Projects

Below is a list of all projects funded by UKCLE's Project Development Fund or through external sources of funding, including the Higher Education Academy and JISC. A growing collection of reports is developing as a result of this research activity, all of which can be downloaded free of charge.

Current projects

• Access to legal work experience and its role in the (re)production of legal professional identity
• Developing an Islamic law curriculum
• Developing research-based learning and teaching approaches through the innovative use of technology
• E-learning evaluation resource pack
• The internationalisation of law degrees and enhancement of graduate employability
• The pedagogic impact of law school sabbaticals
• Simshare: open educational resources in simulation learning
• Toolkit for law teachers

Completed projects

The following projects have recently been completed:

• Academic misconduct in legal education
• Getting started with e-portfolios: University of Cumbria
• A practice survey of the teaching, learning and assessment of law in undergraduate medical education
• SIMPLE: innovative learning across the professions
• Supporting the use of the SIMPLE platform
• The use of empirical legal research in the undergraduate curriculum
• Using e-portfolios in legal education

Earlier projects:

• Applying behavourial science to legal education
• Autonomy and the ability to learn
• Developing an e-learning resource for OSCOLA
• Developing global citizens through legal education
• Developing legal research methods
• Enterprise in Law
• ETHICS: Ethics Teaching Highlighted In Contextualised Scenarios
• Ethnic Minorities Law Net
• Exploring comparative marking
• Formative feedback: use within law programmes
• Good practice in sharing resources in law
• Hitting the ground running? Preparing students for practice
• The impact of formative assessment on student learning
• Law and engineers: intellectual property in the engineering syllabus
• Lawlinks upgrade
• Law Student 2002
• Law Student 2000
• Linking teaching and research
• Mapping best practice in clinical legal education
• MaLEW: Mapping legal education in Wales
• Mooting for learning
• Playing safe: learning and teaching in undergraduate law
• Practitioner perspectives on legal education and training
• Preparing black Caribbean students for the legal profession
• Teaching feminist perspectives on law
• Teaching environmental law
• Teaching legal ethics in contextualised settings
• Virtual learning environments in legal education

UKCLE was also involved in the following projects:

• Lawpaths (2002-05) - we provided consultancy on project management and evaluation for Lawpaths, a project aimed at developing a resource bank to support the teaching of legal research skills
• UK law schools survey (2003-05) - we provided project management and organisational support for the third survey of UK law schools (results included in Harris P & Beinart S (2005) 'A survey of law schools in the United Kingdom, 2004' The Law Teacher 39(3):299-366)