. They also offer on-the-day support for assessment activities, ensuring students receive timely assistance when it matters most.