Advisory Board
Our Advisory Board helps to guide future development of the Law School’s priorities.
For the development of our Law School's priorities
We work closely with our Advisory Board and benefit from the wide range of experience and skills of its Members.
Members of the Board align with key areas of strategy and development within the Law School. They advise, and where appropriate assist, with the development of the School’s strategic initiatives. Current areas of focus include:
Our Advisory Board are firmly committed to ensuring fair and flexible access to university education for all.
The Board offers advice and support on widening participation engagement activities conducted by the Law School. It also provides guidance on how to support such students throughout the LLB degree.
Newcastle Law School’s undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum are continually developed to reflect
- staff expertise;
- current societal challenges and;
- students’ needs and ambition
Members of the Advisory Board highlight emerging trends within their professions, helping us to reflect on the modules we teach and the balance struck between intellectual and practical aspects of the courses provided.
Our employability and enterprise team and pro-bono team work closely with the advisory board, helping us to
- identify key graduate skills;
- find new ways to enhance skills development and;
- prepare our students for whatever career they desire after graduation
The Law School Advisory Board offers support and advice on a variety of engagement activities including:
- school out-reach work;
- pro-bono opportunities;
- the Sutton Trust Pathway to Law Programme;
- career placement year and;
- student society activity
Advisory Board members regularly engage in discussions about the level and means of wellbeing support being provided to the Law School community. They help us by offering guidance and advice on alternative methods of support, drawing upon their own professional experience.
Through international partnerships, student exchange opportunities and collaborative research, Newcastle Law School ensures it is a globally engaged law school.
The Advisory Board supports the Law School to develop and implement its internationalisation strategy.
A number of our Advisory Board members are alumni of the Law School and facilitate alumni events.
We hope to strengthen and improve alumni engagement and seek to benefit from the experience and expertise of our alumni community. The Advisory Board will play a key role in helping develop our alumni engagement strategy.
The Law School and Advisory Board seek to embed the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of law school activity. Working together we aim to identify:
- EDI considerations associated with all that we do from recruitment, to student experience, to staffing etc;
- ways of addressing these key EDI challenges
Current membership of the board
Mr Andrew Carnegie, Advisory Board Chair, Clifford Chance (Partner)
Mr Mike Barton, (previously Chief Constable of Durham)
Ms Tara Burrows, DRS (Executive Consultant)
Ms Martha Carr, Womble Bond Dickinson (Solicitor)
Mr Martin Coombes, Gibson Dunn (Associate Attorney)
Mr John Cooper, QC 25 Bedford Road
Mr Simon Gault, Barrister, Arbitrator and Mediator and Visiting Professor Newcastle Law School
Mr Adam Heather, DWF (head of Real Estate and Executive Partner)
Ms Helen Marr, Womble Bond Dickinson (Early Talent Development Manager)
The Honourable Mr Justice Nicklin
Ms Jessica Randell, Barrister 39 Park Square
Emily Radford, Social Worker Gateshead Council
Mr Nitin Shukla, Policy Performance and Scrutiny Officer at Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner Northumbria
Mrs Gillian Tiplady, Solicitor, Director GJN Travel Ltd. (Formerly of Hays Travel, and Newcastle Building Society)
