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Jones, Emma; Ryan, Francine; Thanaraj, Ann and Wong, Terry (2022). Digital Lawyering: Technology and Legal Practice in the 21st Century. Abingdon: Routledge.

Jones, Emma; Graffin, Neil; Samra, Rajvinder and Lucassen, Mathijs (2020). Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Legal Profession. Bristol Shorts Research. Bristol: Bristol University Press.

Madhloom, Omar and McFaul, Hugh eds. (2022). Thinking About Clinical Legal Education: Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives. Emerging Legal Education. Routledge.

Bleasedale, Lydia; Rizzotto, Beverley; Stalker, Rachel; Yeatman, Lucy; McFaul, Hugh; Ryan, Francine; Johnson, Nick and Thomas, Linden (2020). Law Clinics: What, why and how? In: Thomas, Linden and Johnson, Nick eds. The Clinical Legal Education Handbook. University of London Press, pp. 7–56.

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Curryer, Emma and Edwards, Carol (2024). Innovative ways of developing communities and enhancing students employability skills in the online university environment. In: Milmore, Amanda ed. How to Include Employability in the Law School. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 133–146.

Gilbert, Andrew (2022). Capitalising on Clinical Legal Education: Insights from Bourdieu. In: Madhloom, Omar and Mcfaul, Hugh eds. Thinking About Clinical Legal Education: Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 49–68.

Graffin, Neil (2024). ‘Two versions of the American Dream’: Well-being and unhappiness in the law school and legal profession: The work of Lawrence Krieger and Kennon Sheldon. In: Newman, Daniel ed. Leading Works on the Legal Profession. Routledge, pp. 64–76.

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Hardie, Liz and Edwards, Carol (2025). How to develop a sense of belonging in online distance learning. In: Baxter, Jacqueline; Selby-Fell, Helen and Gilbert, Andrew eds. Creativity and Critique in Digital Learning and Teaching: Insights for Learning Design in Business and Law. Palgrave Macmillan Cham, (In Press).

Hardie, Liz; Mcfaul, Hugh and Ryan, Francine (2020). 50 years of Clinical Legal Education: Looking Back to the Future. In: Claydon, Lisa; Derry, Caroline and Ajevski, Marjan eds. Law in Motion: 50 years of Legal Change. The Open University Law School, pp. 212–227.

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Hardie, Liz and Ryan, Francine (2024). How to Offer Effective Pastoral Support in a Distance Learning Institution. In: Bleasdale, Lydia ed. How to Offer Effective Wellbeing Support to Law Students. How to guides. Edward Elgar, pp. 88–101.

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Hardie, Liz; Ryan, Francine and Baxter, Jacqueline (2025). Every truth has two sides: the impact of ChatGPT on law and business education. In: Baxter, Jacqueline; Selby-Fell, Helen and Gilbert, Andrew eds. Creativity and Critique in Digital Learning and Teaching: Insights for Learning Design in Business and Law. Cham, CH: Palgrave Macmillan [In Press].

Howells, Carol (2024). Agnes Twiston Hughes, First Welsh Woman to Practise as a Solicitor, 1923. In: Auchmuty, Rosemary; Rackley, Erika and Takayanagi, Mari eds. Women’s Legal Landmarks in the Interwar Years: Not for Want of Trying. Bloomsbury, pp. 127–131.

Jones, Emma; Ryan, Francine; McFaul, Hugh; Vince, David; Kizilkaya, Lawrence and Daniels, Jamie (2023). Using virtual reality to enhance the law school curriculum. In: Tharanj, Ann and Gledhill, Kris eds. Teaching Legal Education in the Digital Age: Pedagogical Practices to Digitally Empower Law Graduates. Routledge.

McFaul, Hugh (2022). Towards a Capability Approach to Clinical Legal Education. In: Madhloom, Omar and McFaul, Hugh eds. Thinking About Clinical Legal Education. London, UK: Routledge.

Ryan, Francine and Mcfaul, Hugh (2020). Innovative technologies in UK legal education. In: Jones, Emma and Cownie, Fiona eds. Key Directions in Legal Education National and International Perspectives. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 67–79.

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Ajevski, Marjan; Barker, Kim; Gilbert, Andrew; Hardie, Liz and Ryan, Francine (2023). ChatGPT and the Future of Legal Education and Practice. The Law Teacher, 57(3) pp. 352–364.

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Curryer, Emma and Edwards, Carol (2024). The impact of policy work on employability skills in the policy project connected to the criminal appeals clinic at the Open University. International Journal of Clinical Legal Education pp. 109–146.

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Edwards, Carol; Gregory, Lorraine and Hardie, Liz (2021). Setting up a Pilot Peer Mentoring Programme in the Online Environment. Journal of Rights and Justice, 2 pp. 7–17.

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Edwards, Carol and Hardie, Liz (2024). Fostering a sense of belonging through online qualification events. Distance Education, 45(2) pp. 210–228.

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Giles, Jessica (2016). The Superfoods of Online Learning: Threshold Concepts and Threshold Skills. Journal of Commonwealth Law and Legal Education, 11(1) pp. 26–43.

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Graffin, Neil (2019). The emotional impacts of working as an asylum lawyer. Refugee Survey Quarterly, 38(1) pp. 30–54.

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Graffin, Neil (2019). Protecting asylum practitioners from emotional strain and secondary trauma: education, support and reform. European Journal of Current Legal Issues, 25(2), article no. 652.

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Graffin, Neil and Jones, Emma (2021). ‘Survival of the fittest’? Perceptions of wellbeing at The Bar of Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 72(3), article no. 2.

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Hardie, Liz (2024). "Training is Everything": How to Prepare Students for Policy Clinic Projects. International Journal of Clinical Legal Education pp. 72–108.

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Johnson, Kara (2022). Beginning, becoming and belonging: using liminal spaces to explore how part-time adult learners negotiate emergent identities when embarking on undergraduate online study. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 24(2) pp. 7–29.

Johnson, Kara (2023). Capturing virtual voices: using online reflective journals to explore the lived experiences of part-time adult learners. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 25(2) pp. 185–194.

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Jones, Emma; Mcfaul, Hugh and Ryan, Francine (2017). Clinical legal education in the United Kingdom: Origins, growth and the technological innovations and challenges of its future. German Journal of Legal Education, 4 pp. 107–136.

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Jones, Emma; Ryan, Francine and Mcfaul, Hugh (2018). Connectivity, confidentiality and confidence: Key issues in the provision of online pro bono activities. International Journal of Clinical Legal Education, 25(2) pp. 48–88.

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Jones, Emma Jane; Pride, Mychelle; Edwards, Carol and Tumilty, Rob (2020). Challenges and opportunities in co-creating a wellbeing toolkit in a distance learning environment: a case study. Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change, 67(1)

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McFaul, Hugh (2015). Teaching legal ethics at the open university – avoiding the pitfalls of formalism. Revista Bio Ciencias, 3(2) (Supl 2) 20-25.

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McFaul, Hugh (2020). Does Clinical Legal Education Need Theory? Asian Journal of Legal Education, 7(2) pp. 152–163.

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Mcfaul, Hugh and FitzGerald, Elizabeth (2020). A realist evaluation of student use of a virtual reality smartphone application in undergraduate legal education. British Journal of Educational Technology, 51(2) pp. 572–589.

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Mcfaul, Hugh and FitzGerald, Elizabeth (2021). Supporting access to justice through volunteer training: An evaluation of an Open Educational Resource. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 1(5) pp. 1–14.

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McFaul, Hugh; FitzGerald, Elizabeth; Ryan, Francine and Byrne, David (2020). A mobile app for public legal education: a case study of co-designing with students. Research in Learning Technology, 28, article no. 2434.

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McFaul, Hugh; Hardie, Liz; Ryan, Francine; Lloyd Bright, Keren and Graffin, Neil (2020). Taking Clinical Legal Education Online: Songs of Innocence and Experience. International Journal of Clinical Legal Education, 27(4) pp. 6–38.

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Ryan, Francine (2020). A virtual law clinic: a realist evaluation of what works for whom, why, how and in what circumstances? The Law Teacher, 54(2) pp. 237–248.

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Ryan, Francine (2021). Rage against the machine? Incorporating legal tech into legal education. The Law Teacher, 55(3) pp. 392–404.

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Ryan, Francine (2021). Voices from the front line: exploring what pro bono means to lawyers in England and Wales? International Journal of the Legal Profession, 28(3) pp. 265–278.

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Ryan, Francine and Hardie, Liz (2024). ChatGPT, I have a legal question? The impact of Gen AI tools on law clinics and access to justice. International Journal of Clinical Legal Education, 31(1) pp. 166–205.

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Charitonos, K.; Gillespie, M.; Dancu, L.; O'Malley, O.; Al-Rashid, A.; Martin, S.; Wilding, C.; Graffin, N.; Mutwarasibo, F. and Babjak, M. (2023). Examining transitions to distance and online higher education with students from refugee backgrounds. In: BERA 2023 Conference, 12-14 Sep 2023, Birmingham, UK.

Giles, Jessica; Schipper, Vicki; Smith, Amanda; Knight, Jon-Paul and Watson, Jo (2016). Caring for Law Students' Study Skills Needs. Part II. In: Association of Law Teachers Conference "Promoting Collaboration", 20-22 Mar 2016, Northumbria.

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Kadry, Ahmed; Ryan, Francine; Knight, Jon-Paul and Hull, Simon (2024). Utilising a virtual courtroom to facilitate simulated court hearings to enhance the teaching and learning for law, policing and social work students. In: 16th International Conference on Education Technology and Computers, 19 Sep 2024, Porto, Portugal.

Kear, Karen; Donelan, Helen; Rosewell, Jonathan; Mooney, Allan; Cuffe, Paige; Sheehy, Kieron; Amor, Kevin; Elder, Tracey; Edwards, Carol; Okada, Alexandra and King, David (2022). The role of active participation in online synchronous learning. In: ALT Annual Conference 2022, 6-8 Sep 2022, Manchester.

McCann, Michael and Louise, Taylor (2016). Conference paper: Enhancing learning using authentic artefacts. In: Society for Research in Higher Education Annual Conference 2016, 2016, Newport, Wales.

Ryan, Francine (2020). The Integration of Technology into Clinical Legal Education: An Exploration of the 'Virtual' Law Clinic. In: Conference on Experiential Learning and Innovation in Legal Education 2019, Hong Kong University, pp. 98–104.

Taylor, Louise (2014). Conference paper: MOOCing the way to numerical literacy in law. In: Socio Legal Studies Association Annual Conference 2014, 2014, Aberdeen.

Taylor, Louise (2014). Conference paper: Why maths matters in legal education. In: Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference 2014, 2014, Leeds.

Taylor, Louise (2013). Conference paper: Developing an International Teaching and Research Culture through the Medium of Dual Degrees. In: Fifth National Spanish Conference on Legal Education, 2013, Valencia, Spain.

Taylor, Louise (2013). Conference paper: Enhancing Numeracy within the QLD. In: Nottingham Law School Annual Learning and Teaching Conference 2013, 2013, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham.

Taylor, Louise (2016). Academic poster: Developing higher order thinking skills through academic posters. In: PedRIO Conference 2016, 2016, Plymouth University, Plymouth.

Taylor, Louise (2013). Academic poster: Mathematical literacy in law. In: Socio Legal Studies Association Annual Conference 2013, 2013, Edinburgh.

Taylor, Louise (2013). Academic poster: Encouraging numeracy in undergraduate law learning and teaching. In: Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference 2013, 2013, Nottingham.

Taylor, Louise and Boyes, Simon (2015). Academic poster: Breaking down barriers to LLM study. In: Socio Legal Studies Association Annual Conference 2015, 2015, Warwick.

Taylor, Louise and Boyes, Simon (2014). Academic poster: Breaking down barriers to LLM study. In: Society for Research in Higher Education Annual Conference 2014, 2014, Newport, Wales.

Taylor, Louise and McCann, Michael (2016). Conference paper: Teaching using authentic artefacts. In: Trent Institute of Learning and Teaching Annual Conference 2016, 2016, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham.

Wolfreys, Allison (2019). Shaping a New Type of Hearing: Training Future Lawyers in Online Mediation - insights from a pilot Project. In: International Journal of Clinical Legal Education Conference 2019, Jul 2019, Bratislava - Slovakia.

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McFaul, Hugh (2024). University Engagement: policy, practice and the public good. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis Lancaster University.

Charitonos, Koula; Gillespie, Marie; Graffin, Neil; Wilding, Colin; O'Malley, Olwyn; Al-Rashid, Ahmad; Martin, Shannon; Mutwarasibo, Fidèle; Babjak, Mahlea and Dancu, Lidia (2023). Researching transitions to distance higher education with students from refugee backgrounds: A case from the Sanctuary programme at the Open University. The Open University.

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Forbes, Tina; Fox, Alison; Comfort, Catherine; Taylor, Louise and Mott, Natalie (2022). The language and practice of student support for one another: Diverse options for diverse purposes. A practice insight working paper. In CollectivED working papers issue 13 CollectivED, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds.

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Fox, Alison; Comfort, Catherine; Forbes, Tina; Taylor, Louise and Mott, Natalie (2022). Taking an ecological view of student (peer) mentoring. In CollectiveED working papers CollectivED, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds.

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Hardie, Liz; Lowe, Jonquil; Pride, Mychelle; Waugh, Kevin; Hauck, Mirjam; Ryan, Francine; Gooch, Daniel; Patent, Volker; McCartney, Kieran; Maguire, Claire; Richards, Mike and Richardson, Heather (2024). Developing robust assessment in the light of Generative AI developments. NCFE; The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

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Taylor, Louise and Edwards, Carol (2021). How peer mentoring can support students during the pandemic. The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

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Taylor, Louise (2014). Why is avoiding maths so common in the profession? In Solicitors Journal Solicitors Journal.

Wolfreys, Allison (2023). Storytelling: audio-drama and creative innovation in online legal education. The Open University.

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