Kelvin Johnstone

Title: Senior Teaching Fellow
Phone: +44(0)1782 733219
Email:
Location: Chancellor's Building, room CBC 1.007
Role: Director of Learning and Teaching for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Senior Personal Tutor
Contacting me: During office hours without an appointment, or email to make an appointment.

B.A. (Durham), LL.M., M.A. (Keele), Solicitor (1979), Deputy District Judge (Northern Circuit).

I read history as an undergraduate but then qualified and practised as a solicitor for over 20 years in various private practice firms and public authorities across the UK.

I turned to teaching in 2002 and first taught at Lancaster University before coming to Keele in 2004.

My main research interests are in family law generally (but especially the law as it relates to children) and the law of education, both as it relates to schools and Higher Education Institutions. In the arena of practice, I have a particular interest in the law of obligations and the civil process.

Contributing chapter on ‘Education’ in Brammer (2010) Social Work Law, Pearson

I teach on the following undergraduate modules in Law:

LAW-20006 - Contract 1
LAW-20011 - Contract 2 (module leader)

LAW-30093 - Commercial Law (module leader)
LAW-30054 - Child Law (module leader)
LAW-30013 - Family Law

I also teach on the undergraduate BA (Social Work) degree programme.

At postgraduate level, I teach on these programmes:

MA Child Care Law and Practice
MA Safeguarding Adults
MA Human Rights Globalisation and Justice

I have a particular interest in teaching in Higher Education and I am the Director of Learning and Teaching for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. I am also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

I am a member of the panel of mediators of the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies.