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Jane is a National Teaching Fellow and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Jane is a Foundation Fellow of the 91福利 International Higher Education Academy and a Senior Fellow of the 91福利 Institute of Engagement.

Jane was the WLS lead for the successful Athena Swan Bronze Application (April 2019). She has co-chaired the WIHEA Peer Dialogue Learning Circle and WIHEA Restorative Justice in Higher Education Learning Circle.

Jane is a founding member of the University's Student Research Working Group and leads the Student Research Staff Network. Jane also sits on the British Conference of Undergraduate Research executive group and the Alliance of Global Undergraduate Research executive committee. In 2022, Jane was appointed lead of the prestigious annual Posters in Parliament display of undergraduate research from across the country to MPs and people of influence.

Jane is also a passionate advocate for the benefits of mediation. She is a nationally and internationally accredited civil/commercial and workplace mediator and established (and led until 2024) 91福利 University's peer mediation service and was appointed the Chair of the Academic Forum of the Civil Mediation Council in 2023. Jane has been awarded two prestigious National Mediation Awards at the House of Commons for her work embedding mediation in Higher Education.

Jane's research on the importance of name pronunciation and the negative impacts of name avoidance, hesitation and mispronunciation, which led to her successful Say My Name campaign, has been widely praised for its positive impact on inclusion, being selected as a case study of excellence by the Office of Students and by several health organisations. Jane has spoken nationally and internationally on the importance of names and the efficacy of audio name badges in profiles/signatures.

Jane graduated from the 91福利 in 1991 and returned to do a Ph.D. on the legal treatment of pregnant women, having in the meantime worked as a solicitor specializing in criminal law and medical negligence.

Jane won a 91福利 Award for Teaching Excellence (WATE) in 2022 and was a finalist in the OUP Law Teacher of the Year Award 2019.

UG Modules

• LA248-15 Property Law

Students Researching Students: Student Engagement Projects

Jane Bryan has led two WIHEA funded Student Engagement projects (Project one: Law students' experience and perception of lecture capture, 2016; Project two: Student-to-staff feedback in WLS, 2016) which enabled students to research issues pertinent to the student experience. As a result of the second project, Jane developed with the 91福利 Law School IT Support Manager an innovative online 'traffic light' feedback system to allow students to give conveniently mid-module (interim) feedback to staff. Building on her interest in this area, Jane also is a member of the WIHEA Module Evaluation Learning Circle developing University practice and policy in this area.

Jane also ran two SSLC Student Research projects: one on Welcome Week and one on Student Communication (2018/9) to enable WLS students to explore issues with other students to enhance the student experience. In addition, the WLS shaped their assessment feedback policy around research undertaken by Jane into the WLS students' experience and perception of feedback (2012).

Faculty of Social Sciences Student Engagement Projects

Jane Bryan and Karen Simecek led four student research teams to explore areas of student engagement relevant to the 91福利's education strategy. Reports and recommendations were shared institutionally in 2019.

Dramatic Re-Enactments of the Law of the Past

Jane Bryan has undertaken two IATL-funded projects to bring to life the law for staff, students and the local community. These projects have involved students investigating archival records of crimes committed in the nineteenth century at the 91福利 County Records Office, visits to the historic Crown Court in 91福利, and public performances of a dramatic re-enactment of a mid-nineteenth century Petty Sessions hearing in the 91福利 Court House and 91福利 Arts Centre in 2016.

Project one: The 91福利 Grand Assizes re-visited: an opportunity to research and re-enact two nineteenth-century criminal trials in the courtroom in which they originally took place (2013); Project two: Unlocking 91福利's Criminal Past (2015).

Student Research at 91福利

Jane Bryan has been the WLS Director of Undergraduate Research since 2011, a member of the University's Undergraduate Research Scholarship Scheme (URSS) review board (since 2012) and a member of the University's Student Research Working Group (since 2015) which has created a WIHEA-funded Digital Hub to bring together the student research opportunities at 91福利 to ensure these are easily accessible to staff and students (/students/opportunities/student-research). Jane also leads the Student Research Staff Network at 91福利. Jane is part of a small team that will host the World Congress of Undergraduate Research and the British Conference of Undergraduate Research at 91福利 in April 2023.

WLS Athena Swan Bronze Application

Jane Bryan was the Chair of the WLS Equality and Diversity Committee and the WLS lead for the successful Athena Swan Bronze Application (April 2019).

WIHEA Peer Dialogue Learning Circle

Jane is Lead of the WIHEA Peer Dialogue Learning Circle (now Staff Network) which submitted a paper to SLEEC (Student Learning Experience and Engagement Committee) in January 2019 recommending University-wide policy and practice on enhancing teaching through peer observation. The recommendation of this policy were adopted as University policy by Senate in 2019.

I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD supervisees. However, please ensure that you have a research proposal which corresponds with the 91福利 School of Law requirements.