Ms Lindsey Harrison
BA Hons, Solicitors professional qualification, SFHEA, Construction Adjudicator
Associate Professor Education and Student Experience, Solicitor and Senior Lecturer in Construction Law
School of the Built Environment
Role
Lindsey is a Senior Lecturer in Construction Law, teaching law to both Construction and Real Estate students. After qualifying as a solicitor she worked for major firms in both London and Oxford, specialising in property law. She left practice to become a founder member of the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice which provided courses for the professional qualification required by solicitors.
She gained considerable advocacy and court experience working as a solicitor advocate for a large national charity. Leading on from this, she has qualified as a Construction Adjudicator with the CIARB and consequently brings construction dispute resolution as an area of expertise to the School.
Lindsey is in demand as a visiting lecturer at many of the London law schools and works as a writer and assessor for the legal professional examinations for qualification as a solicitor.
Lindsey keeps up to date with current surveying practice in her role as a co-director of and legal consultant to a local surveying practice.
Teaching and supervision
Courses
- Building Surveying (BSc (Hons))
- Project Management in the Built Environment (MSc)
- Construction Project Management (BSc (Hons))
- Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management (BSc (Hons))
Modules taught
- Foundation Construction Law - 1st year
- Construction Law and Procurement - 2nd year
- Advanced Procurement and Dispute Resolution - 4th year
- Building Surveying Law - 4th year
- Undergraduate construction dissertations - 4th year
- Construction law and procurement – Masters
- Supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations
Lindsey has qualified as a SFHEA which reflects her interest in innovative teaching and specialism in teaching law to lawyers and non-lawyers, as well as teaching legal skills such as advocacy and dispute resolution. She has a particular interest in assessment methodology and ways in which new assessment methods can be used to address differing skills of students.
As an Associate Professor Lindsey in involved with a range of projects within the Faculty to improve students’ education, experience and learning.