Elizabeth Stokes joined UEL School of Law and Social Sciences in 1995 to contribute to the teaching and development of criminal law, criminal justice and criminology modules across the curriculum.  Elizabeth was involved in the introduction and design of the BA in Criminology & Criminal Justice in 1997 and co-ordinated this subject area from 2000-2003.  She has a long standing interest in interdisciplinary studies and the challenges of teaching law to non-law students and to learners with diverse educational backgrounds. After a two-year secondment to the Open University, Faculty of Health & Social Care in 2005 developing law materials for health, social work and youth justice practitioners, she returned to UEL in September 2007. Her current administrative role is Combined Honours Leader for Law.

• Combined Honours Leader for Law and Programme Leader Graduate Diploma in Law

• Criminalisation, penal policy, mental health law, social work law and human rights.

• LLB (Hons)
• BA (Hons) Criminology & Criminal Justice
• Graduate Diploma in Law

• LA2300 Criminal Law
• LA2470/3460 Human Rights
• LA1750 The English Legal System
• CR2150 / 3150 Prison Studies
• CR2620 / 3620 Mentally Disordered Suspects, Defendants & Offenders
• Supervision of law/criminology projects and postgraduate dissertations.

• Member of School of Law Learning & Teaching Research Group.
• Research interests (subject based): penal policy, criminalisation, mental health, disciplinary interstices and civil responses to crime.
• Research interests (learning and teaching): teaching law to non-lawyers.

Recent publications:

1. (2007) K207 The Law and Social Work in Scotland, Block 1 'The Law and Social Work: An Introduction'. Milton Keynes: The Open University.
2. (2007) K207 The Law and Social Work in Scotland, Block3 'Criminal Justice'. Milton Keynes: The Open University.
3. (with Jeremy Roche) (2007) K207 The Law and Social Work in Scotland, Block 5'Housing, Welfare Rights, Asylum & Immigration'. Milton Keynes: The Open University.
4. (with Nick Balneaves)(2007) K207 The Law and Social Work in Scotland, Audio CD. Milton Keynes: The Open University.

•  (2000) "The Abolition of Doli Incapax: Reflections on the Death of a Doctrine" In Pickford, J (Ed) "Youth Justice: Theory & Practice". London , Cavendish.
• (1996) "Hunting & Hunt Saboteurs: A censure study" .UEL Research Publication Series.

• External consultant for Open University courses in Social work law and Youth justice.
• Book proposal referee (various publishers), member of the British Society of Criminology, Centre for Crime & Justice Studies, and Socio-Legal Studies Association.