معرفی
Kathryn Saban is a Senior Lecturer (Teaching and Engagement) and Solicitor at Lancaster University’s Law School, where she also serves as Director of the award-winning Law Clinic and Employability Lead. A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, she has spearheaded multiple community-facing initiatives that integrate clinical legal education with public legal education and social-impact research.
Education & Professional Qualifications
- Qualified Solicitor (specialising in education law and SEND legal aid work)
- Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
- Alumna of the Bonington Leadership Development Programme (2023/24)
Research & Scholarship Interests
Her scholarly work centres on clinical legal education, legal skills development, children’s rights and education law. She interrogates how experiential, community-based and interdisciplinary pedagogies can simultaneously enhance student learning and address access-to-justice gaps. Recent strands include:
- Two-way appraisal systems in law clinics
- Street Law methodologies and student partnership
- Community-based research for social change
- Climate-change policy collaboration across institutions
- Post-pandemic virtual clinic adaptation
Publication Trends
Since 2021 Kathryn has authored or co-authored 17 outputs—peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers, professional reports and magazine legal updates—appearing in leading outlets such as the International Journal of Clinical Legal Education, International Journal for Students as Partners and SEN Magazine. The work clusters around four themes: (1) innovative assessment and feedback in clinics, (2) Street Law and community legal education, (3) SEND and education law compliance, and (4) employability and skills-focused curriculum design.
Honours & Awards
- FASS Outstanding Contribution to Engagement Award 2020 – Law Clinic
- Lancaster University Environmental Sustainability Award 2023 – Policy Law Clinic
- FASS Dean’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Engagement – Highly Commended 2025 (Knife Crime Prevention)
- FASS Outstanding Contribution to Engagement – Highly Commended 2023 (Street Law)
- Lancaster University Pilkington Teaching Award – Highly Commended 2023
Leadership, Grants & Advising
Kathryn convenes six credit-bearing modules spanning undergraduate and postgraduate levels (e.g., Law 206, Law 381, LLM 5381). She leads the Law School’s careers and employability provision (since 2017), during which the School achieved #1 in the UK for graduate prospects (Complete University Guide 2020 & 2021). She secured Global Advancement Fund support to deliver a two-week Global Commercial Law Taster at Sunway University, Malaysia (2024). While formal doctoral supervision is not detailed, her extensive clinic supervision means she mentors dozens of students annually in casework, research and outreach projects.
Labs, Clinics & Teams
She directs the Lancaster University Law Clinic (free public advice), co-founded the Policy Law Clinic (climate & knife-crime policy research), established the Street Law Project (school outreach to ~300 pupils/year), and launched the Law School Podcast Series. These initiatives involve multidisciplinary teams of students, solicitors and external partners across Lancashire, the Open University, and international collaborators.
