Elizabeth STOKES
Senior Lecturer
Centre for Human Rights in Conflict, Mediation Hub, Business and Law
Elizabeth Stokes is a Senior Lecturer in Law specialising in Criminal Law, Human Rights, Mental Health & Criminal Justice. She is also a workplace mediator.
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UEL Royal Docks School of Business & Law
1 Salway Road
London
E15 1NF - e.stokes@uel.ac.uk +442082232195
Elizabeth Stokes is a senior lecturer in Law in the Royal Docks School of Business and Law at the University of East London. She currently teaches Public Law, Human Rights Proceedings and Criminal Law for the LLB programmes and a criminology option on Mentally Disordered Suspects, Defendants and Offenders.
Elizabeth is responsible for the design and
delivery of a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules, primarily
in the area of crime, human rights and legal methods. She promotes
interdisciplinary learning, along with a particular interest in the skills and
module design necessary to teach law and the value of legal education to
non-law students and to people from diverse educational backgrounds. This stems
from her own experience as an Oxbridge ‘target schools’ student and first-generation
entrant to university.
Between 2005-7
Elizabeth worked as a central academic at the Open University, Faculty of
Health & Social Care developing distance learning legal materials for
health, social work and youth justice practitioners, including for the (then) innovative
online Open Learn platform She has
extensive experience in Programme Leadership roles, including management and
design of blended learning materials for the Graduate Diploma in Law (CPE). She
also led the Criminology subject area and Law two-subject degrees.
As a qualified
Mediator Elizabeth is a member of the Steering Group of the University of East
London Mediation Hub and Mediators Community of Practice Group. She also acts
as a workplace coach and mentor and integrates these skills into her teaching
practice.
Overview
Current research areas include:
- exploring the barriers to effective practice in the teaching and learning of domestic human rights law and the challenges faced by this discipline both within the academy and in the wider policy context
- closing the degree awarding gap: stereotype threat and language skills as a core competency in legal studies
- neurodiversity in the workplace
Collaborators
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Research
Publications
Funding
Human rights law in the UK, metal health and crime, mediation and coaching practice in education.
Interests
Portfolio
Public law
Human rights
Mental Health & Criminal Justice