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Dr Siobhan McConnell

Assistant Professor

Department: Northumbria Law School

  Siobhan also works closely with the careers team to provide careers support to undergraduate students in the Law School.

Siobhan trained as a solicitor at commercial law firm Muckle LLP in Newcastle.  Siobhan specialised in commercial and corporate finance work for a number of years, eventually becoming an associate solicitor.  Siobhan later worked as an associate lecturer in law for the Open University before joining Northumbria University in September 2010.

 

 

Campus Address

Room 305
City Campus East 1


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  • Advancing Clinical Legal Education and Facilitating Access to Justice through Policy Clinics, Bengtsson, L., McConnell, S., Dunn, R. 16 May 2025, Clinical Legal Education in Europe, Bristol, United Kingdom, Bristol University Press
  • Children challenging their detention under the Mental Health Act 1983: the right to receive child-friendly information as a core feature of their participation rights., Arthur, R., Burrell, C., McConnell, S. 4 Sep 2025, In: Child and Family Law Quarterly
  • Children detained under the Mental Health Act 1983: the right to receive child-friendly information as a core feature of their participation rights, Arthur, R., Burrell, C., McConnell, S. 4 Dec 2024, Early Life and Adolescence cluster - Lunchtime seminar
  • Improve children’s legal knowledge and skills through School Tasking: your time starts now, Stuthers, A., McConnell, S. 2 Jan 2024, In: The Law Teacher
  • Policy Clinics Across the Globe: Development, Impact and Collaboration, McConnell, S., Dunn, R., Bengtsson, L. 5 Jun 2024, In: International Journal of Clinical Legal Education
  • Practice makes perfect? The role of a law school practice interview scheme in enhancing student employability, McConnell, S. 8 Mar 2024, How to Include Employability in the Law School, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar
  • Technological challenges for modern law school pedagogy – preparing graduates for the modern legal workplace, Alexander, J., McConnell, S., Mitchell, R., McGrane, A. 2 Jan 2024, In: The Law Teacher
  • The Benefits and Challenges of the Policy Clinic Model of Clinical Legal Education, McConnell, S., Bengtsson, L., Dunn, R. 27 Jun 2024, In: European Journal of Legal Education
  • Commercial awareness and the law student journey into the legal profession – definitional challenges and the lived experience of the graduate interview, McConnell, S. 2023, In: International Journal of the Legal Profession
  • How do law students develop commercial awareness? Listening to the student voice on the roles of the law school and the law student in developing commercial awareness, McConnell, S. 1 Apr 2023, In: Liverpool Law Review

  • PGCert March 26 2015
  • Law PGDip September 01 1997
  • Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2015


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