Research Institute for Social Sciences

Before embarking on the PhD, I have gained an LLB in Law, and an MA in Human Rights, Globalisation and Justice at Keele. My postgraduate dissertation was focused on equality legislative frameworks and its impacts on Muslim women lawyers. My PhD thesis is concerning the experiences of Muslim women solicitors working within the legal profession.

My research interests include Legal Professionalism, Identity and Religion and Society.

I am a member of the Socio-Legal Studies Association, and a PGR representative for Law.

My research is exploring the experiences of Muslim women solicitors within the Legal Profession. It is particularly concerned with how these marginal actors experience legal professional identity in a post-professional era, and to what extent these individuals are able to exert agency and their capacity to influence the structural forces within the profession.

This project is being supervised by Professor Andrew Francis and Dr. Marie-Andree Jacob.

• ‘An exploration into the role of structural constraints in a post-professional era, through a case study of Muslim women solicitors’ (March 2013) Conference Paper to Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities at Birkbeck University

Currently teaching:

Level 1 Legal Skills

Level 2 Contract Law: When things go wrong

Level 2 Lawyers in Society