Associate Dean of Northumbria Law School wins National Teaching Fellowship
A Northumbria Law School academic has been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship – the most prestigious award for excellence in Higher Education Teaching. |
Kevin Kerrigan, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education at the Law School has made professional legal practice central to his university teaching and scholarship. As a criminal law solicitor, he represents clients at all levels and passionately believes that students should learn by doing. He helped build the Student Law Office, recognised as one of the leading law clinics in the world, where, under supervision, students provide a pro bono legal service for the public.
As editor of the International Journal of Clinical legal Education, he enables global dissemination of scholarship relating to legal education through experience. He organises conferences and other events which bring together practitioner academics from all over the world to debate the latest thinking in legal education.
Kevin is just 1 of 50 people to be awarded a National Teaching Fellowship from almost 200 nominations and will receive an award of £10,000 to be used for professional development in teaching and learning.
Professor Philip Plowden, Dean of Northumbria Law School said: “ It is a richly deserved award for Kevin, and it is also recognition of the work done in the School as a whole. Relatively few National Teaching Fellowships have been awarded in Law - and it is appropriate recognition of this School's commitment to learning and teaching that we now become the only Law School with two National Teaching Fellows".
The scheme raises the profile of learning and teaching in higher education and recognises and celebrates individuals who make an outstanding impact on the student learning experience.
The awards will be presented to Fellows at a celebration event in London in September.
Date posted: June 24, 2010
