Amanda Millmore
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Professor
- Lecturing & teaching on the undergraduate LLB programme
- School Director of Academic Tutoring
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- 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
- Children, Families & the State (LW3CFS) (Module Convenor)
- Law of Evidence (LW2EVD) (Module Convenor)
- Family Law (LW3FAM)
- Criminal Law (LW1CRI)
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, London. During a career break she established the online training website LegalTraining, 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. She recently edited a collection for Edward Elgar Publishing, "How to Include Employability In the Law School" (published in 2024).
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. Since 2024, she has been working in collaboration with psychologists (from the Universities of Bath & Birmingham) on another ESRC funded project about evidence and witness vulnerability in criminal trials.
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.
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:
- 2023: Reading Students' Union Teaching Excellence Award Law
- 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:
2023 |
Teaching & Learning Enhancement Project: Exploring Research Skills in Legal Practice |
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: Reframing success in a partnership project – T&L Exchange (reading.ac.uk) |
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-curricular: Inter-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