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Ms Jacqueline Gardner

Job: Senior lecturer

Faculty: Business and Law

School/department: Leicester De Montfort Law School

Address: Â鶹´«Ã½, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH

T: N/A

E: jacqui.gardner@dmu.ac.uk

 

Personal profile

Jacqueline graduated with a BA (Hons) degree from the University of Leicester and qualified as a solicitor specialising in civil litigation and employment law. She has delivered professional legal training for top law firms such as Michcon de Reya, Irwin Michell and Shoosmiths.

Jacqueline joined Â鶹´«Ã½ as a senior lecturer in 2007 having successfully managed a Law Clinic for both Leicester Law Centre and Macmillan Cancer Support. She was a lay member of the Leicestershire Police Misconduct Panel (15 years) and a Chairperson for the NHS England professional standards.

Jacqueline teaches across all three levels on the LLB as well as post graduate students including professional distance learners. She performs an inter-departmental role teaching law to human resource management, accountancy and social work students. She has significant experience supervising masters students and acting as a guest speaker on employment, professional standards and equality law.

Jacqueline is the Lead for the Conflict Resolution Centre at Â鶹´«Ã½ and is strong advocate of the benefits of conflict management and alternative dispute resolution The role involves providing training, workplace opportunities to students and connecting with experts in this expanding field . She works as career coach in the legal sector and is passionate about supporting students to develop resilient employability skills through executive training and life-long learning. 

Publications and outputs

Co authored published book - The Adviser's Toolkit

Research interests/expertise

Employment law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, and Equality and Diversity 

Areas of teaching

Constitutional and Administrative law, Employment Law, Professional Ethics and ADR 

Qualifications

  • LLB (Hons)- University of Leicester
  • Legal Practice Course - Nottingham Law School
  • Masters in Human Resource Management- Â鶹´«Ã½
  • Post graduate Certificate in Academic Practice

Â鶹´«Ã½ taught

English Legal System, Contract law, Employment Law, Consumer Law, Social Justice, Lawyering Skills, Criminal Litigation, Civil Litigation, Inter professional Legal Skills, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Equality and Discrimination, Civil Liberties. 

Membership of professional associations and societies

  • CIPD
  • The Law Society

Projects

Conflict Resolution Centre at Â鶹´«Ã½ 

Conference attendance

  • Teaching Excellence Conference 2024
  • ACAS Mediation Conference 2024
  • Delivered a paper on Tribunal Representation at the NAWRA conference

Consultancy work

Barbri Law Careers Consultant

ORCID number

0000-0003-1476-8187

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