Amanda Millmore

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0118 3784921
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Associate Professor
- Lecturing & teaching on the undergraduate LLB programme
- School Director of Academic Tutoring

- University Teaching Fellow (awarded 2019)
Areas of interest
Amanda is a teaching intensive member of staff, blending pedagogy with her legal knowledge and practical experience as a barrister. Amanda is a National Teaching Fellow (2022) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and her PGCAP dissertation researched practical methods of embedding employability through collaborative curriculum design. Her pedagogic interests focus upon student partnerships, employability, the use of technology in teaching and student support.
Amanda's legal interests relate to vulnerable individuals in the criminal and family justice system, family law (particularly domestic abuse and coercive & controlling behaviour) and criminal law.
Teaching
- Family Law (LW3FAM)
- Children, Families & the State (LW3CFS) (Module Co-Convenor)
- Tort (LW1TOR)
- Criminal Law (LW1CRI)
- Legal Skills (LW1LS)
- Law & Society (LW1LAS)
Background
Amanda spent 8 years practising at the Bar, specialising in criminal law, family law and personal injury work, from chambers at 4 King's Bench Walk. During a career break she established the online training website www.legaltraining.co.uk, offering accredited Continuing Professional Development training to the legal profession from 2004 to 2019, in which she wrote and commissioned CPD training courses on a range of subjects appropriate to a professional audience. She was an accredited CPD provider for the Bar Standards Board and Solicitors Regulation Authority and other legal professional organisations.
Amanda was a consultant to the ESRC funded research project "Access to Justice for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders", advising the psychologists as to witness handling, criminal practice and procedure, particularly in relation to cross-examination. She also cross-examined a significant number of children (with and without ASDs) as part of the research project.
Amanda joined the School of Law in 2015, and is particularly keen to support aspiring advocates, devising and running advocacy training and supporting mooters within the School of Law.
Amanda is the author of the Tort law resources for Oxford University Press's "Oxford Learning Link", which includes a bank of multiple choice questions and bi-annual legal updates. She is the editor of “Core Statutes on Family Law 2022-23” (Hart Core Statutes).
Academic qualifications
MA (Cantab), Barrister, PGCAP, SFHEA, NTF
- 2019 Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, University of Reading
- 1996 Called to the Bar as a scholar of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn
- 1995 MA Law, Christ’s College, University of Cambridge
Awards and honours
Amanda has received a number of Teaching & Learning awards for her work at the University of Reading:
- 2022: National Teaching Fellowship (Advance HE - https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/ntfs/amanda-millmore)
- 2022: University Collaborative Award for Teaching & Learning (Blended Learning - Exploring the Experience of Disabled Law Students)
- 2022: Reading Students' Union Teaching Excellence Award Law
- 2021: University Collaborative Award for Teaching & Learning (as part of the Academic Tutor System project team)
- 2020: Reading Students' Union Outstanding Student/Staff Partnership Excellence Award
- 2019: awarded a University Teaching Fellowship
Additionally, Amanda has successfully gained funding for a number of pedagogic student-staff partnership projects:
2022 |
Teaching & Learning Enhancement Project:Exploring the Hidden Curriculum – Supporting Student Transitions into University and Sense of Belonging. |
2021 |
University PLanT scheme (Partnerships in Learning & Teaching):Embedding employability skills in Law: exploring gender and intersectionality biases in assessed groupwork. |
2021 |
Teaching & Learning Enhancement Project: Student Design of Inclusive Formative Assessments for Blended Learning & Student Mentor Panels. |
2020 |
University PLanT scheme (Partnerships in Learning & Teaching):Blended Learning – Exploring the Experience of Disabled Law Students. |
2020 |
Academic Tutor System Project Funding:Running Virtual Focus Groups – Investigating the Student Experience of the Academic Tutor System. |
2019 |
Teaching and Learning Dean Funding: to design and run a collaborative, practical co-curricularInter-Professional Practical Workshop: Registered Intermediaries & Advocates in a Mock Criminal Court. |
2018 |
University PLanT scheme (Partnerships in Learning & Teaching):Embedding EmployabilityThrough Collaborative Curriculum Design. |
Professional bodies/affiliations
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Member of the Family Law Bar Association
- Member of the Society of Legal Scholars
- Member of the Socio-Legal Studies Association
- Member of the Association of Law Teachers
Publications
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Millmore, A.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8626-0713 , Ho, A.
ORCID: 0000-0002-2581-126X , Sinclair-Graham, S. (2023) Collaboratively embedding employability into an introductory legal skills module: reflections on a soft launch. In: Norton, S. and Romero-Gonzalez, M. , (eds.) A Case Study Compendium: Contemporary practices and initiatives in employability. Advance HE , London. pp. 55-59. ISBN: 9781916359383
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Millmore, A.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8626-0713 (2022) Mentimenter: engaging students with an easy to use audience response system. In: Betts, T. and Oprandi, P. , (eds.) 100 Ideas for Active Learning. University of Sussex Library pp. 763-771. ISBN: 9780995786271 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.20919/OPXR1032/92
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Millmore, A.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8626-0713 , eds. (2022) Core statutes on family law, 7th edition. Hart Core Statutes Bloomsbury Publishing pp 432. ISBN: 9781509960460
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Millmore, A.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8626-0713 , Cordy, J. , Johnson, J. , Isherwood, C. , White, E. , Firmin, L. , Bangham, F. , Kennedy, O. (2022) Levelling up: from reactive to proactive - shifting the narrative of Academic Tutoring from problems to solutions. In: Lochtie, D. , Stork, A. , Walker, B. , (eds.) The Higher Education Personal Tutor’s and Advisor’s Companion: Translating Theory into Practice to Improve Student Success. Critical Publishing , St Albans. ISBN: 9781913453459
- Cook-Sather, A. , Slates, S. , Allen, M. , Baskaran, R. , Crombie, P. , Derounian, J. , Dianati, S. , Dudson, M. , Grayson, D. , Haroon, M. , Fraser, C. , Jardine, H. , Millmore, A. , Milton, E. , Mori, Y. , Morgan, A. , Pereira, J. , Salman, M. , Scharff, L. , Storey, J. , Sum, K. , Tisdell, C. (2021) The many manifestations of successful partnership. International Journal for Students As Partners , 5 (2). pp. 221-232. ISSN: 2560-7367 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.15173/ijsap.v5i2.4911
- Henry, L. , Crane, L. , Millmore, A. , Nash, G. , Wilcock, R. (2021) Intermediaries and cross-examination resilience in children: the development of a novel experimental methodology. Applied Cognitive Psychology , 35 (6). pp. 1387-1404. ISSN: 0888-4080 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/acp.3869
- Millmore, A. (2021) Hand over the reins… a case study for student-staff partnership in designing module assessments. International Journal for Students as Partners , 5 (1). ISSN: 2560-7367 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.15173/ijsap.v5i1.4382
- Millmore, A. , Newnham, A. , Bennett, M. , Chew, T. , Davies, J. , Fuller, T. (2020) Reflections on a student-staff partnership: collaborative design of module assessments. Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education , 1 (31). ISSN: 2381-4268
- Mayhew, E. , Davies, M. , Millmore, A. , Thompson, L. , Pena, A. (2020) The impact of audience response platform Mentimeter on the student and staff learning experience. Research In Learning Technology , 28 ISSN: 2156-7077 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.25304/rlt.v28.2397
- Millmore, A. and Phillimore, S. (2001) Round table conferences. Family Law , 31 pp. 46-48. ISSN: 0014-7281
- Phillimore, S. and Drane, A. (1999) No more of the `no order' principle. Family Law , 29 pp. 40-42. ISSN: 0014-7281
- Drane, A. and Phillimore, S. (1999) A change of status - wave goodbye to marriage and say hello to parenthood. Family Law , 29 pp. 653-656. ISSN: 0014-7281