Chris Ashford is Professor of Law and Society at Northumbria University. He is Chair of the UK Quality Assurance Agency 2022 Law Subject Benchmark Review, and a member of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 sub-panel for Law. He is the current Co-editor of The Law Teacher: The International Journal of Legal Education, Vice Chair of the Socio-Legal Studies Association, an Advisory Council Member of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), and a former Chair of the Association of Law Teachers. Professor Ashford was a member of the UK Bar Standard Board (BSB) Pathways Qualification Task Group (2016-17) and BSB Academic Stage Working Group (2015-16). His legal education research has focused on HE policy.
Publishing Legal Education Research
Abstract:
This keynote will consider some of the challenges and opportunities presented in publishing legal education research. The presentation will make reference to both the Hong Kong RAE2020 and UK REF2021 assessment criteria in considering originality, significance, and rigour, and consider how this criteria can be applied to the production of legal education research which might take a number of forms including, for example: action-research, empirical, theoretical, comparative, and autoethnographic. The keynote will also draw on experiences of editing an academic journal and seek to demystify the process of publishing and the decision-making process (including peer review).