Hayley Whitaker

Current positions

Lecturer in Law

Biography

I joined the Salford Business School in March 2018 as a lecturer in law, having held teaching posts at the University of Chester and Liverpool John Moores University. I have taught across a wide range of modules at undergraduate level and module led Public Law, Advocacy, English Legal System and Youth Crime & Justice. I lead the mooting and debating society, with teams enjoying success in the ESU moot competition. I am currently working towards completing my doctorate in the area of legal history. My work considers the development welfare legislation between 1834 - 1929, with reference to the New Poor Law Amendment Act 1834. My research has allowed me to undertake a number of outreach events with Family History Groups in the Cheshire area. I am co-director for the Chester Legal History Forum. I am also interested in the value of vocational skills based training in higher education. As part of this I teamed up with Judge Halbert the then Head of the Civil Circuit for Chester, and together we researched and wrote a text aimed at guiding students on effective public speaking and legal research. I then fed this research back into my undergraduate Advocacy module by introducing skills based assessments, including judgement writing, mooting and presentations.