Dr Elaine Gregersen

Associate Professor

School: Northumbria School of Law

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.

Campus Address

Room 111, City Campus East

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Key Publications

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From Maverick to Mainstream: Autoethnography’s Place in Legal Research, Gregersen, E. 13 Feb 2026, In: Journal of Legal Research Methodology
Academia Through the Lens of Autoethnography: Praxis and Institutional Dynamics, Gregersen, E. 30 Jun 2025, Business and Law Research Conference
‘A Place for Us’ – Supporting disabled, dyslexic and neurodivergent students in higher education, Griffiths, E., Gregersen, E., Moore, J. 26 Mar 2025
Clinical legal education (for commerce), Gregersen, E. 9 Jan 2025, Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Legal Education, Cheltenham, Gloucester, UK, Edward Elgar
Lily Allen’s new album is ‘autofiction’ – but turning your life into a story carries ethical and emotional risks, Gregersen, E. 5 Nov 2025
Autoethnography and legal research: Possibilities and perils, Gregersen, E. 17 Sep 2024, Empirical Research Methods in Advancing Legal Knowledge Conference 2024
State of the Nation: 10 Years of Entrepreneurial Law Clinic Supervision in the United Kingdom, Gregersen, E. 12 Jun 2023, In: International Journal of Clinical Legal Education
The Emotional Impact of Law Clinic Supervision: An Autoethnography, Gregersen, E. 18 Aug 2023, Contemporary Challenges in Clinical Legal Education, Abingdon, Routledge
Telling stories about the law school: autoethnography and legal education, Gregersen, E. 3 Apr 2022, In: The Law Teacher

PGR Supervision

Lucinda Bromfield The feeling failure project: Exploring the lived experiences of academic failure in legal apprentices. Start Date: 31/01/2025
Lucinda Shaw The Lived Experience of Rapport in Legal Negotiation: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of Solicitors in Ireland Start Date: 19/01/2024

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