Jane Bryan

Professor

Director of UG Research
Careers Liaison
Director of Student Wellbeing (UG)
Inclusive Education Lead
Medical Law; Property Law; Trusts Law

School of Law
S2.20, Social Sciences Building
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom

024 765 23639

Advice hours
(Term one except week 6)

Wednesday (online) 9.30-10.30
Thursday (s2.20) 12.15-1.15

Scholarship

Jane Bryan is a Professor in the School of Law at the University of Warwick. Her module leadership and teaching has included Land Law, Medicine and the Law, and Trusts Law. Jane is the Academic Lead for the University of Warwick Community Values Education Programme and is the Lead of Warwick Mediation.

Bio

Jane was elected as an Assembly Representative on Senate in 2018.

Jane was the WLS lead for the successful Athena Swan Bronze Application (April 2019). She is also Chair of the WIHEA Peer Dialogue Staff Network and co-lead of the WIHEA Restorative Justice in Higher Education Learning Circle. Jane is a member of the University's Student Research Working Group and leads the Student Research Network.

Jane graduated from the University of Warwick 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 began teaching at the Warwick Law School in 2004.

Jane is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and an Alumni Fellow of the Warwick International Higher Education Academy. She is also a Fellow of the Warwick Institute of Engagement.

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

Publications

Bryan, J., 2011. Murder, medicine and motherhood : casenote. Family Law, 23 (4)

Bryan, Jane, 2011. Reading beyond the ratio : searching for the subtext in the Enforced Caesarean Cases. Carpi, Daniela (ed.), Bioethics and biolaw through literature, Berlin ; Boston, De Gruyter
Bryan, Jane, 2010. The legal and non-legal control of pregnant women. Probert, Rebecca (ed.), Optimistic objectives : proceedings of the 2010 symposium organised by Warwick University Law School and Soroptimist International of Kenilworth & District, Kenilworth, Takeaway

Teaching Projects

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 Warwick 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 University of Warwick'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 Warwick County Records Office, visits to the historic Crown Court in Warwick, and public performances of a dramatic re-enactment of a mid-nineteenth century Petty Sessions hearing in the Warwick Court House and Warwick Arts Centre in 2016.

Project one: The Warwick 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 Warwick's Criminal Past (2015).

Student Research at Warwick

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 Warwick to ensure these are easily accessible to staff and students (https://warwick.ac.uk/students/opportunities/student-research). Jane also leads the Student Research Staff Network at Warwick. Jane is part of a small team that will host the World Congress of Undergraduate Research and the British Conference of Undergraduate Research at Warwick 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.

Research Supervision