Personal Statement
Lucy Yeatman is a senior lecturer in law and a practicing solicitor specialising in family law in the Liverpool Law Clinic. She is passionate about clinical legal education and has extensive experience of designing and delivering clinical legal education programmes.

Lucy is a Senior Fellow of the HEA, she was awarded Lecturer of the Year for University of Liverpool in 2018 and short-listed for Law Lecturer of the Year in 2019.

Lucy has research interests in pedagogy, in particular feedback, assessment and peer learning and is committed to finding innovative ways to improve access to justice for litigants in person in the family courts.

Research Overview
RESEARCH GROUP MEMBERSHIP

Lucy is a member of the Feminist Legal Research and Action Network (FRAN).

RESEARCH GRANTS

Exploring the Value of Peer Feedback through a Law Clinic Setting – Association of Law Teachers Innovation in Teaching Practice Grant 2020 – 2022 (jointly with Dr Louise Hewitt University of Greenwich)

Peering through the (Feedback Literacy) Looking Glass: Peer Learning in Law Schools – Association of Law Teachers Annual Seminar Prize 2022 (jointly with Emma Flint (Aston University) and Dr Louise Hewitt (University of Greenwich)

RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS

Dr Louise Hewitt (University of Greenwich) and Emma Flint (Aston University)

Lucy has an ongoing collaboration with Louise Hewitt and Emma Flint, exploring benefits of peer learning in law schools.

PUBLICATIONS

L. Yeatman & L. Hewitt (2020). Feedback: a reflection on the use of Nicol and Macfarlane-Dick’s feedback principles to engage learners. The Law Teacher, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2020.1780843

L. Yeatman (2018) Law in the Community and Access to Justice: Linking Theory and Practice in Social Justice and Legal Education Chris Ashford and Paul McKeown (eds) Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1-5275-7100-9 ISBN13: 978-1-5275-7100-6