CIRLE 10th Anniversary and Relaunch as CIRCLE

The Centre for Innovation and Research in Legal Education invites you to join them.

The Centre for Innovation and Research in Legal Education invites you to join them at their 10 Year Anniversary event and relaunch as CIRCLE. There will be a panel event, a showcase of research and work and a drinks reception.

The last ten years have seen fundamental changes and challenges within Higher Education. At the risk of sounding like an academic alternative to Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire: the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated an overhaul of teaching, assessment and student support formats and practices; the aftermath of the pandemic – coupled with an ever-increasing cost of living crisis – has seen the relationships many students have with each other, their tutors, and their institutions more broadly, shift in multiple ways; the Teaching Education Framework was introduced in 2017 and the Solicitors Qualifying Examination in 2021; and Artificial Intelligence looms large over discussions concerning the purposes of higher education, forms of assessment, student employability, and much more.

Of course, any decade will see multiple changes and challenges, but the 2015-2025 period has felt to many as one with particularly seismic events. Throughout this time, members of the Centre for Innovation and Research in Legal Education (CIRLE) have driven and influenced strategies, research and wider debates around pedagogy, decolonisation, student support, the legal professions, and beyond. As we come to the end of our first decade, we invite you to join us in reflecting on the last ten years, to look forward to the next decade, and to consider where we might find hope and joy in increasingly difficult times in Higher Education Institutions.

The event will also see the relaunch of CIRLE as the Centre for Innovation and Research in Criminological and Legal Education (CIRCLE), reflecting our growth and expertise in the field of Criminological Education.

Register here.