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Dr Nick Cartwright

Dr Nick Cartwright

  • Position: Associate Professor
  • Areas of expertise: Critical Race Theory; Critical Race Pedagogy; race equality and education; legal education research; inclusive pedagogy; physician assisted suicide; critical legal studies; firearms reduction.
  • Email: N.Cartwright@leeds.ac.uk
  • Location: 1.0` Liberty Building
  • Website: Googlescholar | ORCID

Profile

I joined the School of Law in 2022, prior to this I was a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Northampton (2013-22), LLM Programme Manager at Kaplan Holborn College (2010-13), Teaching Fellow at the University of Reading (2008-09), Teaching Fellow at Keele University (2006-07) and Lecturer in Law at the University of Hertfordshire (2000-06). I have also worked as an expert panel member on firearms on United Nations missions in Vienna and Panama City (2018) and been a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Race Equality (CARE) (University of Northampton) (2003-2006) and at Mahatma Law School, Shendi University in the Sudan (2001) .

I am a Visiting Professor at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, a National Teaching Fellow (AdvanceHE), a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a member of the Transforming Access and Student Outcomes (TASO) Sector Network, and a member of the Living Black at University Commission.

Responsibilities

  • Director of Student Success and Opportunities
  • School Academic Lead for Inclusive Pedagogies (SALIP)

Research interests

My PhD explores the relationships of dominance and subordination in the context of race and identity in legal education and I was recently involved in the research team for the Living Black at University project. I am currently researching inclusive pratice in Higher Education and decolonising all aspects of the student experience.

My MPhil was in medical law and bioethics and I have written on physician assisted suicide.


My most recent publications include:

Cartwright, N. (2026). Learn About Thematic Narrative Analysis Using Data from Student Interviews on Racialised Experiences in Higher Education. In ‘Sage Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research’. (London: Sage Publications Ltd.) https://doi.org/10.4135/9781036241414

Cartwright, N. (2025). There is no baby, just lots of bathwater: an argument against summative assessment. The Law Teacher, 59(3), 450–469. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2025.2531720

Cartwright, N. (2024). “Inequity and Distrust: Imagining the Anti-Racist Law School.” The Law Teacher, June, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2024.2352314

Cartwright, N. (2024) "Funding, Political and Methodological Challenges in Researching the Experiences of Black Students." In ‘Sage Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research’. (London: Sage Publications Ltd.) https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529689907.

Qualifications

  • PhD (Northampton)
  • MPhil by thesis in law (Keele)
  • PGCert HE (Herts)
  • LLB (Dual Hons) in Law and Philosophy (Keele)

Professional memberships

  • Visiting Professor, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
  • Member of the Transforming Access and Student Outcomes (TASO) Sector Network
  • National Teaching Fellow (AdvanceHE)
  • Senior Fellow of the HEA

Student education

I am the Director for Student Success and Opportunities and the School Academic Lead for Inclusive Pedagogy (SALIP).

I am the Module Leader for both Foundations of Law (LAW1204) and Legal Skills (LAW1102) deliver some lectures in Crime, Inequality and Social Issues (LAW1166).

Research groups and institutes

  • Centre for Innovation and Research in Criminological and Legal Education
  • Centre for Law and Social Justice