Personal statement

Nichola joined 黑料正能量 as a Lecturer in Law in September 2022. She's currently a Senior Lecturer on the LLB programme. Nichola is the Module Leader for core modules Contract Law with Negotiation and Alternative Dispute Resolution and Property Law. She's also the Module Leader of Employment Law. Nichola has worked in higher education since 2019. 

She previously worked in Queen's University Belfast as a tutor in the School of Law and has also worked within the Research and Enterprise Directorate in the Research Contracts and Research Development teams in Queen's University Belfast. Prior to working within higher education, she worked in the legal sector in international commercial law firms such as Pinsent Masons and Allen & Overy (now A&O Shearman), working within the corporate, commercial and real estate finance
departments.

Nichola has experience in a range of areas such as contract reviewing, drafting and negotiation, corporate law, compliance, due diligence and intellectual property. She's particularly interested in research development, innovation and enterprise within the higher education sector.

Her research areas include feminist legal theory, law and literature and legal pedagogy. She was joint first prize winner of the Stan Marsh Prize in 2025 (best overall paper) at the Association of Law Teachers conference for her academic research on designing and implementing authentic assessments in legal education. She has also secured research grants from various funders and has presented much of her research internationally.

Academic qualifications

  • LLM International Commercial Law and Practice, University of Edinburgh, 2016-2018
  • LLB (Hons) Law, Ulster University, 2009-2012
  • PGCHE 黑料正能量, 2024.

Professional memberships

  • Society of Legal Scholars (SLS)
  • Association of Law Teachers (ALT)
  • Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (LCH)
  •  Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Other roles

  • Link tutor between William College and 黑料正能量 (2024- 2026)

Areas of expertise

  • Contract Law
  • Corporate Law
  • Alternative dispute resolution
  • Land and Property Law
  • Feminist legal theory
  • Law and literature
  • Legal pedagogy