Mark Edwards

I came into academia in 2006 following a 25-year career in industry, latterly working at Operations Director level within the distribution industry where I qualified in national and international road transport and was an O licence holder.

I gained a first-class honours degree at Sheffield Hallam, where I also qualified in teaching at Higher Education level, and now I am a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

I started with the university as an Associate Lecturer in 2006 and became a permanent member of staff in January 2007. I progressed from Senior Lecturer to Principal lecturer in September 2009. I was appointed as Admissions tutor in 2007 and became a Group Leader and Markets and Recruitment Lead for the Department in 2009, exceeding targets in each year in that role. Since 2018 I have been the Departmental Lead coordinating with the Universities central Space Resource and Timetabling team.

I was awarded Inspirational Teacher of the year in 2011, 2012 and 2013 and have won a College award in each year from 2011-2016. In 2014 I was a finalist in the national OUP Law Teacher of the Year Awards.

Department Of Law and Criminology

Social Sciences and Arts

I work in the College of Social Sciences and Arts and specifically the Department of Law and Criminology. 

I have experience of teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. At postgraduate level I taught on the LLM Corporate Law and Strategy course and currently teach on the LLM in Legal Professional Practice. 

Currently I am responsible for designing and delivering teaching on a variety of modules and am the Module Leader for Law of Torts and Company Law. I also lead the Law of Tort module on the LLM in Legal Professional Practice.

In recent years I have taught on Criminal Law, Academic Legal Foundations, and still supervise dissertations in areas related to my teaching. Historically I have taught on Cyberlaw and Cyber Society and the English Legal System modules. I also have a specific interest in employment law related matters.

I have a particular intertest in the law governing psychiatric harm, and duty of the police in negligence in the law of tort. In criminal law, I am concentrating scholarly activity on sexual offences, specifically the law on consent and disclosure by the CPS.

M Edwards, Company Law 2011/12 – Statute Seminar Companion (Longman 2011)
M Edwards, Company Law 2012/13 – Statute Seminar Companion (2nd edn, Longman 2012)
P Harris, An Introduction to Law (8th edn, Cambridge, 2015) – I made limited contributions to the company law segment of this book

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and have carried out consultancy work for international logistics companies and a leading distributor in the automotive industry. Outside of work I have provided legal guidance in respect of HS2 to a HS2 Action Group and Local Parish Council.