Mrs Lydia Bleasdale-Hill
Lecturer
I graduated from the University of Leeds (LLB) in 2003 and the University of Oxford (MSc Criminology and Criminal Justice) in 2004. I taught at Manchester Metropolitan University for one year (2004-05), before returning to Leeds as a lecturer in 2005.
In addition to my teaching I am the Director of the Legal Advice Clinic. I also oversee the School's widening participation and pro bono activities and agenda. I was awarded a University Teaching Fellowship in 2009 to assist in the further development of pro bono activities and I am currently (2011-12) undertaking a review of the School's pro bono provision.
I am a member of the School's School Management Team, the Taught Student Education Committee, the Faculty Admissions and Widening Participation Committee and the School's Staff-Student Forum.
I also work with the following external organisations, amongst others:
- Ford and Warren Solicitors
- Henry Hyams Solicitors
- Leeds Older People's Forum
- The African Prison Project
- Mental Disability Advocacy Center
- Sutton Trust
- Bradford College (Degree Programme Validation Panel, 2008)
Scholarly and Research Interests
My interests are in the fields of legal education, pro bono work and widening participation.
Teaching
I teach on the following undergraduate modules:
- Criminal Law
- Principles of Criminal Law
- Crime and Criminal Justice
- English Law
- Legal Skills
- Criminal Justice Study Skills
- Victims, Crime and Victimology
- Dissertations (Criminal Law)
I also teach postgraduate Criminal Law and supervise Criminal Law dissertations.
Key Publications
Bleasdale-Hill, L. (2011) The Experience of Establishing and Maintaining Pro bono Projects within an Educational Setting: A Narrative, University Teaching Fellowship Report, March 2011 (copies available upon request).
Bleasdale, L. (2008) Under Attack: The Metaphoric Threat of Asylum Seekers in Public-Political Discourses, Web Journal of Current Legal Issues, 1.
Contact Details
- Room: 2.09, The Liberty Building
- Tel: 0113 343 5026
- Email: l.k.bleasdalehill@leeds.ac.uk