Profile of Mr Matthew Sands, Lecturer in Human Rights Law at Sheffield Hallam University.

Within the law and criminology research area, MPhil and PhD work is supervised in the discipline areas of law, criminology and community justice

I qualified as a solicitor in 2000 and in terms of practice experience I have worked in both private practice and also as an in-house legal adviser in local government. For instance, as part of Manchester City Council's Legal Department I advised the Council on the contracts needed for the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

Dr Kingsley Udofa is a lecturer in law at Sheffield Hallam University

Teacher on Undergraduate programme (EU Law), Post-graduate programme (LLM International Commercial Law).

International Sports Law in Practice Graduate, Eleanor Dobson, is the Club Secretary and Legal Counsel at Barnsley Football Club. She shares how her university experience has aided her professional development.

Following my research interest in transitional justice and human rights, I pursued my doctoral research at the Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster, where I was awarded my PhD in International Law (Transitional Justice and Human Rights).

Paul is an academic lawyer working in the British HE sector and serving also as Consultant to a number of international institutions active in the insolvency sector

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