Catherine Shephard

Catherine Shephard is a Reader in Practice-Informed Law and Education at Manchester Met. She read law at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and practised as a solicitor in corporate law. Catherine is an experienced lecturer and trainer in corporate law and skills, an accredited civil-commercial and workplace mediator and leads commercial pro bono and outreach work. Catherine’s work centres around the theme of connection across the student journey, from before transition into university, to well beyond the achievement of graduate outcomes and into professional life. She communicates her ideas widely, as co-author of the popular textbook Legal Systems and Skills (OUP) and through working collaboratively with leading practitioners; legal education providers; schools and colleges; widening participation charities; professional, statutory, and regulatory bodies; and of course her colleagues and students.